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Thu May 26, 2011 14:00-15:00 Carre 3A Master Presentation Kees-Jan Sikma Title: 3D Reconstruction of Histological Data of Post-mortem Human Brain tissue for Validation of Tractography from DWI Data Chairman committee: Kees Slump Fri Apr 1, 2011 15:00-16:00 Carré 2F Master Presentation Erik van Oort Invitation Master Presentation Erik van Oort Title: Resting State fMRI, DTI, Brain Parcellation and Connectivity within the Default Mode Network Chairman MSc committee: Kees Slump Fri Dec 3, 2010 16:30-18:00 Waaier - prof.dr. G. Berkhoff room PhD Defense Bas Boom Biometrics Title: Face Recognition's Grand Challenge: uncontrolled conditions under control Mon Nov 8, 2010 13:30-14:30 Carré - 3A Master Presentation Bianca Maan Imaging Invitation Master Presentation Bianca Maan title: Comparison of methods for quantitative analysis of dynamic susceptibility contrast enhanced brain perfusion MRI supervisor: prof.dr.ir. Kees Slump Thu Oct 28, 2010 16:30-17:30 Waaier-4 PhD Defense Drs. C.J. Storm Wireless Communications Invitation PhD Defense of Drs. C.J. Storm title: Coronaries, X-Ray Imaged, Clinical Development promotor: prof.dr.ir. C.H. Slump Fri Oct 1, 2010 13:15-14:45 Waaier - 4 PhD Defence Emile Kelkboom title On the Performance of Helper Data Template Protection Schemes promotor: prof.dr. W. Jonker ass.promotor: dr.ir. R.N.J. Veldhuis Thu Sep 30, 2010 16:45-18:15 Waaier, collegezaal 4 PhD defence: Haiyun Xu Biometrics Spectral Minutiae Representations of Fingerprints Tue Sep 14, 2010 16:00-17:00 Carrè 3A Bachelor voordracht Sèvrin Huijsse Titel: Kalibratie van een beeldversterkende cone-beam CT-scanner Commissie: Msc. A. Klein prof.dr.ir. C.H. Slump mevr.dr. A. van Capellen van Walsum Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:00-13:00 CR-2506 Presentation Students B2-project host: Bas Wed Jun 16, 2010 16:30-18:00 Waaier, collegezaal 4 PhD defence: René Willemink Imaging Image reconstruction in a passive element enriched photoacoustic tomography setup Mon Jun 14, 2010 15:00-16:00 Cubicus B209 Master Presentation: Chanjuan Liu Title: Prediction of Lip Shapes Based on Electromyography Measurements Thu May 20, 2010 13:00-14:30 Waaier, collegezaal 4 PhD defence: Xiaoying Shao Energy-Efficient Error Correction Coding for Wireless Systems Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:00-12:30 B1220 tussentijdse voordracht van Chanjuan Liu Imaging 'Virtual Surgery for Oral Cancer ---Lip Model with Facial Electromyography Technology'. Fri Mar 19, 2010 15:45-16:45 Ho B1224 MSc presentation: Thierry Felkers Imaging Implementation of a Phantom for Flow Measurements using a Pseudo-Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling Technique Wed Mar 3, 2010 14:00-16:00 Ho 9110 presentatie van Chris van Dam, Robin van Rootseler en aansluitend Arnout Ruifrok van het NFI Biometrics Chris en Robin 'Reconstruction of 3D Face Models from Single Images and Image Sequences: An Overview' Arnout Ruifrok 'Forensic Face Comparison in Practice' Thu Jan 21, 2010 15:00-16:00 Spiegel 6 MSc presentation: Timon Zijnge Wireless Communications Raptor Codes for Use in Opportunistic Error Correction Fri Jan 15, 2010 14:00-15:00 T4 MSc presentation: Evert Schippers Imaging 3D surface reconstruction using structured light. Validation of bidirectional modulation in phase based profilometry. Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:00-12:30 Ho 9110 bachelor presentatie van Guus Kuiper Symmetry based nose bridge localization for obtaining specifications of spectacles Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho 9116 presentation: Sanja Stereo Matching for Low-Textured Surfaces with Likelihood Function in Focus Thu Dec 10, 2009 16:00-17:00 Ho. T4 MSc presentation: Bram Julsing Imaging 'Phenomenological modeling of the human tongue and lips' Met ondertitel: 'First steps in the development of a system for virtual surgery'. Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho 9110 presentation: Roel Schiphorst aansluitend presentatie van Suryanarayana Murthy Titel: spectrum governance Samenvatting: The radio spectrum is a relatively scarce resource and for that reason, rules have to be defined for spectrum use. These rules should have two goals: a) minimize interference between users and b) optimize the spectrum use. Of course, both goals are conflicting to some extend. A more efficient use of the radio spectrum can lead to more interference. Rules are not only determined by technical parameters, also economical, legal, political and social constraints play an important role in these rules. The topic of this research is called spectrum governance. For evaluation of these regulatory rules a monitoring network is necessary. In this presentation a novel monitoring network topology is presented, consisting of mobile monitoring vehicles to address the goals of spectrum governance. Moreover, initial results are given. Thu Nov 26, 2009 14:45-16:15 Spiegel, collegezaal II PhD defence: Johan Wesselink Acoustics A rapid prototyping system for broadband multichannel active noise and vibration control Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho 9116 presentation: Xiaoying Shao Practical Evaluation of Opportunistic Error Correction Fri Nov 6, 2009 15:00-16:00 Ho. T4 MSc presentation Edger Tiemens Imaging Reconstruction of displacements in coronary angiography Mon Nov 2, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9116 student presentation: Evert Schippers Imaging Phase Based Profilometry Using a Projector-Camera Setup Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9116 presentation: Bas Boom Biometrics Illumination Reconstrucion using a Virtual Light Grid Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9116 IO voordracht van Maarten Heres Automating measurements on the Catphan phantom Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9116 presentation: Arthur Berkhoff Acoustics Combined MIMO adaptive and decentralized controllers for broadband active noise and vibration control. Fri Oct 16, 2009 16:30-18:00 Spiegel, collegezaal II PhD defence: Gert Beumer Biometrics Face recognition, a landmarks tale Mon Oct 5, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho 9110 presentation: Berk Gökberk Biometrics Part-based 3D Face Recognition Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:30-13:00 Ho 9110 presentation: Almar Klein Imaging Dynamic CTA to assess possible stent graft failure Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:30-12:00 Ho 9110 Declined: IO presentation: Chanjuan Liu Imaging Photoacoustic Image Reconstruction with Deconvolution Mon Sep 14, 2009 13:00-13:30 9110 presentation: Rene Willemink Imaging A Calibration Algorithm for Photoacoustic Imaging Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:30-13:00 Ho 9110 Bachelor opdracht van Carla Kloeze Imaging Automated diabetic feet diagnosis Mon Sep 7, 2009 12:30-13:00 Ho 9110 Presentatie van Haiyun Xu Biometrics Complex Spectral Minutiae Representations of Fingerprints Mon Sep 7, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho 9110 Presentatie van Gerbert ten Brinke Coronary flow estimation using x-ray images Mon Aug 31, 2009 13:00-13:30 Ho 8128 IO voordracht van Jurgen Kalverboer Biometrics Accelerating the 3d face reconstruction of the five camera system by using CUDA Fri Aug 28, 2009 13:30-14:30 Ho T4 MSc presentation: Floris Berendsen Biometrics One-Shot Structured-Light Range-Imaging using Particle Filtering Thu Aug 27, 2009 13:00-16:00 Spiegel, collegezaal II PhD defence: Wietse Balkema Design and realization of an efficient content based music playlist generation system Mon Aug 24, 2009 13:00-13:30 gew. in Ho 9110 IO voordracht van Raymond Kaspers Biometrics Evaluation of reflection models in face illumination reconstruction Fri Aug 21, 2009 15:45-16:45 Ho T4 MSc presentation Stephanie Mossel Biometrics Piece-wise linear stereo reconstruction Thu Jul 2, 2009 09:00-10:00 in Hogekamp 9118 Color CT Scanner Presentatie Donderdag 2 juli 2009 vinden in onderstaande volgorde de voordrachten van het B2 project van de opleiding Elektrotechniek plaats in Hogekamp 9118. Vanaf 15.30 uur zullen de studenten per groep een poster van hun opdracht presenteren in het EDU-café (Zilverling). U bent van harte welkom om deze voordrachten en presentaties bij te wonen! 9.00 –9.40 uur Color CT Scanner Leerstoel SAS Studenten Jelle Jan Bankert, Maarten Segers, Daniël van der Veer, Tijmen Hageman Begeleiders Ir. G.A. ten Brinke, Dr. Ir. J.A. Kauffman, ir. A. Klein, ir. D.J. Kroon, H. Kuipers, ing. G.J. Laanstra ir. G.H. Willemink, Prof. Dr. Ir. C.H. Slump Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:15-12:30 Ho 8128 student presentation: Edger Tiemens Imaging Patient motion estimation in X-ray coronary angiography Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:00-12:15 Ho 8128 student presentation: Timon Zijnge Wireless Communications Raptor Codes for use in Opportunistic Error Correction Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:00-12:30 Ho 8128 IO voordracht van Erik van Oort Imaging Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in MR Images Mon Jun 8, 2009 12:30-13:00 Ho 8128 IO voordracht van Tom Jongsma Wireless Communications Design of a digital downconverter with flexible decimation rates Wed May 20, 2009 12:30-13:00 8128 IO voordracht van Frank Mak Biometrics Divide, Fuse and Conquer. A segmented 3d face recognition approach. Mon May 18, 2009 13:00-13:30 8128 student presentation: Bram Julsing Imaging Towards a dynamic model of the human tongue based on MR images Mon May 18, 2009 12:30-13:00 8128 presentation: Anne Hendrikse Fri May 15, 2009 15:45-16:30 Ho T4 MSc presentation Ruud Stolk Biometrics Correlation filters for grip-pattern recognition Mon May 11, 2009 12:30-13:00 8128 presentation: Sanja Damjanovic Mon May 11, 2009 12:00-12:30 8128 presentation: Dirk-Jan Kroon Imaging Thu May 7, 2009 13:00-16:00 Spiegel, collegezaal II