call for paper: NNSP'02, september 4-6, 2002

[Samy Bengio]

                            2002 IEEE Workshop
                   Neural Networks for Signal Processing
             September 4-6, 2002        Martigny, Valais, Switzerland
                     http://eivind.imm.dtu.dk/nnsp2002

               Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society
               In cooperation with the IEEE Neural Networks Council


                             Call for Papers

Thanks to the sponsorship of IEEE Signal Processing Society and IEEE Neural
Network Council, the twelfth of a series of IEEE workshops on Neural Networks
for Signal Processing will be held in Martigny (http://www.martigny.ch),
Switzerland, at the ``Centre du Parc'' (http://www.hotelduparc.ch). The
workshop will feature keynote addresses, technical presentations and panel
discussions. Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following areas:

Algorithms and Architectures: Artificial neural networks, kernel methods,
  committee models, independent component analysis, adaptive and/or nonlinear
  signal processing, (hidden) Markov models, Bayesian modeling, parameter
  estimation, generalization, optimization, design algorithms.

Applications: Speech processing, image processing (computer vision, OCR),
  multimodal interactions, multi-channel processing, intelligent multimedia and
  web processing, robotics, sonar and radar, bio-medical engineering,
  bio-informatics, financial analysis, time series prediction, blind source
  separation, data fusion, data mining, adaptive filtering, communications,
  sensors, system identification, and other signal processing and pattern
  recognition applications.

Implementations: Parallel and distributed implementation, hardware design,
  and other general implementation technologies.

Further Information
  NNSP'2002 webpage: http://eivind.imm.dtu.dk/nnsp2002

Paper Submission Procedure
  Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to ten pages
  using the electronic submission procedure described at the workshop homepage.
  Accepted papers will be published in a hard-bound volume by IEEE and
  distributed at the workshop.

Schedule
  Submission of full paper:                   April 15, 2002
  Notification of acceptance:                 May 1, 2002
  Camera-ready paper and author registration: June 1, 2002
  Advance registration, before:               July 15, 2002

Preliminary Programme
September 4, AM:  Pleanry talk by Mahesan Niranjan, Sheffield University
                  "From Kalman to Particle Filtering for solving
                   Signal Processing Problems with Neural Networks"

                  Regular session, including oral and poster presentations

September 4, PM: Special session on "Machine Learning and statistical approaches
                 for Bio-Informatic Applications",
                 Plenary talk by  Anders Krogh, University of Denmark
                 "Hidden Markov models of proteins and DNA",
                 followed by special session, including oral and poster
                 presentations

September 5, AM: Plenary Talk:
                 Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal
                 "Faking unlabeled data for geometric regularization"

                  Regular session, including oral and poster presentations

September 5, PM: Special session on "Multimodal/multi-channel processing"
                 Plenary talk by  Josef Kittler, University of Surrey
                 "Fusion of multiple experts in multimodal biometric
                  personal identity verification systems"

September 6, AM:  Plenary talk by Zoubin Ghahramani, Gatzby Institute, UK
                  "Occam's Razor and Infinite Models"

                  Regular oral and poster sessions.


Invited Speakers
  Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal
    Title of the talk: Faking unlabeled data for geometric regularization
  Zoubin Ghahramani, Gatzby Institute,
    Title of the talk: Occam's Razor and Infinite Models
  Josef Kittler, University of Surrey
    Invited for a Special Session on Multimodal and multi-channel applications
    Title of the talk: Fusion of multiple experts in multimodal biometric
                       personal identity verification systems
  Anders Krogh, University of Denmark
    Invited for a Special Session on Bio-Informatics
    Title of the talk: Hidden Markov models of proteins and DNA
  Mahesan Niranjan, Sheffield University
    Title of the talk: From Kalman to Particle Filtering for solving
                       Signal Processing Problems with Neural Networks


General Chairs
  Herv BOURLARD
  IDIAP and EPF, Lausanne

  Tlay ADALI
  University of Maryland
  Baltimore County

Program Chairs
  Samy BENGIO
  IDIAP

  Jan LARSEN
  Technical University of Denmark

Technical Committee Chair
  Jose PRINCIPE
  University of Florida at Gainsville

Finance Chair
  Jean-Philippe THIRAN
  EPF, Lausanne

Proceedings Chairs
  Jean-Cdric CHAPPELIER
  EPF, Lausanne

  Scott C. DOUGLAS
  Southern Methodist University

Publicity Chair
  Marc VAN HULLE
  Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

American Liaison
  Jose PRINCIPE
  University of Florida at Gainsville

Asia Liaison
  Shigeru KATAGIRI
  NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Program Committee
  Amir Assadi
  Andrew Back
  Samy Bengio
  Yoshua Bengio
  M. Carreira-Perpinan
  Jean-Cdric Chappelier
  Andrzej Cichocki
  Jesus Cid-Sueiro
  Bob Dony
  Scott Douglas
  Craig Fancourt
  Ling Guan
  Tzyy-Ping Jung
  Shigeru Katagiri
  Jens Kohlmorgen
  Shoji Makino
  Danilo Mandic
  Elias Manolakos
  Takashi Matsumoto
  David Miller
  Li Min
  Christophe Molina
  Mahesan Niranjan
  Kostas Plataniotis
  Tommy Poggio
  Jose Principe
  Phillip Regalia
  Steve Renals
  Joo-Marcos Romano
  Jonas Sjberg
  Robert Snapp
  Kemal Snmez
  Sren Riis
  Jean-Philippe Thiran
  Naonori Ueda
  Marc Van Hulle
  Fernando Von Zuben
  Christian Wellekens
  Lizhong Wu
  Lian Yan


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Samy Bengio
Research Director. Machine Learning Group Leader.
IDIAP, CP 592, rue du Simplon 4, 1920 Martigny, Switzerland.
tel: +41 27 721 77 39, fax: +41 27 721 77 12.
mailto:bengio at idiap.ch, http://www.idiap.ch/~bengio