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    <b>Call for papers</b><br>
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                We are pleased to announce that the 19th International
                Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx16) will be
                held at the Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech
                Republic, on September 5–9 2016.<br>
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                <a href="http://dafx16.vutbr.cz/cfp.html"
                  target="_blank">DAFx-16</a> is organized by the Brno
                University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical
                Engineering and Communication, and the Signal Processing
                Laboratory. The conference will be hosted at the
                university facilities and will feature oral and poster
                presentations of accepted papers, keynote addresses,
                tutorials/demonstrations and a social program.<br>
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                This annual conference is a coming together of those
                working across the globe in research relating to digital
                audio processing for music and speech, sound art,
                acoustics and related applications. We would like to
                invite submissions of papers for presentation at DAFx-16
                within the following general areas:<br>
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                  <li>Capture and analysis </li>
                  <li>Representation, transformation and modelling </li>
                  <li>Transmission and resynthesis </li>
                  <li>Effects and manipulation </li>
                  <li>Perception, psychoacoustics and evaluation </li>
                  <li>Spatial sound analysis, coding and synthesis </li>
                  <li>Source separation </li>
                  <li>Physical modelling, virtual acoustic and analogue
                    models </li>
                  <li>Sound synthesis, composition and sonification </li>
                  <li>Hardware and software design<br>
                  </li>
                </ul>
                At DAFx-16 we especially encourage submissions
                addressing:<br>
                <ul>
                  <li>Real-time applications of digital audio processing
                  </li>
                  <li>3D audio techniques </li>
                  <li>Sparse and low-rank audio representations<br>
                  </li>
                </ul>
                Submissions are also<span> </span>welcomed for a
                special session on sound synthesis organized by Vesa
                Välimäki and Josh Reiss, which will focus on high impact
                advances on the state of the art.<br>
                <br>
                Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length
                papers, 8 pages maximum, for both oral and poster
                presentations, before <span tabindex="0" class="aBn"
                  data-term="goog_708766811"><span class="aQJ">March
                    17th, 2016</span></span>.<br>
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                Submitted papers must be camera-ready and conform to
                format specified in the templates and the instructions
                available at the DAFx16 website. All submissions are
                subject to peer review. Acceptance may be conditional
                upon changes being made to the paper as directed by
                reviewers. Final versions of the accepted contributions
                will be published in the conference proceedings
                distributed to all registered delegates at the
                conference site and will be made freely accessible on
                the conference website after the conference closure. The
                proceedings will be submitted to ISI and Scopus indexing
                services.<br>
                <br>
                Important dates:<br>
                <br>
                Special session proposal:<br>
                <span tabindex="0" class="aBn"
                  data-term="goog_708766812"><span class="aQJ">January
                    15th, 2016</span></span><br>
                <br>
                <b>Full-Paper Submission:</b><b><br>
                </b><b><span tabindex="0" class="aBn"
                    data-term="goog_708766813"><span class="aQJ">March
                      17th, 2016</span></span></b><br>
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                Notification of Acceptance:<br>
                <span tabindex="0" class="aBn"
                  data-term="goog_708766814"><span class="aQJ">May 18th,
                    2016</span></span><br>
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                Final Paper Submission:<br>
                <span tabindex="0" class="aBn"
                  data-term="goog_708766815"><span class="aQJ">June 2nd,
                    2016</span></span><br>
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                Website: <a href="http://dafx16.vutbr.cz"
                  target="_blank">http://dafx16.vutbr.cz</a><br>
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                Best regards,<br>
                the organizing team:<br>
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                Jiri Schimmel, General Chair (Brno University of
                Technology)<br>
                Pavel Rajmic, Paper Chair (Brno University of
                Technology) <br>
                Vaclav Mach, Technical Coordinator (Brno University of
                Technology) <br>
                Jan Karasek, Social Events Coordinator (BioVendor
                Instruments)</div>
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