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ISSPA '99
Fifth International Symposium on 
Signal Processing and its Applications 

August 22-25, 1999
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Brisbane, Australia

http://www.sprc.qut.edu.au/isspa99/

Plenary and tutorial sessions given by leading reseachers.  Further
details available on the conference webpage.


Dr. B. H. Juang
Bell Labs
USA 

Dr. Juang is a Fellow of the IEEE and is currently the Head, Acoustics
& Speech Research Department, Multimedia Communications Research
Laboratory, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories. He has been with
Bell Labs since 1982. Research activities at Bell Labs have covered a
wide range of communication related research activities from speech
coding and speech recognition to multimedia communication.  Prior
research areas covered vocal tract modeling and signal and
speechrelated topics.

Dr. Juang has published extensively and holds numerous patents in the
area of speech communication and communication services. He
co-authored the book: Fundamentals of Speech Recognition. Dr. Juang
currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Speech
and Audio Processing and also serves as an associate editor for
several publications. The Signal Processing Society awarded him the
Senior Paper Award (1993-1994) and the Signal Processing Magazine
Award (1994). In 1997, he received the Bell Labs President's Gold
Award for leading the effort in automatic speech recognition.


Professor Y. Attikiouzel AM
Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems
Australia 

Professor Yianni Attikiouzel AM graduated with a B.Sc. (1st Cl Hons)
(1969) in Electrical Engineering and PhD (1972) from the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
for research into the application of ANN and community service.  and a
fellow of Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (USA), the
Institution of Engineers, Australia, and the Institution of Electrical
Engineers (UK). He is the Director of Centre for Intelligent
Information Processing Systems. His expertise is in the area of
Digital Signal Processing ,Artificial Neural Networks, Image
Processing, Speech Processing and Biomedical
Engineering. Prof. Attikiouzel has published over 200 research papers
and 3 books.


Professor B. S. Atal
AT&T Labs
Florham Park, NJ
USA 

Bishnu S. Atal is a Technology Director at the AT&T Shannon Labs,
Florham Park, New Jersey, where he is engaged in research in speech
coding and in automatic speech recognition. Bishnu S. Atal joined AT&T
Labs in January 1997. Previously he was the Head of the Acoustics and
Audio Communication Research Department at Bell Laboratories, Murray
Hill, N.J. He had been with Bell Laboratories since 1961 and his
research there has covered a wide range of topics in acoustics and
speech processing. His pioneering work in linear predictive coding of
speech established linear prediction as one of the most important
speech analysis techniques leading to many applications in coding,
recognition and synthesis of speech. He was made a Bell Laboratories
Fellow in 1994 and an AT&T Fellow in 1997. He was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering in 1987, and to the National Academy
of Sciences in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of
America and the IEEE. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Award in 1993 for contributions to linear prediction of speech,
multipulse and code-excited source coding and the 1975 IEEE ASSP
Society Technical Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to
linear predictive coding of speech signals. He is the recipient of the
IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984 and the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial
Field Award in 1986 for his pioneering contributions to linear
predictive coding for speech processing. He received the 1994 Thomas
Edison Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey.


Dr A. Mertins
University of Wollongong
Australia 

Alfred Mertins received his Diplomingenieur degree from the University
of Paderborn, Germany, in 1984, the Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical
Engineering and the Dr.-Ing. habil. degree in Telecommunications from
the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, in 1991 and 1994,
respectively. From 1986 to 1991 he was with the Hamburg University of
Technology, Germany, from 1991 to 1995 with the Microelectronics
Applications Center Hamburg, Germany, from 1996 to 1997 with the
University of Kiel, Germany, and from 1997 to 1998 with the University
of Western Australia. In Hamburg and Kiel he gave lectures on Digital
Telecommunications, Multirate Signal Processing, and Stochastic Signal
Analysis. In September 1998 he joined the University of Wollongong. He
is the author of the recently published book ``Signal Analysis:
Wavelets, Filter Banks, Time-Frequency Transforms and Applications'',
John Wiley & Sons., Chichester, 1999. His research interests include
Image and Video Processing, Wavelets and Filter Banks, and Digital
Communications.


