Neurocomputing (Elsevier; http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom)
Special
Issue on
Blind Signal Separation and Independent Component Analysis
Paper Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2001
The Neurocomputing Journal
plans a special issue on “Blind Signal Separation and Independent Component
Analysis”, and papers are solicited until March 1st, 2001.
Recently,
blind signal separation (BSS) and independent component analysis (ICA) have
received a lot of attention from the neural networks and signal processing
communities. Based on probability and information theories, several unsupervised
learning algorithms have been developed to separate mixed signals and extract
their independent components. Several important applications have also emerged
for speech enhancement, efficient coding of natural scenes and sounds,
telecommunications, and medical signal processing. It is therefore worthwhile to
organize a special issue on these important topics.
From 1999 on, annual
ICA workshops have been organized as a forum for in-depth discussion on recent
research results. Also, at the 7th International Conference on Neural
Information Processing on November 2000, special sessions were organized on
“Blind Adaptive Filtering and Independent Component Analysis” and “Models of
Natural Image Statistics”. Also, several post-conference workshops have been
organized at Neural Information Processing Systems over the last few years. The
papers presented dealt with recent developments on new theories and applications
of BSS and ICA, and contribute to the scientific and engineering progress in
this important field. Some contributions for the special issue will evolve from
the attendants of those meetings. If you were not able to attend and are active
in these areas of research, you are highly encouraged to submit your
work.
Examples of topics relevant to this special issue include
:
- Multichannel blind deconvolution and equalization
- Nonstationary
source separation
- Nonlinear ICA
- Noisy ICA
- Variational methods
for ICA
- PCA/ICA feature extraction
- BSS/ICA applications (speech
enhancement, Efficient encoding of natural scenes and sound , telecommunication,
data mining, medical data processing, etc.)
Two copies of the
manuscripts should be submitted by March 1st, 2001, to:
Dr. V. David
Sanchez
NEUROCOMPUTING - Editor in Chief -
Advanced Computational
Intelligent Systems
P.O. Box 60130
Pasadena, CA
91116-6130
U.S.A.
Fax: +1-626-793-5120
Email: vdavidsanchez@earthlink.net
In
your submitting letter please clearly write that you are submitting your papers
to the Special Issue on BSS/ICA.
Guest Editors
Dr.
Shun-ichi Amari
Vice Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Laboratory
for Mathematical Neuroscience
Research Group on Brain-Style Information
Systems
Wako
Japan
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Fax:
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Aapo Hyvarinen
Neural Networks Research Centre
Helsinki University of
Technology
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Finland
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+358-9-451-3278
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Email: Aapo.Hyvarinen@hut.fi
Prof.
Soo-Young Lee
Director, Brain Science Research Center
Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology
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Taejon
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Korea
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Te-Won Lee
Institute for Neural Computation
University of California, San
Diego
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La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Dr. V. David
Sanchez
NEUROCOMPUTING - Editor in Chief -
Advanced Computational
Intelligent Systems
P.O. Box 60130
Pasadena, CA
91116-6130
U.S.A.
Fax: +1-626-793-5120
Email: vdavidsanchez@earthlink.net