1st IEEE International Conference
               on Emerging Signal Processing Applications

                               ESPA 2012
                               
                         Call for Participation

                          January 12-14, 2012
                Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

                       http://www.ieee-espa.org/

            Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society

The 1st International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing
Applications (ESPA) is primarily serving practicing engineers and will
have a strong emphasis on applications and cutting edge practical
SP. ESPA is co-located with and follows the Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) to enable attendees to attend both CES and ESPA and learn about
SP technology in the latest products announced in CES, as well as the
SP technologies that may help create future CES products. Attendees
will learn about emerging applications of Signal Processing including
(but not limited to):

3D technology for gaming, telepresence
Gesture recognition for games and natural user interfaces
Digital photography
4G wireless
Robotics
Multimedia tablets
SP in automobiles: speech interfaces, cameras
Voice search
SP with multicore processors
IPTV

Attendees will learn about the current technologies from the major
industry and academic players in the field, and about the future
directions from visionary keynote speakers. In addition to keynotes,
panel discussions on hot topics, and tutorials, we would like to focus
attention on the following two important parts of ESPA:

Presentations with or without an associated paper. Unlike other IEEE
SP conferences which require a paper submission, ESPA provides the
option of oral presentation only, to enable presentations on new
technologies announced at CES.

Show & Tell: A highlight of ESPA will be demonstrations of novel
applications of signal processing.

Plenary Speakers
* Gene Frantz, TI Principal Fellow, IEEE Fellow
* Dr. Raj Talluri, VP Qualcomm

Special panels
* “3D” Panel (Dr. Anthony Vetro, MERL, IEEE Fellow and co-editor
for MPEG Multiview video coding standard)
* Future of Mobile (Dr. John Apostolopoulos, Hewlett-Packard Labs)

Tutorials — Free to all registered attendees
* Android application framework and application development
* Real-time DSP: A hands-on tutorial using the OMAP-L138
* Signal processing applications in quantitative finance
* Optimization methods and their applications in digital signal processing
* Adaptive filters: from designs to applications
* Image processing and computer vision
* Scalable video coding and its applications

== Important Dates ==
 Early Registration Deadline                             Dec.  1, 2011
 Author's Registration Deadline                          Nov. 11, 2011

== Organizing Committee ==
General Chair
  Panos Papamichalis
  Southern Methodist University

Technical Program Co-chairs
  Alex Acero
  Microsoft Research

  John Apostolopoulos
  Hewlett-Packard Labs

Finance Chair
  Eli Saber
  Rochester Institute of Technology

Tutorials Chair
  Akihiko Sugiyama
  NEC

Plenaries and Panels Chair 
  Ching-Yung Lin
  IBM Watson

Show & Tell Chair
  Mazin Gilbert
  AT&T Labs

Publicity Co-Chairs
  Frederic Dufaux
  CNRS, Telecom ParisTech

  Fa-Long Luo
  Element CXI