SiSEC 2013

Welcome to the main page for the fourth community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2013).

SiSEC aims to be a large-scale regular campaign building upon the experience of previous evaluation campaigns and first community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SASSEC).
So far, several SiSECs (SiSEC2008,SiSEC2010,and SiSEC2011) were held every one and half year. The unique aspect of this campaign is that it is not a competition but a scientific evaluation from which we can draw rigorous scientific conclusions.

Reference papers

The results of this and previous evaluation campaigns are summarized in the following reference papers

• S. Araki, F. Nesta, E. Vincent, Z. Koldovsky, G. Nolte, A. Ziehe and A. Benichoux, The 2011 Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC2011): - Audio source separation -, in Proc. Int. Conf. on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, pp. 414-422, 2012.
• G. Nolte, D. Lutter, A. Ziehe, F. Nesta, E. Vincent, Z. Koldovsky, A. Benichoux and S. Araki, The 2011 Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC2011): - Biomedical data analysis -, in Proc. Int. Conf. on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, pp. 423-429, 2012.
• E. Vincent, S. Araki, F.J. Theis, G. Nolte, P. Bofill, H. Sawada, A. Ozerov, B.V. Gowreesunker, D. Lutter and N.Q.K. Duong, The Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (2007-2010): Achievements and remaining challenges, Signal Processing, 92, pp. 1928-1936, 2012.

Datasets and evaluation procedures

• Audio source separation

Mailing list

Interested individuals are encouraged to join the SiSEC mailing list at https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/info/sisec . Announcements (including on the revision to the datasets, reference software, submission information, etc.) and discussions related to the SiSEC2013 will be provided through the SiSEC mailing list.

Important Dates

• Nov. 16, 2013: Call for participation to SiSEC2013
• Feb. 21, 2013: Deadline for evaluation proposal (extended)
• Feb. 28, 2013: Call for submission of separation results
• May 1, 2013: Daedline for submission of full paper for LVA/ICA 2013
• May 8, 2013: Deadline for submission of separation results
• Jun. 25, 2013: Publication of the results
• Aug. 1, 2013: Deadline for submission of camera-ready paper for LVA/ICA 2013
• Sept.4-5 2013: LVA/ICA 2013 (in conjuction with MLSP workshop on September 1-4)

SiSEC 2013 Evaluation Organizing Committee

• Nobutaka Ono (NII) - Co-Chair? + audio evaluation;
• Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec) - Co-Chair? + audio evaluation;
• Nobutaka Ito (NTT) - member + audio evaluation;
• Shigeki Miyabe (Tsukuba University) - member + audio evaluation;
• Toshihisa Tanaka (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) - Co-Chair? + bio evaluation;
• Tomasz Rutkowski (Tsukuba University) - member + bio evaluation;

SiSEC History

• 2011: Third community-based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2011)
• 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)