Special Sessions

APSIPA ASC 2019 features a special sessions track for emerging research topics that will run throughout the conference in parallel to other tracks. Special sessions provide the opportunity for a more in-depth look at the subject matter presented. APSIPA ASC 2019 strongly encourages organization of Special Sessions to complement regular programs and to help bring together leading researchers and engineers from around the world to present the state-of-the-art research works. Special Session proposals may cover topics that relate to regular technical program tracks of APSIPA ASC 2019, but are not limited to those. Proposals will be reviewed by the special session committee based on the relevance, innovation, content and quality. All papers submitted to the special sessions will go through the same review process as regular papers. The special session organizers and all invited speakers will be required to register for the conference.

Special Session List

No. Target track Name Organizer Contact
1 BioSiPS Signal Processing in Behavior Analysis Kazushi Ikeda, Li-Wei Kang kazushi@is.naist.jp
2 IVM Advanced Topics on High-dimensional Data Analytics and Processing Supavadee Aramvith, Shogo Muramatsu supavadee.a@chula.ac.th, shogo@eng.niigata-u.ac.jp
3 IVM Technologies for A Maximized Experience of Multi-dimensional Content: from 2D, 3D Modeling to An Objective Assessment Sanghoon Lee, Chia-Hung Yeh slee@yonsei.ac.kr, chyeh@ntnu.edu.tw
4 IVM Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence Chern Hong Lim, Mei Kuan Lim lim.chernhong@monash.edu
5 IVM High Performance Image and Video Processing and Applications Kosin Chamnongthai kosin.cha@kmutt.ac.th, kosin.chamnongthai.2017@gmail.com
6 IVM Multi-source Data Processing and Analysis: Models, Methods and Applications Ping Han, Qiuping Jiang, Runmin Cong, Chongyi Li runmincong@gmail.com
7 Machine Learning Machine Learning for Small-sample Data Analysis Zhanyu Ma, Jen-Tzung Chien, Ruiping Wang, Xiaoxu Li mazhanyu@gmail.com
8 MSF Recent Advances in Fingerprinting and Data Hiding Minoru Kuribayashi, David Megías Jiménez kminoru@okayama-u.ac.jp
9 MSF Signal Processing for Big data and Its Security Yuhong Liu yhliu@scu.edu
10 MSF Information Security for Digital Content Xiangui Kang, KokSheik Wong,Linna Zhou isskxg@mail.sysu.edu.cn, wong.koksheik@monash.edu, zhoulinna@tsinghua.edu.cn
11 MSF Deep Generative Models for Media Clones and Its Detection Fuming Fang, Zhenzhong Kuang , Xin Wang fang@nii.ac.jp, zzkuang@nanase.comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp, wangxin@nii.ac.jp
12 MSF Recent Advances in Biometric Security Koichi Ito, Tetsushi Ohki ito@aoki.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp, ohki@inf.shizuoka.ac.jp
13 SIPTM Recent Trends in Signal Processing & Machine Learning - Acoustic & Biomedical Applications Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Felix Albu, Akhtar, Muhammad Tahir knishikawa@m.ieice.org, felix.albu@valahia.ro, akhtar@ieee.org
14 SIPTM Latest Progress on Fractional Signal Processing Theory and Applications Bing-Zhao Li, Xiaolong Chen,Yong Guo li_bingzhao@bit.edu.cn
15 SIPTM Special Learning under Limited Samples Scenarios Ganggang Dong, Yinghua Wang dongganggang@xidian.edu.cn
16 SIPTM Signal Processing for Crowd Science H. Vicky Zhao, Yan Chen vzhao@tsinghua.edu.cn
17 SLA Recent Advances in Speaker Recognition, Speaker Diarization and Language Recognition Qingyang Hong, Lin Li qyhong@xmu.edu.cn, lilin@xmu.edu.cn
18 SLA Robust Rich Audio Analysis Xiao-Lei Zhang xiaolei.zhang@nwpu.edu.cn
19 SLA Advanced Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Audio and Speech Applications Shoji Makino, Hiroshi Saruwatari maki@tara.tsukuba.ac.jp, hiroshi_saruwatari@ipc.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp
20 SLA Multilingual Speech and Language Processing Zhiyuan Tang, Dong Wang, GuanyuLi, Mijiti Ablimit tangzy@cslt.org, wangdong99@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn, guanyu-li@163.com, mijit@xju.edu.cn
21 SLA Second Language Speech Perception and Production Ying Chen, Jian Gong ychen@njust.edu.cn
22 SLA Recent Topics on Signal and Information Processing for Active Control of Sound Yoshinobu Kajikawai, Chuang Shi kaji@kansai-u.ac.jp, shichuang@uestc.edu.cn
23 SPS Advanced Signal Processing for 5G Communication Na Chen, Minoru Okada chenna@is.naist.jp, 381725806@qq.com
24 SPS Lightweight Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Embedded Applications Hakaru Tamukoh, Hiroshi Tsutsui tamukoh@brain.kyutech.ac.jp, hiroshi.tsutsui@ist.hokudai.ac.jp
25 SPS High Performance Video Processing and Image Identification Junyong Deng djy@xupt.edu.cn
26 SPS Deep Learning Systems for Cloud, Fog, and Edge Computing, and Applications Jia-Ching Wang jcw@csie.ncu.edu.tw
27 WCN Physical and Wireless Environment Recognition Based on Signal Processing Osamu Takyu takyu@shinshu-u.ac.jp
28 WCN Convergence of 5G with SDN/NFV/Cloud Po-Chiang Lin, Wen-Ping Lai pclin@saturn.yzu.edu.tw, wpl@saturn.yzu.edu.tw

Important Dates

Submission of Proposals for Special Sessions May 1, 2019   May 20, 2019
Notification of Proposal Acceptance May 8, 2019   May 26, 2019
Submission of Papers in Special Sessions June 1, 2019   June 30, 2019
Notification of Paper Acceptance July 31, 2019   August 2, 2019

If you have any questions regarding the Special Session, please send E-mail to Special Session co-chairs at specialsessions@apsipa2019.org.

Special Session co-chairs: Qin Jin, Yoshinobu Kajikawa, Chung-Nan Lee, Lap Pui Chau, Hsin-Min Wang, Kosin Chamnongthai, and Askar Hamdulla.