DAFx-14 / Authors 17th International conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFx-14 September 1-5, 2014 Erlangen, Germany
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DAFx-14 Call For Papers:

We are pleased to announce that the 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) will be held in Erlangen, Germany between 1st and 5th September, 2014.

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. DAFx-14 is jointly organized by the Fraunhofer Institut Integrated Circuits (IIS), the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), and the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (AudioLabs).

The conference will be hosted at facilities located at the Fraunhofer IIS and the FAU campus in Erlangen and will feature oral and poster presentations of submitted papers, keynote addresses, tutorials/demonstrations and a social program. Note that this Call for Papers is also available as a pdf download for your convenience.

We would like to invite submissions of papers for presentation at DAFx-14 within the following general areas relevant to audio signal processing for music, speech, sound art, acoustics and related applications:

• Capture and analysis
• Representation, transformation and modelling
• Transmission and resynthesis
• Effects and manipulation
• Perception, psychoacoustics and evaluation
• Source separation
• Physical modelling, virtual acoustic and analogue models
• Sound synthesis, composition and sonification
• Hardware and software design
  

At DAFx-14 we especially encourage submissions addressing:

• Semantic music processing (analysis & synthesis)
• Spatial sound analysis, coding and synthesis
• Perceptual audio coding
  

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers before March 14th, 2014 March 21st, 2014 according to one of the following two papers formats:

• Oral presentation: 8 pages maximum in the proceedings (15 minutes talk, 5 minutes questions & answers)
• Poster presentation: 4 pages recommended (8 maximum) in the proceedings
  

The program committee decides on the types of presentation based on the authors' preferences. Submitted papers must be camera-ready and conform to format specified in the templates and the instructions available at the DAFx-14 website:

Latex Templates

Word Templates

Detailed instructions for authors are available in pdf or Word format.

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.

Important dates:

Paper Submission Procedure:

The papers have to be submitted using the EasyChair web upload system.

Please note that at least one author MUST be registered for the conference by the date of final paper submission.

In case of any further questions, please contact: dafx14@audiolabs-erlangen.de

Guidelines For Presenting Authors:

Oral Presentations

The time-slot for the presentations is 20min and splits up in 15min for lecture, and 5min dedicated for discussion with the audience and for setting up the next speaker's presentation.

All presentations should be tested in the break before your session starts. Laptop VGA connections with stereo sound will be available. A dedicated PC with the ability to read standard Office formats, ppt, pdf etc., with internet connection and stereo sound will also be available. Access to 5.1 audio is available to those who have requested it specifically.

Poster Presentations

Posters for each day will be pinned up for the whole of each conference day for unguided discussion. At the beginning of poster sessions there will be a short poster presentation slot for authors to introduce their work. Each author should plan for 2 minutes maximum, no more than 2 presentation slides, and there will be 1 minute for questions.

It is recommended that posters should be in portrait format, A0 format (841 x 1189 mm). To give the posters a uniform look please use this year's DAFx-14 logo available as PDF, JPG and PNG.

Best regards from the DAFx-14 team,

	© Foto: Christine Dierenbach/Stadt Nuernberg	© Foto: Ralf Schedlbauer/Stadt Nuernberg

DAFx-14 is generously sponsored by the following leading audio engineering companies: