FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ISSPA 99 Fifth International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications Co-sponsered by: IEEE Queensland section August 23-25, 1999 Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Brisbane, Australia ISSPA '99 is the fifth in a series of international symposia focusing on the theory and applications of signal processing. It provides a forum for engineers and scientists to present and discuss their most recent work in signal processing and its applications. The symposium will run for three days and will be preceded by a series of tutorials. Papers are invited in, but not limited to, the following topics: 1. Digital Filter Design & Structures 2. Multirate Filtering & Wavelets 3. Adaptive Signal Processing 4. Higher Order Spectrum Analysis 5. Radar & Sonar Signal Processing 6. Speech Processing & Applications 7. Image & Multidimensional Signal Processing 8. Biomedical Signal Processing 9. Statistical Signal & Array Processing 10. VLSI for Signal Processing 11. Communications Signal Processing 12. Time--Frequency and Time--Scale Analysis 13. Neural Networks for Signal Processing 14. Industrial Signal Processing 15. Signal Processing Education 16. Other (Optical Signal Processing, Multimedia, Aerospace Applications, etc) A full proceedings will be published, which will be ready for distribution during the conference. All papers will be submitted as FULL PAPERS AND SUBJECT TO PEER REVIEW. Paper submissions should present original work not submitted or published elsewhere. The maximum length of papers should not exceed 4 PAGES and be submitted in camera ready format. The paper should be typed on one side only of A4 size paper in two columns. Text font should be 12 point. Typeset the paper title in bold followed by the name(s), affiliation(s), address(es) and email(s) of the author(s), all centred across two columns. Number all pages on the top right hand side corner using light pencil. SPECIAL SESSION/TUTORIALS: The program committee is soliciting proposals for special sessions and/or tutorials focusing on topics mentioned above. Proposals for tutorials and special sessions should be received by the conference chair by the 30th of April, 1999. 5 hard copies of the paper should be sent to: ISSPA~99 Conference Secretariat C/-ICMS (QLD) Pty Ltd PO Box 3496 South Brisbane, Qld, 4101, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 3844 1138 URL: http://www.sprc.qut.edu.au/isspa99/ IMPORTANT NOTE: Note that electronic submissions in Postscript, MS Word and PDF format are accepted. Electronic submissions should be formatted using the details on the webpage. Electronic submission can be sent to: a.dawood@qut.edu.au. SCHEDULE: Submission of photo-ready paper ............. 17th May 1999 Notification of acceptance .................. 18th June, 1999 Deadline for early conference registration .. 16th July,1999 Conference Committee: Steering Committee Chair B. Boashash Queensland University of Technology b.boashash@qut.edu.au Conference Chair M. Deriche Queensland University of Technology m.deriche@qut.edu.au Technical Program Chair K. Assaleh Conexant Systems, USA khaled.assaleh@conexant.com Vice-Technical Chair A. Dawood Queensland University of Technology a.dawood@qut.edu.au Finance Chair M. Mesbah Queensland University of Technology m.mesbah@qut.edu.au Publications Chair W. Boles Queensland University of Technology w.boles@qut.edu.au Publicity Chair G. Nourbakhsh Queensland University of Technology g.nourbakhsh@qut.edu.au Local Arrangements Chair B. Senadji Queensland University of Technology b.senadji@qut.edu.au Industry Liaison A. Reilly Lake DSP, Australia andrew@lake.com.au USA Liaison M. Amin Villanova University, USA moeness@ece.vill.edu Asia Liaison A. Leyman NTU, Singapore earleyman@ntu.edu.sg Europe Liaison M. Benidir Lab. des Sig. et Syst., France Messaoud.Benidir@lss.supelec.fr ISSPA '99 Conference Secretariat C/-ICMS (QLD) Pty Ltd PO Box 3496 South Brisbane Qld, 4101 isspa@icms.com.au