The 8th nternational Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation, ICA 2009, will be held in Paraty, Brazil, March 15-18, 2009. The meeting will feature keynote addresses by leading researchers, as well as invited and contributed papers.

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in the following areas:

* Algorithms and Architectures: non-linear ICA, probabilistic models, sparse coding, linear & nonlinear models, convolutive & noisy models;
* Theory: optimization, complex methods, time-frequency representations;
* Applications: audio, bio-informatics, biomedical engineering, communications, finance, text, image processing, psychology;
* Emerging Technologies: analogue and digital VLSI implementations, photonics;
* Functional Neuroimaging: EEG, MEG, fMRI analysis, applications in neuroscience;
* Speech and Musical Audio: source separation, denoising, dereverberation, temporal models, computational auditory scene analysis (CASA), beamforming;
* Visual and Sensory Processing: image processing and coding, image separation.

SPECIAL SESSION ON EVALUATION

ICA 2009 will feature a special session on the first community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/). Researchers entering the campaign are encouraged to submit a paper to this session describing their approach. Papers discussing new algorithms or application strategies for existing algorithms (e.g. signal representation, parameter settings) are both welcome. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ICA 2009, after review by the evaluation chairs and the program chairs.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS). LNCS is published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic form. All contributions must be original, and must not have been previously published, nor be under review for presentation elsewhere. Detailed instructions for submission to ICA 2009, including formatting instructions and templates, will be available in the conference website.

IMPORTANT DATES:

* October 15, 2008 - Submission deadline
* December 5, 2008 - Notification of acceptance
* December 15, 2008 - Final paper due