Special Sessions

A series of six special sessions will cover important topics within our society, chaired by selected specialists on each topic.

Beyond Toy Problems:
Real World Signal Processing Applications Using Neural Networks.
Jan Larsen, Technical Univ. of Denmark (NNSP TC)
Signal Processing with Sparseness Constraint.
Bhaskar D. Rao (UCSD) and Y. Bresler (UIUC), (DSP TC)
Signal Processing in Modern Multimedia Standards.
Tsuhan Chen (CMU), (MMSP TC)
Joern Ostermann (Bell Labs Research)
On Advancing from Speech Recognition Toward Speech Understanding: the Research Challenge.
Joe Picone (Mississippi State Univ.)
George Doddington (SRI International) (Speech TC)
Multimedia DSP Processors.
Wanda Gass (TI), Peter Pirsch (Univ. of Hannover),
Takao Nishitani (NEC), (DISP TC)
Future Directions in Signal Processing Education.
Robert E Bogner (Univ. of Adelaide),
Standing Committee on Education