Special Issue on Machine Learning Methods in Signal Processing
August 2004

Much of modern statistical signal processing relies on learning algorithms of one form or another. While some of the rich literature on machine learning has penetrated the signal processing community in great depth, a variety of new techniques, which offer tremendous potential for signal processing applications, have not enjoyed similar broad acceptance in the signal processing community. Raising awareness and surveying the state of art of machine learning for signal processing applications and theory is both timely and important. This Call for Papers is directed to both the signal processing and the machine learning research communities, based on our belief that great synergies can be realized by further stimulating the cross-fertilization that has been ongoing between these strong research communities.
We solicit papers from researchers in signal processing, who apply machine learning methods and approaches to solve difficult problems in signal processing. These include problems of detection and estimation in the presence of significant environmental or model uncertainty, channel estimation and equalization, pattern recognition and classification, and other signal processing problems of practical and theoretical interest. We also solicit papers from researchers in machine learning, who are working on topics with a signal processing aspect, such as problems of prediction, estimation, data compression, pattern recognition and analysis, sequential decision theory, machine vision, and classification. The scope of this Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing covers applications of machine learning methods in signal processing, where the learning aspects of the problem are of particular interest. Papers on machine learning that have limited signal processing focus are out of the scope of this call. Similarly, signal processing papers with limited emphasis on learning are also not encouraged.
We call for high-quality innovative research papers and also for review papers in the broad signal processing areas described above.
 
Topics:
  • New methods in machine learning applied to signal processing applications
• Sequential learning / decision methods and causal learning in adaptive signal processing applications
• PAC learning methods
• Bayesian learning methods
• Graphical models and iterative algorithms
• Decentralized and multi-agent learning methods
• Min-max methods, asymptotics, and bounds on performance
 
Guest Editors:
  • Meir Feder, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, ISRAEL Mario A.T. Figueiredo Institute of Telecommunications, Instituto Superior Tecnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

• Alfred O. Hero, Univ. of Michigan, 1301 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122

• Chin-Hui Lee, Van Leer Building, 777 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0360

• Hans-Andrea Loeliger (ISI) ETF E101, ETH Zentrum, Sternwartstrasse 7, CH-8092 Zόrich, Switzerland

• Robert Nowak, Rice University, 2023 Duncan Hall , Houston, TX USA

• Andrew C. Singer, University of Illinois, 1308 W. Main Street, Urbana, IL 61820

• Bin Yu, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3860

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