Connectionists: CFP - DEADLINE EXTENSION - ICA2009

[ICA2009]

Dear member of the connectionists list,

The submission deadline of the ICA2009 conference has been extended. 
Please find below the new call for papers, which is also available in the 
conference website: http://www.dspcom.fee.unicamp.br/ica2009

Best regards,

Allan Kardec Barros and Joao Marcos T. Romano.
General Chairs, ICA2009

Tulay Adali and Christian Jutten
Technical Chairs, ICA2009

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              8th International Conference on
              Independent Component Analysis
                  and Signal Separation

                      Paraty, Brazil

                    15-18 March 2009

          http://www.dspcom.fee.unicamp.br/ica2009

The 8th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and
Signal Separation, ICA 2009, will be held in Paraty, Brazil, March 15-18, 
2009. The meeting will feature keynote addresses by leading researchers, 
as well as invited and contributed papers.

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in the following areas 
(but not limited to):

* 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, text, image processing, psychology;

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

* Functional Neuroimaging: EEG, MEG, fMRI analysis, 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.

SPECIAL SESSION ON EVALUATION

ICA 2009 will feature a special session on the first community-based 
Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/). 
Researchers entering the campaign are encouraged to submit a paper to this 
session describing their approach. Papers discussing new algorithms or 
application strategies for existing algorithms (e.g. signal 
representation, parameter settings) are both welcome. Accepted papers will 
be published in the proceedings of ICA 2009, after review by the 
evaluation chairs and the program chairs.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science Series (LNCS). LNCS is published, in parallel to the 
printed books, in full-text electronic form. All contributions must be 
original, and must not have been previously published, nor be under review 
for presentation elsewhere. Extended versions of a selection of papers 
presented at the conference will be considered for a special issue of a 
journal to appear in 2009. Detailed instructions for submission to ICA 
2009 and further information will be available in the conference website.

IMPORTANT DATES:

* November 10, 2008 - Submission deadline
* December 8, 2008 - Notification of acceptance
* December 19, 2008 - Final paper due