IEEE SAM 2016

Welcome to Rio de Janeiro! - The workshop will be held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, located in Gávea, in a superb area surrounded by beaches, mountains and the Tijuca National Forest, the world's largest urban forest. Rio de Janeiro is a world renowned city for its culture, beautiful landscapes, numerous tourist attractions and international cuisine. The workshop will take place during the first half of July about a month before the 2016 Summer Olympic Games when Rio will offer plenty of cultural activities and festivities, which will make SAM 2016 a memorable experience.

Research Areas

Authors are invited to submit contributions in the following areas:

Adaptive beamforming
Array processing for biomedical applications
Array processing for communications
Big data
Blind source separation and channel identification
Computational and optimization techniques
Compressive sensing and sparsity-based signal processing
Detection and estimation
Direction-of-arrival estimation
Distributed and adaptive signal processing
Intelligent systems and knowledge-based signal processing
Microphone and loudspeaker array applications
MIMO radar
Multi-antenna systems: multiuser MIMO, massive MIMO and space-time coding
Multi-channel imaging and hyperspectral processing
Multi-sensor processing for smart grid and energy
Non-Gaussian, nonlinear, and non-stationary models
Optimization techniques
Performance evaluations with experimental data
Radar and sonar array processing
Sensor networks
Source Localization, classification and tracking
Synthetic aperture techniques
Space-time adaptive processing
Statistical modelling for sensor arrays
Tensor signal processing
Waveform diverse sensors and systems

Submission of papers - Full-length papers with 4 pages of content and 1 extra page only for references should be electronically submitted.

Submission of Signal Processing Letters papers - Authors of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) papers will be given the opportunity to present their work at SAM 2016, subject to space availability and approval by the Technical Program Chairs. SPL papers published between 1st June, 2015 and 31st May, 2016 are eligible for presentation at SAM 2016. Requests for presentation of SPL papers should be made by emailing the Technical Program Chairs by 31st May, 2016. Approved requests for presentation must have one author/presenter registered for SAM 2016.

Special session proposals - They should be submitted by e-mail to the Technical Program Chairs and the Special Sessions Chair by 5th February, 2016, and include a title, rationale, session outline, contact information and list of invited speakers. Download the special session proposal form.

Tutorial proposals - They should be submitted by e-mail to the Technical Program Chairs and the General Chairs and include a title, rationale, outline of the content and contact information by 29th January, 2016.

Student grants - The IEEE SAM 2016 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce student grants to support attendance of student authors to the event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to up to 8 applicants who need financial support to attend IEEE SAM 2016. The grants consist of free student registration and accommodation for up to 5 nights at a hostel near PUC-Rio. The grants are subject to a full registration (possibly by the supervisor) covering the paper. Note that the recipients would need to obtain funds for travel from other sources. The deadline to submit a grant application is 26th February, 2016. Please send your grant request to Rodrigo de Lamare (delamare@cetuc.puc-rio.br) with:

- A brief letter from your supervisor providing your status (M.S., Ph.D., year of study) and the need for the support;

- The paper number(s) on which you are an author or a co-author;

When applying for the student grant, please use the subject [IEEE SAM 2016 Student Grant] in your email for grant request.

IEEE SPS student travel grants - The IEEE SAM 2016 Organizing Committee will also coordinate the selection of IEEE SPS student travel grants to support attendance of student authors to the event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The grants will be awarded on a competitive basis to up to 5 applicants who need financial support to attend IEEE SAM 2016. The grants consist of an amount paid to the a student in a local currency. Note that the applicants must be IEEE SPS student members. The deadline to submit a grant application is 31st March, 2016. Please send your grant request to Rodrigo de Lamare (delamare@cetuc.puc-rio.br) with:

- A brief letter from your supervisor providing your status (M.S., Ph.D., year of study) and the need for the support;

- The paper number(s) on which you are an author or a co-author;

When applying for the student grant, please use the subject [IEEE SAM 2016 SPS Student Travel Grant] in your email for grant request.