Session Index

Lecture Sessions
Monday May 19, 2008 (09:30-11:00)

Data Converters I  Chair: Pavan Kumar Hanumolu - Oregon State University; Sameer Sonkusale - Tufts University;

Video Processing Circuits  Chair: Vasily Moshnyaga - Fukuoka University; Zhongfeng Wang - Oregon State University;

Adaptive Algorithms & Systems  Chair: Sergios Theodoridis - University of Athens; Paulo Diniz - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro;

Amplifiers I  Chair: Gaetano Palumbo - University of Catania; Igor Filanovsky - University of Alberta;

Configurable Radio Systems  Chair: Vassilis Paliouras - University of Patras; Danella Zhao - University of Louisiana at Lafayette;

Complex Networks Analysis & Applications  Chair: Ljiljana Trajkovic - Simon Fraser University; Gianluca Setti - University of Bologna;

SPECIAL SESSION: Blind Signal Processing for MIMO Systems  Chair: Wei Xing Zheng - University of Western Sydney, Australia; Jonathan Manton - Australian National University, Australia;

Current-mode, Analog & Mixed-Signal Circuits  Chair: Mladen Berekovic - Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina at Brunswick; Wael Badawy - University of Calgary;

Nano-Sensors & Nano-technologies for Bio-medical Applications  Chair: Paul Ampadu - University of Rochester; Wei Wang - College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering University at Albany;

Millimeter-wave & Optical Communications  Chair: Alyssa Apsel - Cornell University; Tokunbo Ogunfunmi - Santa Clara University, USA;

Graph Theory & Computing  Chair: Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman - University of Oklahoma; Shuichi Ueno - Tokyo Institute of Technlogy;

Monday May 19, 2008 (11:20-12:50)

Data Converters II  Chair: Albert Wang - University of California, Riverside; Luis Hernandez Corporales - Carlos III University, Madrid;

Coding, Crypto & Imaging Circuits  Chair: Zhongfeng Wang - Oregon State University; Mladen Berekovic - Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina at Brunswick;

Image & Video Processing I  Chair: Andreas Antoniou - University of Victoria; Panos Agathoklis - University of Victoria;

Amplifiers II  Chair: Randall Geiger - Iowa State University; Yichuang Sun - University of Hertfordshire;

MIMO Communications Systems  Chair: Paul Ampadu - University of Rochester; Myung Sunwoo - Ajou University;

Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics  Chair: Maciej Ogorzalek - Jagiellonian University; Wallace Tang - City University of Hong Kong;

SPECIAL SESSION: Advanced Neural Microsystems  Chair: Maysam Ghovanloo - Georgia Institute of Technology; Pedram Mohseni - Case Western Reserve University;

System on Chip  Chair: Koushik Maharatna - University of Southampton; Danella Zhao - University of Louisiana at Lafayette;

Design for Variability in Nano-technologies & Giga-scale Systems  Chair: Lan-Da Van - National Chiao Tung University; Robert Newcomb - U. of Maryland;

Multimedia Analysis & Quality Assessment  Chair: Lan-Da Van - National Chiao Tung University; Min-Jen Tsai - National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan;

Spiking Neural Networks  Chair: Giacomo Indiveri - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland; John Harris - University of Florida, Gainesville;

Monday May 19, 2008 (14:10-15:40)

Wireless Circuits and Systems I  Chair: Joseph Sylvester Chang - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Albert Wang - University of California, Riverside;

Arithmetic & Cryptography Circuits  Chair: Dimitrios Soudris - Demokritos University of Thrace; Chua-Chin Wang - National Sun Yat-Sen University;

Architectures for Image and Video Processing  Chair: Thanos Stouraitis - University of Patras, Greece; Oscar Au - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;

CAD and Tools for Analog Design I  Chair: Tuna Tarim - Texas Instruments; Bradley Minch - Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering;

LDPC Codes  Chair: Zhongfeng Wang - Broadcom; Hanho Lee - Inha University;

Nonlinear Systems Analysis  Chair: Zbigniew Galias - AGH University of Science and Technology; Wei Xing Zheng - University of Western Sydney, Australia;

SPECIAL SESSION: Digitally Enhanced Analog Circuits: Systems Aspects  Chair: Heinz Koeppl - EPFL; Christian Vogel - Graz University of Technology;

