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Call for papers
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2008 IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING
(Formerly the IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing)

October 16-19, 2008 Cancun, Mexico
Fiesta Americana Condesa Cancun, www.fiestamericana.com

Deadlines:
Submission of full paper:                       May 26, 2008
Notification of acceptance:                     June 16, 2008
Camera-ready paper and author registration:     June 23, 2008
Advance registration before:                    July 1, 2008

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The workshop will feature keynote addresses, technical presentations,
special sessions and tutorials organized in two themes that will be
included in the registration. Tutorials will take place on the afternoon
of 16 October, and the workshop will begin on 17 October. The two themes
for MLSP 2008 are Cognitive Sensing and Kernel Methods for Nonlinear
Signal Processing. Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the
following areas:

Algorithms and Architectures:
Artificial neural networks, kernel methods, committee models, Gaussian
processes, independent component analysis, advanced (adaptive,
nonlinear) signal processing, (hidden) Markov models, Bayesian modeling,
parameter estimation, generalization, optimization, design algorithms.

Applications:
Speech processing, image processing (computer vision, OCR) medical
imaging, multimodal interactions, multi-channel processing, intelligent
multimedia and web processing, robotics, sonar and radar, biomedical
engineering, financial analysis, time series prediction, blind source
separation, data fusion, data mining, adaptive filtering,
communications, sensors, system identification, and other signal
processing and pattern recognition applications.

Implementations:
Parallel and distributed implementation, hardware design, and other
general implementation technologies.

For the fourth consecutive year, a Data Analysis and Signal Processing
Competition is being organized in conjunction with the workshop. The
goal of the competition is to advance the current state-of-the-art in
theoretical and practical aspects of signal processing domains. The
problems are selected to reflect current trends, evaluate existing
approaches on common benchmarks, and identify critical new areas of
research. Previous competitions produced novel and effective approaches
to challenging problems, advancing the mission of the MLSP community. A
description of the competition, the submissions, and the results, will
be included in a paper which will be published in the proceedings.
Winners will be announced and awards given at the workshop.

Selected papers from MLSP 2008 will be considered for a special issue of
The Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video
Technology, to appear in 2009. The MLSP technical committee may invite
one or more winners of the data analysis and signal processing
competition to submit a paper describing their methodology to the
special issue.

Paper Submission Procedure
Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to
six pages using the electronic submission procedure at
http://mlsp2008.conwiz.dk. Accepted papers will be published on a CDROM
to be distributed at the workshop.

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MLSP 2008 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chair
Jose Principe

Program Chair
Deniz Erdogmus

Technical Chair
Tulay Adali

Publicity Chairs
Ignacio Santamaria
Marc Van Hulle

Publication Chair
Jan Larsen

Data Competition
Ken Hild
Vince Calhoun

Local Arrangements
Juan Azuela