ANNUAL REPORT 2006 BSP TC, IEEE CAS SOCIETY
Past-Chair Yujiro Inouye
Chairman:Andrzej Cichocki
Chair-Elect:Shoji Makino
Secretary:Wei Xing Zheng
1.Conferences and Workshops
Conferences or Workshops where the BSP TC or Members of the TC are/were actively involved include the followings:
Review Committee Member
- Review Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Yujiro Inouye
- Review Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Juha Karhunen
- Review Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Shoji Makino
- Review Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Review Committee Member of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Athens, September 2006: Christian Jutten
- Review Committee Member of IJCNN 2006: Juha Karhunen
- Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Seungjin Choi
- Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Yujiro Inouye
- Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Derong Liu
- Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Shoji Makino
- Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Fabian Theis
- Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Wei Xing Zheng
- Review Committee Member of the IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece , August 27-29, 2007: Christian Jutten
Track Chair
- Track Chair of 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Yujiro Inouye
- Track Chair of 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Andrzej Cichocki
Session Chair
- Technical Session Chair of "Adaptive Signal Processing I" at the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Technical Session Chair of "Digital Signal Processing for Communications" at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Wei Xing Zheng
- Technical Session Chair of "Architectures for Communications" at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Rui J.P.de Figueiredo
Program Committee Member
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Seungjin Choi
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Andrzej Cichocki
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Yujiro Inouye
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Juha Karhunen
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Mitsuru Kawamoto
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Scott Makeig
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Shoji Makino
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Wakako Nakamura
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Hiroshi Sawada
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Toshihisa Tanaka
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Fabian Theis
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Alle-Jan van der Veen
- Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006): Andrzej Cichocki
- Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006): Shoji Makino
- Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006): Hiroshi Sawada
- Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP2006): Seungjin Choi
- Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP2006): Andrzej Cichocki
- Program Committee Member of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Vancouver, July 2006: Erkki Oja
- Program Committee Member ofKSS: Andrzej Cichocki
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2006), Miami, Florida, USA, April 23-25, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- ProgramCommitteeMember of IDEAL2006: Juha Karhunen
- International Program Committee Member of the 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA2006), Dalian, China, June 21-23, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Program Committee Member of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Internation, Zakopane, Poland, June 25-29, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Program CommitteeMember of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006): Seungjin Choi
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2006), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 16-21, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Yujiro Inouye
- International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP2006), Setubal, Portugal, August 7-10, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Program Committee Member of the First International Conference on Neural Networks and Associative Memories (NNAM2006), Mexico City, November 21-24, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- International Program Committee Member of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC2006), Munich, Germany, October 4-6, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Program CommitteeMember of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC2006): Seungjin Choi
- Program Committee Member of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2006), San Diego, California, USA, December 13-15, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Program CommitteeMember ofInternational Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS2006): Seungjin Choi
- International Program Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2007), London, UK, April 2007: Wei Xing Zheng
- Program Committee Member of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, December 2007: Wei Xing Zheng
- Program Committee Member NOLTA 2007, Vancouver, Canada: Rui J. P. de Figueiredo
Technical Committee Member
- Technical Committee Member of the14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2006), Florence, Italy, September 4-8, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer
- Technical Committee Member of the14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2006), Florence, Italy, September 4-8, 2006: Shoji Makino
- Technical Program Committee Member of the 8th Biennial Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS2006), Singapore, December 4-7, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Technical Program Committee Member of the Three-way Methods in Chemistry and Psychology (TRICAP2006), China, Crete, Greece, June 4-9, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer
- Technical Committee Member of the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASA/ASJ2006): Shoji Makino
- Technical Committee Member of the14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2007), Poznan, Poland, September 3-7, 2007: Shoji Makino
- Technical Committee Member of the14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2007), Poznan, Poland, September 3-7, 2007: Fabian Theis
