In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, we have eleven special sessions which are carefully chosen by the Special Session Chairs, Time Davidson and Jianguo Huang, from a total of 15 impressive proposals. Every special session paper has also undergone an equally rigorous review process, and we would like to thank the Special Session Chairs, the individual special session organizers and authors of all contributors for their great efforts. Furthermore, the Technical Program also includes 55 SPL papers, and we would like to thank the authors for participating and presenting their work in ICASSP 2016. Following the previous success, this year we have organized a few “Show & Tell” sessions in which some interesting state-of the-art results in real life applications will be demonstrated. Thanks to the effort of Fa-Long Luo in selecting 27 highly innovative projects to be presented in a dynamic and interactive setting.
Tutorials will continue to be a feature of ICASSP and Jian Li and Jose Principe, the Tutorial Chairs, were instrumental in preparing and administering a wonderful tutorial program for ICASSP 2016. Of the 34 tutorial proposals we received, 15 were selected that covered a wide spectrum of leading edge topics of current interest to many students and researchers in the SP society. These tutorials are conducted on Sunday and Monday prior to the beginning of the regular technical program and we are indebted to all the tutorial instructors for their contribution.
ICASSP 2016 is highlighted by five plenary talks and we are fortunate to have invited five distinguished speakers to share their vision and insight with us. These talks include “Convex Optimization with Abstract Linear Operators” by Stephen Boyd, “5G Wireless Enabling Technologies” by Wen Tong, “Sparsity and Inverse Problems: Think Analog, and Act Digital” by Michael Unser, “Deep Learning for AI: From machine Perception to Machine Cognition” by Li Deng and “Learning with Primal and Dual Model Representations: A Unifying Picture” by Johan Suykens. We are grateful to all plenary speakers for joining us in Shanghai and special thanks go to our Plenaries Chairs, Zhi-Pei Liang and Björn Ottersten, for their great effort in identifying excellent speakers.
With the generous support of Starkey, IBM and iFLYTEK, we will recognize students for their outstanding papers with the ICASSP 2016 Best Student Paper Awards and Spoken Language and Speech Processing Student Paper Awards. We are grateful to all TC Chairs for making nominations from their respective tracks and we would like to particularly thank Scott Acton, Mauro Barni, Ken Kreutz-Delgado, C.-C. Jay Kuo, Haizhou Li, Wan-Chi Siu, Sergios Theodoridis, Wade Trappe for their efforts in selecting the winners.
We would also like to express our gratitude to Lance Cotton and Billene Cannon from Conference Management Services, whose professional assistance and unfailing support have ensured that all submitted papers were handled carefully and efficiently and the Technical Program being constructed in good order.
ICASSP would not have been so successful without the support of the authors and volunteers, we appreciate all your efforts and contributions and we look forward to welcoming you in Shanghai in March 2016.
PC Ching, Dominic KC Ho
Technical Program Chairs, ICASSP 2016