APSIPA ASC 2012 Call for Papers

Call for Papers
Welcome to the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2012 located in the heart of the American motion picture industry, Hollywood, California. Hollywood is home to the stars and to some of the most recognizable attractions in the world. Walk among the “stars” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and bring your camera to capture the world famous Hollywood sign. Nearby you will find famous Hollywood attractions such as hand/footprints in the cement courtyard of the Chinese Theatre, the Kodak Theatre, Madame Tussaud’s and more. Hooray for Hollywood!

APSIPA ASC 2012 will be the fourth annual conference organized by Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA).Founded in 2009, APSIPA aims to promote research and education on signal processing, information technology and communications. The annual conference was previously held in Japan (2009), Singapore (2010) and China (2011). The field of interest of APSIPA concerns all aspects of signals and information including processing, recognition, classification, communications, networking, computing, system design, security, implementation, and technology with applications to scientific, engineering, and social areas. Accepted papers in regular sessions and accepted papers in special sessions will be published in APSIPA ASC 2012 proceedings which will be indexed by EI Compendex.

The regular technical program tracks and topics of interest include (but not limited to):
1 Biomedical Signal Processing and Systems (BioSPS)
1.1 Biomedical Imaging
1.2 Modeling and Processing of Physiological Signals (EKG, MEG, EKG, EMG, etc)
1.3 Biologically-inspired Signal Processing
1.4 Medical Informatics and Healthcare Systems
1.5 Genomic and Proteomic Signal Processing

2 Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation (SPS)
2.1 Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems
2.2 VLSI Systems and Applications
2.3 Embedded Systems
2.4 Video Processing and Coding
2.5 Signal Processing Systems for Data Communication

3 Image, Video, and Multimedia (IVM)
3.1 Image/video Coding
3.2 3D image/video Processing
3.3 Image/video Segmentation and Recognition
3.4 Multimedia Indexing, Search and Retrieval
3.5 Image/video Forensics, Security and Human Biometrics
3.6 Graphics and Animation
3.7 Multimedia Systems and Applications

4 Speech, Language, and Audio (SLA)
4.1 Speech Processing: Analysis, Coding, Synthesis, Recognition and Understanding
4.2 Natural Language Processing: Translation, Information Retrieval, Dialogue
4.3 Audio Processing: Coding, Source Separation, Echo Cancellation, Noise Suppression
4.4 Music Processing

5 Signal and Information Processing Theory and Methods (SIPTM)
5.1 Signal Representation, Transforms and Fast Algorithms
5.2 Time Frequency and Time Scale Signal Analysis
5.3 Digital Filters and Filter Banks
5.4 DSP Architecture
5.5 Statistical Signal Processing
5.6 Adaptive Systems and Active Noise Control
5.7 Sparse Signal Processing
5.8 Signal Processing for Communications
5.9 Signal Processing for Energy Systems
5.10 Signal Processing for Emerging Applications

6 Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN)
6.1 Wireless Communications: Physical Layer
6.2 Wireless Communications and Networking: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, MAC, Wireless Routing and Cross-layer Design
6.3 Wireless Networking: Access Network and Core Network
6.4 Security and Cryptography
6.5 Devices and Hardware

Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are invited to submit either full papers, up to 10 pages in length, or short papers up to 4 pages in length,where full papers will be for the single-track oral presentation and short papers will be mostly for poster presentation. The conference proceedings of the main conference will be published, available and maintained at the APSIPA website. The proceedings will be indexed by EI Compendex.

Organizer
University of Southern California

Academic Sponsor
Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)

Organizing Committees
General Co-Chairs
C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA
Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Richard Leahy, University of Southern California, USA (BioSiPS)
Toshihisa Tanaka, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan (BioSiPS)
Takao Nishitani, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan (SPS)
Tong Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (SPS)
Yo-Sung Ho, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (IVM)
B. S. Manjunath, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (IVM)
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan (SLA)
Bhaskar Rao, University of California, San Diego, USA (SLA)
Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, India (SIPTM)
Anthony Kuh, University of Hawaii, USA (SIPTM)
Kwang-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (WCN)
Andreas Molisch, University of Southern California, USA (WCN)

Forum Co-Chairs
John Apostolopoulos, HP, USA
Ton Kalker, Huawei, USA
Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research, USA

Panel Session Co-Chairs
Waleed Abdulla, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Oscar Au, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Special Session Co-Chairs
Krishna Nayak, University of Southern California, USA (BioSiPS)
Ioannis Katsavounidis, University of Thessaly, Greece (SPS)
Chih-Hung Kuo, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan (SPS)
Siwei Ma, Peking University, China (SPS)
Kyoung Mu Lee, Seoul National University, Korea (IVM)
Jingliang Peng, Shandong University, China (IVM)
Chia-Hung Yeh, National Sun-Yat-Sen University, Taiwan (IVM)
Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore (SLA)
Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SLA)
Y.-W. Peter Hong, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan (SIPTM)
Sau-Hsuan Wu, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan (SIPTM)
Jongwon Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (WCN)
Wen-Kuang Kuo, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan (WCN)

Tutorial Session Co-Chairs
Jiwu Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Chang-Su Kim, Korea University, Korea
Qi Tian, University of Dallas at San Antonio, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs
Huan Chen, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
Woon Seng Gan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ming-Sui Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Xiaokang Yang, Shanghai Jiao-Tung University, China

Publication Co-Chairs
Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jiaying Liu, Peking University, China
Hwangjun Song, Pohang Institute of Technology, Korea
Po-Chyi Su, National Central University, Taiwan

Local Arrangement Chair
Panayiotis G. Georgiou, University of Southern California, USA

Financial Chair
Gloria Halfacre, University of Southern California, USA

Registration Chair
Talyia Veal, University of Southern California, USA
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