- Technical Program Committee Member of the 9th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications (ISSPA2007), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), February 2007: Wei Xing Zheng
Organizing Committee Member
- Organizing Committee Member of the Symposium on Learning, Seoul, Korea, November 30-December 1, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Organizing Committee Member of the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASA/ASJ2006): Shoji Makino
- National Organizing Committee Member of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID2006), Newcastle, Australia, March 29-31, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Opening Ceremony Chair of the IEEE Nanjing Section and Workshop on Information Science & Technology Development, SouthestUniversity, Nanjing, June 3-5, 2007: Zhenya He
Special Session Organizer
- Special Session Organizer at the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006): Shoji Makino
- Special Session Organizer at KES2006: Toshihisa Tanaka
- Special Session Organizer at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006): Shoji Makino
- Special Session Organizer at the 2006 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2006): Shoji Makino
- Special Session Organizer at the 2006 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar2006): Shoji Makino
- Special Session Organizer at the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASA/ASJ2006): Shoji Makino
- Special Session Organizer at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007): Shoji Makino
Chairs
- Program Co-Chair of the International. Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Athens, September 2006: Erkki Oja
- Program Committee Chair of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Shoji Makino
- Regional Program Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition, Weihai, China, August 20-23, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Registration Chair of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID2006), Newcastle, Australia, March 29-31, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng
- Organizer of the 2006 Neurobiology andNeuroinformatics, Kyoto, Japan, July 23-24, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Symposium Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Artificial Brain with Emotion and Learning, Seoul, Korea, August 24-25, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Organizer of the International Symposiumon Bio Systems, Daejeon, Korea, October 13, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- General Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications,Bucharest, Romania, June 2006: Rui J.P. de Figueiredo
- Publicity Co-Chair of the 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN2007), Nanjing, China, June 2007: Wei Xing Zheng
- Publications Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA2007): Hiroshi Sawada
- General Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA2007): Shoji Makino
- Chair, Panel on Electrical Electronics and Computer Engineering, Foundation for Science and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal 2007: Rui J. P de Figueiredo
- General Chair of the IEEE ICCSC2008 in Shanghai, 2008: Rueywen Liu
- General Chair of the IEEE CAS China Workshop on Analog Fault Diagnosis in Chengdu, 2008: Rueywen Liu
Steering Committee Member
- International ICA Steering Committee Member: Shun-ichi Amari
- International ICA Steering Committee Member: Andrzej Cichocki
- International ICA Steering Committee Member: Christian Jutten
- International ICA Steering Committee Member: Shoji Makino
- International ICA Steering Committee Member: Erkki Oja
- International Steering Committee Member of the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS): Wei Xing Zheng
- International IWAENC Standing Committee Member: Shoji Makino
- Steering Committee Member of the 4th International Workshop on Total Least Squares and Errors-in-Variables Modeling, Leuven, Belgium, August 21-23, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer
Advisory Committee Member
- Advisory Member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee: Seungjin Choi
- International Advisory Panel for ICA Research Network: Shoji Makino
- Advisory Board of the Second International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC2006) and The Third International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD2006), Xi’an, China, September 24-27, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- International Advisory Committee Member of the InternationalConference onNeuralInformationProcessing, Hong Kong, October 3-6, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- International Advisory Committee Member of the 2nd Shanghai International Congress on Physiological Biophysics - Audition & Vision (Shanghai NSA06), Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Advisory Committee Co-chair of the Fourth International Conference on Neural Networks, Nanjing, June 3-7, 2007: Zhenya He
2.Short courses, Plenary Sessions, Keynote Speakers, Invited Lectures:
- Keynote Talk at the GAMM-SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Dusseldorf, Germany, July 24-27, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer
- Plenary Talk at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2006), Vancouver; 7/26/2006: Shun-ichi Amari
- Plenary Talk at the 2006 International. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Vancouver, Canada: Erkki Oja
- Plenary Talk at the ICA Research Network International Workshop, LiverpoolUK, September 2006: Christian Jutten
- Plenary Talk at the Inaugural Queensland Brain Institute Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience, Brisbane, 8/14/2006: Shun-ichi Amari
- Plenary Talk at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Cardiff,Wales, UK, July 1-4: Christian Jutten
- Plenary Talk at the 2nd Shanghai International Congress on Physiological Biophysics - Audition & Vision (Shanghai NSA06), Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Plenary Talk at the 3rd International Symposium on Neural Network (ISSN), Chengdu, China: Erkki Oja
- Plenary Talk at the 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006), Hong Kong, 10/4/2006: Shun-ichi Amari
- Plenary Talk at the IAR Annual Meeting, Nancy, France, November: Christian Jutten
- Invited Talk atTelluride, USA, June 25 - July 15, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Invited Talk at the Three-way Methods in Chemistry and Psychology (TRICAP2006), China, Crete, Greece, June 4-9, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer
