July 13-16, 2026 Shenzhen, China

SAM 2026 focuses on the pivotal role of signal processing in autonomous systems, with a particular emphasis on low-altitude multichannel sensing for modern applications. Key topics include:

• Adaptive beamforming
• Array processing applications
• Array processing for radio astronomy
• Array processing for seismic monitoring
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning in array processing
• Blind source separation and channel identification
• Computational and optimization techniques
• Compressive sensing and sparsity-based signal processing
• Detection and estimation
• Direction-of-arrival estimation
• Distributed and adaptive signal processing
• Intelligent systems and knowledge-based signal processing
• Integrated sensing and communications
• Lidar processing
• Low altitude autonomous vehicle localization and navigation
• Microphone and loudspeaker array applications
• MIMO radar
• Multi-antenna systems: multiuser MIMO, massive MIMO and space-time coding
• Multi-channel imaging and hyperspectral processing
• Multi-sensor processing for smart grid and energy
• Non-Gaussian, nonlinear, and non-stationary models
• Performance evaluations with experimental data
• Radar and sonar array processing
• Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
• Sensor networks and sensor fusion
• Signal processing for Internet of Things
• Source localization, classification and tracking
• Synthetic aperture techniques
• Space-time adaptive processing
• Statistical modelling for sensor arrays
• Tensor signal processing
• Waveform diverse sensors and systems

SAM 2026 will open with a day of six in-depth tutorials delivered by leading experts, followed by three days of regular and special technical sessions. This workshop serves as a premier international forum for showcasing recent breakthroughs and exploring future directions in sensor array and multichannel signal processing. A highlight of the program includes plenary presentations by internationally renowned scholars Emil Björnson (KTH, Sweden), Bori Hunyadi (Maastricht University and TU Delft, Netherlands), Wen Tong (Huawei, China), Tom Luo (CUHK, Shenzhen, China), and Lee Swindlehurst (UC Irvine, USA). These talks will address the field’s most significant advancements, including the evolution of 6G, Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), MIMO systems, and innovative biomedical research. 

SAM 2026 will offer an important opportunity for technical exchange, community building, and interdisciplinary engagement at a time when array and multichannel methods are playing an increasingly central role in modern signal processing research and applications. We look forward to seeing you in the SAM 2026 Workshop.

To learn more and register to attend visit the SAM 2026 Workshop website.