International Workshop on
INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS
and
BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION

19-22 June 2000, Helsinki, Finland


Final Call for Papers

Submission deadline: 1 March 2000




  aims and scope  

This workshop is the second in the series initiated by the highly successful ICA'99 workshop in Aussois, France. It is devoted to the recent advances in Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation. An important goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from artificial neural networks, signal processing, and other related fields to provide interdisciplinary exchange.

Papers describing original work on ICA and BSS are invited. Relevant topics include, for example:

  paper submission  

important dates
1 March, 2000 submission of camera-ready paper
15 April, 2000 notification of acceptance
19-22 June, 2000 workshop

Papers must be max. 6 pages, and should use IEEE conference style. The submission is electronic through the Internet. To submit a paper, follow the instructions on the paper submission page. Submitted files should be in PostScript or PDF format. The submitted papers should be in the final camera-ready form, suitable for publication in the proceedings.

The submitted papers will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. All the papers presented at the workshop will be published in the Proceedings of ICA 2000.

  international program committee  

L. Almeida IST/INESC, Portugal
S.-I. Amari RIKEN, Japan
A. Bell Interval Research, USA
J.-F. Cardoso ENST, France
A. Cichocki RIKEN, Japan
P. Comon Université de Nice, France
S. Douglas Southern Methodist University, USA
C. Fyfe University of Paisley, UK
S. Haykin McMaster University, Canada
A. Hyvärinen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
C. Jutten INPG, France
J. Karhunen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
S. Kassam University of Pennsylvania, USA
V. Koivunen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
T.-W. Lee Salk Institute, USA
R.-W. Liu University of Notre Dame, USA
P. Loubaton Université de Marne la Vallée, France
K.-R. Müller GMD First, Germany
B. Olshausen University of California Davis, USA
E. Oja Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
P. Pajunen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
J. Príncipe University of Florida, USA
T. Sejnowski Salk Institute, USA
K. Torkkola Motorola Corporate Research, USA
J. Tugnait Auburn University, USA
L. Xu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

  local organizing committee  

General Chair: E. Oja
Program Chair: J. Karhunen
Local Arrangements Chair: V. Koivunen
Publications Chair: P. Pajunen
Publicity Chair: A. Hyvärinen
Treasurer: J. Iivarinen
Web Master: J. Särelä
Graphic Designer: M. Peura

  cooperating societies  

  contact information  

web site http://www.cis.hut.fi/ica2000/
email ica2000@mail.cis.hut.fi
postal mail ICA 2000, P.O.Box 5400
Lab of Comp. and Info. Science
Helsinki University of Technology
FIN-02015 HUT, Finland