About the Event

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and signal processing are accelerating the next generation of autonomous systems — drones, self-driving vehicles, robotics, smart manufacturing, and digital health. In 2026, the most impactful progress is happening at the convergence of AI and Signal Processing: modern AI learns powerful representations from multimodal sensor streams, while signal processing provides physically grounded modeling, robustness to noise and drift, and real-time efficiency. As sensors become cheaper and ubiquitous, IoT/IIoT deployments generate massive, high-throughput data streams this creates a pressing need for reliable, low-latency, resource-aware methods that can operate across cloud–edge–device pipelines and remain trustworthy in real environments.

The global artificial intelligence (AI) market is currently valued at approximately $244 billion to $260 billion in 2025 and is projected to experience explosive growth, potentially reaching over $1 trillion by 2027 and nearly $4.8 trillion by 2033.

This market growth is driven by the expanding adoption of cloud-based applications and services, the surge of big data and streaming analytics, and rising demand for intelligent assistants and automation—enabled increasingly by advances in signal processing for sensing, perception, communications, and control. Yet several factors still limit AI from reaching its full business potential: lack of skilled workforce, data availability and quality, trust and transparency, and integration challenges into real products and infrastructures.

The ASPAI conference series was launched to help close this gap by providing a focused forum for open discussion and development of emerging AI and appropriate signal processing technologies with an emphasis on real-world implementation. ASPAI is designed to connect researchers, manufacturers, and users around deployable solutions— bridging theory, algorithms, and systems engineering — so that promising ideas translate faster into robust applications. The 1st ASPAI conference took place in Barcelona (Spain) in 2019, the 2nd in Berlin (Germany) in 2020 (online), the 3rd in Porto (Portugal) in 2021 (online), the 4th in Corfu (Greece) in 2022, the 5th in Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain, the 6th in Funchal (Madeira Island), Portugal, and the 7th in Innsbruck, Austria.

ASPAI’ 2026 strengthens this mission by explicitly targeting the main market restrictions: it promotes deployment-ready skills (through practitioner-driven exchange and engineering-aware evaluation), addresses the data bottleneck (data-centric workflows and learning with limited labels), advances trustworthy and transparent AI for signals (robustness, uncertainty, validation), and accelerates integration (end-to-end pipelines spanning sensors, edge hardware, and cloud services). In short, ASPAI’ 2026 is where AI meets signal processing to move from “good demos” to scalable, reliable systems.The ASPAI’ 2026 is organized by IFSA — a non-profit, professional association serving academia and industry since 1999 — with media partners including IFSA Publishing, IOS Press (Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering) and World Scientific (International Journal of Neural Systems).

The purpose of ASPAI’ 2026 is to bring together leading international researchers, developers and practitioners interested in artificial intelligence and appropriate signal processing technologies. The event will be co-located with the 2nd International Conference on AI in Medicine and Healthcare (AiMH’ 2026) under the same conference umbrella.

The conference will offer plenary and invited talks, contributed oral and poster sessions in person and virtual (on demand). Social and cultural events will also take place to foster networking among participants in a friendly manner. We trust that you will find ASPAI’ 2026 professionally rewarding and stimulating as well as enjoyable.

Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

* Regular papers
* Posters
* Special sessions papers
* Keynote presentations
* Invited talks
* Industrial presentations


List of Topics

Artificial Intelligence:

* AI Algorithms
* Intelligent System Architectures
* Hybrid Intelligent Systems
* Expert Systems
* Artificial Neural Networks
* Intelligent Networks
* Parallel Processing
* Pattern Recognition
* Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence
* Programming Languages Artificial Intelligence
* Artificial Intelligence Tools & Applications
* CAD Design & Testing
* Computer Vision and Speech Recognition
* Fuzzy Logic, Systems and Learning
* Computational Theories, Learning and Intelligence
* Computational Neuroscience
* Soft Measurements and Computing
* Soft Computing Theory and Applications
* Software & Hardware Architectures
* Web Intelligence Applications & Search
* Ambient Intelligence
* Artificial Immune Systems
* Autonomous and Ubiquitous Computing
* Bayesian Models and Networks
* Data Fusion Distributed AI
* Machine Learning
* Deep Learning
* Learning and Adaptive Sensor Fusion
* Multisensor Data Fusion Based on Neural and Fuzzy Techniques
* Applied Artificial Intelligence
* Self-Organising Networks
* Virtual and Augmented Reality
* Emotion Detection
* Signal Processing:

* Signal Processing Theory and Methods
* Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing
* Multivariable Sensor Systems
* igital Signal Processing
* Image and Video Processing
* Multichannel Signal Processing
* Biomedical Signal Processing
* Biometrics
* Chaotic and Fractal Systems
* Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
* Image and Video Processing
* Information Theory and Coding
* Speech Signal Processing
* Signal Processing for Communications and Networking
* Radar and Sonar Signal Processing
* Satellite Signal Processing
* Nonlinear Signal Processing
* Statistical Signal Processing
* Signal Processing for Internet of Things
* Coding
* avelet Transformation
* Theory and Application of Filtering
* Spectral Analyze
* Multidimensional Signal Processing

Publication
One event - three different publications !

1) All registered abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings with the ISBN, ISSN and DOI). The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing in the Web of Science and Scopus.

2) Authors will be invited to submit full-page extended papers to one of special journals' issues, which are published in both formats: print and electronic:

Sensors & Transducers (ISSN 2306-8515, e-ISSN 1726-5479) by IFSA Publishing
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (ISSN: 1069-2509, e-ISSN: 1875-8835) by IOS Press
International Journal of Neural Systems (ISSN: 0129-0657, e-ISSN: 1793-6462) by World Scientific
All journals are indexed in Scopus.

3) The limited number of full-page extended papers published in the journals will be selected by the Editorial Board to extend for open access books' chapters for the Book Series on 'Advances in Signal Processing: Reviews', Vol. 4 or 'Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Reviews', Vol. 4, which will be published by IFSA Publishing in 2026.


Venue:

The ASPAI' 2026 will take place in the Melia Palma Marina Hotel.

Contact:

All questions about submissions should be e-mailed to aspai@sensorsportal.com