Connectionists: ICA 2007: Intl. Conf. on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation: CALL FOR PAPERS

[Mark Plumbley]

Dear Connectionists, (apologies for any multiple receipts)

ICA 2007 will be held in London, UK, next September. The Call for Papers is below: please forward to any colleagues who may interested in submitting or attending. 

This year the name of the conference has change slightly to reflect the fact that its scope is not only independent component analysis (ICA) and blind source separation (BSS), but also includes non-blind, semi-blind and model-based signal separation. If you have not been to ICA before, now might be the year to start!
 
Best wishes, Mark Plumbley (General Chair, ICA 2007)
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                   *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ***

                             ICA 2007

                  7th International Conference on
                   Independent Component Analysis
                      and Signal Separation

                            London, UK

                       9-12 September 2007

                         www.ica2007.org

The 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and 
Signal Separation (ICA 2007) will be held at Queen Mary, University of 
London, from Sunday 9 September to Wednesday 12 September 2007. 

Following the previous ICA conferences in Aussois (France), Helsinki 
(Finland), San Diego (CA, USA), Nara (Japan), Granada (Spain) and 
Charleston (SC, USA), this year the conference is organized and 
sponsored by the ICA Research Network, an EPSRC-funded network of 
researchers in over 25 UK institutions.

The Conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster 
presentations of refereed papers and special sessions. It will be 
organized in a single track and will be selective.

Papers are solicited in all areas of independent component analysis and 
signal separation, including blind source separation (BSS), as well 
as semi-blind, non-blind, and model-based signal separation. Topics of 
interest include (but not limited to) the following:

* Algorithms and Architectures: non-linear ICA, probabilistic models, 
  sparse coding, linear & nonlinear models, convolutive & noisy models; 

* Theory: optimization, complex methods, time-frequency representations; 

* Applications: audio, bio-informatics, biomedical engineering, 
  communications, finance, image processing, psychology;

* Emerging Technologies: analogue and digital VLSI implementations, 
  photonics;

* Functional Neuroimaging: EEG, ERP, MEG, fMRI, applications in 
  neuroscience;

* Speech and Musical Audio: source separation, denoising, 
  dereverberation, temporal models, computational auditory scene 
  analysis (CASA), beamforming;

* Visual and Sensory Processing: image processing and coding, image 
  separation.

All contributions must be original, and must not have been previously 
published, nor be under review for presentation elsewhere. Detailed 
instructions for submission to ICA 2007, including formatting 
instructions and templates, will be available from the conference 
website at http://www.ica2007.org

Important Deadlines

Special session proposals:  1 March 2007
Paper submission deadline: 23 March 2007

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Dr Mark D Plumbley
General Chair, ICA 2007
Department of Electronic Engineering
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7518
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 7997
Email: mark.plumbley at elec.qmul.ac.uk
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/markp/