Content Gazette - August 2018 - 25

Call for Papers:
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (J-STSP)
Special Issue on Data Science: Machine Learning for Audio Signal Processing
Audio signal processing is currently undergoing a paradigm change, where data-driven machine learning is replacing
hand-crafted feature design. This has led some to ask whether audio signal processing is still useful in the "era of machine
learning." There are many challenges, new and old, including the interpretation of learned models in high dimensional
spaces, problems associated with data-poor domains, adversarial examples, high computational requirements, and
research driven by companies using large in-house datasets that is ultimately not reproducible.
This special issue aims to promote progress, systematization, understanding, and convergence of applying machine
learning in the area of audio signal processing. Specifically, we are interested in work that demonstrates novel
applications of machine learning techniques in the area of sound and music signal processing, as well as methodological
considerations of merging machine learning with audio signal processing. We seek contributions in, but not limited to, the
following topics:
- audio information retrieval using machine learning;
- audio synthesis with given contextual or musical constraints using machine learning;
- audio source separation using machine learning;
- audio transformations (e.g., sound morphing, style transfer) using machine learning;
- unsupervised learning, online learning, one-shot learning, reinforcement learning, and incremental learning for audio;
- applications/optimization of generative adversarial networks for audio;
- cognitively inspired machine learning models of sound cognition;
- mathematical foundations of machine learning for audio signal processing.
This call addresses audio signal processing for speech, acoustic scenes, and music.
Prospective authors should follow the instructions given on the IEEE JSTSP webpages:
https://signalprocessingsociety.org/publications-resources/ieee-journal-selected-topics-signal-processing and submit their
manuscript with the web submission system at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jstsp-ieee
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: October 1, 2018
1st review completed: December 1, 2018
Revised manuscript due: February 1, 2019
2nd review completed: March 1, 2019
Final Manuscript due: April 1, 2019
Publication: May, 2019
Guest Editors:
- Abeer Alwan, University of California Los Angeles, USA (alwan@ee.ucla.edu)
- Bo Li, Google, USA (boboli@google.com)
- Juhan Nam, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (juhannam@kaist.ac.kr)
- Hendrik Purwins, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark (hpurwins@gmail.com)
- Ariya Rastrow, Amazon, USA (arastrow@amazon.com)
- Bob L. Sturm, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (b.sturm@qmul.ac.uk)

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