Topics include but are not limited to:

• Signal and information processing for

  • communications and networks, including green communications

  • optical communications

  • forensics and security

  • finance

  • energy and power systems (e.g., smart grid)

  • genomics and bioengineering (physiological, pharmacological and behavioral)

  • neural networks, including deep learning

• Image and video processing

• Selected topics in speech processing and human language technologies

• Human machine interfaces

• Multimedia transmission, indexing, retrieval, and quality of experience

• Selected topics in statistical signal processing

• Cognitive communications and radar

• Graph-theoretic signal processing

• Machine learning

• Compressed sensing and sparsity aware processing

• Seismic signal processing

• Big data and social media challenges

• Hardware and real-time implementations

• Other (industrial) emerging applications of signal and information processing.