PhD defence: Joost Kauffman Acoustics Automated radiographic assessment of hands in rheumatoid arthritis Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:00-12:30 8128 presentation: Chun Chen Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:30-13:00 8128 presentation: Joost Kauffman GAAT NIET DOOR Acoustics Mon Apr 6, 2009 13:00-14:00 Ho 3152 BSc presentation: Peter Prins Acoustics Implementation and testen pv-array Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:30-13:00 8128 presentation: Arthur Berkhoff Acoustics Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:30-13:00 presentatie van Raymond gaat NIET DOOR Mon Mar 9, 2009 12:30-13:00 HO 8128 Presentation Luuk Spreeuwers Biometrics 3D Face project Mon Mar 2, 2009 12:30-13:00 HO 8128 Presentatie Bas Boom Biometrics Face recognition Fri Feb 6, 2009 15:00-17:00 Spiegel, collegezaal II PhD defense: Qian Tao Biometrics Face verification for mobile personal device Mon Feb 2, 2009 13:15-13:30 9118 presentation: Floris Berendsen Biometrics Instantaneous Frequency estimation using a Particle Filter Mon Feb 2, 2009 12:45-13:15 9118 presentation: Ferdi van der Heijden Imaging One-shot 3D surface reconstruction from instantaneous frequencies Tue Dec 23, 2008 14:00-15:00 T4 MSc presentation: Rikkert Wiggerink Biometrics Fri Dec 19, 2008 15:00-16:00 Spiegel, collegezaal II PhD defense: Xiaoxin Shang Biometrics Grip-pattern recognition applied to a smart gun Thu Dec 11, 2008 16:00-17:00 T4 MSc presentation: Maaike Elzinga Imaging 3D visualisation of a rail road environment. Using a 2D image sequence made from a moving train to estimate the path of this train and to create a depth map to enable 3D visualisation of the rail road environment. Mon Dec 8, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9158 presentation: Rene Willemink Imaging Development and Evaluation of Estimation Algorithms for Ultrasound Propagation Parameters Mon Dec 1, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9158 presentation: Almar Klein Imaging ECG-Gated CT Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9158 presentation: Gerbert ten Brinke 3D coronary reconstruction Wed Nov 5, 2008 15:00-16:00 Cubicus C238 MSc presentation: Michiel Ligtenberg Acoustics Separate the contributions of various uncorrelated sound sources with the aid of particle velocity sensors Mon Nov 3, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9158 presentation: Marnix Heskamp Wireless Communications Sub-noise primary user detection by cross-correlation Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho 9158 presentation: Anne Hendrikse Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho.9158 presentation: Dirk-Jan Kroon Imaging Extended non-rigid b-spline registration Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:30-13:00 Ho. 9158 MSc presentation: Michiel Ligtenberg Acoustics Separate the contributions of various uncorrelated sound sources with the aid of particle velocity sensors Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9158 presentation: Sanja Damjanovic Stereo Reconstruction Using Hidden Markov Models Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9158 presentation: Arthur Berkhoff Acoustics Thu Sep 11, 2008 16:45-17:45 Spiegel, collegezaal II PhD defense: Harm Cronie Coding and modulation for power and bandwidth efficient communication Mon Sep 8, 2008 12:30-13:00 Ho. 9158 presentation: Chun Chen Unsolved questions about pairwise phase quantization Mon Sep 8, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho. 9158 presentation: Raymond Veldhuis Biometrics Optimal biometric fusion on score level Mon Aug 25, 2008 16:00-17:00 T4 Bram Nijmeijer Biometrics One shot 3D surface reconstruction based on instantaneous frequencies Mon Aug 25, 2008 13:30-14:30 Ho B1224 Laatste wijziging MSc presentation: Corrado Boscarino Spectral Methods for Single Channel Blind Dereverberation of Sound Signals Mon Aug 4, 2008 14:30-15:30 Ho B2114 BSc presentation: Chiel Lintzen Imaging Diabetic retinopathy: Automated microaneurysm detection in digital retinal images Thu Jul 3, 2008 09:45-10:15 Ho 9158 presentation: Stephanie Mossel Biometrics 3D reconstructie van stereobeeld d.m.v. lineaire interpolatie binnen een triangelvormig raster Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:00-12:00 Ho. T4 MSc presentation: Jeroen Warnas Wireless Communications Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system design and parameter estimation Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:00-12:30 Ho 9158 presentation: Joost Kauffman Acoustics 'Real-time' acoustic camera Mon Jun 16, 2008 10:00-10:30 9158 Opportunistic error correction for OFDM systems In this presentation, a novel opportunistic error correction layer based on Fountain codes and a resolution adaptive ADC is presented for OFDM systems. The key parts in the new proposed system is that only packets are processed by the receiver chain which have encountered ``good'' channel conditions. Others are discarded. With this new approach, around 2/3 of the energy consumption can be saved for example compared with the conventional IEEE 802.11a WLAN system under the same channel conditions and throughput. Mon Jun 9, 2008 12:00-12:30 9158 Presentatie: Luuk Spreeuwers Biometrics Tue Jun 3, 2008 14:30-15:30 Ho 3136 Timon Vrijmoeth Biometrics Quantization of spectral minutiae Mon Jun 2, 2008 12:30-13:00 9158 Presentatie van Johan Wesselink Acoustics Mon Jun 2, 2008 12:00-12:30 9158 Presentatie van Haiyun Xu Biometrics Presentatie over Spectral Minutiae Representation. Mon May 19, 2008 12:30-13:00 presentatie Timon Vrijmoeth Biometrics Quantization of the spectral minutiae representation of fingerprints. Mon May 19, 2008 12:00-12:30 9158 presentatie van Bas Boom Biometrics Face Registration: The matching score algorithm will be discussed with new evaluation criteria, using the distance in face space and distance from face space as measures to minimize. Face Illumination: A new algorithm to estimate the face shape using one face image and using this face shape we correct the illumination in the face image by simulating frontal illumination. Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:00-12:30 9158 Presentatie van Jeroen Warnas Wireless Communications Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless data communication Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:00-12:30 9158 (vergader ruimte) Presentation Almar, A segmentation method for stentgrafts in the abdominal aorta from ECG-gated CTA data Imaging Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:00-12:30 9158 Sorry not canceled Anne Hendrikse (SAS presentatie) Eigenvalue correction in face recognition Thu Dec 13, 2007 16:00-17:00 B1224 Jan-Willem van Bloem (afstudeer voordracht) Wireless Communications Design and Analysis of Sparse Graph Codes for Multilevel Modulation Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:00-12:30 9158 Presentatie Bram Nijmeijer (Range imaging using spatial frequency modulated lighting) Biometrics Range imaging using spatial frequency modulated lighting Tue Oct 30, 2007 14:30-15:30 T4 Doctoraal voordracht van Niek Bouman Spectral-efficient communication over linear Gaussian channels Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:00-12:30 9158 Thierry Felkers (bachelor presentatie) Imaging Contrast improvement in coronary angiograms Thu Oct 4, 2007 15:00-15:30 9158 Presentatie Active Appearance Model Acoustics Drie studentes van TG hebben een onderzoek gedaan naar “Active Appearance Models” voor het zichtbaar maken van bloedvaten op bot. Deze geven morgen een presentatie hier op de afdeling (en dag erna bij Philips). Het zal leuk zijn als er wat (kritisch) publiek aanwezig is. Mon Oct 1, 2007 12:30-13:00 9158 presentatie van Marnix (na presentatie van Roel 12.00 uur) Wireless Communications Detection of Cyclostationary Features of Radio Signals Mon Oct 1, 2007 12:00-13:00 presentatie van Roel Schiphorst Block Edge Mask voor UMTS Draadloze netwerken in aangrenzende frequentiekavels kunnen interferentie opleveren. In deze presentatie wordt verteld hoe deze interferentie beperkt kan worden voor de 2,6 GHz frequentieband. Het Ministerie van Economische Zaken is namelijk van plan om deze band begin 2008 uit te geven en heeft onze leerstoel gevraagd om de technische randvoorwaarden voor deze veiling te bepalen. Toepassingen in deze band zijn mobiel internet, zoals UMTS, WiMax, etc. Een goed middel om interferentie te beperken is door middel van een zogenaamde Block Edge Mask (BEM). Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:00-13:00 9158 presentatie van Niek Bouman (doctoraal voordracht) Spectral-efficient communication over linear Gaussian channels. The goal of the project is to achieve power- and bandwidth-efficient communication on the linear Gaussian channel, with a scheme having low computational complexity. We try to achieve this by using optimized binary LDPC codes, multilevel coding, superposition modulation and multistage decoding. Tue Sep 11, 2007 14:00-15:00 9158 Updated: presentatie Stephanie Mossel (pre-doctoctoraal) Biometrics Automatische detectie van spoorraildefecten Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:00-12:30 9158 presentatie Haiyun Biometrics Spectral minutiae representation Tue Aug 28, 2007 16:00-17:00 T4 Doctoraal voordracht van Robin van Rootseler Boosting and fusing local features for face recognition Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:00-13:00 9158 IOO voordracht van David Borggreve Segmentatie uit 3DRA beelden voor vloeistofdynamica simulaties (CFD) ten behoeve van diagnose en behandeling van aneurysma's Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:00-13:00 T4 MSc. Presentation Wessel Ganzevoort, IQ imbalance in quadrature demodulators Hi all, You are all invited to my Master's presentation: Subject: 'IQ imbalance in quadrature demodulators' Date: 26 juni 2007 Time: 12:00 uur Location: Hogekamp T4 Best regards, Wessel.

