************************ CALL FOR PAPERS *************************** IEEE-SP International Symposium on TIME-FREQUENCY AND TIME-SCALE ANALYSIS October 7-9, 1998 Marriott City Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.pitt.edu/~tfts98 Papers are being solicited for the fourth International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA on October 7-9, 1998. The symposium will consist of two and a half days of technical sessions (oral and poster presentations) on the theory and applications of time-frequency and time-scale analysis and methods, plus invited plenary talks. Paper topics include: 1. Signal densities/distributions/representations 1.1 Time-Frequency 1.2 Time-Scale 1.3 Space-Spatial frequency 1.4 Ambiguity / characteristic functions 1.5 Other (specify) 2. Signal transforms, expansions and reconstruction 2.1 Gabor transforms 2.2 Scale/Mellin transforms 2.3 Wavelet transforms 2.4 Fractional Fourier transforms 2.5 Best basis / pursuit methods 2.6 Denoising 2.7 TFD decompositions 2.8 Other (specify) 3. Instantaneous quantities and related concepts 3.1 Instantaneous frequency 3.2 Instantaneous bandwidth 3.3 Instantaneous scale 3.4 Group delay 3.5 AM / FM 3.6 Other (specify) 4. Time-varying signals and systems 4.1 Linear time-varying systems modeling and identification 4.2 Time-varying spectra (e.g., Evolutionary Spectrum, parametric) 4.3 Time-varying filtering (linear and nonlinear) 4.4 Multiresolution methods, filterbanks, wavelets 4.5 Other (specify) 5. Decision making in time-frequency / time-scale 5.1 Classification 5.2 Detection and estimation 5.3 Subspace methods 5.4 Other (specify) 6. Applications 6.1 Speech and audio 6.2 Image processing 6.3 Biomedical and biological 6.4 Acoustics 6.5 Physics and astronomy 6.6 Radar / sonar 6.7 Machine/process monitoring, fault analysis 6.8 Seismic / geophysics 6.9 Other (specify) Prospective authors are invited to submit 4 copies of an extended summary (up to 3 pages in length, 8 1/2 x 11 inches or A4 paper) for review. The top of the first page should include the name, affiliations and addresses of each author, plus the telephone/fax numbers and e-mail address of the corresponding author. Authors are asked to indicate via a footnote at the bottom of the first page a paper category from the list above which best matches the general topic of their paper. Summaries should be mailed to IEEE-SP TFTS98, c/o the Palisades Institute, 201 Varick St., Suite 1006, New York, NY 10014 USA by March 30, 1998. Authors of accepted papers will then be asked to submit four-page conference papers according to the schedule below. Conference proceedings will be distributed at the symposium. SCHEDULE: Submission of extended summaries..........March 30, 1998 Notification of acceptance................June 5, 1998 Camera-ready paper due....................July 31, 1998 -------- CONFERENCE COMMITTEE -------- General Chair Pat Loughlin Dept. of Electrical Engineering 348 Benedum Hall University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 pat@ee.pitt.edu Technical Chair Bill Williams University of Michigan wjw@dip.eecs.umich.edu Technical Committee Metin Akay Moeness Amin Richard Baraniuk Leon Cohen Gabriel Cristobal Ingrid Daubechies Patrick Flandrin Dale Groutage Douglas Nelson Bruce Suter Martin Vetterli Lang White Organization Chair Luis Chaparro University of Pittsburgh chaparro@ee.pitt.edu Finance Amro El-Jaroudi University of Pittsburgh amro@ee.pitt.edu Publication and Publicity Giorgio Rizzoni Ohio State University rizzoni.1@osu.edu Meeting Arrangements Ralph Nadell Palisades Institute for Research Services, Inc. 201 Varick Street New York, NY 10014 (212) 620-3341 (212) 620-3379 Rnadell@newyork.palisades.org