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