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2007 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
(Formerly the IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing)

August 27 - 29, 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece

Deadlines:
Paper Submission March 30, 2007
Data analysis competition March 30, 2007

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The seventeenth of a series of IEEE workshops on Machine Learning for 
Signal Processing will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece. The ancient city 
of Thessaloniki founded in 316 BC was named after the half-sister of the 
Macedonian king Alexander the Great. It is located in a privileged 
geographical position on the shores of the Aegean Sea. Once the second 
largest city of the Late Roman Empire, Thessaloniki is a living museum 
of Byzantine art. Today the city is famous for its nightlife hosting 
three major institutes of higher education including Greece's largest 
university. Every September Thessaloniki holds the International Trade 
Fair followed by the popular International Film festival, while numerous 
other activities happen throughout the year.

The workshop, formerly known as Neural Networks for Signal Processing 
(NNSP), is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing society (SPS) and 
organized by the MLSP technical committee of the IEEE SPS. The name of 
the NNSP technical committee, and hence the workshop, was changed to 
Machine Learning for Signal Processing in September 2003 to better 
reflect the areas represented by the technical committee.

The workshop will feature keynote addresses, technical presentations, 
special sessions and tutorials, all of which will be included in the 
registration. Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the 
following areas:

Learning Theory and Modeling; Bayesian Learning and Modeling; Sequential 
Learning; Sequential Decision Methods; Information-theoretic Learning; 
Neural Network Learning; Graphical and Kernel Models; Bounds on 
performance; Blind Signal Separation and Independent Component Analysis; 
Signal Detection; Pattern Recognition and Classification, Bioinformatics 
Applications; Biomedical Applications and Neural Engineering; 
Intelligent Multimedia and Web Processing; Communications Applications; 
Speech and Audio Processing Applications; Image and Video Processing 
Applications.

A data analysis and signal processing competition is being organized in 
conjunction with the workshop. This year's competition is the third 
consecutive event and previous competitions resulted in novel and 
superbly performing approaches to challenging problems in the fields of 
ICA and multichannel signal denoising, helping progress the mission of 
the MLSP community. The goal of the competition is to advance the 
current state-of-the-art in various signal processing domains in both 
theoretical and practical aspects. The problems are selected to reflect 
the current trends to evaluate existing approaches on common benchmarks 
as well as areas where crucial developments are thought to be necessary. 
Details of the competition will be announced on the workshop website.

Selected papers from MLSP 2007 will be considered for a special issue of 
The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and 
Video Technology to appear in 2008. The winners of the data analysis and 
signal processing competition will also be invited to contribute to the 
special issue.

MLSP'2007 webpage: http://mlsp2007.conwiz.dk/

Paper Submission Procedure
Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to 
six pages using the electronic submission procedure described at the 
workshop homepage. Accepted papers will be published in a bound volume 
by the IEEE after the workshop and a CDROM volume will be distributed at 
the workshop.

------------------------- MLSP'2007 webpage: http://mlsp2007.conwiz.dk/

MLSP 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chair
Konstantinos I. DIAMANTARAS, Alexander Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece

Technical Chairs
Jan LARSEN, Technical University of Denmark

Program Chair
Tulay ADALI , University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA
Ioannis PITAS, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Financial Chair
Theophilos PAPADIMITRIOU, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Publicity Chair
Marc VAN HULLE, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Sergios THEODORIDIS, University of Athens, Greece

Publications Chair
Scott C. DOUGLAS, Southern Methodist University, TX, USA

Data Competition Chairs
Deniz ERDOGMUS, Oregon Graduate Institute, OR, USA
Vince CALHOUN. Olin Neuropsychiatry Res. Ctr., Yale University, CT, USA