THE EVENT IWSSIP'10 is an International Conference on theoretical, experimental and applied signal and image processing techniques and systems. It brings together researchers and developers from both academia and industry to report on the latest scientific and theoretical advances, to discuss and debate major issues and to demonstrate state-of-the-art systems. IWSSIP'10 follows the successful events held in Budapest, Manchester, Poznan, Zagreb, Bratislava, Maribor, Bucharest, Prague and Chalkida (Greece). In some of the previous cities, the conference has been held more than once. The 2010 conference will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the 17th to the 19th of June. For further information, please contact us at iwssip2010@ic.uff.br