SPECIAL SESSIONS
Special Session Proposals
Prospective Organizers are invited to submit proposals for Special Sessions at ICASSP 2011. Proposals are due through this site by September 1st, 2010.
For a Special Session proposal to be considered for inclusion at ICASSP 2011, its proposed topic needs to be from an emerging area in signal processing that will not be covered as part of the regular sessions. The topic should be timely and of significant importance to the technical audience, and the speakers need to convey compelling information about the topic. Proposals will be judged by the degree to which they will bring together key researchers in the state-of-the-art area, introduce the area to the larger signal processing community, further develop the area, and help to establish a larger research community around the area.
Special session proposals covering multi-disciplinary areas are particularly encouraged, as well as proposals of common challenges based on a core signal processing data set for all session participants to employ in their papers in order to allow for algorithm evaluations and comparisons on the same data to emphasize strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches.
Each Special Session will be two hours long and will usually consist of 6 oral presentations. Other formats may be possible, including discussion panels.
Special Sessions will be intermixed with regular sessions during the conference. The number of accepted special sessions will range between 10 and 12.
The Organizer's role is to invite (and ensure to have) the speakers, process the reviews (with the same deadline and review system as the regular papers), and chair the session itself.
Each speaker invited to a Special Session will be required to submit a paper, under the regular submission requirements, by the regular submission deadline: October 20, 2010. These papers will enter the same system as regular papers, and be subject to reviews. The Organizer will select the reviewers and manage the review process, and in consultation with the program committee, will make accept/reject decisions. It is possible that some invited papers may be rejected. However, this is expected to be a rare event given that the Organizer should have recruited only the strongest papers to the Special Session.
The invited speakers as well as the Organizer will be required to register for the conference. Registration fees will not be waived and there will be no honoraria available through ICASSP.
A maximum of 3 Organizers per Special Session is allowed.
Questions regarding Special Sessions may be directed to Mihaela van der Schaar and Isabel Trancoso at icassp2011.ss@ieee.org.
Please submit your Special Session proposals paper HERE.