CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Workshop on Machine Learning for Bioacoustics - 30th International Conference on Machine Learning
WBIOAC ICML 2013 
20-21 June 2013, Atlanta

http://icml.cc/2013/?page_id=41
http://sabiod.univ-tln.fr/icml2013/index.html

Machine Learning (ML) will become central in biodiversity assessment. This is a highly complex & challenging task, which involves the application of both discriminative & generative approaches.
We are pleased to announce the CFP for the workshop Machine Learning for Bioacoustics under the ICML conference, which is an annual, highly regarded conference in the machine learning community. 

The workshop is comprised of  :
 1.	A regular paper submission regarding common bioacoustic topics such as classification, localization, detection and others.
 2.	A technical challenge on avian and/or marine mammal data, including a prize for the winners!

Important Dates  :

Regular paper deadline: 4/22  
Author notification: 5/22 

Technical Challenge deadline: 5/6 
Publication of results: 5/13 
Submission of working notes: 5/27 

Keynote speakers will provide informative presentations regarding state of the art methodologies in both the bioacoustic and machine learning fields.

The workshop organizers are  :

Pr. Y. LeCun - Computational and Biological Learning Lab at New York University, USA
Pr. C. Clark - Director of Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell University, NY, USA
Pr. H. Glotin - Institut Universitaire de France, CNRS LSIS and USTV, FR
Dr. X. Halkias - CNRS LSIS and USTV, FR
Dr. Peter Dugan - Cornell University, NY, USA
Dr. Jérôme Sueur,  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FR

For additional information please visit the website or contact us at icml4b@gmail.com