Upcoming Conferences

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Date/Location	Subject
Thu Apr 15, 2010 Rotterdam Shear Stress symposium Sun Sep 20, 2009 London MICCAI 2009 MICCAI 2009, the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, will be held from 20th to 24th September 2009 in London, UK. MICCAI attracts annually world leading scientists, engineers and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted surgery. The venue for MICCAI 2009 is to be located at the main campus of Imperial College London in South Kensington. It is situated in one of London's finest locations, adjacent to landmarks such as The Royal Albert Hall and the Science, Natural History and Victoria & Albert Museums, with Harrods and Hyde Park just a short walk away. Sun Sep 13, 2009 Park City, Utah Computer In Cardiology 2009 Wed Sep 2, 2009 Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany CAIP 2009 The 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns September 2nd - September 4th, 2009 CAIP'09 is the thirteenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Processing, Pattern recognition and related fields. The last CAIP conferences were held in Groningen (2003), Paris (2005), and Vienna (2007). CAIP'09 will be hosted by Münster University. The scientific program of the conference will consist of keynote addresses, contributed papers presented in a single track, and posters. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series and selected high-quality papers will be published in a Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Journal . Due to the numerous requests the submission deadline has been extended to April 14, 2009 Sun Jun 28, 2009 Boston, Massachusetts USA ISBI 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical and applied biomedical imaging. ISBI’09 will be the sixth meeting in this series. The previous meetings have played a leading role in facilitating interaction between researchers in medical and biological imaging. The 2009 meeting will continue this tradition of fostering crossfertilization among different imaging communities and contributing to an integrative approach to biomedical imaging across all scales of observation. ISBI 2009 is a joint initiative of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The 2009 meeting will feature an opening afternoon of tutorials and short courses, followed by a scientific program of plenary talks, special sessions, and oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed contributed papers. High-quality papers are solicited containing original contributions to the algorithmic, mathematical, and computational aspects of biomedical imaging, from nano- to macro-scale. Topics of interest include image formation and reconstruction, computational and statistical image processing and analysis, dynamic imaging, visualization, image quality assessment, and physical, biological and statistical modeling. Papers on molecular, cellular, anatomical and functional imaging modalities and applications are welcomed. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium and will be available online through the IEEExplore database. Important dates Deadline for submission of 4-page paper: January 19, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 30, 2009 Submission of final accepted 4-page paper: May 1, 2009 Deadline for early registration: May 1, 2009 Further information is available at: http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/ 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro June 28 – July 1, 2009 Boston, Massachusetts USA CALL FOR PAPERS Thu Apr 16, 2009 Rotterdam, The Netherlands Symposium Biomechanics in Vscular Biology and Cardiovascular Disease www.shearstresssymposium.nl Sat Feb 7, 2009 Orlando , Florida, USA SPIE Medical Imaging 2009 7 - 12 February 2009 Disney Coronado Springs Resort Orlando , Florida, USA Thu Jan 22, 2009 Egmond aan Zee 2nd Dutch BME Conference 2009 Thu Nov 27, 2008 Veldhoven, the Netherlands ProRISC2008: the 18th Annual Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing ProRISC (Program for Research on Integrated Systems and Circuits) is the micro-electronic design division of STW. It serves as a platform for all the researchers in the field of microelectronics and the users of the results of the research projects. ProRISC has no budget for research, proposals for new projects will still have to compete with all the other proposals at STW. However, ProRISC tries to bring together researchers and users by means of organizing an annual workshop http://www.stw.nl/Programmas/Prorisc/ Sat Sep 6, 2008 New York MICCAI 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing And Computer Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2008, the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, will be held from September 6 to 10, 2008 in New York City, USA. MICCAI typically attracts over 600 world leading scientists, engineers and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted surgery. Fri Aug 1, 2008 University of Tokyo, Japan MIAR2008: MEdical Imaging and Augmented Reality (LNCS) Rapid technical advances in Medical Imaging, including its growing applications to drug, gene therapy, and invasive/interventional procedures, as well as a fusional development of the protein science, imaging modalities, and nano-technological devices, have attracted significant interests in recent years. This is motivated by the clinical and basic science research requirement of obtaining more detailed physiological and pathological information of the body for establishing localized genesis and progression of diseases. Current research is also motivated by the fact that medical imaging is increasingly moving from a primarily diagnostic modality towards a therapeutic and interventional aid, driven by streamlining the diagnostic and therapeutic processes for human diseases by means of imaging modalities and robotic assisted surgery. The aim of MIAR is to bring together researchers in computer vision, graphics, robotics, and medical imaging to present the state-of-the-art developments in this ever-growing research area. We also encourage a broad interpretation of the field: from macroscopic to molecular imaging, passing the information on to scientists and engineers to develop breakthrough therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices, which can then be seamlessly delivered back to patients. The 4th International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality, MIAR 2008, will be held on August 1-2, 2008, at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Details of conference venue, paper submission, registration, and previous MIAR meeting can be found http://www.miar.org/2008/. The meeting will consist of a single track of oral/poster presentations, with each session led by an invited lecture from our distinguished international faculty members. Papers presenting original research in the following research topics are being sought. Topics: Topics to be addressed in MIAR 2008 include, but not limited to: * Medical Image Formation, Analysis and Interpretation * Augmented Reality, Visualization and Simulation * Computer Assisted Intervention and Robotics, Surgical Planning * Systematic Extra- and Intra-corporeal Imaging Modalities * General Biological and Neuroscience Image Computing * Patient Specific Modeling and Medical Image Understanding Mon Jul 14, 2008 Renaissance Leipzig Hotel, Leipzig MDA2009: Conference on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnologie, Chemistry and Food Industry (LNCS) The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with the automatic analysis of images and signals in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome.... Wed Jul 9, 2008 Andratx, Mallorca, Spain AMDO2008:Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects The Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI) and the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of UIB are organising the fifth international conference AMDO 2008 that will take place in Puerto de Andratx, Mallorca. This conference, IAPR endorsed, is the natural evolution of the AMDO's previous workshops. The goal of this conference is to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers working directly in the areas covered by the main tracks. New perceptual user interfaces and emerging technologies strengthen the relationship between areas involved with human-computer interaction. The new perspective of the AMDO 2008 conference will be to reinforce the relationship between the many areas that have as key point the study of the human body using computer technologies as the main tool. It is a great opportunity to encourage links between research in the areas of computer vision, computer graphics, advanced multimedia applications and multimodal interfaces that share common problems and frequently use similar techniques or tools. In this particular edition the related topics are divided in several parallel tracks, including the topics above proposed. AMDO 2008 will consist in three days of lecture sessions, both regular and invited presentations, a poster session and international tutorials. The conference fee includes a social program (conference dinner, coffee breaks, snacks and cultural activities). Students, IAPR, EG, and AERFAI members can register at a reduced fee. The invited speakers will be: Prof. Pantic, M. - (Imperial College London, UK / Univ. of Twente, Netherlands), Prof. Boyer, E. (LJK / UJF / INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France) and Prof. Abascal, J. (Univ. of Pais Vasc, Spain). TOPICS INCLUDE (but not restricted to): Track 1: Computer Graphics (Human Modelling & Animation) Track 2: Human Motion (Analysis, Tracking, 3D Reconstruction & Recognition) Track 3: Multimodal User Interaction (VR & AR, Speech, Biometrics) Track 4: Advanced Multimedia Systems (Standards, Indexed Video Contents) Wed Jul 2, 2008 Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris, France ANNPR 2008: The Third International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition (LNCS) We are pleased to announce that the Third IAPR International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition will take place in Paris. The TC3 Neural Networks & Computational Intelligence is one of the 20 Technical Committees of the International Association on Pattern Recognition (IAPR ). The scope of this workshop includes all kinds of Computational Intelligence approaches, including artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computing, with focus on pattern recognition applications. ANNPR 2008 follows the success of the first workshops: ANNPR 2003 held at the University of Florence, Italy, and ANPPR 2006 held at castle Reisensburg, University of Ulm, Germany. This third ANNPR workshop will act as a major forum for international researchers and practitioners working in all areas of neural network based pattern recognition to present and discuss the latest researches, results, and ideas in these areas. 29 high-quality papers (out of 57 submitted) will be presented during the workshop . Workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence serie . Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Methodological issues: • Supervised and unsupervised learning • Combinations of supervised and unsupervised learning • Feed forward networks and kernel machines, recurrent and competitive neural networks • Hierarchical modular architectures and hybrid systems • Multiple classifier systems and ensemble methods Applications in Pattern Recognition: • Image processing and segmentation • Sensor fusion and multimodal processing • Feature extraction, dimension reduction, clustering and vector quantization • Speech and speaker recognition • Document image analysis and recognition • Data, text and web mining • Bioinformatics Tue Jul 1, 2008 Cherbourg-Octeville, Normandy, France. ICISP: International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (LNCS) ICISP'2008 aims to provide researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with a forum to report on the latest developments in image and signal processing, multimedia and computer graphics. The conference will also provide a unique opportunity for shearing experiences from different backgrounds with the common interest in advanced methods in the above mentioned fields and in industrial applications. We cordially invite you to participate in this event by submitting your work in all aspects of this field from underlying technologies to applications, and from theory to practice. The technical program will consist of invited talks, oral and poster sessions with topics of general interest in a single track. We particularly encourage submissions from students. Papers are solicited addressing theoretical as well as practical issues related to the conference themes. We look forward to seeing you in Cherbourg-Octeville in July 2008 for what will be a most rewarding and exciting experience! Wed Jun 25, 2008 Barcelona, Spain CARS 2008 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery CAR (Computer Assisted Radiology) began with support for an initiative by the Senate of Berlin in May 1983 directed at the creation of a new congress on information technology in biomedicine. It was one of many government subsidized technical congresses in the divided Berlin that was intended to increase the city's vital contacts with the outside world. Initially, computer graphics and computer vision in biomedicine were proposed as the meetings foci, with the human body as the principal theme. A first definition of CAR, based on CT, was made in 1984 (Ref. 1). With strong international participation, the first CAR conference and exhibition took place at Berlin's International Congress Center (ICC) in June 1985. The main tracts for the three-day conference were as follows: * digital imaging, e.g. CT, MR, DR, US, SPECT, and PET * picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) * medical workstations for viewing, analyzing and interpretating biomedical images * computer assistance in radiological diagnosis, radiation therapy and surgery The initial CAR meeting program included computer assisted surgery (CAS) topics, such as computer assisted orthopaedics and computer assisted stereotactic surgery. The expected impact of CAR was recognized by Prof. Heinz Oeser, formally a President of the Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft (DRG) (Ref. 2) ' CAR wird die Entwicklung der Medizin entscheidend beeinflussen, mitbestimmend bei der Gestaltung des Gesundheitswesens wirken - richtungsweisend als Flaggschiff der gesamten Medizin.' (CAR will decisively effect the development of medicine, impacting the structure of the healthcare system - giving direction as the flagship of medicine.) A contribution from Prof. Tamon Inouye from Japan stated (Ref. 3) 'Future developments in computer assisted radiology can be achieved only in deeper and wider international cooperation beyond the concept of conventional cooperative work in radiology'. Wed Jun 25, 2008 Povoa de Varzim, Portugal ICIAR 2008 International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition The International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the fields of Image Processing, Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition. The conference will address recent advances in theory, methodologies and applications. The