1. ICASSP 2014 25 th -30 th May 2014 FLORENCE – ITALY Under the Tuscan Sun

2. ICASSP 2014 florence, 25 th – 30 th may 2014 preliminary planning 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

3. ICASSP 2014 florence, 25 th – 30 th may 2014 preliminary planning 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

4. ICASSP 2014 florence, 25 th – 30 th may 2014 preliminary planning 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

5. ICASSP 2014 florence, 25 th – 30 th may 2014 additional features 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

6. FLORENCE ICASSP 2014 why florence? one of the most attractive city in europe easily reachable by plane, train or car nice weather in springtime

7. how to get to florence? florence is in tuscany BY CAR it is a main node of the italian highway system FLORENCE ICASSP 2014 florence BY TRAIN FIRENZE SANTA MARIA NOVELLA station is one of the high-speed railway terminal stations located on the junction between milan (1h30’) and rome (1h30’) BY PLANE florence has its own international airport which is 15’ minutes by bus from the conference site and the city center pisa airport offers many lowcost flights, and is connected to florence by train (50’) and fast bus (1h) click rome milan

8. PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI – PALAZZO DEGLI AFFARI FIRENZE – www.firenzefiera.it The Venue FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

9. Palazzo dei Congressi FLORENCE ICASSP 2014 Palazzo degli Affari

10. conference venue palazzo dei congressi di FIRENZE –www.firenzefiera.it 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 the palazzo dei congressi is in the very heart of the old town 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 palazzo dei congressi station duomo city center click FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

11. florence, 25 th – 30 th may 2014 preliminary budget 1500 attendees 2000 attendees

12. ICASSP 2014 the organizing committee FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

13. organizing committee 1/2 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) florence, 25 th – 30 th may 2014

14. the organizing committee General Chairs 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 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 FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

15. the organizing committee 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 Technical Chairs 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 FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

16. the organizing committee 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 Finance & Publicity Chairs 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 ICASSP 2014

17. local arrangements chair Graciela Stiavetti (D.G.M.P. srl, Pisa) florence, 25 th – 30 th may 2014 publications chairs Maria S. Greco (University of Pisa) organizing committee 2/2 exhibits chair Fabrizio Berizzi (University of Pisa) special sessions co-chairs Sergio Barbarossa (Univ. of Rome “La Sapienza”), Ananthram Swami (ARL, Adelphi MD, USA) registrations chair Veronica Chiaverini (D.G.M.P. srl, Pisa) tutorials co-chairs Ercan Kuruoglu (CNR, Italy), Antonio Napolitano (Univ. Naples “Parthenope”) plenary chair Ezio Biglieri (WISER srl, Italy)

18. 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 role and functions D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it the organizing committee local arrangements chair Graciela Stiavetti registrations chair Veronica Chiaverini FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

19. the organizing committee D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it D.G.M.P. srl has been in business since 1979 1200+ small/medium size meeting on its record 1000+ Continuing Medical Education courses 400+ conferences with more than 200 participants 100+ conferences with more than 500 participants D.G.M.P.Viaggi is the travel agency of DGMP Group FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

20. from 1985 yearly Tyrrhenian International Workshop on digital communications Participants: 100-200 organizing committee: CNIT – IEEE from 2001yearly QoS IP – International Workshop On QoS in Multiservice IP Networks Participants: 200 committee: Politecnico di Torino, Università di Roma 2001European 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: 550venue: Pisa - Italy committee: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’informazione, Università di Pisa - Italy main meetings in the ICT area 1/2 D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it the organizing committee FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

21. 2002European Wireless Participants: 300venue: Firenze - Italy committee: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’informazione, Università di Pisa – Italy 200614th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2006) Participants: 900venue: Firenze - Italy committee: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’informazione, Università di Pisa - Italy 20069th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION2007) Participants: 400venue: Firenze - Italy committee: NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia – Italy 2008IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon2008) Participants: 650venue: Roma - Italy committee: Finmeccanica, Università di Pisa, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” - Italy main meetings in the ICT area 2/2 D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it the organizing committee FLORENCE ICASSP 2014

22. september 2008 Conference of European Association Study of Diabetology committee: EASD - European Association Study of Diabetology Recent/upcoming large meetings D.G.M.P Srl – www.dgmpincor.it participants: 15,000 venue: NUOVA FIERA di ROMA – Italy the organizing committee FLORENCE ICASSP 2014