Process Variations, Memory & Flip-Flops  Chair: Koushik Maharatna - University of Southampton; Radu Secareanu - Arizona State University;

Nano-Devices, Nano-Circuits & Nano-Architectures  Chair: Rui de Figueiredo - UC Irvine; Orly Yadid-Pecht - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev;

Encoder Optimization  Chair: Nam Ling - Santa Clara University; Ebroul Izquierdo - University of London;

Event-based Neuromorphic Systems  Chair: Bernabe Linares-Barranco - Instituto Microelectronica Sevilla; Giacomo Indiveri - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland;

Monday May 19, 2008 (16:00-17:30)

Wireless Circuits and Systems II  Chair: Wouter Serdijn - University of Delft; Jorge Fernandes - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID Lisboa;

Arithmetic Circuits  Chair: Oscar Gustafsson - Linkoping University, SWEDEN; Dimitrios Soudris - Demokritos University of Thrace;

Image Filtering  Chair: Rabab Ward - Universitry of British Columbia; Sergios Theodoridis - University of Athens;

CAD and Tools for Analog Design II  Chair: Paul Sotiriadis - Johns Hopkins University; Tuna Tarim - Texas Instruments;

Turbo, Trellis & Iterative Decoders  Chair: Zhongfeng Wang - Broadcom; Xinmiao Zhang - Case Western Reserve University;

Analysis of Chaotic Systems  Chair: Martin Hasler - EPFL IC ISC LANOS; Toshimichi Saito - Hosei University;

SPECIAL SESSION: Advanced Nanoscale Integrated Circuit Technologies  Chair: Volkan Kursun - University of Wisconsin; Mohab Anis - University of Waterloo;

Computational Blocks  Chair: Radu Secareanu - Arizona State University; Oscar Gustafsson - Linkoping University, SWEDEN;

Reliability Issues in Nano-technology SOC & Applications  Chair: Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske - Portland State University; Ming-Dou Ker - National Chiao Tung University;

Picture Coding Hardware  Chair: Gwo Giun Lee - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Huifang Sun - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories;

Neural Network Circuits & Systems  Chair: Wei Xing Zheng - University of Western Sydney, Australia; Shih-Chii Liu - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland;

Tuesday May 20, 2008 (09:30-11:00)

Sigma-Delta Converters I  Chair: Gabor Temes - Oregon State University; Mohamad Sawan - L'École Polytechnique de Montréal;

Low Power Design Techniques  Chair: Ming-Dou Ker - National Chiao Tung University; Xinmiao Zhang - Case Western Reserve University;

Digital Signal Processing for Communications  Chair: Wei Xing Zheng - University of Western Sydney, Australia; Oscar Gustafsson - Linkoping University, SWEDEN;

Circuit Theory  Chair: Igor Filanovsky - University of Alberta; Hoi Lee - University of Texas at Dallas;

Wireless Communications Circuits I  Chair: Deuk Heo - Washington State University; Chang-Ho Lee - Samsung;

Modeling & Simulation of Nonlinear Systems  Chair: Orla Feely - University College Dublin; Mustak Yalcin - Istanbul Technical University;

SPECIAL SESSION: Nonnegative Matrix & Tensor Factorization & Related Problems  Chair: Andrzej Cichocki - Brain Science Institute;

Array Circuits  Chair: Radu Secareanu - Arizona State University; Hsie-Chia Chang - National Chiao Tung University;

Cellular Nonlinear Networks: Theory & Applications  Chair: Marco Gilli - Politecnico di Torino; Ronald Tetzlaff - University of Frankfurt;

Visual Signal Coding I  Chair: Oscar Au - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Ming-Ting Sun - University of Washington;

SPECIAL SESSION: Low Power Smart CMOS Image Sensors & Beyond  Chair: Alexander Fish - University of Calgary; Orly Yadid-Pecht - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev;

Tuesday May 20, 2008 (11:20-12:50)

Sigma-Delta Converters II  Chair: Sameer Sonkusale - Tufts University; Gabor Temes - Oregon State University;

Low Power Circuits  Chair: Paul Ampadu - University of Rochester; Vojin Oklobdzija - UC Davis;

Digital Signal Processing Implementation  Chair: Tokunbo Ogunfunmi - Santa Clara University, USA; David Tay - LaTrobe University, Australia.;