scientific program will include invited speakers and fully refereed contributions that will be published in the conference proceedings. ICIAR series of conferences is organized annually, alternating between Europe and America. In 2004, the first conference was held in Porto, Portugal, followed by ICIAR 2005 in Toronto, Canada: ICIAR 2006 in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal: and ICIAR 2007 in Montreal, Canada. ICIAR 2008 will take place in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Topics * Processing & Analysis o Enhancement o Restoration o Segmentation o Mathematical morphology o Color analysis o Texture analysis o Motion analysis o 3D image analysis, 3D computer vision o Tracking, Realtime tracking o Shape representation and matching, Geometrical modeling, Digital curves o Real-time imaging o Image representation and models o Graphics, Virtual Reality o Filtering, Digital filters, Adaptive filters o Wavelets, Wedgelets, transforms o Statistical Signal Processing o Time-Frequency Analysis o Blind signal separation (BSS), Blind deconvolution o Image fusion o Spatial Data Modeling o Watermarking, Encryption, Security o Deformable models o Multi-channel image processing o Nonlinear image processing * Coding o Image and video coding, compression o Streaming, transmission, communication * Indexing & Retrieval o Image and video databases o Image and video retrieval and indexing * Pattern Analysis & Recognition o Feature extraction o Feature selection o Classification o Clustering o Ensembles and multi-classifiers o Hybrid methods o Syntactical methods o Object recognition o Face recognition, 3D face recognition o Character recognition o Gesture recognition o Image understanding o Machine vision, Computer vision o Statistical methods, Statistical estimation o Image Description and Recognition o Information Theory, Entropy o Sensors, Sensor Fusion o Fault detection and diagnosis o Intelligent systems, Soft Computing techniques o Neural Network architectures o Fuzzy logic, Fuzzy imag processing o Image mining * Applications o Biomedical imaging o Biometrics o Bioinformatics o Document Processing o Remote Sensing o Multimedia o Security Systems, Surveillance o Visual Inspection o Sports o Secret sharing o Hardware implementation, VLSI o Computer-assisted surgery o Automotive Sensors o Cheque processing o Visualization o Human-computer interaction o Embryonics o SAR Sea Ice Imagery o Other applications Mon Jun 23, 2008 Egan Convention Center, Anchorage, alaska IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern recognition CVPR 2008 will be held at the Egan Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska, June 23-28, 2008. Papers in the main technical program must describe high-quality, original research. Topics of interest include all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition including, but not limited to, the following areas: Biometrics Video Surveillance and Monitoring Color and Texture Segmentation Motion and Tracking Stereo and Structure from Motion Image-Based Modeling Illumination and Reflectance Modeling Shape Representation Multi-view Geometry Pattern Recognition in New Modalities Cognitive and Biologically-inspired Vision Knowledge Representation and High-Level Vision Object Recognition Object Detection and Categorization Video Analysis and Event Recognition Face and Gesture Statistical Methods and Learning Performance Evaluation Medical Image Analysis Image and Video Retrieval Document Recognition Biomedical Imaging New and Emerging Applications Perceptual Grouping Wed May 14, 2008 Paris 2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro Zie http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/default.asp

Biometrics
Date/Location	Subject
Sun Dec 6, 2009 London WIFS 2009 The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is the first workshop to be organized by the IEEE’s Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IEEE IFS TC). It is intended to become an annual event. Our aspiration is to create a venue for knowledge exchange that encompasses a broad range of disciplines and facilitates the exchange of ideas between various disparate communities that constitute information security. By so doing, we hope that researchers will identify new opportunities for collaboration across disciplines and gain new perspectives. The conference will feature prominent keynote speakers, tutorials, lecture sessions organized in two parallel tracks, and a poster session. Appropriate topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Biometrics: emerging modalities, recognition techniques, multimodal decision, attacks and countermeasures: * Computer security: intrusion detection, vulnerability analysis, system security: * Cryptography for multimedia content: perceptual hash function, multimedia encryption, signal processing in the encrypted domain, traitor tracing codes, key distribution: * Data hiding: watermarking, steganography and steganalysis, legacy system enhancement: * Digital Rights Management (DRM): DRM primitives (secure clocks, proximity detection, etc), DRM architectures, DRM interoperability: * Forensic analysis: device identification, data recovery, validation of forensic evidence: * Network security: privacy protection, network tomography and surveillance, system recovery from security/privacy failure: * Non technical aspects of security: legal, ethical, social and economical issues: * (Video) surveillance: arrays of sensors design and analysis, content tracking, events recognition, large crowd behaviour analysis: * Secure Applications: e-voting, e-commerce Important dates (subject to changes): March 6th, 2009 Tutorial proposals May 15th, 2009 Notification of tutorial deadline May 22nd, 2009 Submission of formatted papers August 21st, 2009 Notification of paper acceptance September 18th, 2009 Submission of revised papers October 16th, 2009 Author's registration deadline November 22nd, 2009 End of early registration rate December 6-9th, 2009 Conference Submission of papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, five-page papers, including figures and references, to the WIFS’09 Technical Program Committee. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Template style files are also provided on the conference web site. Accepted authors are expected to present their papers at the conference. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines. Mon Sep 28, 2009 Washington BTAS 2009 The IEEE Third International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 09) is the premier research meeting focused on biometrics. Its broad scope includes advances in fundamental pattern recognition techniques relevant to biometrics, new algorithms and / or technologies for biometrics, analysis of specific applications, and analysis of the social impacts of biometrics technology. Areas of coverage include biometrics based on voice, fingerprint, iris, face, handwriting, gait and other modalities, as well as multi-modal biometrics and new biometrics based on novel sensing technologies. Submissions will be rigorously reviewed, and should clearly make the case for a documented improvement over the existing state of the art. Experimental results for contributions in established areas such as voice, face, iris, fingerprint, and gait are encouraged to use the largest and most challenging existing publicly available datasets. Papers examining the usability of and social impact of biometrics technology are encouraged. Important Dates Paper submissiion: May 31. Deciisiions tto autthors: Jully 17. Fiinall versiions: Augustt 15. BTAS 09: Septtember 28--30, 2009. Wed Sep 2, 2009 Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany CAIP 2009 The 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns September 2nd - September 4th, 2009 CAIP'09 is the thirteenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Processing, Pattern recognition and related fields. The last CAIP conferences were held in Groningen (2003), Paris (2005), and Vienna (2007). CAIP'09 will be hosted by Münster University. The scientific program of the conference will consist of keynote addresses, contributed papers presented in a single track, and posters. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series and selected high-quality papers will be published in a Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Journal . Due to the numerous requests the submission deadline has been extended to April 14, 2009 Tue Jun 2, 2009 University of Sassari, Italy ICB 2009 Thu Jan 22, 2009 Egmond aan Zee 2nd Dutch BME Conference 2009 Wed Jan 21, 2009 Blauwe Zaal of the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven WIC Mid-Winter Meeting on Automotive Connectivity The WIC (Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie) Mid-Winter Meeting 2009 will be held on Wednesday January 21, 2009, in the Blauwe Zaal of the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The topic is “Automotive Connectivity”. The following distinguished speakers will give a presentation: * Peter Anders (Volkswagen, inquired), “Wireless In-Car networks: Challenge and Opportunity” * Frank Daems (NXP), “A view on 'Automotive telematics'” * Paul Gruijters (TomTom), “Connected Navigation” * Ramin Hekmat (TU Delft & Capgemini), “Vehicular Ad-hoc networks: facts and fictions” * Jurgen Sauer (Novero), “High speed internet access in the car” * Egbert-Jan Sol (TNO), ‘5-Generation Reference model for Automotive Connectivity - Towards the real auto automobile” For registration (deadline January 9, 2009) and information (program, venue, etc.), please consult the web site http://dutetvg.et.tudelft.nl/~weber/MWM2009WIC.htm. Thu Nov 27, 2008 Veldhoven, the Netherlands ProRISC2008: the 18th Annual Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing ProRISC (Program for Research on Integrated Systems and Circuits) is the micro-electronic design division of STW. It serves as a platform for all the researchers in the field of microelectronics and the users of the results of the research projects. ProRISC has no budget for research, proposals for new projects will still have to compete with all the other proposals at STW. However, ProRISC tries to bring together researchers and users by means of organizing an annual workshop http://www.stw.nl/Programmas/Prorisc/ Mon Sep 29, 2008 Washington DC, USA IEEE Second International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, more info see: http://www.cse.nd.edu/BTAS_08/ Paper Submission May 16, 2008 Decision Notification July 25, 2008 Final Copy Due August 15, 2008 BTAS 2008 Sept. 29-Oct.1, 2008 Wed Sep 17, 2008 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2008) more info see: www.fg2008.nl Mon Jun 23, 2008 Egan Convention Center, Anchorage, alaska IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern recognition CVPR 2008 will be held at the Egan Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska, June 23-28, 2008. Papers in the main technical program must describe high-quality, original research. Topics of interest include all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition including, but not limited to, the following areas: Biometrics Video Surveillance and Monitoring Color and Texture Segmentation Motion and Tracking Stereo and Structure from Motion Image-Based Modeling Illumination and Reflectance Modeling Shape Representation Multi-view Geometry Pattern Recognition in New Modalities Cognitive and Biologically-inspired Vision Knowledge Representation and High-Level Vision Object Recognition Object Detection and Categorization Video Analysis and Event Recognition Face and Gesture Statistical Methods and Learning Performance Evaluation Medical Image Analysis Image and Video Retrieval Document Recognition Biomedical Imaging New and Emerging Applications Perceptual Grouping Thu May 29, 2008 Leuven, Belgium WIC 2008: 29th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux 29th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux CONFERENCE AIM AND TOPICS The purpose of the conference is to share ideas, experiences and information on the following, or related, topics: ·Shannon theory and applications of information theory, ·Multi-user information theory, ·Source, channel and network coding, data compression, ·Cryptography and data protection issues, including watermarking, ·Quantum information and quantum cryptography, ·Speech/Audio/video signal processing, compression and multimedia, ·Signal detection and estimation, ·Signal processing and pattern recognition, ·Biometrics, ·Wired, wireless, ad hoc and sensor networks ·Software defined radios and cognitive radios Website: http://www.imec.be/wic2008/

Acoustics
Date/Location	Subject
Sun Oct 26, 2008 Shanghai/Ohina Inter Noise 2008 (The 37th International congress and exhibition on noise control engineering) see for more info: www.internoise2008.org

Wireless Communications
Date/Location	Subject
Wed Jan 21, 2009 Blauwe Zaal of the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven WIC Mid-Winter Meeting on Automotive Connectivity The WIC (Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie) Mid-Winter Meeting 2009 will be held on Wednesday January 21, 2009, in the Blauwe Zaal of the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The topic is “Automotive Connectivity”. The following distinguished speakers will give a presentation: * Peter Anders (Volkswagen, inquired), “Wireless In-Car networks: Challenge and Opportunity” * Frank Daems (NXP), “A view on 'Automotive telematics'” * Paul Gruijters (TomTom), “Connected Navigation” * Ramin Hekmat (TU Delft & Capgemini), “Vehicular Ad-hoc networks: facts and fictions” * Jurgen Sauer (Novero), “High speed internet access in the car” * Egbert-Jan Sol (TNO), ‘5-Generation Reference model for Automotive Connectivity - Towards the real auto automobile” For registration (deadline January 9, 2009) and information (program, venue, etc.), please consult the web site http://dutetvg.et.tudelft.nl/~weber/MWM2009WIC.htm. Fri Dec 12, 2008 Brussel, Belgie Symposium on Software Defined and Cognitive Radios Symposium on Software Defined and Cognitive Radios December 12, 2008 Université Libre de Bruxelles, U.L.B. Thanks to the rapidly evolving capabilities of digital electronics, software defined radios (SDR) become a reality. Hardware is replaced to a large extend by software offering therefore a high level of reconfigurability and adaptivity to the system. Cognitive radios (CR) are seen as a natural enhancement of SDR, wherein the radio senses and is aware of its operational environment, and is capable of following complex strategies to dynamically and autonomously adapt its operating parameters. CR is also a key technology to resolve the difficult issue of radio spectrum scarcity that prevents the deployment of new wireless services. Actual measurements show that the radio spectrum scarcity is not a result of the heavy usage of the spectrum, but is rather due to the inefficient static frequency allocation pursued by the regulators. CR can open the sparse assigned frequency bands to secondary services, provided that interference generated on the primary licensee is negligible. Even if the concept constitutes a real paradigm shift, it is still unclear how the CR can operate efficiently and how they can be implemented cost-effectively. Today the main challenges preventing the deployment of cognitive radios reside in the spectrum sensing and access, the intelligence and learning capability, the implementation, the regulation and business model for CR. The symposium will provide a platform for information exchange and discussion on topics related to CR. It is composed of two tutorials and eight presentations. Program: 9h-9h30: welcome and registration 9h30-10h30: tutorial “Enablers for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Cognitive Radio” Stefan Mangold Swisscom Large parts of the radio spectrum are not efficiently used because of our complicated radio regulation processes. Free access to radio spectrum is difficult and restricted by an old radio regulatory regime that emerged over the last 100 years. Parts of our radio spectrum are allocated to licensed radio services. Only some small fractions of the radio spectrum, the unlicensed bands, are openly available, under certain limitations. Research on 'Dynamic Spectrum Access' is an attempt to improve this situation. With dynamic spectrum access, cognitive radios coordinate the usage of radio spectrum without involvement of restrictive radio regulation. They operate in spectrum when it is not used by licensed radio systems, and therefore share spectrum with radio systems that have priority access. In this talk, we address business challenges that have to be addressed when moving this topic forward from research domain into the real life. We discuss key enablers for dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio and look at the topic from the standpoint of an operator. 