2012 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal
Processing
   September 23-26, 2012.
   Santander, Spain
   http://mlsp2012.conwiz.dk

   The 22nd MLSP workshop in the series organized by the Signal
Processing Society MLSP Technical Committee will present the most
recent and exciting advances in data analysis for signal processing
problems through tutorials, keynote talks, as well as special and
regular single-track sessions.

* TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to:

   - Learning theory and techniques
   - Graphical models and kernel methods
   - Data-driven adaptive systems and models
   - Pattern recognition and classification
   - Distributed, Bayesian, subspace/manifold, and sparsity-aware
learning
   - Multiset data analysis and multimodal data fusion
   - Perceptual signal processing in audio, image and video
   - Cognitive information processing
   - Applications, including:
       - Speech, audio and video
       - Music processing
       - Biomedical imaging
       - Communications
       - Bioinformatics and Computational genomics
       - Social networks
       - Biometrics
       - Energy and smart grid

* DATA COMPETITION, supported by Amazon.com

   A data and signal analysis competition is being organized.
   Winners will present their work and receive their award during the
   Workshop.

   https://sites.google.com/site/amazonaccessdatacompetition/

   Goal:   The goal is to select/design a classifier (and any
   pre-processing systems, including a feature extractor) that
correctly
   classifies a pair of an employee and a resource (a resource can be
a
   computer, a data base, or a data portal etc) into one of two
classes:
   access or non-access. The winner will be the submission that
minimize
   the number of manual access grant/removal operations in the future
   testing data.

   Eligibility:    Anyone.

   Registration:   Registration is not required. However, if you wish
to
   receive important updates on the competition by email then please
   send a request to the address provided on the web page.

   Deadline:       Submissions must be emailed to the email address
   provided at the web page no later than one week after the main
   conference paper submission deadline, i.e. by May 14, 2012.

   Awards:         Up to three newest Kindle Fire tablet computers
from
   Amazon will be awarded as prizes. Amazon will support and invite
the
   winners to present their results at Amazon's new SLU headquarter
in
   Seattle, USA.

   Data and more details:  Available on the competition page.

* PLENARY SPEAKERS

   - Martin Wainwright, Univ. California at Berkeley, USA
   - Francis Bach, INRIA, France
   - Ali H. Sayed, Univ. California at Los Angeles, USA

* IMPORTANT DATES

   - Full paper submission: May 7, 2012
   - Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2012
   - Advance registration before: July 31, 2012
   - Camera-ready paper: August 15, 2012
   - Conference: September 23-26, 2012

* SUBMISSION

   Authors are invited to submit a double-column paper of up to 6
pages using the electronic submission procedure described at
http://mlsp2012.conwiz.dk.

     - Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press and in
electronic format.

     - Selected papers from MLSP 2012 will be considered for a special
issue of The International Journal of Neural Systems (JCR IF 4.2).

* FURTHER INFORMATION:

   PDF file of the Call-for-Papers can be found at http://mlsp2012.conwiz.dk

   For up-to-date information on the technical and social program for
practical arrangements, please visit the conference website at
http://mlsp2012.conwiz.dk

We hope to welcome you in Santander in September 2012!

* ORGANIZATION

   General Chairs:
     Ignacio Santamaria (Univ. Cantabria, Spain)
     Jeronimo Arenas-Garcia (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
     Gustavo Camps-Valls (Univ. de Valencia, Spain)

   Technical Chairs:
     Deniz Erdogmus
     Fernando Perez-Cruz (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

   Special Sessions Chairs:
     Emilio Parrado-Hernandez (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
     Jocelyn Chanussot (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France)

   Data Competition Chairs:
     Kenneth E. Hild II (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
     Vince Calhoun (University of New Mexico, USA)
     Weifeng Liu (Amazon.com Inc., USA)

   Publicity Chairs:
     Marc Van Hulle (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
     Luis Gomez Chova (Univ. de Valencia, Spain)

   Web and Publication Chair:
     Jan Larsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

   Local Organizing Chairs:
     Jesus Ibanez (Univ. Santander)
     Javier Via (Univ. Santander)

[ comp.ai is moderated ... your article may take a while to appear. ]