ISSPA 2007 marks the 20th anniversary of launching the first ISSPA in 1987 in Brisbane, Australia.  Since its inception, 
ISSPA has provided, through a series of 8 symposia, a high  quality forum for engineers and scientists engaged in 
research and development of Signal and Image Processing theory and applications. Effective 2007, ISSPA will extend its 
scope to add the new track of information sciences. Hence, the intention that the previous full name of ISSPA is replaced 
after 2007 by the following new full name:

International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and their Applications. ISSPA is an IEEE indexed conference.
 
ISSPA 2007 will be organized by three prominent institutions located in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates: 
University of Sharjah, American University of Sharjah, and Etisalat University College.
 
The regular technical program will run for three days along with an exhibition of signal processing and information sciences 
products. In addition, tutorial sessions will be held on the first day of the symposium. Papers are invited in, but not 
limited to, the following topics:

1.Filter Design Theory and Methods
2.Multirate Filtering & Wavelets
3.Adaptive Signal Processing
4.Time-Frequency/Time-Scale Analysis
5.Statistical Signal & Array Processing
6.Radar & Sonar Processing
7.Speech Processing & Recognition
8.Fractals and Chaos Signal Processing
9.Signal Processing in Communications
10.Signal processing in Networking
11.Multimedia Signal Processing
12.Nonlinear signal processing
13.Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
14.Image and Video Processing
15.Image Segmentation and Scene Analysis
16.VLSI for Signal and Image Processing
17.Cryptology, Steganography, and Digital Watermarking
18.Image indexing & retrieval
19.Soft Computing & Pattern Recognition
20.Natural Language Processing
21.Signal Processing for Bioinformatics
22.Signal Processing for Geoinformatics
23.Biometric Systems and Security
24.Machine Vision
25.Data visualization
26.Data mining
27.Sensor Networks and Sensor Fusion
28.Signal Processing and Information Sciences Education
29.Others

Perspective authors are invited to submit *full length* (four pages) papers for presentation in any of the areas listed 
above (indicate area in your submission). We also encourage the submission of proposal for student session, tutorial 
and sessions on special topics. All articles submitted to ISSPA 2007 will be *peer-reviewed* using a *blind review process*.

For more details and submission of papers please see: 

http://www.isspa.info


*Important Deadlines*:

*Full Paper Submission*:  September 15, 2006

*Tutorials/Special Sessions Proposals*:  September 15, 2006

*Notification of Paper Acceptance*:  November 15, 2006

*Final Accepted Paper Submission*:  December 1, 2006

 
Sincerely,
 
Dr. Mohammed Al-Mualla
ISSPA07 Publicity Chair