Analog Signal Processing  Chair: Salvatore Pennisi - Universita degli Studi di Catania; Dimitrios Loizos - University of California, San Diego;

Wireless Communications Circuits II  Chair: James Haslett - University of Calgary; Yunseo Park - Samsung RFIC Design Center;

Analysis & Implementations of PLL  Chair: Yoshifumi Nishio - Tokushima University; Sergio Callegari - University of Bologna, ARCES/DEIS;

SPECIAL SESSION: Neuroprosthetic Technologies & Platforms  Chair: Pantelis Georgiou - Imperial College London; Robert Rieger - National Sun Yat-Sen University;

VLSI Circuits  Chair: Khurram Waheed - Texas Instruments; Chua-Chin Wang - National Sun Yat-Sen University;

Cellular Nonlinear Networks: Applications & Implementations  Chair: Paolo Arena - University of Catania; Bertram Shi - University of Hong-Kong;

Visual Signal Coding II  Chair: Weisi Lin - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Wan-Chi Siu - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;

Vision Sensors I  Chair: Shih-Chii Liu - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland; John Harris - University of Florida, Gainesville;

Tuesday May 20, 2008 (14:10-15:40)

Sigma-Delta Converters III  Chair: Tony Chan Carusone - University of Toronto; Luis Hernandez Corporales - Carlos III University, Madrid;

Low Power Logic & Architectures  Chair: Tughrul Arslan - University of Edinburgh; Masud Chowdhury - University of Illinois at Chicago;

Digital Audio & Speech Processing  Chair: Ravi P. Ramachandran - Rowan University, USA; Yoshikazu Miyanaga - Hokkaido University;

Analog Circuits & IC Technology I  Chair: Mohamad Sawan - L'École Polytechnique de Montréal; Ralph Etienne-Cummings - JHU;

PLLs, DLLs & Oscillators  Chair: James Haslett - University of Calgary; Deuk Heo - Washington State University;

Wireless Biomedical Systems I  Chair: Tor Sverre Lande - U of Oslo; Yong Lian - NUS;

Neuromorphic Circuits  Chair: Bernabe Linares-Barranco - Instituto Microelectronica Sevilla; Jonathan Tapson - University of Cape Town, South Africa;

Digital Design  Chair: Mohab Anis - University of Waterloo; Volkan Kursun - University of Wisconsin;

Biosensors in Life & Health Science  Chair: Ut-Va Koc - Bell Labs, Luncent Technologies; Jie Chen - University of Alberta, Canada;

Video Over Network  Chair: Ling Guan - Ryerson University, Canada; Chia-Wen Lin - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan;

Image Sensors  Chair: Tobi Delbruck - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Eugenio Culurciello - Yale University;

Tuesday May 20, 2008 (16:00-17:30)

Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Converters  Chair: Byunghoo Jung - Purdue University; Alyssa Apsel - Cornell University;

Memory Circuits & Architectures  Chair: Vojin Oklobdzija - UC Davis; Khurram Waheed - Texas Instruments;

Digital Signal Processing & Emerging Topics  Chair: Henry Leung - University of Calgary, Canada; Behrouz Nowrouzian - University of Alberta, Canada;

Comparators  Chair: Vadim Ivanov - Texas Instruments; Dimitrios Loizos - University of California, San Diego;

Transceiver Circuits  Chair: Andrea Gerosa - University of Padova; Siddik Yarman - EE Department, Instambul University;

Wireless Biomedical Systems II  Chair: Tor Sverre Lande - U of Oslo; Yong Lian - NUS;

SPECIAL SESSION: Chemical & Biological Sensors for Environmental Monitoring  Chair: Denise Wilson - University of Washington; Leila Sheperd - Imperial College London;

Digital Synthesis  Chair: Mohab Anis - University of Waterloo; Volkan Kursun - University of Wisconsin;

Biosensor Systems for Health Care  Chair: Pau-Choo Julia Chung - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Stephen Wong - Harvard Medical School;

Reliable Multimedia Networking Techniques  Chair: Tihao Chiang - National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Shao-Yi Chien - National Taiwan University, Taiwan;

Sensor Applications  Chair: Bernabe Linares-Barranco - Instituto Microelectronica Sevilla; Eugenio Culurciello - Yale University;

