European Signal Processing Conference, September 4 - 8 2006, Florence, Italy

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      Fulvio Gini              Ercan Kuruoglu

We send you a warm welcome to EUSIPCO 2006 which this year is taking place in Florence. It was at places only few kilometers away from the conference location that our scientist/engineer forefathers Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei had made their groundbreaking discoveries. We are particularly excited organizing the conference at the place where renaissance has opened paths to the birth of modern science,  in these days that signal processing is an ever increasingly fundamental discipline encompassing application areas ranging from wireless communications to speech processing, from bioinformatics to multimedia.

EUSIPCO is one of the biggest signal processing conferences in the globe and although is carrying the title “European”, never has failed to attract participants from Americas and Asia.

We are extremely pleased that EUSIPCO this year has attracted a record number of submissions. In total we received 1142 paper submissions covering various applications as detailed below:

  • Audio and Electroacoustics

  • Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems

  • Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing

  • Multimedia Signal Processing

  • Statistical Signal and Array Processing

  • Signal Processing for Communications

  • Speech  and Audio Processing

  • Education in Signal Processing

  • Nonlinear Signal Processing and Computational Learning

  • Special Applications.

All of these papers have been evaluated by a review process in which we obtained at least two reviews for each paper. The papers were first divided into the above ten Areas, and the Area Chairs Anil Kokaram, Augusto Sarti, Omer Gerek, Suat Ekinci, Mauro Barni, Giulio Colavolpe Ilya Shmulevic, Charles Therrien, and ourselves,  distributed them to about 250 technical program committee members, who reviewed the papers and also found additional referees. We would like to thank firstly the Area Chairs who carried out this heavy task and the TPCs and referees, without the help of which it would not have been possible to realize this conference.

We have accepted 632 regular papers and 131 invited papers. The acceptance rate for regular papers was  62.5 %; overall the acceptance rate was 66.8%. We have organized the accepted papers into 90 lecture sessions, of which 17 are special sessions, and 31 poster sessions. There are 6 parallel oral sessions. The allocation of a paper as an oral or poster presentation was primarily based on program focus and we do not view lecture sessions as more prestigious.

The special sessions were efficiently coordinated by Giovanni Sicuranza and Helmut Bölcskei. Eight distinguished researchers have been invited to present special session proposals and nine more were selected among the proposals we received. Tutorials are also part of the technical program of EUSIPCO 2006. Alex Gershman, the Tutorials Chair, prepared an excellent tutorial program. Of the tutorial proposals we received, 8 were selected for presentation on Monday, September 4. These tutorials cover a wide spectrum of leading edge topics of current interest to many students and researchers in the SP society. We are indebted to all the special session organizers and tutorial instructors for their outstanding contributions.

EUSIPCO 2006 is highlighted by four outstanding plenary speakers. Martin Vetterli will deliver a keynote address on "Distributed Signal Processing for Sensor Networks ". John V. Mathews will talk about " Signal Processing in Maternal-Fetal Medicine ", Leonardo Chiariglione will be speaking on “Signal Processing between research and exploitation”. Finally, Vincent H. Poor will talk about “Signal Processing Across the Layers in Wireless Networks”.

We look forward to welcoming you in Florence. We are confident that EUSIPCO 2006 will be an enjoyable and productive gathering during which new ideas will be exchanged and new insights will be developed. We also do hope that you will make the most of your stay in this exceptional city, the sight of which over the river Arno leaves one breathless.


Fulvio Gini and Ercan Kuruoglu

Technical Program Chairs

EUSIPCO 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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