ISSN: 2519-8432
ISBN: 978-1-61208-858-7

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• Free Access: in ThinkMind Digital Library

SIGNAL 2021 is colocated with the following events as part of InfoSys 2021 Congress:

• ICNS 2021, The Seventeenth International Conference on Networking and Services
• ICAS 2021, The Seventeenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
• ENERGY 2021, The Eleventh International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies
• WEB 2021, The Ninth International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments
• DBKDA 2021, The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications
• SIGNAL 2021, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing
• BIOTECHNO 2021, The Thirteenth International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies

SIGNAL 2021 Steering Committee

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

SIGNAL 2021 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)

Agricultural signal applications
Agriculture systems; Sensing and monitoring ecological agriculture; Food security (Food safety, Traceability, Food value chain); Bioinformatics (Agricultural data, Livestock genetics, Big Data, etc.); Bio-sensing (Soil, Atmosphere, Culture monitoring, Livestock environment); Plasma, Micro Nano Bubble application to Agriculture; Field robotics (Drones, Field labor robotics, Robots-driven livestock care)

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).