10h30-10h50: coffee 10h50-12h30: presentations 'B-VHF: a Cognitive Radio System for Aeronautical Communication' Heidi Steendam Universiteit Gent “Power and QoS Considerations in Cognitive Radio System Design” Jean-Paul Linnartz Technische Universiteit Eindhoven “Optimization of OFDM Transmission with Relaying” Jérome Louveau and Luc Vandendorpe Université catholique de Louvain – U.C.L. “Distributed Cognitive Radio: Models and Solutions” Michael Timmers, Santiago Parera Rodriguez, Sofie Pollin, Antoine Dejonghe, Valery Ramon, Andre Bourdoux, Liesbet Van der Perre and Francky Catthoor Interuniversity Micro-Electronic Center – I.M.E.C. 12h30-13h30: lunch 13h30-14h30: tutorial “A System Perspective on Cognitive Radio Design: Spectrum Sensing Case Study” Danijela Cabric University of California, Los Angeles – U.C.L.A. This talk addresses fundamental questions in cognitive radios system design and investigates its feasibility by bridging the theoretical and practical aspects of the physical and network layers. We consider spectrum sensing, the key enabling functionality for cognitive radios, which requires detection of very weak signals of different types in a minimum time with high reliability. We show that the biggest barrier for sensing in very low signal to noise ratio regimes is the variability in the noise and interference that cannot be perfectly calibrated during sensing time. Robustness can be increased by differentiating signals from noise by detecting signal features or by exploiting channel diversity with network cooperation. Through physical implementation and experiments of proposed sensing methods, we identify the minimum possible sensing times and detectable signal levels. Moreover, we include the sensitivities exhibited by these methods to radio and channel impairments. Next, we consider radio architecture for wideband spectrum sharing radios and show that large dynamic range requirements present major challenge in their implementation. This calls for the development of novel mixed signal techniques. By exploiting spatial dimension for selective processing of desired signals through antenna array architectures, strong interferers can be adaptively suppressed. We conclude with a discussion of the requirements for the signaling and protocol designs that support dynamic spectrum access and spectrum sensing coordination. 14h30-14h50: coffee 14h50-16h50: presentations 'RF Impairments in Broadband Communication Systems' Deepak Tandur and Marc Moonen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – K.U.L. 'Sensitivity of Spectrum Sensing Techniques to RF impairments' Jonathan Verlant-Chenet, Philippe De Doncker and François Horlin Université libre de Bruxelles – U.L.B. “Sub-noise Spectral Sensing” Marnix Heskamp and Roel Schiphorst University of Twente “Random Sampling vs. Nyquist Sampling for Energy-Based Wideband Spectrum Sensing” André Bourdoux, Santiago Rodriguez Parera, Valéry Ramon and Liesbet Van der Perre Interuniversity Micro-Electronic Center – I.M.E.C. “Joint Dynamic Resource Allocation and Waveform Adaptation for Cognitive Radio” Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology Zhi Tian, Michigan Technological University Vincenzo Lottici, University of Pisa 17h: drinks Registration: Participants must register to the symposium before November 30 by sending a mail to Ibtissame Malouli mentioning their name and affiliation (). A registration fee of 50€ must be paid by cash at the registration desk on the day of the symposium. Price includes coffee/tea and lunch. Venue: The symposium will take place at: Université libre de Bruxelles, U.L.B. Campus Solbosch Room Dupréel (Building S) Avenue Jeanne 44 B-1050 Brussels (Belgium) Detailed travel information can be found at http://www.ulb.ac.be/docs/campus/solbosch-uk.html. If you come by car, you can use the U.L.B. parking. Please display the parking authorization document placed in appendix of this invitation. Hotel: We recommend you the Brussels hotel located near to the Solbosch campus. Brussels hotel Avenue Louise 315 B-1050 Brussels (Belgium) Tel: +322.640.24.15 Fax: +322.647.34.63 http://www.hotelbrusselsbelgium.com/ SPS Chapter Steering Committee: Richard Heusdens, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands François Horlin, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Kees Slump, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands Stefaan Vandenberghe, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium Thu Dec 4, 2008 New Orleans, USA 4th IEEE Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access ************************************************************************ ******** 4th IEEE WORKSHOP ON BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS Thursday, 4 December 2008 http://www.bwaws.org co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 held in New Orleans, LA, USA, from 30 Nov - 4 Dec 2008 http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/ ************************************************************************ ******** AIMS AND TOPICS Internet access is undergoing a fundamental change. More powerful devices and lower cost radio technologies are facilitating the transition to the Mobile Internet in which users can access a diverse range of services and applications anytime, anywhere. However, the huge increase in demand that this brings cannot easily be met by current radio access systems. Hence, there is a need for more powerful, more efficient, higher speed, lower cost radio technologies for Broadband Wireless Access. There is much energy within the community to develop more advanced BWA technologies - activities span the wireless domain, ranging from more advanced antenna technologies to co-operative relays to mesh networking systems and many more: future networks will likely employ some mix of these different mechanisms. We anticipate that this 4th workshop will continue the successful series, providing a forum for new research results and reports on practical experience working with innovative technologies in the domain of Broadband Wireless Access. The workshop, then, is soliciting contributions including but not limited to topics listed below. - Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks - Cellular broadband technologies, UMTS, HSPA, LTE, IMT Advanced,... - Incumbent and Future BWA Technologies, 802.16x, 802.20, etc - Wireless Mesh Networks for Broadband Access - QoS in Mobile and BWA Networks - Intercell Interference Coordination, Power Control and Load Balancing - Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering - Physical and Data Link Layer Issues - Characterization, Modeling of BWA Traffic, Mobility and Channels - Large-scale and Heterogeneous BWA Evaluations - Spectrum Management - Interoperability Aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, WANs) - Vertical and Horizontal Integration - Micro and Macromobility Management - Cross-layer Optimisation Approaches - Experimental Evaluation of Cross-layer Interactions - Network Management, Self-optimizing Networks - (W)NGN Architectures and Trends - Multihop, relaying and repeater architectures - Design and Evaluation of Testbeds - Multi-access Systems, Always Best Connected Networks, etc. - Radio Resource Management, Admission Control, Scheduling, Optimisation of MIMO systems - Experiences/lessons from recent deployments PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must describe new work that is not currently under review nor has been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-pages and submission is via EDAS. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format by selecting Globecom 2008 on EDAS and then selecting the workshop submission link. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 website www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/index.html for more information. All submitted papers will be reviewed by up to three experts and if accepted, published in the conference proceedings, which will be available at IEEEXplore and registered in Engineering Index (EI). At least one author of accepted papers is required to register for the workshop at the full registration rate. BEST PAPERS Selected papers from this workshop will be published in an internationally renowned journal. (pending) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: Jul 1 2008 Acceptance notification: Sep 8 2008 Camera ready: TBC GENERAL CHAIRS Thomas Michael Bohnert, SIEMENS CT, DE Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, FI GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, PT Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, FI TPC CHAIRS Dirk Staehle, University of Wuerzburg, DE Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research, SE PUBLICITY CHAIRS Andreas Kassler, Karlstads Universitet, SE Sean Murphy, University College Dublin, IE Christian Schwingenschloegl, Siemens CT, DE TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMITTEE Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres, University of Malaga, ES Mazin Al-Shalash, Huawei, USA Manuel Alvarez-Campana, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, IT Francisco Barcelo-Arroyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, IT Mathias Bohge, TU Berlin, DE Torsten Braun, University of Bern, CH Georg Carle, TU Munich, DE Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, IT Tijani Chahed, Institut National des Telecommunications, FR Lei Chen, Linkoping University, SE Nicola Ciulli, CPR (Consorzio Pisa Ricerche), IT Hans Einsiedler, Deutschen Telekom Labs, DE Alexandre Fonte, University of Coimbra, PT Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, IT Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, NL Christian Hoymann, Ericsson, DE Yahui Hu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PRC Ju Wook Jang, Sogang University, KR Markku Junti, University of Oulu, FI Juha Karjalainen, University of Oulu, FI Eckhart Koerner, University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, DE Ming Lei, Intel PRC Research Center, PRC Hui-Tang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, TW Remco Litjens, TNO Information and Communication Technology, NL Ian D. Marsland, Carleton University, CA Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, IT Maja Matijasevic, University of Zagreb, RO Tadashi Matsumoto, University of Oulu, FI Maciej Nawrocki, Wroclaw University of Technology, PL Marc Necker, University of Stuttgart, DE Pedro Neves, PT Telecom Inovacio, PT Claudio Palazzi, University of Padova, IT Agisilaos Papadogiannis, Orange, FR Ioannis Papapanagiotou, North Carolina State University, USA Georgios Paschos, VTT National Research Centre, FI Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Xavier Perez-Costa, NEC Network Laboratories, DE Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology, FI Alexande Sayenko, Nokia Research Center, FI Roel Schiphorst, University of Twente, Netherlands Rainer Schoenen, RWTH Aachen, DE Matthias Siebert, T-Systems, DE Jorge Silva, University of Coimbra, PT Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, PT Vasilios Siris, FORTH / University of Crete, GR Hsuan-Jung Su, National Taiwan University, TW Fernando Velez, University of Beira Interior, PT Cedric Westphal, Docomo Labs USA, USA Marcus Windisch, TU Dresden, DE Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, RU Qiang Wu, Qualcomm, USA Hong-Chuan Yang, University of Victoria, CA Di Yuan, Linkoping University, SE Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, NO Ji Zhu, Qualcomm, USA Thu Nov 27, 2008 Veldhoven, the Netherlands ProRISC2008: the 18th Annual Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing ProRISC (Program for Research on Integrated Systems and Circuits) is the micro-electronic design division of STW. It serves as a platform for all the researchers in the field of microelectronics and the users of the results of the research projects. ProRISC has no budget for research, proposals for new projects will still have to compete with all the other proposals at STW. However, ProRISC tries to bring together researchers and users by means of organizing an annual workshop http://www.stw.nl/Programmas/Prorisc/ Mon Nov 10, 2008 Cubicus C238 WiSe SRO colloquium To all members of chairs participating in the CTIT SRO Wireless and Sensor Systems, You are invited for the second colloquium of the WiSe SRO. Details of the first colloquium are below. Your attendance is highly appreciated. Date: Monday, November 10, 2008 Time: 16.00 Location: Cubicus C238 Agenda: 16.00 - Salvatore Drago: 'Impulse Based Scheme for Crystal-less Ultra Low Power Radios' 16.30 - Roland de Haan: 'Polling systems as performance models for mobile ad hoc networking' 17.00 Drinks Best regards, Gerard Smit & Geert Heijenk (SRO WiSe Coordinators) Sun Oct 26, 2008 Beijing, China 9th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'08) The 9th International Conference on Signal Processing will be held in Beijing, China on Oct.26-29, 2008. It will include sessions on all aspects of theory, design and applications of signal processing. Prospective authors are invited to propose papers in any of the following areas, but not limited to: A. