The 10th IASTED International Conference on
Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
SPPRA 2013

February 12 – 14, 2013
Innsbruck, Austria

Past Conference Speakers

Past SPPRA conferences have had the following exceptional speakers and tutorials:

Keynote Speakers

SPPRA 2012

"Semantic 3DTV Content Analysis and MPEG-7 Compliant Description"

Prof. Ioannis Pitas
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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SPPRA 2011

Prof. Thomas Sikora
Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany

SPPRA 2010

"Representing Scenes with dynamic objects by Graph Pyramids"

Prof. Walter Kropatsch
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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SPPRA 2009

Dr. Albert Niel
NextSense GmbH, Austria
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SPPRA 2008

"Splines: A Unifying Framework for Signal and Image Processing"

Prof. Michael Unser
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
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SPPRA 2007

"Modeling Image Contents using Superquadric Models"

Prof. Franc Solina
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Invited Speakers

SPPRA 2007

"Automated Interpretation and Modeling of Subcellular Patterns for Systems Biology"

Prof. Robert F. Murphy
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Keynote Speakers

SPPRA 2003

"Pattern Recognition: Review and Recent Trends"

Dr. Sergios Theodoridis
University of Athens, Greece
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Tutorial Sessions

SPPRA 2012

"Adaptive Sinusoidal Modeling of Speech and Audio with Applications to Voice Function Assessment"

Yannis Stylianou
University of Crete, Greece
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SPPRA 2011

"Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition Methods in Brain-Computer Interfaces"

Dr. Gary Garcia-Molina
Philips Research, North America, USA

SPPRA 2010

"Image Fusion - Principles, Methods, and Applications"

Prof. Jan Flusser
Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic
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SPPRA 2009

"Moments and Moment Invariants in Pattern Recognition"

Prof. Jan Flusser
Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic
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SPPRA 2008

"Signal Processing for Genomic Sequences"

Dr. Julien Epps
The University of New South Wales, Australia
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SPPRA 2007

"Pattern-based Classification and Decision Making"

Dr. Parag Kulkarni
Capsilon Research Labs, INDIA
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"Machine Learning Approaches to Information Extraction from Text and Images in Biomedical Journal Articles"

Prof. Robert F. Murphy
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Plenary Speakers

SPPRA 2006

"Arts, Media, and Engineering (AME) Research"

Dr. Andreas Spanias
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Associate Director of AME
ASU, USA
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