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ICASSP 2014
ICASSP 2014
FLORENCE – ITALY
Under the Tuscan Sun
25th-30th May 2014
florence, 25th – 30th may 2014
preliminary planning
ICASSP 2014
Expected 2500 attendees
May 25 (Sunday)
4 tutorials in the afternoon
All tutorials free attendance with proof of student status
May 26 (Monday)
8 tutorials - 4 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon
8 parallel half-day workshops
Workshops are selected upon open call on specific hot topics and
have a broader coverage and scope than special sessions. They
are opened by a tutorial presentation by a distinguished speaker
followed by oral presentations, and may also feature a final panel
discussion led by the organizers
florence, 25th – 30th may 2014
preliminary planning
ICASSP 2014
May 27-30 (Tue to Fri)
4 periods per day
Early morning sessions, late morning sessions, distinguished
lectures, afternoon sessions
4 PLENARY LECTURES: one per day in the after-lunch period
ORAL PRESENTATIONS (regular+special sessions)
a total of 12 session periods over 4 days
6 parallel sessions per period – avg. 150 attendees each
a total of 72 sessions - 6 papers/session - 432 oral papers
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Up to 8 sessions per period
a total of 96 poster sessions - 10 papers/session
Up to 960 poster papers
florence, 25th – 30th may 2014
preliminary planning
ICASSP 2014
KEY FEATURES:
after-lunch plenary talks
experimented with success at EUSIPCO 2006 –
increase of attendance
half-day workshops
side-by-side with tutorials – with specialized CfPs and
invited talks
free tutorials
for students
social event in a historic building
Palazzo del Bargello
florence, 25th – 30th may 2014
additional features
ICASSP 2014
rooms for side meetings each day
dinner banquet and opening ceremony
space for storage
space for rehearsal
space for conference team meetings
large exhibit space (up to 50 booths)
resting areas for attendees
Internet café and Wi-Fi coverage
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why florence?
FLORENCE
one of the most attractive
city in europe
nice weather in springtime
easily reachable by plane,
train or car
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how to get to florence?
FLORENCE
florence is in tuscany
milan
BY CAR
BY PLANE
• it is a main node of the
• italian
florence
has its system
own
highway
international airport which
is 15’ minutes by bus from
the
conference site and the
BY
TRAIN
city center
• FIRENZE SANTA MARIA
• NOVELLA
pisa airportstation
offersis
many
one
lowcost
flights, and
is
of
the high-speed
railway
connected
to florence
by
terminal
stations
located
train
(50’)
and fast
bus (1h)
on
the
junction
between
milan (1h30’) and rome
florence
rome
(1h30’)
