Papers describing original research and new concepts are solicited for technical sessions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Acoustic Signal Processing

• Source separation: single- and multi-microphone techniques

• Acoustic source localization and tracking

• Signal enhancement: dereverberation, noise reduction, echo reduction

• Microphone and loudspeaker array processing

• Acoustic sensor networks: distributed algorithms, synchronisation

• Acoustic scene analysis: event detection and classification

• Room acoustics: analysis, modeling and simulation

• Audio and Music Signal Processing

• Content-based music retrieval: fingerprinting, matching, cover song retrieval

• Musical signal analysis: segmentation, classification, transcription

• Music signal synthesis: waveforms, instrument models, singing

• Music separation: direct-ambient decomposition, vocal and instruments

• Audio effects: artificial reverberation, amplifier modeling

• Upmixing and downmixing

• Audio and Speech Coding

• Waveform and parametric coding

• Spatial audio coding

• Sparse representations

• Low-delay audio and speech coding

• Digital rights

• Hearing and Perception

• Hearing aids

• Computational auditory scene analysis

• Auditory perception and spatial hearing

• Speech and audio quality assessment

• Speech intelligibility measures and prediction