Connectionists: Deadline extended: LVA 2015 (12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation)

[Emmanuel Vincent]

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         LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on
        Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation

         August 25-28, 2015, Liberec, Czech Republic

           Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2015
              PDF upload deadline: April 17, 2015

                   http://amca.cz/lva2015/
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*News*
The paper submission deadline has been postponed to April 10, 2015. The 
PDF can be modified until April 17, 2015, but not the list of authors, 
the title, or the abstract. There will be no further deadline extension.
http://amca.cz/lva2015/index.php/paper

The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on Latent Variable 
Analysis and Signal Separation
http://amca.cz/lva2015/index.php/summer-school

It will also feature the much-awaited results of the 5th Signal 
Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2015)
https://sisec.inria.fr/

The best audio paper will receive an award sponsored by Conexant.


*About LVA*
LVA 2015 will be the 12th in a series of international conferences which 
attracted hundreds of researchers and practitioners over the years. 
Since its start in 1999 under the banner of Independent Component 
Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA), the conference has 
continuously broadened its horizons. It encompasses today a host of 
additional forms and models of general mixtures of latent variables. 
Theories and tools borrowing from the fields of signal processing, 
applied statistics, machine learning, linear and multilinear algebra, 
numerical analysis and optimization, and numerous application fields 
offer exciting interdisciplinary interactions.


*Highlights*
Keynote talks will be given by three leading researchers:
- Tülay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
- Rémi Gribonval (Inria, France)
- DeLiang Wang (Ohio State University, USA)

The conference will also feature 5 special sessions:
- Advances in nonlinear blind source separation (Y. Deville)
- Deep neural networks for supervised speech separation/enhancement (D. 
Wang)
- Joint analysis of multiple datasets, data fusion, and related topics 
(D. Lahat & C. Jutten)
- Sparse and low-rank modeling for acoustic signal processing (A. Asaei 
& S. Gannot)
- Tensor-based methods for blind signal separation (L. De Lathauwer)


*Call for Papers*
The proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science Series (LNCS). Prospective authors are invited to 
submit original papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS format) in areas related 
to latent variable analysis and signal separation, including but not 
limited to:

- Theory: sparse coding, dictionary learning; statistical and 
probabilistic modeling; detection, estimation and performance criteria 
and bounds; causality measures; learning theory; convex/nonconvex 
optimization tools

- Models: general linear or nonlinear models of signals and data; 
discrete, continuous, flat, or hierarchical models; multilinear models; 
time-varying, instantaneous, convolutive, noiseless, noisy, 
over-complete, or under-complete mixtures

- Algorithms: estimation, separation, identification, detection, blind 
and semi-blind methods, non-negative matrix factorization, tensor 
decomposition, adaptive and recursive estimation; feature selection; 
time-frequency and wavelet based analysis; complexity analysis

- Applications: speech and audio separation, recognition, 
dereverberation and denoising; auditory scene analysis; image 
segmentation, separation, fusion, classification, texture analysis; 
biomedical signal analysis, imaging, genomic data analysis, 
brain-computer interface

- Emerging related topics: sparse learning; deep learning; social 
networks; data mining; artificial intelligence; objective and subjective 
performance evaluation.


*Important Dates*
Apr 10, 2015: Paper submission deadline
Apr 17, 2015: PDF upload deadline
May 22, 2015: Notification of acceptance
Jun 12, 2015: Submission of camera-ready papers
Aug 25-28, 2015: Conference dates


*Organizing Committee*
General chairs:
Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic)
Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)

Program chairs:
Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France)

Special sessions: Shoji Makino (University of Tsukuba, Japana)

SiSEC chair: Nobutaka Ono (NII, Japan)

Overseas liaison: Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan)


*Sponsors*
Technicolor
Technical University of Liberec
Conexant Systems, Inc.
Jablotron
Sony