Update on SPS Conferences and Events in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Though the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic presented the world with unforeseen challenges, the IEEE Signal Processing Society is committed to exploring new ways to innovate, providing our global community with even more opportunities to connect, collaborate, and discover the latest research and breakthroughs from signal processing professionals throughout the world. Even if we weren’t initially seeing you in-person this year, we hope you’ll mark your calendar to and join us for these pioneering virtual events!

As you are aware, the situation is rapidly evolving. Below you will find the current status and upcoming and pending changes to SPS conference programming in the coming months:

Transitioned to Fully Virtual Experiences

• IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
  3-7 April 2020
  Iowa City, IA, USA

• ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)
  21-24 April 2020
  Sydney, Australia
   
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  4-9 May 2020
  Barcelona, Spain
   
• IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
  26-29 May 2020
  Atlanta, GA, USA
   
• IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)
  8-11 June 2020
  Hangzhou, China
   
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
  6-10 July 2020
  London, UK 

Postponed Until 2021

• IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP)
  23-26 June 2020
  Nafplio, Greece
   
• IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP)
  12-15 July 2020
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS)
  12-14 August 2020
  Montreal, QC, Canada

• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS)
  22-25 September 2020
  Washington, DC, USA
   
• IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)
  13-16 December 2020
  Shenzhen, China

At present, the 2020 IEEE Conference on Image Processing in Abu Dhabi will continue as scheduled. For a complete list of events visit the SPS website at https://signalprocessingsociety.org/events/attend-an-event.

Our dedicated volunteer leadership and staff team have been working diligently to ensure that SPS conferences and events are handled with great care and consideration not only for everyone’s safety, but for continuing to foster dynamic, rewarding experiences for members and authors alike. We hope you’ll join us as we embark on this journey together!

If you have any questions regarding SPS events, please don’t hesitate to contact the SPS Conferences team at sp-conferences-info@listserv.ieee.org.