Wednesday May 21, 2008 (09:30-11:00)

Data Converters IV  Chair: Shanthi Pavan - Indian Institute of Technology; Randall Geiger - Iowa State University;

Clocking & Timing  Chair: Mohammed Niamat - University of Toledo; Massimo Alioto - Università degli Studi di Siena;

Digital Filter Design Techniques  Chair: Yong Ching Lim - NTU; Yong Lian - NUS;

Sensor & Actuator Interface Circuits I  Chair: Ralph Etienne-Cummings - JHU; Felix Lustenberger - Espros Photonics Corporation;

Wireless Communications Systems  Chair: Vassilis Paliouras - University of Patras; Nam Ling - Santa Clara University;

Circuits for Implantable Devices  Chair: Ralph Etienne-Cummings - JHU; Roman Genov - U of Toronto;

SPECIAL SESSION: Recent Advances in Complex Networks  Chair: Guanrong Chen - City University of Hong kong; Jinhu Lu - Chinese Academy of Science, China;

Analog Design & Synthesis  Chair: Khaled Salama - RPI; Nikhil Jayakumar - Texas Instruments;

SPECIAL SESSION: Energy-Efficient Building Blocks for Ubiquitous Sensing  Chair: Brian Otis - University of Washington; Dennis Sylvester - University of Michigan;

Multimedia Implementation Techniques  Chair: Oscar Au - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Thanos Stouraitis - University of Patras, Greece;

Power Management Integrated Circuits  Chair: Eduard Alarcon - Technical University Catalunya; Jaber Abu Qahouq - Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR;

Wednesday May 21, 2008 (11:20-12:50)

PLLs  Chair: Felix Lustenberger - Espros Photonics Corporation; Pavan Kumar Hanumolu - Oregon State University;

Testing  Chair: Wael Badawy - University of Calgary; Mohammed Niamat - University of Toledo;

Digital Filters & Applications  Chair: H. K. Kwan - Univ. of Windsor; Tian-Bo Deng - Toho University, Japan;

Voltage Regulators & References I  Chair: Bradley Minch - Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Vadim Ivanov - Texas Instruments;

UWB Circuits  Chair: Chang-Ho Lee - Samsung; Khurram Waheed - Texas Instruments;

Low Power Biomedical Interface Circuits  Chair: Mohamad Sawan - L'École Polytechnique de Montréal; Esther Rodriguez Villegas - Imperial College;

SPECIAL SESSION: Advanced Semantic Object & Event Analysis in Video Surveillance  Chair: Sen-Ching Samson Cheung - University of Kentucky; Shao-Yi Chien - National Taiwan University, Taiwan;

Interconnect Modeling & Power  Chair: Nikhil Jayakumar - Texas Instruments; Janet Wang - University of Arizona;

SPECIAL SESSION: Novel Interconnect Infrastructures for Massive Multicore Chips  Chair: Partha Pande - Washington State University; Andre Ivanov - University of British Columbia;

VLSI Implementation of Multimedia Kernel  Chair: Chi-Long Wey - National Central University, Taiwan; Chua-Chin Wang - National Sun Yat-Sen University;

Other Topics in Power Systems & Power Electronics  Chair: Miroslav Begovic - GeorgiaTech; Eduard Alarcon - Technical University Catalunya;

Wednesday May 21, 2008 (14:10-15:40)

Oscillators  Chair: Alyssa Apsel - Cornell University; Paul Sotiriadis - Johns Hopkins University;

Interconnects & Packaging  Chair: Masud Chowdhury - University of Illinois at Chicago; Mohamed Elgamel - University of Louisiana at Lafayette;

Wavelets  Chair: See-May Phoong - National Taiwan University; Soontorn Oraintara - University of Texas at Arlington, USA;

Continuous-time Filters I  Chair: Hoi Lee - University of Texas at Dallas; Shanthi Pavan - Indian Institute of Technology;

Cryptography Systems  Chair: Xinmiao Zhang - Case Western Reserve University; Maire O'Neill - Queen's University Belfast;

Biosignal Processing & Imaging  Chair: EMM Drakakis - Imperial College; Pau-Choo Julia Chung - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan;

SPECIAL SESSION: Multimedia Forensics & Security  Chair: Anthony Ho - University of Surrey, UK; Yun-Qing Shi - New Jersey Institute of Technology;

