Good morning, Please post the below information to your list serv. If you have any questions or I have not done this correctly, please contact me. This is my first time posting to your list serv. Thank you, Tish Klein ******************************************** Executive Assistant to Dr. Christopher W. Clark, MSEE, Ph.D. Sr. Scientist I.P Johnson Director of Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell University 159 Sapsucker Wood Rd. Ithaca, NY 14853 T. 607.254.6260 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 bioacoustics 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: 4/30 Author notification: 5/10 Technical Challenge deadline: 5/15 Publication of results: 5/22 Submission of working notes: 5/30 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<mailto:icml4b@gmail.com> If you hav