Call for Papers

Special Issue of
The IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio Applications

A special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing will be dedicated to recent advances in blind signal processing for speech and audio applications. The special issue will represent a vehicle whereby researchers can present new studies of blind signal processing techniques for speech and audio applications, thus paving the way for future developments in the field.

Prospective papers should be unpublished and present solid research work offering innovative contributions either from a methodological or application point of view. In particular, submissions are encouraged on theory and methods related to the following areas:

• Blind source separation of speech and audio signals
• Blind dereverberation of speech and audio signals
• Blind channel identification of acoustic systems
• Independent component analysis
• Sparse component analysis
• Computational auditory scene analysis

Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published in any recent issue of the Transactions and as available on the web at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/infotsa.html. Note that all rules will apply with regard to submission lengths, mandatory overlength page charges, and color charges.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on "Special Issue of T-SA on Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio Applications." Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and indicate in the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio Applications. We require a completed copyright form to be signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page.

Schedule:

Submission deadline:	1 July, 2006
Notification of acceptance:	31 January, 2007
Final manuscript due:	15 March, 2007
Tentative publication date:	July 2007

Guest Editors:

Dr. Shoji Makino	NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan	maki@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp
Dr. Te-Won Lee	University of California, San Diego, USA	tewon@ucsd.edu
Dr. Guy Brown	University of Sheffield, UK	g.brown@dcs.shef.ac.uk