click
FLORENCE
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The Venue
PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI – PALAZZO
DEGLI AFFARI FIRENZE – www.firenzefiera.it
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FLORENCE
Palazzo dei Congressi
Palazzo degli Affari
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conference venue
FLORENCE
palazzo dei congressi di FIRENZE
the palazzo dei congressi
is in the very heart of the
old town
–www.firenzefiera.it
palazzo dei
congressi
station
• 2 minutes walking distance
from the FIRENZE SANTA
MARIA NOVELLA terminal
station
• less than half mile from the
duomo and 1 mile from the
uffizi museum
duomo
city center
the auditorium main hall hosts up
to 1.000 participants, but a high
quality audio-video connection
can be easily arranged with
another 500-seat room
click
florence, 25th – 30th may 2014
preliminary budget
2000 attendees
1500 attendees
REVENUE
ICASSP 2014
BUDGET
REVENUE
€ 697.030
6. Registration Fees
€0
7. Conf. Publicat. Sales
BUDGET
€ 925.000
6. Registration Fees
€0
7. Conf. Publicat. Sales
8. Exhibits
€ 73.000
8. Exhibits
€ 73.000
9. Social Event
€ 48.000
9. Social Event
€ 64.000
10. All Other Receipts
€ 25.000
€0
10. All Other Receipts
€ 818.030
11. Total Conf. Revenue
€0
12. Conference Loans
€ 818.030
13. Total Receipts
EXPENSE
€ 1.087.000
11. Total Conf. Revenue
€0
12. Conference Loans
€ 1.087.000
13. Total Receipts
EXPENSE
14. Management Services
€ 80.000
14. Management Services
€ 90.000
15. Registration Expense
€ 15.000
15. Registration Expense
€ 20.000
16. Promotion
€ 16.000
16. Promotion
€ 20.000
17. Conf. Publicat.
€ 15.000
17. Conf. Publicat.
€ 18.000
€ 3.000
18. Exhibits/Vendors
€ 3.500
18. Exhibits/Vendors
20. Local arrangements
€ 225.520
20. Local arrangements
€ 228.520
21. Social Functions
€ 393.000
21. Social Functions
€ 524.000
22. Program Expense
€ 11.000
22. Program Expense
€ 11.000
23. Administration
€ 39.350
23. Administration
€ 48.350
24. Committee
€0
24. Committee
€0
25. All Other Outlays
€0
25. All Other Outlays
€0
€ 797.870
26. Total Conf Exp.
€0
27. Loan Repayments
€ 797.870
28. Total Outlays
SURPLUS/(LOSS)
29. Surplus(Loss)-(Item 13 less Item 26)
€ 963.370
26. Total Conf Exp.
€0
27. Loan Repayments
€ 963.370
28. Total Outlays
SURPLUS/(LOSS)
$
€ 20.160
29. Surplus(Loss)-(Item 13 less Item 26)
$
€ 123.630
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the organizing committee
florence, 25th – 30th may 2014
organizing committee 1/2
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general co-chairs
Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa, Italy)
Marco Luise (University of Pisa , Italy)
technical co-chairs
Abdelhak Zoubir (University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Mauro Barni (University of Siena , Italy)
finance chair
Petar Djuric (Stony Brook University, NY, USA)
publicity co-chairs
G. Tong Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA),
Filippo Giannetti (University of Pisa)
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General Chairs
Fulvio GINI, University of Pisa, Full Professor
•IEEE Fellow, SPTM & SAM IEEE SPS TC member
•Technical Co-Chair of EUSIPCO 2006 & RADARCON 2008
•Associate Editor IEEE Trans. AES, Elsevier SP
•Former Associate Ed. of IEEE Trans. SP and Hindawi JASP
•Co-EIC of Hindawi Int. J. Navigation and Observation
•EURASIP AdCom Member & Awards chair
Marco LUISE, University of Pisa, Full Professor
•IEEE SM, National Secretary of Italian GTTI
•Co-chairman of 4 editions of TWDC
•General Chair of URSI ISSSE ’98, EURASIP EUSIPCO 2006,
European Wireless 2010
•Former Assoc. Ed. of IEEE Trans. Commun. and Wiley ETT
•Co-EIC of Hindawi Int. J. Navigation and Observation
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Technical Chairs
Abdelhak ZOUBIR, University of Darmstadt, FP
•IEEE Fellow, SPTM, SAM, & SPE IEEE SPS TC member
•Plenaries Co-chair ICASSP 2008
•General Co-Chair of ISSPIT 2003, SAM 2008
•Technical Chair IEEE Workshop SSP 2001 & ISSPA 1996
•Special Sessions & Tutorials Chair ICASSP 94
•Former Assoc. Ed. IEEE SP
•Associate Editor Hindawi JASP and Elsevier SP
Mauro BARNI, University of Siena, AP
•IEEE SM, IFS SPS TC & former Multimedia SP TC Member
•General Chairman IEEE Multimedia SP Workshop 2004
•General Chairman IW Digital Watermarking 2005
•Technical Chairman Information Hiding Workshop 2005
•EIC of Hindawi J. Information Security