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) B. Spectrum Estimation & Modeling C. TF Spectrum Analysis & Wavelet D. Higher Order Spectral Analysis E. Adaptive Filtering &SP F. Array Signal Processing G. Hardware Implementation for Signal Processing H Speech and Audio Coding I. Speech Synthesis & Recognition J. Image Processing & Understanding K. PDE for Image Processing L.Video compression &Streaming M. Computer Vision & VR N. Multimedia & Human-computer Interaction O. Statistic Learning & Pattern Recognition P. AI & Neural Networks Q. Communication Signal processing R. SP for Internet and Wireless Communications S. Biometrics & Authentification T. SP for Bio-medical & Cognitive Science U. SP for Bio-informatics V. Signal Processing for Security W . Radar Signal Processing X. Sonar Signal Processing and Localization Y. SP for Sensor Networks Z. Application & Others Tue Oct 14, 2008 Chicago, USA DySPAN2008: Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks About DySPAN The International Dynamic Access Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) symposium has emerged as the preeminent event to gather international economists, engineers, network architects, researchers and academic scholars together to share cutting edge research on and demonstrations of emerging wireless technology. Since the original DySPAN symposium in 2005, the DySPAN community has had a major influence on policy and technology research and development in the United States, Europe and Asia. The symposium excels in the quality of papers, discourse, and vision. Please join us for DySPAN 2008 in Chicago, October 14-17. http://www.ieee-dyspan.org/2008/ Sun Oct 12, 2008 Dalian, China WiCOM2008: The 4th International Conference on Wirless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing WiCOM serves as a forum for wireless communications researchers, industry professionals, and academics interested in the latest development and design of wireless systems. In 2008, WiCOM will be held in Dalian, China. You are invited to submit papers in all areas of wireless communications, networking, mobile computing and applications. http://www.wicom-meeting.org/wicom2008Submission/website/wicom/index.aspx Fri Sep 12, 2008 Amsterdam, the Netherlands IBC 2008 IBC Exhibition The IBC exhibition showcases all the latest technology and foremost business ideas in broadcasting and media. The exhibition is internationally renowned for being run by the industry for the industry and offers unparalleled expertise and opportunities in the fields of content creation, management and delivery. Exhibitions are an extremely effective part of the marketing mix, which best compliments online marketing. The growth of online marketing and promotion has gone onto generate a huge demand for people to experience what they have sourced and only seen on their PC screens. Overall, more and more marketeers are beginning to shift more of their spending within exhibition and events. IBC2008 enables to provide all its visitors with vast opportunities as such as: * 1300 leading manufacturers and specialist suppliers: * networking: * hospitality: * technical conference content, focusing on current hot topics: * one-to-one meetings: * business critical content & senior level discussions: * worlds first demonstrations: * thought leadership and: * the latest products and services Sun Jul 6, 2008 Recife SPAWC 2008: 9th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, is devoted to recent advances in signal processing for wireless and mobile communications, as well as for communications in general. This workshop brings together members of the signal processing, communications and information theory communities working in universities, research centers and telecommunications companies. The meeting will feature keynote addresses by leading researchers, as well as invited and contributed papers. SPAWC 2008 will be held at the Mar Hotel, Recife, Brazil, July 06-09, 2008. Thu May 29, 2008 Leuven, Belgium WIC 2008: 29th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux 29th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux CONFERENCE AIM AND TOPICS The purpose of the conference is to share ideas, experiences and information on the following, or related, topics: ·Shannon theory and applications of information theory, ·Multi-user information theory, ·Source, channel and network coding, data compression, ·Cryptography and data protection issues, including watermarking, ·Quantum information and quantum cryptography, ·Speech/Audio/video signal processing, compression and multimedia, ·Signal detection and estimation, ·Signal processing and pattern recognition, ·Biometrics, ·Wired, wireless, ad hoc and sensor networks ·Software defined radios and cognitive radios Website: http://www.imec.be/wic2008/ Thu May 22, 2008 Delft 11th Economics of Infrastructures Conference, Transitions in Utility Infrastuctures Delft Transitions in Utility Infrastructures Delft, 22-23 May 2008 Theme Utility infrastructures encompass physical networks associated with telecommunication, water, energy, and transportation. In the past the governance of these networks was geared towards utilisation with effectiveness as main objective to be able to provide society with required services. At the end of the last century this attention for effectiveness was shifted towards economic efficiency with the advent of market functioning in utility infrastructures. At this point infrastructure based markets occurred with their own specific properties and associated market rules. Thus, the governmental regulated regime was partly converted into a free market based regime leading to a transition in the governance, operational management and regulation of infrastructures. Read more >>> Programme At the 11th annual international conference on infrastructures scientist, regulators and representatives from industry will present their opinion and discuss the latest observed developments on the governance of infrastructures with transition as main issue. The conference will be a mixture of key notes and workshops on specific topics such as telecom (transition in RF issues), energy and water (transition in energy infrastructures) and institutional arrangements (transition in governance of infrastructures from a political point of view). Special attention will be paid to societal impact of the transitions from a historical perspective. In addition, the coherence between critical technical functions and associated institutional arrangements will be addressed as the effective and efficient use of infrastructures is largely founded on technical functionality. Website: http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=656d6b39-e5df-40fe-a50d-de703adc9e60&lang=nl

Submission deadlines

Imaging
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 Paper submission deadline IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied image and video processing. ICIP 2009, the 16th in the series that has been held annually since 1994, will bring together leading engineers and scientists in image and video processing from around the world. Research frontiers in fields ranging from traditional image processing applications to evolving multimedia and video technologies are regularly advanced by results first reported in ICIP technical sessions. Topics include, but are not limited to: �?� Image/video coding and transmission: Still image coding, video coding, stereoscopic and 3-D coding, distributed source coding, image/video transmission, circuits and architectures. �?� Image/video processing: Image filtering, restoration and enhancement, image segmentation, video segmentation and tracking, morphological processing, stereoscopic and 3-D processing, feature extraction and analysis, interpolation and super-resolution, motion detection and estimation, architecture and systems and prototyping. �?� Image formation: Biomedical imaging, remote sensing, geophysical and seismic imaging, optimal imaging, synthetic-natural hybrid image systems. �?� Image scanning, display, and printing: Scanning and sampling, quantization and half toning, color reproduction, image representation and rendering and display and printing systems. �?� Image/video storage, retrieval, and authentication: Image and video databases, image indexing and retrieval, video indexing, retrieval and editing, multimodality image/video indexing and retrieval, authentication and watermarking. �?� Applications: Biomedical sciences, geosciences and remote sensing, document image processing and analysis, other applications. �?� Emerging technologies: Wireless sensor networks, nanotechnologies,..... Paper Submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than four (4) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Special sessions: Special sessions proposals should be submitted by December 15, 2008, to Prof. Sheila Hemami and Prof. Thrasos Pappas at the conference web site. Proposals for special sessions must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information for the session chair(s), a list of authors who have agreed to present a paper in the session, and a tentative title and abstract of each paper. In addition, each special session should include a tutorial-type introductory presentation to be given at the start of the special session. Tutorial: Tutorials will be held on Satuday, November 7, 2009. Brief proposals should be submitted by January 9, 2009, to Prof. Eli Saber and Prof. David Taubman at the conference web site. Proposal for tutorials must include a title, an outline of the tutorial and its motivation, a two-page CV of the presenter(s), and a short description of the material to be covered. Important Deadlines: Special sessions proposals Due: December 15, 2008 Notification of Special Sessions Acceptance: January 9, 2009 Tutorial Proposals Due: January 9, 2009 Notification of Tutorials Acceptance: February 9, 2009 Submission of Papers: January 30, 2009 Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 22, 2009 Submission of Accepted Camera-Ready Papers: July 3, 2009 Mon Jan 19, 2009 Paper submission deadline ISBI 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical and applied biomedical imaging. ISBI’09 will be the sixth meeting in this series. The previous meetings have played a leading role in facilitating interaction between researchers in medical and biological imaging. The 2009 meeting will continue this tradition of fostering crossfertilization among different imaging communities and contributing to an integrative approach to biomedical imaging across all scales of observation. ISBI 2009 is a joint initiative of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The 2009 meeting will feature an opening afternoon of tutorials and short courses, followed by a scientific program of plenary talks, special sessions, and oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed contributed papers. High-quality papers are solicited containing original contributions to the algorithmic, mathematical, and computational aspects of biomedical imaging, from nano- to macro-scale. Topics of interest include image formation and reconstruction, computational and statistical image processing and analysis, dynamic imaging, visualization, image quality assessment, and physical, biological and statistical modeling. Papers on molecular, cellular, anatomical and functional imaging modalities and applications are welcomed. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium and will be available online through the IEEExplore database. Important dates Deadline for submission of 4-page paper: January 19, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 30, 2009 Submission of final accepted 4-page paper: May 1, 2009 Deadline for early registration: May 1, 2009 Further information is available at: http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/ Fri Nov 28, 2008 Paper submission deadline Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (LNCS) Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart The FIMH 2009 is the Fifth International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. This biennial scientific event aims to integrate the research and development efforts in the field of cardiovascular modeling and image analysis. The main goal is to encourage collaboration between scientists in signal and image processing, imaging, applied mathematics, biophysics, biomedical engineering and computer science, and experts in cardiology, radiology, biology and physiology. FIMH has established itself as a leading international conference on the methodological aspects of Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, and the peer-reviewed accepted articles are published in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science proceedings. Sat Oct 25, 2008 Egmond aan Zee Extended: Deadline BME2009 Wed Oct 15, 2008 abstract submission deadline 2nd Dutch BME Conference 2009 Plenary sessions Some plenary sessions have been planned. Invited speakers will open each session. Parallel sessions Each parallel session will have 5 submitted presentations of 15 minutes each (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion). It is intended that presentations (oral and poster) are about new research results, but also presentations given on previous conferences will be accepted. The presentations should be representative about the research of the group. In the abstract up to 5 references to the work of the research group can be included. Prof.dr.ir. Frans van de Vosse (, Technical University Eindhoven) and prof.dr. Jenny Dankelman (, Delft University of Technology) are the program coordinators. <> Evening Programme: Research market On the evening of January 22 there will be a beer-and-wine party, during which a research market will be organized where research groups and companies can present themselves. Research groups are loosely defined, and can be a department. within a university, or research lines within an institute. It is up to each group. For each research group a table and poster boards will be available.You can bring a beamer and screen, if you want to have e.g. a continuous powerpoint presentation, etc. Prof.dr.ir. Bart Verkerke (, University of Groningen/ University of Twente) and prof.dr.ir. Peter Veltink (, University of Twente) will organize the evening program. Fri Sep 26, 2008 Abstract deadline Highlights in BioMedical Technology Abstract deadline of poster. Symposium of the occasion of the retirement of professor Jan Feijen Thursday, November 20, 2008 Mon Jul 28, 2008 Abstract submission deadline SPIE Medical Imaging 2009 The SPIE Medical Imaging meeting is the internationally recognized premier forum for reporting state-of-the-art research and development in medical imaging. We invite contributions in all aspects of the full range of medical imaging modalities, from the underlying fundamental scientifi c principles to clinical evaluations. The symposium covers a wide range of topics on medical image acquisition, display, processing, understanding, perception, storage, and transmission, including: • imaging physics, systems analysis and modeling • emerging image acquisition technologies (e.g., electrical impedance imaging, microwave imaging, optical tomographic imaging) • molecular imaging • ultrasonic acquisition and processing technologies • magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) • X-ray computed tomography • PET, SPECT and hybrid acquisition systems • image processing and analysis • computer-aided detection and diagnosis • computer-based image analysis and interpretation • display technologies • image-guided therapies • visual rendering of complex datasets • visual perception and observer performance • physiological and functional interpretation of image data • clinical evaluations of new technologies • image data management (storage, retrieval, transmission) • picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). We encourage contributions from you and your colleagues. The SPIE copyright policy grants authors the right to submit their Medical Imaging Proceedings papers to peerreviewed journals or magazines of their choice.

