ISSN: 2519-8432
ISBN: 978-1-61208-791-7

• Registered: with the Library of Congress of the United States of America (ISSN)
• Free Access: in ThinkMind Digital Library

SIGNAL 2020 is colocated with the following events as part of InfoSys 2020 Congress:

• ICNS 2020, The Sixteenth International Conference on Networking and Services
• ICAS 2020, The Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
• ENERGY 2020, The Tenth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies
• WEB 2020, The Eighth International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments
• DBKDA 2020, The Twelfth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications
• SIGNAL 2020, The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing
• BIOTECHNO 2020, The Twelfth International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies

SIGNAL 2020 Steering Committee

		Constantin Paleologu Polytechnic University of Bucharest Romania			Pavel Loskot Swansea University UK
		Wilfried Uhring Université de Strasbourg France			Sergey Y. Yurish Excelera, S. L. | IFSA Spain
		Jérôme Gilles San Diego State University USA

SIGNAL 2020 conference tracks:

Architectures and frameworks
Signal processing architectures; Hardware and software for signal, image and video processing; Biosignal acquisition, transmission, processing, and analysis; Compressive sensing (sparse sampling); Deep learning (graphical inference algorithms); High speed video acquisition, architecture and processing; Real-time signal architectures for image and video processing; Distributed Iinformation processing, transmission and storage over networks; High speed signal processing and architectures; Big Iimage processing and analytics in multimedia tools and applications;

Signal processing theory and methods
Embedded signal processing; Signal and information processing on graphs; Audio and acoustic signal processing; Digital and multirate signal processing; Image and video processing; Multi-camera imaging; Speech and language processing; Multimedia signal processing; Signal processing for communications; Statistical signal processing; Sensor array and multi-channel signal processing; Machine learning, feature detections, bio-inspired techniques; Pattern recognition; Social learning models, Bayesian signal processing; Cognitive information processing; Biometric analysis, forensic analysis watermarking and security; Processing signal, image and video collections; Implementation of signal, image and video processing systems

High speed signal processing: integrating 5G and IoT with satellite networks
mmWave communications; Very high speed camera; High speed flying sensors; 6G - integrating 5G with satellite networks; Ultra-fast access signal processing; Satellite-to-satellite communications; Sea-to-space communications;  Point-to-point wireless communication networks;  Super-fast broadband signals; High speed optical broadcasting fibers lines; High data rates; Ultra fast access of Internet; Full home automation and home applications; Smart homes and cities; Global energy sources; Space and defense 6G-oriented technologies; Integrated satellite-to-satellite communications; Monitoring/driving natural calamities; Sea-to-Space communications; Nano antennas; Point-to-point wireless communication networks; Space roaming; Earth observation (backhaul link); Space observation (backhaul link); Small cells (cover zones without Internet); Space-IoT (monitoring sensors);  Standard adaptation to 6G for handoff and roaming challenges (GPS, Galileo, COMPASS, GLONASS)

Signal/image metrics
Aesthetic quality assessment; Visual aesthetic; Image quality assessment; Blind noise assessment; Perceptual evaluation; Automatic segmentation; Perceptual video compression; Perceptual transparency; Energy-based segmentation; Ultrasound image segmentation; Photon-limited imaging; Processing demosaiced images; Image restauration; Image colorization; Image denoising; Image deconvolution; Random sampling; Semantic segmentation;  Sparse imaging; Dense image arrays; Distortion visibility; Depth upsampling; Infrared, multispectral  and hyperspectral imaging;  Image inpainting; Patch matching; Image Stitching;

Features and models for images/signals
3D Quality assessment models; Adaptive smoothing;  Background subtraction;  Probabilistic illumination models; Cumulative orientation features; Efficient video saliency; Deep convolutional networks; Edge-aware filters; Prediction inaccuracy modeling; Temporal predictions; Interactive multiview videos; Video authentication; Multi-modal images;  Image mosaicking; Image fusion; Low-contrast images; Adaptive pixel transfer; Omnidirectional imaging; Superpixels and adaptive superpixels; Unsupervised segmentation; Edge detection; Morphological profiles

Image/signal computation and services
Computational imaging; Biological imaging; Visual saliency; Computational photography; Perceptual metrics; 3D Data analysis; Visual content analysis; Video retrieval; Videoconfences; Healthcare exercising signals;  3D Virtual views; Measuring seismic images; Landmark detection; Aerial images; Motion recognition; Object tracking; Crowd scenes; Satellite images; Visual media compression; Adaptive quantization; SDN for videos; Scene analysis; Scene recognition; Anomaly detection; High quality streaming media; Detecting urban roads; Action recognition; Lenses; Plenoptic cameras; Curvature detection; Normalized cuts and geodesics;

Special signal, image and video processing applications/domains
Big data collection, retrieval, analysis; Cyber-physical systems; Energy and smart Grid; Monitoring and control systems; Wireless and Internet of Things; Sensors and Body networks; Healthcare and citizen wellbeing; Transportation systems; 5G communications Networks and mm-Wave Systems; Cognitive radio networks; Cyber-physical security; Social networks and finance applications, etc.

Hands-free speech communication and microphone arrays
Acoustic scene analysis; Acoustic event detection; Dereverberation; Echo cancellation; Noise suppression; Hearing aids; Microphone array technology and architectures; Source localization and separation; Spatial audio for immersive environments; Speech acquisition; Speech and speaker recognition technology; Speech and audio quality assessment; Privacy of speech communications, etc.

Wearable sensor signal processing
Signal pre-processing algorithms; Physiological parameter monitoring; Noise reduction; Feature extraction and classification; Off-line bio-signal processing; Real-time processing of sensor signals; Bio-mechanical feedback for diagnosis and rehabilitation; Static and dynamic calibration; Signal processing to improve sensor precision and accuracy; Time-efficient and power-efficient algorithms for big data; Sensor data fusion and integration; Body-area sensor networks: real-time communication and synchronization; Gesture and movement pattern recognition; Motion/Gait tracking, recognition, and analysis; Motion segmentation and evaluation; Wearable prototypes in human-centric experiments, etc.

Deadlines:

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).