•Assoc. Editor IEEE Trans. CS Video Techn., IEEE SP Mag.,
IEEE SP Letters, IET Proc. Inf. Security, Hindawi JASP
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Finance & Publicity Chairs
Petar M. DJURIĆ, Stony Brook University, FP
• IEEE Fellow, Vice-President for Finance IEEE SPS
• Member of Executive Committee and Publication and
Conf. Boards IEEE SPS, Technical Co-chair CAMSAP 2009
• Former Chair IEEE SPTM TC and Treasures Conf. Board
• AE IEEE SP Mag., IEEE J. on Special Topics in SP
• Former Assoc. Ed. IEEE Trans. SP
G. Tong ZHOU, Georgia Tech, FP
• IEEE SM, Former Chair IEEE SPTM TC
• Secretary of the Conf. Board IEEE SPS
• General Co-Chair GENSIPS ‘02
• Publicity Chair EUSIPCO 2006, IEEE SSAP ’96,
IEEE SPAWC ’99, IEEE DSP ’02
• Tutorial Chair ICASSP ’99, Publications Chair IEEE SSP ‘03
• Former Assoc. Ed. IEEE Trans. SP, IEEE SP Letters
florence, 25th – 30th may 2014
organizing committee 2/2
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publications chairs
Maria S. Greco (University of Pisa)
exhibits chair
Fabrizio Berizzi (University of Pisa)
special sessions co-chairs
Sergio Barbarossa (Univ. of Rome “La Sapienza”),
Ananthram Swami (ARL, Adelphi MD, USA)
tutorials co-chairs
Ercan Kuruoglu (CNR, Italy), Antonio Napolitano (Univ. Naples “Parthenope”)
plenary chair
Ezio Biglieri (WISER srl, Italy)
local arrangements chair
Graciela Stiavetti (D.G.M.P. srl, Pisa)
registrations chair
Veronica Chiaverini (D.G.M.P. srl, Pisa)
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D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it
local arrangements chair
Graciela Stiavetti
registrations chair
Veronica Chiaverini
role and functions
• accounting and financial management
• registration and accommodation of attendees
• reservation and executive management of the conference
venue
• social and entertainment program for all conference
attendees and accompanying parties
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D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it
D.G.M.P. srl has been in business since 1979
D.G.M.P.Viaggi is the travel agency of DGMP Group
• 1200+ small/medium size meeting on its record
• 1000+ Continuing Medical Education courses
• 400+ conferences with more than 200 participants
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D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it
main meetings in the ICT area 1/2
from 1985 yearly Tyrrhenian International Workshop on digital communications
Participants: 100-200
organizing committee: CNIT – IEEE
from 2001 yearly QoS IP – International Workshop On QoS in Multiservice IP Networks
Participants: 200
committee: Politecnico di Torino, Università di Roma
2001
European Network Sigmobile
paricipants: 450
venue: Firenze - italy
committee: Università di Firenze
2001
MobiCom 2001
7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
participants: 900
venue: Roma - Italy
committee: ACM Sigmobile – USA
2001
International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory
participants: 550
venue: Pisa - Italy
committee: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’informazione, Università di Pisa - Italy
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D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it
main meetings in the ICT area 2/2
2002
European Wireless
Participants: 300
venue: Firenze - Italy
committee: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’informazione, Università di Pisa – Italy
2006
14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2006)
Participants: 900
venue: Firenze - Italy
committee: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’informazione, Università di Pisa - Italy
2006
9th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION2007)
Participants: 400
venue: Firenze - Italy
committee: NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia – Italy
2008
IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon2008)
Participants: 650
venue: Roma - Italy
committee: Finmeccanica, Università di Pisa, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” - Italy
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D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it
Recent/upcoming large meetings
september 2008
Conference of
European Association Study of Diabetology
committee:
EASD - European Association Study of Diabetology
participants: 15,000
venue: NUOVA FIERA di ROMA – Italy