Special Sessions

SS-1: Statistical Inferences on Nonlinear Manifolds with Applications in Signal and Image Processing

Organized by: Anuj Srivastava

SS-2: Audio Source Separation with CASA and ICA

Organized by: Shoji Makino and Hiroshi Sawada

SS-3: Convex Optimization Methods for Signal Processing and Communications

Organized by: Yonina Eldar

SS-4: Algebra and Ceometry: The Search for Structure in Signal Processing

Organized by: Jonathan H. Manton and José M. F. Moura

SS-5: Dealing with Intrinsic Speech Variabilities in ASR

Organized by: S. Dupont

SS-6: Task-driven Sensing and Distributed Processing

Organized by: Pascal Frossard and Olivier Verscheure

SS-7: Recent Advances in Multimodal User Authentication

Organized by: Jean-Claude Junqua and Bernadette Dorizzi

SS-8: Advanced Methods for Mapping Brain Functions from Functional MRI Datasets

Organized by: Philippe Ciuciu

SS-9: Waveform Diverse Sensors and Systems

Organized by: Muralidhar Rangaswamy and Arye Nehorai

SS-10: Sensing Reality and Communicating Bits

Organized by: Martin Vetterli, Michael Gastpar, and Pier Dragotti

SS-11: Image Formation and Analysis for Molecular and Cellular Imaging

Organized by: Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

SS-12: Hyperspectral Signal Processing

Organized by: Pramod Varshney and Raghuveer Rao

SS-13: Speech Translation for Cross-Lingual Communication

Organized by: Yuqing Gao, Kristin Precoda, and Giuseppe Riccardi