This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on
Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation ICA 2009 held in Paraty Brazil in
March 2009. The 97 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 137
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theory algorithms and
architectures biomedical applications image processing speech and audio processing other
applications as well as a special session on evaluation.