- Invited Talk at the 2nd Pacific Rim Brain Conference, Sunshine Coast, Australia, 8/15/2006: Shun-ichi Amari
- Invited Talk at the INE Telluride Workshop 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Invited Talk at the Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets, StanfordUniversity and Yahoo! Research, June 21-24, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer
- Invited Talk at the Structural Dynamical Systems 2006 (SDS2006) Workshop, Bari, Italy: Toshihisa Tanaka
- Invited Talk at the Second International ICSC Symposium on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS2006), LesbosIsland, 10/11/2006: Shun-ichi Amari
- Invited Talk at the Total Least Squares and Error-in-Variables Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, August 21-23, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer
- Invited Talk at DGMP 2006: Fabian Theis
- Invited Talk at the 2006 InternationalConference onNeuralInformationProcessing, Hong Kong, October 3-6, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Invited Lecture at the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC2006), Zakopane, Poland, June 25-29: Andrzej Cichocki
- Panelist at the IJCNN2006 (WCCI2006), Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006: Soo-Young Lee
- Short Course at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, April 2006: Harold Szu and Shoji Makino
- Tutorial Speaker at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CDIM) : Andrzej Cichocki
- Keynote Speaker at the 2007 IEEE CAS APCCAS, Singapore: Rueywen Liu
- Keynote Speaker at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Hong Kong Chapter & Hong Kong Baptist University, March 28, 2007: Zhenya He
- Plenary Lecture at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CDIM), Honolulu, April 2007: Andrzej Cichocki
- Plenary Invited Lecture at the 2007 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2007), Poznan, Poland, September 3-7, 2007: Andrzej Cichocki
- Invited Lectures at the NCKU,Taiwan, March 2007: Rueywen Liu
- Invited Talk at the International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA2007), Warsaw, Poland, April 11-14, 2007: Andrzej Cichocki
- Master Research Course at the University Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, May 14-17, 2007: Christian Jutten
- Seminar at the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong, March 30, 2007: Zhenya He
- Seminar at the ShenzhenUniversity, ShenZhen, May 17, 2007: Zhenya He
- Seminar at the Shenzhen Institue of Information Technology, May 18, 2007: Zhenya He
- Seminar at the SouthestUniversity, June, 2007: Zhenya He
- Tutorial Speaker at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 15-20, 2007: Shoji Makino and Hiroshi Sawada
3. Distinguished Lecturer
4. Editorial Services:
- Editor-in-Chief of the Neural Information Processing - Letters and Reviews: Soo-Young Lee
- Editorial Board of the Neural Processing Letters: Soo-Young Lee
- Editorial Board of the Cognitive Neurodynamics: Soo-Young Lee
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,: Hiroshi Sawada
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control: Wei Xing Zheng
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters: Wei Xing Zheng
- Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications: Lieven Lathauwer
- Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing: Shoji Makino
- Associate Editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence: Erkki Oja
- Associate Editor of the Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience: Fabian Theis
- Associate Editor of the Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience: Seungjin Choi
- Associate Editor of the Neural Information Processing - Letters and Review: Seungjin Choi
- Associate Editor of the Neurocomputing: Seungjin Choi
- Action Editor of the Neural Computation: Erkki Oja
- Area Editor of the Journal of Natural Computing: Erkki Oja
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing: Shoji Makino
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions onComputers: Shoji Makino
- Newsletter Editorial Committee Chair of NanjingSection: Zhenya He
5. Books and book chapters:
- Kollias, S., Stafylopatis, A., Duch, W., and Oja, E. (Eds): Artifical Neural Networks - ICANN 2006. Volumes I and II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4131 and 4132. Berlin, Germany: Springer (2006).
- S. Makino, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Araki, ''Blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of audio signals in frequency domain, '' in Topics in Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, E. Haensler and G. Schmidt, Eds., Springer, May 2006.
- Séparation de sources. Vol. 1 : concept de base et analyse en composantes indépendantes, P. Comon and C. Jutten (Eds), in French, 280 pages, Hermès, Lavoisier, April 2007
- Séparation de sources. Vol. 2 :au-delà de l'aveugle et applications, P. Comon and C. Jutten (Eds), ,in French, 260 pages, Hermès, Lavoisier, April 2007
- S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Blind Speech Separation, Springer, 2007.
- A. Cichocki, "Generalized Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation Methods for Analyzing Multichannel Brain Signals" - a chapter in the monograph, "Statistical and Process Models of Cognitive Aging", Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methods, Editors: M.J Wenger and C. Schuster, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2007.
- H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, 2007.
- S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''K-means based underdetermined blind speech separation, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, 2007.
- S. Winter, W. Kellermann, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined blind source separation of convolutive mixtures by hierarchical clustering and L1-norm minimization, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, 2007.
- New multipurpose software for the scientific community ICALAB, NMFLAB and NTFLAB for BSS: Version 3: Andrzej Cichocki.
- Matlab toolbox for BSS of functional MRI data (as plugin for SPM): mfBox ( : Fabian Theis]
- R. J. P. de Figueiredo, “A Nonlinear Functional Analytic Framework for Modeling and Processing Fuzzy Sets”, in the book “Forging the New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers I”, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, edited by M. Nikravesh, J. Kacprzyk, and L. A. Zadeh, Springer Verlag, 2007
6. IEEE Services: