SiSEC 2011

Welcome to the main page for the third community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2011).

SiSEC aims to be a large-scale regular campaign building upon the experience of previous evaluation campaigns (SiSEC2008, SiSEC2010) and first community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SASSEC).　
The unique aspect of this campaign is that, SiSEC is not a competition but a scientific evaluation from which we can draw rigorous scientific conclusions.

The 10th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Processing (LVA/ICA2012) will feature a special session on SiSEC 2011.

Researchers entering the campaign are encouraged to submit a paper to LVA/ICA2012 describing their approach. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. In addition, entrants not wishing to submit a paper will have the opportunity to present a poster about their approach. All posters are welcome, in the limit of available space. In order to present a poster, you must submit an abstract by Jan. 15, 2012. The abstracts will be linked from the LVA/ICA2012 web-site, and will not be included in the proceedings.


The wiki-pages could be changed according to e.g., the feedback from participants. So, we recommend you revisit this wiki-page occasionally, in order to check for changes.

Mailing list

Interested individuals are encouraged to join the SiSEC mailing list at https://listes.irisa.fr/sympa/info/sisec .
Announcements (including on the revision to the datasets, reference software, submission information, etc.) and discussions related to the SiSEC2011 will be provided through the SiSEC mailing list.

Tasks

• Audio source separation
• Biomedical data analysis

Important Dates

• Beginning of April 2011: Call for participation to SiSEC2011, and open the discussion about the definition of datasets, tasks and evaluation criteria
• May 2, 2011: Deadline for discussion and call for detailed task specifications and datasets
• June, 2011: Detailed task specification and dataset collection deadline
• July, 2011: Call for submission of separation results
• October 3, 2011: LVA/ICA2012 paper submission deadline,
• October 24, 2011: Extended Separation Campaign entrance deadline
• November, 2011: Publication of the SiSEC 2011 results (on the web)
• December 12, 2011: LVA/ICA2012 camera ready submission deadline
• January 15, 2012: Deadline of abstracts for demo-session at LVA/ICA2012
• March 12-15, 2012: LVA/ICA2012

SiSEC 2011 Evaluation Organizing Committee

• Shoko Araki (NTT CS Labs.)- CoChair? + audio evaluation;
• Francesco Nesta (FBK)- CoChair? + audio evaluation;
• Guido Nolte (Fraunhofer Institute FIRST)- CoChair? + biomedical evaluation;
• Emmanuel Vincent (INRIA) - member + "SiSEC Live";
• Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec) - member + audio evaluation;
• Andreas Ziehe (Fraunhofer Institute FIRST) - member + biomedical evaluation;
• Alexis Benichoux (IRISA)- web administrator;

SiSEC History

• 2010: Second community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2010)
• 2008: First community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2008)
• 2007: Stereo Audio Source Separation Evaluation Campaign (SASSEC2007)