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          50th International Symposium ELMAR-2008
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           10-13 September 2008, Zadar, Croatia
  
           Submission deadline: March 03, 2008
  
              http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
  
  
           CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS
  
  
  TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS
  
  IEEE Region 8
  EURASIP - European Assoc. Signal, Speech and Image Processing
  IEEE Croatia Section
  IEEE Croatia Section Chapter of the Signal Processing Society
  IEEE Croatia Section Joint Chapter of the AP/MTT Societies
  
  
  TOPICS
  
  --> Image and Video Processing 
  --> Multimedia Communications 
  --> Speech and Audio Processing 
  --> Wireless Commununications 
  --> Telecommunications 
  --> Antennas and Propagation 
  --> e-Learning and m-Learning 
  --> Navigation Systems 
  --> Ship Electronic Systems 
  --> Power Electronics and Automation 
  --> Naval Architecture 
  --> Sea Ecology 
  --> Special Session Proposals - A special session consist 
      of 5-6 papers which should present a unifying theme 
      from a diversity of viewpoints; deadline for proposals 
      is February 04, 2008.
  
  
  KEYNOTE TALKS

  * Professor Sanjit K. Mitra, University of Southern
    California, Los Angeles, California, USA:
    Image Processing using Quadratic Volterra Filters

  * Univ.Prof.Dr.techn. Markus Rupp, Vienna University
    of Technology, AUSTRIA:
    Testbeds and Rapid Prototyping in Wireless Systems

  * Professor Paul Cross, University College London, UK:
    GNSS Data Modeling: The Key to Increasing Safety and
    Legally Critical Applications of GNSS
    
  * Dr.-Ing. Malte Kob, RWTH Aachen University, GERMANY:
    The Role of Resonators in the Generation of Voice
    Signals
  
  
  SPECIAL SESSIONS
  
  SS1: "VISNET II - Networked Audiovisual Systems"
  Organizer: Dr. Marta Mrak, I-lab, Centre for Communication 
  Systems Research, University of Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM
  Contact: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/profiles?s_id=3937

  SS2: "Computer Vision in Art"
  Organizer: Asst.Prof. Peter Peer and Dr. Borut Batagelj, 
  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information 
  Science, Computer Vision Laboratory, SLOVENIA
  Contact: http://www.lrv.fri.uni-lj.si/~peterp/   or
  http://www.fri.uni-lj.si/en/personnel/298/oseba.html
  
  
  SUBMISSION
  
  Papers accepted by two reviewers will be published in 
  symposium proceedings available at the symposium and 
  abstracted/indexed in the INSPEC and IEEExplore database.
  
  More info is available here: http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
  
  IMPORTANT: Web-based (online) paper submission of papers in 
  PDF format is required for all authors. No e-mail, fax, or 
  postal submissions will be accepted. Authors should prepare 
  their papers according to ELMAR-2008 paper sample, convert 
  them to PDF based on IEEE requirements, and submit them using 
  web-based submission system by March 03, 2008.
  
  
  SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
  
  Deadline for submission of full papers: March 03, 2008 
  Notification of acceptance mailed out by: April 21, 2008 
  Submission of (final) camera-ready papers : May 05, 2008 
  Preliminary program available online by: May 12, 2008 
  Registration forms and payment deadline: May 19, 2008 
  Accommodation deadline: June 02, 2008
  
  
  GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
  
  Ive Mustac, Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia
  Branka Zovko-Cihlar, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  
  
  PROGRAM CHAIR
  
  Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  
  
  INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  
  Juraj Bartolic, Croatia
  David Broughton, United Kingdom
  Paul Dan Cristea, Romania
  Kresimir Delac, Croatia
  Zarko Cucej, Slovenia
  Marek Domanski, Poland
  Kalman Fazekas, Hungary
  Janusz Filipiak, Poland
  Renato Filjar, Croatia
  Borko Furht, USA
  Mohammed Ghanbari, United Kingdom
  Mislav Grgic, Croatia
  Sonja Grgic, Croatia
  Yo-Sung Ho, Korea
  Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Austria
  Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Austria
  Bojan Ivancevic, Croatia
  Ebroul Izquierdo, United Kingdom
  Kristian Jambrosic, Croatia
  Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, USA
  Tomislav Kos, Croatia
  Murat Kunt, Switzerland
  Panos Liatsis, United Kingdom
  Rastislav Lukac, Canada
  Lidija Mandic, Croatia
  Gabor Matay, Hungary
  Branka Medved Rogina, Croatia
  Borivoj Modlic, Croatia
  Marta Mrak, United Kingdom
  Fernando Pereira, Portugal
  Pavol Podhradsky, Slovak Republic
  Ramjee Prasad, Denmark
  Kamisetty R. Rao, USA
  Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak Republic
  Gerald Schaefer, United Kingdom
  Mubarak Shah, USA
  Shiguang Shan, China
  Thomas Sikora, Germany
  Karolj Skala, Croatia
  Marian S. Stachowicz, USA
  Ryszard Stasinski, Poland
  Luis Torres, Spain
  Frantisek Vejrazka, Czech Republic
  Stamatis Voliotis, Greece
  Nick Ward, United Kingdom
  Krzysztof Wajda, Poland
  Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia
  
  
  CONTACT INFORMATION
  
  Assoc.Prof. Mislav Grgic, Ph.D. 
  FER, Unska 3/XII 
  HR-10000 Zagreb 
  CROATIA
  
  Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851 
  Fax: + 385 1 6129 568 
  E-mail: elmar2008 (_) fer.hr
  
  For further information please visit: 
  http://www.elmar-zadar.org/