In addition to contributed sessions, the workshop will also have a total of 18 special sessions. These special sessions cover a wide-range of topics of emerging interest and are being organized by some of the leading researchers in the signal processing community.

• Target Tracking

  Organized by: Peter Willet and Yaakov Bar-Shalom
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• Exploiting Structure in Compressed Sensing

  Organized by: Marius Pesavento and Martin Haardt
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• Advances in Processing Faulty High-Dimensional Data

  Organized by: Panos Markopoulos and Dimitris Pados
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• Ill-Posed Inverse Problems in High Resolution Imaging

  Organized by: Piya Pal and Fauzia Ahmad
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• Non-convex Optimization Methods for Signal Processing

  Organized by: Eduard Jorswieck and Yang Yang Global and
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• Learning Representations for Tensor Data

  Organized by: Waheed Bajwa
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• Graph Signal Processing

  Organized by: Antonio Marques and Santiago Segarra
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• Advances in Multi-Sensor Processing With Coarse Quantization

  Organized by: Josef A. Nossek
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• Sparsity in Sensing and Inference

  Organized by: Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri and Geert Leus
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• Advances in Monte Carlo Methods for Optimization and Inference in High-dimensional Systems

  Organized by: David Luengo, Víctor Elvira, and Luca Martino
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• Advanced Computational methods for Photon Limited imaging and sensing

  Organized by: Yoann Altmann and Steve McLaughlin
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• Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing for GNSS

  Organized by: Felix Antreich, Gonzalo Seco-Granados and Michael Meurer
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• Recent Advances in Tensor-Based Signal Processing and Applications

  Organized by: Rémy Boyer
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• Information Geometry Approaches for Signal Processing

  Organized by: Salem Said, Yannick Berthoumieu, Charles C. Cavalcante
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• Algorithms for Big Data Analytics

  Organized by: Gonzalo Mateos and Georgios Giannakis
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• Signal Processing for Smart Grids

  Organized by: Hao Zhu and Vasilis Kekatos
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• Biomedical Signal Processing

  Organized by: Laurent Albera and Amar Kachenoura
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• Signal Processing for mmWave Communication in Frequency Selective Channels

  Organized by: Nuria González-Prelcic and Robert W. Heath Jr.
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• Low-dimensional Dynamical Systems in Signal Processing and Data Analysis

  Organized by: Adam Charles, Mark Davenport, Justin Romberg, Christopher Rozell,Michael Wakin
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