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Greetings from the ICASSP-96 Technical Committee,
The 1996 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,
better known as ICASSP-96, will be held in Atlanta, Georgia next year.
Listed in this mailing you will find information about the technical program,
tutorials, and registration information.
HIGHLIGHTS:
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1) The technical program may be viewed on the WWW
2) The early registration deadline is December 15. Registrations
received by this date will qualify you for a free second copy of
the Proceedings on CD-ROM. To avoid the higher on-site registration
fees, payment must be received by March 15, 1996. The fees are:
If Received
by 3/15/96 On-Site
IEEE Members: $350 $475
Non-members: $450 $575
Student IEEE members: $ 75 $100
Student Non-members: $100 $125
Registration forms will be available in the Transactions published
by the IEEE Signal Processing Society early next year. Forms will
also be available on the WWW and by anonymous ftp at
ftp.eedsp.gatech.edu/pub/icassp96
3) Since 1996 is an Olympic year for Atlanta, hotel space may be very
tight. Therefore, we recommend that you make reservations early at
the Marriott Marquis in order to guarantee a room. Please note that
there are a LIMITED number of rooms (10% of the room block) that will
be available at the government rate to government employees AND to
students.
4) If you would like to add your name to our electronic mailing
list, please send mail to
majordomo@ee.gatech.edu
with "subscribe spmail" as the body of the message. You may also
add someone else to the list by sending a mail to majordomo with
the message "subscribe spmail address@some.machine".
More detailed information follows. If you have any other questions or
need additional information, feel free to contact me or the appropriate member
of our technical committee.
We are looking forward to seeing you at ICASSP-96 and to a successful
conference. We thank you for your interest and participation.
With Regards,
M.Hayes
General Chair, ICASSP-96
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INFORMATION ON THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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The ICASSP-96 technical program begins on Monday May 6 with four tutorials
(topics and presenters listed below), and the regular program begins on
Tuesday, May 7 and concludes on Friday, May 10. This year, among the
approximately 1740 papers that were submitted, 911 were accepted and placed
into 92 sessions. Of these, 52 are poster sessions and 40 are lecture.
Included in the lecture sessions are six "Special Sessions,"
1) Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Systems,
Chairman: G. Wornell (MIT)
2) Education
Chairman: R. Bamberger (WSU) and B. Evans (UC Berkeley)
3) US DoD Selection of the 2400 bps Standard
Chairman: J. Tardelli (ARCOM)
4) Sensor Array Datasets
Chairman: A. Steinhardt (MIT Lincoln Labs),
J. Krolik (Duke University), and
R. Vaccaro (University of Rhode Island)
5) Digital Video: Content Processing
Chairman: N. Jayant (AT&T Bell Labs)
6) Methods and Tools for Rapid Prototyping of DSP Systems
Chairman: M. Richards (Georgia Tech Research Institute)
Following the regular program on Friday, there will be another day of
tutorials on Saturday, May 11. This tutorial day provides a bridge into
the technical program of ISCAS-96 which begins on Sunday, May 12, and for
those who plan to continue their stay in Atlanta.
To facilitate your early planning to attend one or more of our tutorials,
the topics and presenters for each day are listed below. This program
was put together by the Tutorials Chairman, Prof. John Hansen, with the
help of the Signal Processing Education Committee, which is chaired by
Prof. Delores Etter. These tutorials were selected out of a set of over
50 proposals that were submitted, and were carefully screened and reviewed.
As a result, we believe this to be an outstanding program with a broad
range of important and timely topics. (Tutorial fees are $150 each, and
space is LIMITED).
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Tutorials, Monday, May 6, 1996
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Morning
1) Douglas O'Shaughnessy (INRS-Telecommunications, Canada),
"Voice Dialogue with Computers"
Covers human dialog system/iteraction with computers, speech
synthesis, recognition, dialog interaction.
2) Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, U.K.),
"Bandwidth-efficient Tetherless Multimedia Communications"
Covers mobile fundamentals, multimedia source and channel coding,
modulation and transmission fundamentals, advanced transmission and
systems aspects.
Afternoon
3) Fatos T. Yarman-Vural (Middle East Technical University, Turkey),
"An Overview for Machine Simulation of Human Reading"
Covers automatic character recognition (printed and handwritten),
statistical and syntactic techniques, application demo for
``Optical character recognition system for ancient Ottoman archives.''
4) David L. Neuhoff (Univ. of Michigan),
"Quantization Analysis (Theory of Lossy Data Compression)"
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Tutorials, Saturday May 11, 1996
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Morning
1) Malcolm Slaney, Interval Research Corp., and
Richard Lyon, Apple Computers,
"Applications of Psychoacoustics to Signal Processing"
Covers auditory, masking, applications to coding, music, recognition.
2) Jerry Mendel, University of Southern California,
"Fuzzy Logic Systems for Signal Processing"
Covers fuzzy logic systems, design methods, neural networks,
comparison.
Afternoon
3) Sam Stearns, Sandia Labs, and
Russ Mersereau, Georgia Tech.
"Principles and Techniques of Text, Waveform, and Image Compression"
Covers lossless communication/coding of symbol sequences, lossy
compression of images, VQ, JPEG, MPEG for video coding.
4) John Ackenhusen, ERIM.
"Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems"
Covers real-time concepts, processors, design tools, case studies in
rapid system proto-typing for signal processing.