The 2013 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA’13) will be held at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York, and is sponsored by the Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The objective of this workshop is to provide an informal environment for the discussion of problems in audio and acoustics and signal processing techniques leading to novel solutions. Technical sessions will be scheduled throughout the day. Afternoons will be left free for informal meetings among workshop participants.

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
Source localization
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

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, guitar amplifier modeling
Upmixing and downmixing

Audio and Speech Coding

Waveform coding and parameter 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
Spatial hearing
Quality assessment

Four page papers must be submitted by May 17, 2013