APSIPA is an emerging association to promote broad spectrum of research and education activities in signal and information processing. The interest of APSIPA encompasses but not limited signal and information processing, recognition, classification, communication, networking, computing, system design and implementation, security, and technology with applications to scientific, engineering, health, and social areas.

To move the APSIPA ASC 2014 to Siem Reap, city of Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Due to the recent political situation in Thailand, people have concern in holding APSIPA ASC 2014 in Thailand. Although the situation between Chiang Mai and Bangkok could be different, APSIPA ASC 2014 participants may be worried on travelling and stay in Chaingmai, Thailand during the conference. Based on this reason, the Conference Organization Committee have seriously discussed, and decided to move the venue of APSIPA ASC 2014 from Chiang-Mai in Thailand to Siem Reap, city of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The conference date is still same on Dec 9-12, 2014, but the paper submission deadline is extended to July 4, 2014. Siem Reap, city of Angkor Wat is one of the most attractive historic cities of South East Asia visited by many foreign tourists, and may ensure all participants the safety and joyfulness when they attend the conference. We hope the new venue might encourage students, researchers, and professors to submit many papers and participate the APSIPA ASC 2014.

Kosin Chamnongthai
C.-C. Jay Kuo
Hitoshi Kiya
General Chairs of APSIPA ASC 2014

DSP2014 - technically co-sponsored by APSIPA - will be held in Hong Kong in August 20-23, 2014.

The Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Distinguished Lecture:

APSIPA Newsletter - Issue 6
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All papers in the APSIPA ASC 2013 Conference Proceedings are now accessible in IEEE Xplore and the APSIPA website here.

Congratulations to the following newly elected officers, EiC of APSIPA newsletters, and BoG members:

VP - Conferences: Susanto Rahardja
VP - Industrial relations and Development: Haohong Wang
VP - Member relations and development: Kenneth Lam
VP - Technical Activities: Oscar Au
VP - Publications: Tatsuya Kawahara
EiC of APSIPA Newsletters: Waleed Abdulla

BoG: Waleed H. Abdulla
BoG: Kosin Chamnongthai
BoG: Woon-Seng Gan
BoG: Tomoaki Ohtsuki
BoG: Wan-Chi Siu

APSIPA announces the appointment of following 10 Distinguished Lecturers for 2014-2015:

Cho, Nam Ik, Seoul National University, Korea
Do, Minh N., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Gan, Woon-Seng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hong, Yao-Win, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Lee, Tan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Leelarasmee, Ekachai, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Lin, Chia-Wen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Ling, Nam, Santa Clara University, USA
Shinoda, Koichi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Wang, Hsin-Min, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

The Distinguished Lecturers will tour in Asia Pacific in 2014-2015 to promote the research and development of signal and information processing as APSIPA's ambassadors.

Congratulations to IVM member, Prof. Wen Gao, who has been named the 2013 ACM fellow for his contributions to the field of video technology and for his leadership in advance computing in China