Biometrics
Date/Location	Subject
Fri Jan 30, 2009 Paper submission deadline IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied image and video processing. ICIP 2009, the 16th in the series that has been held annually since 1994, will bring together leading engineers and scientists in image and video processing from around the world. Research frontiers in fields ranging from traditional image processing applications to evolving multimedia and video technologies are regularly advanced by results first reported in ICIP technical sessions. Topics include, but are not limited to: �?� Image/video coding and transmission: Still image coding, video coding, stereoscopic and 3-D coding, distributed source coding, image/video transmission, circuits and architectures. �?� Image/video processing: Image filtering, restoration and enhancement, image segmentation, video segmentation and tracking, morphological processing, stereoscopic and 3-D processing, feature extraction and analysis, interpolation and super-resolution, motion detection and estimation, architecture and systems and prototyping. �?� Image formation: Biomedical imaging, remote sensing, geophysical and seismic imaging, optimal imaging, synthetic-natural hybrid image systems. �?� Image scanning, display, and printing: Scanning and sampling, quantization and half toning, color reproduction, image representation and rendering and display and printing systems. �?� Image/video storage, retrieval, and authentication: Image and video databases, image indexing and retrieval, video indexing, retrieval and editing, multimodality image/video indexing and retrieval, authentication and watermarking. �?� Applications: Biomedical sciences, geosciences and remote sensing, document image processing and analysis, other applications. �?� Emerging technologies: Wireless sensor networks, nanotechnologies,..... Paper Submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than four (4) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Special sessions: Special sessions proposals should be submitted by December 15, 2008, to Prof. Sheila Hemami and Prof. Thrasos Pappas at the conference web site. Proposals for special sessions must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information for the session chair(s), a list of authors who have agreed to present a paper in the session, and a tentative title and abstract of each paper. In addition, each special session should include a tutorial-type introductory presentation to be given at the start of the special session. Tutorial: Tutorials will be held on Satuday, November 7, 2009. Brief proposals should be submitted by January 9, 2009, to Prof. Eli Saber and Prof. David Taubman at the conference web site. Proposal for tutorials must include a title, an outline of the tutorial and its motivation, a two-page CV of the presenter(s), and a short description of the material to be covered. Important Deadlines: Special sessions proposals Due: December 15, 2008 Notification of Special Sessions Acceptance: January 9, 2009 Tutorial Proposals Due: January 9, 2009 Notification of Tutorials Acceptance: February 9, 2009 Submission of Papers: January 30, 2009 Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 22, 2009 Submission of Accepted Camera-Ready Papers: July 3, 2009 Fri Jan 30, 2009 Paper submission deadline IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied image and video processing. ICIP 2009, the 16th in the series that has been held annually since 1994, will bring together leading engineers and scientists in image and video processing from around the world. Research frontiers in fields ranging from traditional image processing applications to evolving multimedia and video technologies are regularly advanced by results first reported in ICIP technical sessions. Topics include, but are not limited to: �?� Image/video coding and transmission: Still image coding, video coding, stereoscopic and 3-D coding, distributed source coding, image/video transmission, circuits and architectures. �?� Image/video processing: Image filtering, restoration and enhancement, image segmentation, video segmentation and tracking, morphological processing, stereoscopic and 3-D processing, feature extraction and analysis, interpolation and super-resolution, motion detection and estimation, architecture and systems and prototyping. �?� Image formation: Biomedical imaging, remote sensing, geophysical and seismic imaging, optimal imaging, synthetic-natural hybrid image systems. �?� Image scanning, display, and printing: Scanning and sampling, quantization and half toning, color reproduction, image representation and rendering and display and printing systems. �?� Image/video storage, retrieval, and authentication: Image and video databases, image indexing and retrieval, video indexing, retrieval and editing, multimodality image/video indexing and retrieval, authentication and watermarking. �?� Applications: Biomedical sciences, geosciences and remote sensing, document image processing and analysis, other applications. �?� Emerging technologies: Wireless sensor networks, nanotechnologies,..... Paper Submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than four (4) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Special sessions: Special sessions proposals should be submitted by December 15, 2008, to Prof. Sheila Hemami and Prof. Thrasos Pappas at the conference web site. Proposals for special sessions must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information for the session chair(s), a list of authors who have agreed to present a paper in the session, and a tentative title and abstract of each paper. In addition, each special session should include a tutorial-type introductory presentation to be given at the start of the special session. Tutorial: Tutorials will be held on Satuday, November 7, 2009. Brief proposals should be submitted by January 9, 2009, to Prof. Eli Saber and Prof. David Taubman at the conference web site. Proposal for tutorials must include a title, an outline of the tutorial and its motivation, a two-page CV of the presenter(s), and a short description of the material to be covered. Important Deadlines: Special sessions proposals Due: December 15, 2008 Notification of Special Sessions Acceptance: January 9, 2009 Tutorial Proposals Due: January 9, 2009 Notification of Tutorials Acceptance: February 9, 2009 Submission of Papers: January 30, 2009 Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 22, 2009 Submission of Accepted Camera-Ready Papers: July 3, 2009 Sat Nov 1, 2008 Paper deadline ICB 2009 IAPR International Conference on Biometrics We are now seeing increasing deployment of biometric systems in many aspects of life, including face, fingerprint, gait and iris recognition systems at airports as well as access to highly secure facilities. Several applications in government, commercial, defense and law enforcement areas have a basic need to automatically identify humans both locally and remotely on a routine basis. The need for high accuracy and broad population coverage has made it necessary to investigate the use of multi-modal biometrics. The intrinsic security of the biometrics systems and the associated privacy concerns have emerged as important research topics. The 3rd International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2009) will bring together leading biometric researchers, system designers, and end users to promote the development of robust solutions to efficient and secure authentication. Suggested topics for presentation include, but are not limited to: Author instructions Prospective authors are requested to submit full length papers (up to 10 pages) in Springer LNCS format, on-line at: http://icb2009.uniss.it Important Dates Paper submission: November 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2008 Final camera-ready copy due: February 1, 2009 Conference format The three days will include: single track podium presentations, keynote talks, panel discussions, poster and demo sessions. Several biometric competitions (monomodal and multi-modal) are also promoted and the results will be announced at a special session of the conference. On-site proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag LNCS series. Best paper awards: The IAPR best biometrics student paper award will be assigned. Other scientific awards will be also presented. Venue: Hotel Carlos V, Alghero, Italy. http://hotelcarlosv.it/index_uk.htm Call for Papers http://icb2009.uniss.it Biometric Technologies • Face • Fingerprint • Gait • Gesture • Hand(palm prints, veins, hand geometry) • Iris • Signature • Speech • Multi-modal biometric fusion Biometric System Design • Architecture • Large scale identification systems • Template selection and update • Smart card • System attacks Performance Evaluation • Confidence interval estimation • Databases • Performance modeling and prediction • Protocols and benchmarking • Sample size requirements • Standards Applications • Access control • Border control & law enforcement • Entertainment • Finance • Healthcare • Intelligent robots • Physical and logical security • RFID Mon Jun 30, 2008 Abstract deadline Prorisc workshop 2008

Acoustics
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Mon Jun 30, 2008 Abstract deadline Prorisc workshop 2008

Wireless Communications
Date/Location	Subject
Fri May 15, 2009 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology special issue on "Achievements and the Road Ahead: The First Decade of Cognitive Radio" CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology “Achievements and the Road Ahead: The First Decade of Cognitive Radio” The paradigm used by regulatory bodies for spectrum management over the last century has been “good fences make good neighbors”. Regulators have on the one hand attached compulsory and detailed transmission guidelines to granted licenses, and on the other hand allocated appropriate guardbands between neighboring frequency bands. Although this approach ensures minimum interference, the growth in the number of wireless applications and technologies has caused frequency allocation tables to become saturated. Moreover, as various measurement campaigns have shown, most of the spectrum is underutilized at any given location. Regulators are therefore considering alternative approaches to spectrum management, such as using market-based mechanisms, introducing technology-neutral licenses, and allowing secondary spectrum usage. Cognitive Radio (CR) is a viable means to increase spectrum utilization through leveraging secondary spectrum access. Upon its conception in 1999, CR was intended to involve RF environment sensing, model-based reasoning, and learning and acting according to this knowledge in order to improve communications aspects. However, two major shifts in the focal point of CR are occurring. The first is a narrower focus on intelligent spectrum utilization, for example through opportunistic/secondary spectrum access. The other major shift is from autonomous CR operation, which is more suitable for ad hoc networking scenarios, to cooperative approaches and structured networking architectures, such as manifested in the IEEE 802.22 standard. This paradigm is generally known as Cognitive Radio Networking (CRN) or Cognitive Wireless Networking (CWN). There is tremendous opportunity to improve spectrum efficiency and QoS through shared utilization. Several IEEE standards groups are working on issues related to spectrum sharing: for instance, IEEE 802.22 is aiming to create Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs) based on CR through the secondary usage of TV bands. In the US, WRANs will opportunistically use the VHF and UHF TV bands between 52 and 862 MHz. IEEE SCC41 efforts are also developing standards for technologies, architectures, and facilitators to realize dynamic spectrum access networks. Furthermore, IEEE 802.16h and IEEE 802.11y are working on interference management and efficient resource allocation in shared (e.g., unlicensed) bands. Coupled with the advantages and flexibility of CR systems and technologies, there is an ever-growing interest around the world in exploiting CR-enabled communications in vehicular and transportation environments. Through the integration of CR and CRN into vehicles and associated infrastructure, Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications, as well as many other emerging “Killer Applications”, can be expected. CR and CRN, based upon enhanced intelligent interactions with the transportation system, interactions among vehicles, and even interactions among radios within vehicles, will help improve radio resource and energy efficiency, road traffic management, network management, vehicular diagnostics, road traffic awareness in applications such as route planning, mobile commerce, and much more. A decade after CR first entered the lexicon of wireless communications, this special issue aims to bring together a comprehensive view of the major achievements and developments in this field. Through critical analysis of the state-of-the-art, further aims are to highlight the significant research challenges that remain in CR and ensuing CRN efforts, to present pioneering solutions to resolve such issues, and to point the way forward regarding the significant potential for CR and CRN to be employed within vehicular domains. In line with such objectives, original, unpublished contributions are solicited in relevant topics, including but not limited to: · CR enhanced Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications, · CR enhanced vehicular ad hoc networks, · CR enhanced radio resource management and QoS support in vehicular environments, · PHY and MAC techniques for CR, · Cognitive radio networking, · Information theoretic analyses of CR, · Interference mitigation in shared spectrum environments, · Security issues for CR, · Software Defined Radio (SDR) and reconfigurability, · Standardization efforts such as IEEE 802.22, IEEE P1900 (SCC41), IEEE 802.16h, etc., · Higher layers and interdisciplinary research on CR (AI, computer vision, neural networks, etc.), · Intelligent radio and cognition cycle considerations, · Coding for CR channels, · Biological-inspired networking for CR, · Study of the applications and social impacts of CR, such as on public safety, · Cooperative networking with shared resources, · Cross-layer designs and architectures for CR, · Beam-forming and MIMO for interference avoidance in the CR context, · Self-organizing networks and autonomic communications, · Policy and policy languages for shared spectrum management, · Spectrum sensing techniques, · Ultra-wideband for spectrum sharing in CR, · Game theoretical analysis for CR. Submission instructions can be found at the site: http://transactions.vtsociety.org/ Timeline: · Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009, · First Review Deadline: August 1, 2009, · Revised Paper Deadline: October 1, 2009, · Second and Final Review Deadline: December 1, 2009, · Revised Manuscript Deadline: January 15, 2010, · Publication: May 2010. Guest Editors: Prof. Joseph Mitola III (Corresponding Guest Editor) Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030-5911, USA E-mail: Dr. Alireza Attar King’s College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK E-mail: Prof. Honggang Zhang Zhejiang University Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China E-mail: Dr. Oliver Holland King’s College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK E-mail: Dr. Hiroshi Harada National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 3-4 Hikarino-Oka, Yokosuka 239-0847, Japan E-mail: Prof. Hamid Aghvami King’s College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK E-mail: Sun Feb 1, 2009 EURASIP Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting :Convergence of Digital TV Systems and Services Call for Papers The migration from analog to digital of the broadcasting technologies, already well-consolidated for satellite systems, is becoming a reality also for terrestrial transmission. The digital terrestrial television (DTT) is also evolving to offer interactive services and a degree of flexibility which can be exploited to offer tailored application to users which includes, for instance, interactivity, different levels of personalization and innovative location-based as well as context-aware services. A clear example of this trend is given by the rising success of the IPTV which allows for a degree of flexibility on the offered services unknown to the other more traditional broadcasting systems. Some satellite operators are starting to launch IPTV services using direct satellite links, moreover some terrestrial internet service providers are offering digital TV channels embedded in the IP streaming over XDSL. Furthermore, IPTV services are likely to be broadcast and wireless, with! the income of new technologies such as WiMAX. Last but not least, TV and broadcast services for mobile users are also being deployed in many countries using DVB-H and will be soon available on an even broader scale thanks to its satellite counterpart, DVB-SH. In the near future, a set of different technologies able to offer personalized and customized services to different classes of users are expected in the area of the wireless broadcasting, and the convergence on technologies is auspicious. This concept entails different levels of convergence, namely, at terminal level (one device fits all), at service level (convergence of traditional fixed, mobile, and broadcast services), at transport and network levels with a common and standardized set of protocols, and at access layer thanks to the harmonic coexistence of different access technologies This special issue aims to promote the state-of-the-art research works on the integration of DTT/satellite/IPTV systems for the broadcasting of multimedia and interactive services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to o Advances in DVB-T/H/SH/T2 system and implementation o System and service for IPTV and Interactive TV o System, service, and implementation of ISDB-T/S, CMMB, T/S-DMB, and MediaFLO o Digital TV with WiMax, LTE, and HSPA o Hybrid cellular/noncellular broadcasting o Source coding for mobile multimedia broadcasting o Channel coding, modulation, and signal processing techniques o Mobile TV and interactive multimedia broadcasting services o Field trials for mobile multimedia broadcasting Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due February 1 , 2009 First Round of Reviews May 1, 2009 Publication Date August 1, 2009 Guest Editors o Maurizio Murroni, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica (DIEE), Università di Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy: o Sandro Scalise, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Communications and Navigation, 17235 Neustrelitz, Germany: o Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, Centro di Ricerca sui Sistemi Elettronici per l'Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni “Ercole De Castro” (ARCES), Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica, Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, 40125 Bologna, Italy: o Sooyoung Kim, College of Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, South Korea: o Robert Briskman, Sirius Satellite Radio, 1221 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10020, USA: If you would like to be removed from the call-for-papers mailinglist of this journal, you may do so by clicking on the following link: http://www.hindawi.com/remove.aspx?j=ijdmb&e= Sun Feb 1, 2009 3GPP LTE and LTE Advanced: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Call for Papers A new cellular standard, termed long-term evolution (LTE) and also referred to as Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA), is currently being defined to replace the UMTS third-generation system. LTE advanced, in turn, refers to the most advanced version of LTE that was initiated a few months ago. LTE represents a radical new step forward for the wireless industry, targeting order-of-magnitude increases in bit rates with respect to its predecessors by means of wider bandwidths and improved spectral efficiency. Beyond the improvement in bit rates, LTE aims to provide a highly efficient, low-latency, packet-optimized radio access technology offering enhanced spectrum flexibility. The LTE design presents radical differences at every layer. Like many other communication technologies (e.g., digital video and audio broadcasting, DSL, wireless LANs), the physical layer uses OFDM waveforms. In terms of radio access, CDMA has given way to time and frequency multiple access. From the onset, MIMO is an integral ingredient in both its single-user and multiuser variants. At the network layer, a flatter architecture is being defined that represents the transition from the existing UTRA network, which combines circuit- and packet-switching, to an all-IP system. The objective of this special issue is to disseminate new advances in both the physical and medium access control layers that are applicable to the LTE and LTE advanced technologies. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to: o Downlink and uplink physical layer design (frame structure, pilots, resource allocation, control channel design) o Downlink and uplink radio access o Downlink and uplink MIMO (single -user and multiuser MIMO, network/cooperative MIMO, very large antenna array MIMO systems, diversity, spatial multiplexing, beamforming and precoding, feedback, virtual MIMO, channel modeling) o Hybrid ARQ, channel coding, and link adaptation o Interference mitigation and fractional frequency reuse o Scheduling and radio resource management o Multimedia broadcast service (broadcast operation and modes, MBMS, single-frequency network operation) o Handover and mobility (interfrequency handover within LTE, intersystem handover between LTE, and other radio access technologies) o Cross-layer optimization techniques o Relays and multihop transmission schemes Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due February 1, 2009 First Round of Reviews May 1, 2009 Publication Date August 1, 2009 Guest Editors o Bruno Clerckx, Communication and Network Laboratory, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics, Yongin-Si 446-712, South Korea: o Angel Lozano, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08002 Barcelona, Spain: o Stefania Sesia, ST-NXP Wireless - SW / FW / Algorithm Group, European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) - Mobile Competence Center, 06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France: o Cornelius van Rensburg, Wireless R&:D Laboratory, Huawei Technologies, Plano, TX 75075, USA: o Constantinos B. Papadias, Broadband Wireless and Sensor Networks, Athens Information Technology, P.O. Box 68, Markopoulo Avenue, Peania 19002, Athens, Greece: Mon Sep 1, 2008 Eurasip journal: Software-Defined Radio and Broadcasting Eurasip journal: Software-Defined Radio and Broadcasting Call for Papers The wireless industry is experiencing an unprecedented increase in number and sophistication of wireless communication and broadcasting systems. As mobile devices are miniaturizing, more functionalities are required every time a new device emerges. Multiple concurrent communication protocols, digital TV, multimedia broadcasting, and navigation all require their own antenna, radio, and baseband processing. This convergence impacts both the cost and the size of the device. Software-defined radios (SDRs), multiband antennas, reconfigurable radios, and cognitive radios offer a programmable and dynamically reconfigurable method of reusing hardware to implement frequency agile communications and broadcasting systems. An SDR-based device can dynamically change protocols and update communications or broadcasting systems over the air as a service provider allows. Digital signal processors (DSPs) are now capable of executing many billions of operations per second at power efficiency levels appropriate for handset deployment. This has brought SDR-based communication and broadcasting to prominence. Promoting state-of-the-art contributions from different research and industrial fields directly involved or applicable in solving the issues and obstacles of frequency agile SDRs is the scope of this special issue. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * SDR with multiband and smart antennas * Theory and algorithm for SDR and software-defined broadcasting (SDB) * Reconfigurable RF * Reconfigurable baseband signal processing * Digital signal processors (DSPs) for SDR and SDB * System-on-chip SDR implementations and complexity analyses * FPGA fabrics for SDR * Radio systems design * SDR applications to communication, IPTV and digital TV * Processor architectures for SDR * Compiler technology and development tools for SDR * Communications system implementations for SDR * Spectrum sensing and spectrum management * Cognitive radio for broadcasting and communication * Standardization on SDR, SDB and cognitive radio * Testbeds and hardware prototypes Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due September 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews December 1, 2008 Publication Date March 1, 2009 Fri Aug 1, 2008 UT Eurasip journal: OFDMA Architectures, Protocols, and Applications OFDMA Architectures, Protocols, and Applications Call for Papers Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) technologies are currently attracting intensive attention in wireless communications to meet the ever-increasing demands arising from the explosive growth of Internet, multimedia, and broadband services. OFDMA-based systems are able to deliver high data rate, operate in the hostile multipath radio environment, and allow efficient sharing of limited resources such as spectrum and transmit power between multiple users. OFDMA has been used in the mobility mode of IEEE 802.16 WiMAX, is currently a working specification in 3GPP Long Term Evolution downlink, and is the candidate access method for the IEEE 802.22 “wireless regional area networks”. Clearly, recent advances in wireless communication technology have led to significant innovations that enable OFDMA-based wireless access networks to provide better quality-of-service (QoS) than ever with convenient and inexpensive deployment and mobility. However, regardless of the technology used, OFDMA networks must not only be able to provide reliable and high quality broadband services, but also be implemented cost-effectively and be operated efficiently. OFDMA presents many of the advantages and challenges of OFDM systems for single users, and the extension to multiple users introduces many further challenges and opportunities, both on the physical layer and at higher layers. These requirements present many challenges in the design of network architectures and protocols, which have motivated a significant amount of research in the area. Also, many critical problems associated with the applications of OFDMA technologies in future wireless systems are still looking for efficient solutions. The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers that report the latest research advances in this field from physical and network layers to practical applications. Original papers are solicited in all aspects of OFDMA techniques including physical layer issues, architectures, protocol designs, enabling technologies, theoretical studies, practical applications, and experimental prototypes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive coding and modulation * Signal processing for OFDMA * Interference control techniques * Bandwidth and resources allocation * Efficient MAC protocol development * Routing algorithms and congestion control schemes * MAC and network layer management * Cross-layer design and optimization * Cooperative and game theoretic analysis * Quality of service provisioning * Network modeling and performance analysis * Security and privacy management * Broadband Wireless Access * Testbed, experiment, implementation, standards, and practical applications Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due August 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews November 1, 2008 Publication Date February 1, 2009 Fri Aug 1, 2008 UT Eurasip journal: Advances in Propagation Modelling for Wireless Systems Eurasip journal: Advances in Propagation Modelling for Wireless Systems Call for Papers The true challenge for new communication technologies is to ‘make the thing work’ in real-world wireless channels. System designers classically focus on the impact of the radio channel on the received signals and use propagation models for testing and evaluation of receiver designs and transmission schemes. Yet, the needs for such models evolve as new applications emerge with different bandwidths, terminal mobility, higher carrier frequencies, new antennas, and so forth. Furthermore, channel characterization also yields the fundamental ties to classical electromagnetics and physics, as well as the answers to some crucial questions in communication and information theory. In particular, it is of outstanding importance for designing transmission schemes which are efficient in terms of power or spectrum management. The objective of this special issue is to highlight the most recent advances in the area of propagation measurement and modeling. Original and research articles are solicited in all aspects of propagation, including experimental characterization, channel sounding, theoretical modeling, hardware emulation and new communication technologies. Topics include, but are not limited to: * 4G channel measurements and modeling * Fixed wireless access (including outdoor-to-indoor) * UWB propagation * 60 GHz channel measurements and modeling * Propagation models for wireless sensor networks, including RFIDs * Spectrum sensing and channel prediction for cognitive radio * Intra/inter vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure channel characterization * Body area propagation modeling * Double-directional and MIMO channels * Multiuser MIMO channels * Multi-hop and cooperative channels * Polarimetric channels * Shadowing correlation modeling * Temporal variations in wireless channels * Frequency and range dependence of parameters * High-resolution algorithms for parameter extraction * Channel prediction and tracking * Numerical methods in wireless channel modeling * Advances in channel emulation and sounding Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due August 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews November 1, 2008 Publication Date February 1, 2009

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