ICASSP 2010 Held in Dallas, Texas

The 35th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) was held in Dallas, Texas on 14-19 March 2010. ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and is the premier venue for showcasing research in signal processing and related areas. This year’s conference was attended by about 2000 participants.

This year's ICASSP received 2855 submissions, including those invited for 10 special sessions on emerging signal processing topics of high interests to the community.

Led by Technical Program Chair, John Hansen, thirteen SPS Technical Committees played an active role in providing nearly ten thousand reviews. The accepted papers were organized into 70 oral sessions and 83 poster sessions. Complementing the regular technical program were 12 tutorial sessions, several industrial sponsored hands-on workshops, and "Show-and-Tell" sessions. Each day of the four-day main technical program started with an excellent plenary talk, on "A Celebration of the Science and Technology of DSP" (by Ronald W. Schafer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories), "Advances in Neural Engineering" (by Metin Akay, University of Houston), "Extending Signal Processing into New Application Areas" (by James Truchard, National Instruments), and "Recent Advances in Radar Imaging of Building Interiors" (by Moeness Amin, Villanova University). Learn more about the technical program at the ICASSP 2010 website.

At the opening ceremony, the ICASSP 2010 General Chair, Scott Douglas, and the organizing committee welcomed everyone in a unique Texan style. The award program that followed honored colleagues who received the prestigious 2010 IEEE medals and technical field awards in signal processing related areas, won the 2009 SPS Major awards, or were elevated to IEEE Fellow Class of 2010.

The conference venue was the Dallas Conference Center, connected with a skybridge to the headquarter hotel, the newly renovated Sheraton Dallas Hotel with state-of-the-art facilities. The banquet entertainment this year was a private-event Rodeo performance at the Resistol Arena, the home to competitive professional rodeo in Dallas.

Next year's ICASSP will be held in the beautiful Central European city of Prague, Czech Republic, in late May of 2011. Visit the ICASSP 2011 website for updates.