Topics include but are not limited to:

• Signal processing in communications and networks, including green communication, and signal processing in massive MIMO and millimeter-wave technology

• Big data signal processing

• Signal processing in information secrecy, privacy and security

• Information forensics

• Image and video processing

• Selected topics in speech and language processing

• Signal processing in finance

• Signal processing in energy and power systems

• Signal processing in genomics and bioengineering

• Selected topics in statistical signal processing

• Graph-theoretic signal processing

• Machine learning

• Compressed sensing, sparsity analysis and applications

• Music and multimedia transmission, indexing and retrieval, and playback challenges

• Real-time DSP implementations

• Other novel and significant applications of selected areas of signal processing