Dr M. Deriche
Queensland University of Technology
Australia 

Mohamed Deriche received his first degree, the "Ingenieur D'Etat en
Electronique" from the national Polytechnic School of Algeria in
1994. from 1986 to 1991, he was at University of Minnesota where he
completed both the Master and PhD on Fractal Signal Processing.  After
working for one year at the Department of Radiology at University of
Minesota as Research Fellow, he joined in 1994 the School of
Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering at Queensland University
of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.  He is currently a Senior
Lecturer and the Acting Director for the Signal Processing Research
Centre.  Dr. Deriche has published over seventy refereed papers in the
area of Multiscal Signal Procesing.  He has given invited lectures on
the topic, and has organized several invited sessions.  His research
interests include speech, audio, and image compression using Wavlets,
fractal signal processing, and biomedical signal processing using
Wavelets.


Professor B. Boashash
Queensland University of Technology
Australia 

Dr Boualem Boashash is a professor of signal processing and director
of Signal Processing Research Centre at Queensland University of
Technology. He was a research engineer and then senior lecturer in
France until 1983. From 1984 until 1991, he was at the University of
Queensland. In 1989, he was also appointed Professor of Signal
Processing at Bond University. Since 1991, he is at QUT, as professor
of signal processing and director of Signal Processing Research
Centre. He has published over 200 internationally refereed technical
publications. He was the 1994 ICASSP technical chairman and he is the
chairman of ISSPA.


Professor H. Hermansky
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
Portland, Oregon
USA 

Hynek Hermansky is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI) in Portland, Oregon, and a
Senior Research Scientist at the International Computer Science
Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California.  He has been working in
speech processing for over 20 years, previously as a research fellow
at the University of Tokyo, a Research Engineer at Panasonic
Technologies in Santa Barbara, California, and as a Senior Member of
Research Staff at U S WEST Advanced Technologies.  He holds
Dr.Eng. degree from the University of Tokyo.  His main research
interests are in acoustic processing for speech and speaker
recognition and in improvements of quality and intelligibility of
degraded speech.


Professor A. Alwan
University of California at Los Angelos (UCLA)
USA 

Abeer Alwan graduated from the EECS Department at MIT in 1992.  Since
then, she has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA
as an Assistant Professor (1992-1996) and Associate
Professor(1996-present).  She is currently the chair of the Signal
Processing major field there, and is a member of the faculty advisory
committee for the UCLA Biomedical Engineering Program.  She is the
recipient of the NSF Research Initiation and CAREER Awards (93 and 95,
respectively), the NIH FIRST Career Development Award (94), the
UCLA-TRW Excellence in Teaching Award (94), and the Okawa Foundation
Award in Telecommunications (1997).  She is a member of the IEEE Signal
Processing Technical Committees on Speech Processing, and on Audio and
Electroacoustics, and of the Acoustical Society of America Technical
Committee on Speech Communication.


Associate Professor E. S. Ebbini
University of Minnesota
USA 

Emad S. Ebbini is an associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ebbini obtained his
B.Sc. from the University of Jordan, and the M.S. and Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, all in electrical
engineering. From 1990 till 1998, was on the faculty in the Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of
Michigan. Since 1992, he has been primarily interested in image-guided
thermal surgery and real-time 3D ultrasonic imaging for image
guidance. In 1993, he won the Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation for his work on ultrasound phased arrays
for imaging and therapy. More recently, Dr. Ebbini has developed new
imaging method for true real-time 3D imaging utilizing postbeamforming
filter banks for parallel processing of image lines. In the context of
image-guided thermal surgery, he has introduced and demonstrated, with
the help of his graduate students at the University of Michigan, a new
noninvasive 2D temperature imaging method. The method relies on
advanced 2D complex correlation methods of baseband data for speckle
tracking.  Currently, he is interested in real-time intramodailty and
intermodality image registration techniques, motion tracking of
speckle imagery, and 3D imaging with pseudorandomly fed 2D
arrays. Since 1995, he has given over 15 invited talks and tutorials
on different aspects of image-guided noninvasive surgery with
ultrasound phased array at various national and international meetings
on ultrasonics.  Dr. Ebbini is a member of the IEEE, Acoustical Society
of America, and SPIE.


Dr. J. Fridrich
State University of New York
USA

Dr. Fridrich has a joint appointment as senior Research Scientist with
the Center for Intelligent Systems at State University of New York in
Binghamton and Mission Research Corporation in Albuquerque. He has
received his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Czech Technical
University in Prague in 1987 and his Ph.D. Degree in Systems Science
from SUNY Binghamton in 1995. His main research interests are in the
area of data hiding in digital images for covert communication using
digital imagery, digital watermarking of images, copyright protection
of electronic data, tamper detection in digital imagery, and secure
image encryption.  His research work has recently generated five US
patent applications in the field of image encryption and data
hiding. Dr. Fridrich's research has been supported by numerous
research grants worth over $2mil.