The IEEE 16th Signal Processing, Communication and Applications Conference will be held on April 20-22 by Middle East Technical University in Didyma, Aydin, Turkey. The conference will host special and regular sessions on aspects of signal processing and communications.

The official language of the conference is Turkish. All submitted papers and presentations are expected to be in Turkish. Please contact siu2008@ii.metu.edu.tr if you need further information.

Important Dates

Deadline for proposals of special sessions	: Closed
Submission of first draft of the full paper	: Closed
Announcement of acceptance	: February 19, 2008
Deadline for early registration	: March 7, 2008
Submission of camera-ready papers	: March 7, 2008
Conference Dates	: 20-22 April, 2008

Conference Topics

Signal Processing

S1. Theory of Signal Processing S2. Statistical Signal Processing S3. Multimedia Signal Processing S4. Biomedical Signal Processing S5. Sensor Networks and Array Signal Processing S6. Multiresolution and Multirate Signal Processing S7. Pattern Recognition S8. Computer Vision S9. Adaptive Filters

S10. Image/Video/Speech Browsing, Retrieval and Watermarking S11. Speech and Audio Coding S12. Speech Processing and Recognition S13. Human ~ Machine Interfaces S14. Surveillance Signal Processing S15. Bioinformatics S16. Self Learning for Signal Processing S17. Signal Processing Education S18. Signal Processing Systems S19. Other Related Topics

Communications

I1. Theory of Communications I2. Communications Networks I3. Wireless Communications I4. Multimedia Communications I5. Source and Channel Coding

I6. Antennas I7. Channel Modeling, Estimation and Equalization I8. MI/MO Communications I9. Wideband Communications I10. Other Related Subjects