APSIPA ASC 2010
December 14 - 17, 2010
Biopolis, Singapore

http://apsipa2010.i2r.a-star.edu.sg


Call for Papers
The city of Singapore proudly hosts the APSIPA Annual Summit and
Conference 2010. Popularly known as the Garden City of Asia for its
lush, green landscape couching an advanced infrastructure, Singapore is
situated at the southern tip of the Malaysian Peninsula. With its
friendly and welcoming people, and exciting line-up of events, Singapore
welcomes all of you. The conference will take place at Biopolis,
Singapore's landmark research complex. Come and meet the APSIPA friends,
enjoy countless fascinating experiences, and take away memories that are
uniquely Singapore.

APSIPA ASC 2010 is the second event of the Asia-Pacific Signal and
Information Processing Association (APSIPA). Founded in 2009, APSIPA
aims to promote research and education on signal processing, information
technology, and communications. The inaugural conference was held in
Sapporo, Japan in 2009. The field of interest of APSIPA concerns all
aspects of signals and information including processing, recognition,
classification, communications, networking, computing, system design,
security, implementation, and technology with applications to
scientific, engineering, and social areas. To recognize high quality
research papers, APSIPA 2010 will be giving out awards for the best
paper, best student paper and best poster. Nominations for the awards
will be based on the significance and potential impact to the scientific
community.

The topics for regular sessions include, but are not limited to:

1. Signal Processing
1.1 Audio, speech, and language processing
1.2 Image, video, and multimedia
1.3 Information forensics and security
1.4 Signal processing for communications
1.5 Signal processing theory and methods
1.6 Biomedical/Biological signal processing

2. Communication Systems
2.1 Communication and information theory
2.2 Information and network security
2.3 Wireless communications and networking
2.4 Standards and emerging technology
2.5 RF and antennas

3. Information Processing
3.1 Database and data mining
3.2 Ubiquitous and mobile computing
3.3 Computer vision and pattern recognition
3.4 Computer science fundamentals

4. Multimedia and Computer Graphics
4.1 Media processing
4.2 Interaction and interface
4.3 Virtual reality and augmented virtuality
4.4 Computer graphics and visualization fundamentals

5. Circuits and Systems/VLSI
5.1 Biomedical circuits and systems
5.2 Nanoelectronics and gigascale systems
5.3 Neural systems and applications
5.4 VLSI systems and applications
5.5 Embedded systems


Submission of Papers:
Prospective authors are invited to submit either full papers, up to 10
pages in length, or short papers up to 4 pages in length, where full
papers will be for the single-track oral presentation and short papers
will be mostly for poster presentation. The conference proceedings will
be published, available, and maintained at the APSIPA website.

Important Dates/Deadlines:
Proposals for Special Sessions: May 10, 2010
Proposals for Forum, Panel and Tutorial Sessions: May 10, 2010
Submission of Full and Short Papers: June 10, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: September 9, 2010
Camera Ready Papers: October 9, 2010
Tutorial Session Date: December 14, 2010
Summit and Conference Dates: December 15 - 17, 2010


Organizing Committees:
Honorary Co-Chairs
Kin Mun Lye
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Meng Hwa Er
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sanjit Mitra
University of California Santa Barbara, USA

General Co-Chairs
Susanto Rahardja
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Benjamin Wah
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Haizhou Li
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Shri Narayanan
University of Southern California, USA
Nam Ling
Santa Clara University, USA
Eliathamby Ambikairajah
University of New South Wales, Australia
Zhi Ning Chen
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

Forum Co-Chairs
Mark Liao
Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Lin-shan Lee
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Panel Session Co-Chairs
C.C. Jay Kuo
University of South California, USA
Mohan Kankanhalli
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Special Session Co-Chairs
Alexander C. Loui
Eastman Kodak Company, USA
Susanne Boll
University of Oldenburg, Germany

Tutorial Session Co-Chairs
Pasi Franti
University of Joensuu, Finland
King Ngi Ngan
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Daniel Racoceanu
National Center for Scientific Research, France

Publicity Co-Chairs
Hwee Hwa Pang
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Alireza Ahrary
Fukuoka Industry, Science and Technology Foundation, Japan
Rajalida Lipikorn
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Publication Co-Chairs
Roger Zimmermann
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Norihide Kitaoka
Nagoya University, Japan
Eng Siong Chng
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sponsorship Chair
Jong Won Kim
Gwang-Ju Institute of Science & Technology, Korea

Local Arrangement Chair
Lekha Chaisorn
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore

Industrial & Government Advisor
Arthur Fong
Media Development Authority, Singapore