CHAIRS' MESSAGE
On
behalf of the International Alliance for Advanced Studies
on In-Car Human Behavioral Signals it is our
distinct pleasure
to welcome in the “2007
Biennial on DSP in Mobile and Vehicular Systems” which
is being held in the historic Sait Halim Pasa Yalisi
on the Bosporus
waterfront in Yeniköy, Istanbul, Turkey, under
the sponsorship of the Graduate School of Information
Science
and Intelligent Media Integration for Social Infrastructure,
21st Century COE at Nagoya University (Japan), VPA
Laboratory and SPICE Program at Sabanci University
(Turkey), Koç University
(Turkey), and The IEEE Turkey Section.
Four
Keynote Addresses and Pleanary talks will be delivered
by Mr. Jan Nahum of Hexagon of Istanbul, Turkey, Mr.
Bruce
A.
Magladry
of the Office of Highway Safety in Washington, DC, USA,
Dr. Sadayuki Tsugawa of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan
and Dr. Mohan M. Trivedi of the University of California,
San Diego in La Jolla, CA, USA.
Thirty
three contributions focused on data collection, driver
behavior, vehicular intelligence, safety, inter-vehicle
and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, infotainment,
m-transactions, a number of potential applications are
to be presented in three poster sessions.
Finally,
there will be a panel discussion on the topics mentioned
above.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are very happy
to host the workshop and each and every one of you
here in this historic place.