Connectionists: Community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign Reminder

[Emmanuel Vincent]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to remind you the July 25th deadline for evaluation 
proposals to be run as part of the 1st Community-based Signal Separation 
Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2008).

Two evaluations for audio data have been proposed so far on 
http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/.

We encourage you to
- have your say about these proposals and tell us if you plan to participate
- propose evaluations for other types of data (e.g. biomedical, images, 
telecoms, etc)

For more information, see http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/.

Best regards,

Emmanuel Vincent, Shoko Araki and Pau Bofill



>                 *** FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
> 
>                1st Community-based Signal Separation
>                         Evaluation Campaign
>                             (SiSEC 2008)
> 
>                     http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/
> 
>             Evaluation proposal deadline: July 25, 2008
> 
> 
> Do you have an algorithm for source separation of e.g. audio, 
> biomedical, astromomical or image data? Or are you interested in this 
> challenging issue? Then you should take part in the first 
> community-based endeavor for the evaluation of source separation 
> algorithms.
> 
> Building upon previous initiatives, this campaign aims to let 
> researchers discuss and agree over all aspects of evaluation, including 
> datasets and evaluation criteria. We organizers will address the 
> time-consuming issues of collecting and evaluating the results submitted 
> by all participants.
> 
> As a first step, we are issuing a call for evaluation proposals. A 
> second call for the submission of separation results will follow.
> 
> A proposal should consist of at least:
> - a title
> - suggestions for relevant data (including how they might be obtained 
> and possible copyright issues)
> - a short description of the task(s) to be addressed, with reference 
> software blocks for each task if available, so as to help newcomers 
> participate
> - suggestions for evaluation criteria
> - a list of potential participants (names, email addresses)
> 
> Two audio datasets are already proposed as a starting point. All 
> proposals should be disseminated and discussed with potential 
> participants before July 25, 2008.
> 
> Interested individuals are encouraged to join the SiSEC mailing list at 
> https://listes.irisa.fr/sympa/info/sisec. For more information about the 
> campaign, see http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Emmanuel Vincent, Shoko Araki and Pau Bofill