LVA/ICA 2012 - 10th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA 2012)

Following a few requests, we have decided to still allow submission of new papers to LVA/ICA2012 until the end of the previously announced "polish-up grace period", namely until Sunday, October 30th, 2011.

All submitted papers can be still updated until that date as well.

Those who missed the previous submission deadline and still wish to submit, are welcome to take advantage of the "grace period" and submit their work to LVA/ICA2012:

The 10th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Source Separation, LVA/ICA 2012, will be held in Tel-Aviv, Israel on March 12-15, 2012, at the Sheraton Tel-Aviv Hotel & Towers.
The series began under the title of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) workshops (held approximately every 18 months), and has attracted hundreds of participants over the years, continuously broadening its horizons. Starting with the fundamentals of ICA and Blind Source Separation (BSS) in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the theme of the series has gradually expanded to include additional forms and models of general mixtures of latent variables ? and was therefore re-titled Latent Variable Analysis (LVA) for the recent LVA/ICA conference in St. Malo (France) in 2010, keeping the acronym ICA as well (at least for a while), for reference to its roots and origins.

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas related to latent variable analysis, independent component analysis and signal separation, including but not limited to:

-Theory: statistical and probabilistic models; detection, estimation and performance criteria and bounds; causality measures; flat, hierarchical and dynamic structures; sparsity-promoting methods; learning theory; optimization tools;
-Models: latent variables modeling as parameters, vectors or signals, discrete or continuous; probabilistic or structural modeling; time-varying, memoryless, convolutive, noisy, noiseless, under- and over-complete;
-Algorithms: estimation, separation, identification, detection, blind and semi-blind methods, non-negative matrix factorization, tensor decomposition, adaptive and recursive estimation; features selection; time-frequency and wavelets 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: social networks; data-mining; artificial intelligence; sparse coding; objective and subjective performance evaluation.

The proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are requested to follow the instructions for authors at the LNCS web-site for formatting the paper in compliance with the LNCS standards.

The page-limit for all papers is 8 pages (in LNCS format).

LVA/ICA 2012 will also feature a special session devoted to the third Community-Based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2011). Prospective participants in the campaign are encouraged to submit a paper to LVA/ICA 2012 describing their approach. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, entrants not wishing to submit a paper will have the opportunity to present a poster about their approach. All posters are welcome, in the limit of available space. In order to present a poster, an abstract should be submitted by Jan. 15, 2012. These abstracts will be linked from the LVA/ICA 2012 web-site, but will not be included in the proceedings.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: 30-Oct-2011

Notification of acceptance: 28-Nov-2011

Final version due: 12-Dec-2011

Author & early registration: 09-Jan-2012

Abstracts for SiSEC 2011: 15-Jan-2012

In addition to regular lectures and poster sessions, the conference will feature a special session dedicated to the third community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2011) and four keynote talks by leading researchers:

? Lieven De Lathauwer, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (Belgium)
? Michael Elad, The Technion ? Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
? Amnon Shashua, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
? Paris Smaragdis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)

The social program would include, in addition to the traditional reception cocktail on Monday (March 12th) evening, a guided trip to Jerusalem on Wednesday (March 14th) afternoon, which will be concluded with the banquet dinner in Jerusalem, returning to Tel-Aviv at night.
All social events will be included in the regular registration fees.

General Chairs:
Arie Yeredor, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
Email: arie-AT-eng.tau.ac.il
Michael Zibulevsky, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
Email: mzib-AT-cs.technion.ac.il

Program Chairs:
Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Japan)
Email: a.cichicki-AT-riken.jp
Fabian Theis, Helmholz Center Munich (Germany)
Email: fabian.theis-AT-helmholtz-muenchen.de

SiSEC Evaluation Chairs:
Shoko Araki, NTT (Japan)
Guido Nolte, Fraunhofer Institute (Germany)
Francesco Nesta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler ? IRST (Italy)

Technical Program Committee:
Tülay Adalı (USA)
Shoko Araki (Japan)
Cesar Caiafa (Argentina)
Jonathon Chambers (UK)
Fengyu Cong (Finland)
Sergio Cruces (Spain)
Yannick Deville (France)
Shuxue Ding (Japan)
Ali Djafari (France)
Cédric Févotte (France)
Rémi Gribonval (France)
Christian Jutten (France)
Juha Karhunen (Finland)
Zbynek Koldovsky (Czeck Republic)
Elmar Lang (Germany)
Yuanqing Li (China)
Danilo Mandic (UK)
Ali Mansour (Australia)
Anke Meyer-Baese (USA)
Anh Huy Phan (Japan)
Mark Plumbley (UK) (Chair)
Barnabas Poczos (USA)
Saeid Sanei (UK)
Xizhi Shi (China)
Paris Smaragdis (USA)
Petr Tichavsky (Czeck Republic)
Ricardo Vigario (Finland)
Vincent Vigneron (France)
Emmanuel Vincent (France)
Vicente Zarzoso (France)
Liqing Zhang (China)
Guoxu Zhou (Japan)

International ICA Steering Committee:
Mark Plumbley (UK) (Chair)
Tülay Adalı (USA)
Jean-François Cardoso (France)
Andrzej Cichocki (Japan)
Lieven De Lathauwer (Belgium)
Scott Douglas (USA)
Rémi Gribonval (France)
Christian Jutten (France)
Te-Won Lee (USA)
Shoji Makino (Japan)
Klaus Robert Müller (Germany)
Erkki Oja (Finland)
Paris Smaragdis (USA)
Fabian Theis (Germany)
Ricardo Vigario(Finland)
Emmanuel Vincent (France)
Arie Yeredor (Israel)
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