Statistical Simulation & Optimization of VLSI Circuits  Chair: Rajendran Panda - Freescale, Inc.; Janet Wang - University of Arizona;

Blind Signal Processing  Chair: Rui de Figueiredo - UC Irvine; Andrzej Cichocki - Brain Science Institute;

Multimedia Watermarking & Data Hiding  Chair: C. -C. Jay Kuo - University of Southern California; Chia-Wen Lin - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan;

Switching Power Converters I  Chair: Tadashi Suetsugu - Fukuoka University; Juri Jatskevich - Unir. British Columbia;

Wednesday May 21, 2008 (16:00-17:30)

High-Speed Data Transmission  Chair: Shahriar Mirabbasi - University of British Columbia; Tony Chan Carusone - University of Toronto;

Circuits for Communications  Chair: Radu Secareanu - Arizona State University; Wael Badawy - University of Calgary;

Digital Filters and Filterbanks  Chair: M. N. S. Swamy - Concordia University, Canada; Hakan Johansson - Linkoping University, SWEDEN;

Continuous-time Filters II  Chair: Wouter Serdijn - University of Delft; Salvatore Pennisi - Universita degli Studi di Catania;

Architectures for Communications  Chair: Wael Badawy - University of Calgary; Henry Chen - Wright State University;

Biosensors & Systems  Chair: Wael Badawy - University of Calgary; Philipp Hafliger - University of Oslo;

SPECIAL SESSION: Turning Liabilities into Assets: Secure Circuits in CMOS  Chair: David Hwang - George Mason University; Patrick Schaumont - Virginia Tech;

Parameter Estimation  Chair: P.P. Vaidyanathan; Paulo Diniz - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro;

Blind Signal Processing for Speech & Audio Signals  Chair: Tomohiro Nakatani - NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Shoji Makino - NTT Communication Science Laboratories;

Multimedia Understanding & Recognition  Chair: Alexander Loui - Eastman Kodak Company, USA; Ling Guan - Ryerson University, Canada;

Switching Power Converters II  Chair: Marian K. Kazimierczuk - Wright State University; Eduard Alarcon - Technical University Catalunya;

Poster Sessions
Monday May 19, 2008 (10:00-12:00)

Analog Modeling & Simulation  Chair: Yehia Massoud - Rice University;

Continuous-time Filters III  Chair: Yichuang Sun - University of Hertfordshire;

Wireless Circuits and Systems III  Chair: Shahriar Mirabbasi - University of British Columbia;

VLSI for Communications  Chair: Paul Ampadu - University of Rochester; Lars Wanhammar - Linköping University;

Communications Architectures  Chair: Tokunbo Ogunfunmi - Santa Clara University, USA;

Receiver Circuits  Chair: Yunseo Park - Samsung RFIC Design Center;

VCOs for Wireless Communications  Chair: Andrea Gerosa - University of Padova;

Algorithms & Architectures for Communications  Chair: Hanho Lee - Inha University;

Monday May 19, 2008 (14:10-17:30)

Live Demonstration of Circuits & Systems I  Chair: Tobi Delbruck - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Philipp Hafliger - University of Oslo;

Live Demonstration of Circuits & Systems II  Chair: Tobi Delbruck - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Philipp Hafliger - University of Oslo;

Live Demonstration of Circuits & Systems III  Chair: Tobi Delbruck - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Philipp Hafliger - University of Oslo;

Live Demonstration of Circuits & Systems IV  Chair: Tobi Delbruck - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Philipp Hafliger - University of Oslo;

Monday May 19, 2008 (15:00-17:00)

Biomedical Sensors & Systems  Chair: Chua-Chin Wang - National Sun Yat-Sen University;

Biomedical Systems & Signal Processing  Chair: EMM Drakakis - Imperial College;

Digital Filters  Chair: Soontorn Oraintara - University of Texas at Arlington, USA;

Adaptive Filtering  Chair: Paulo Diniz - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro;

Discrete Transforms  Chair: Tapio Saramäki - Tampere University of Technology, Finland;

Digital Signal Processing  Chair: Tian-Bo Deng - Toho University, Japan;

Digital Design & Test  Chair: Sunil Khatri - Texas A&M University; Yehia Massoud - Rice University;

Tuesday May 20, 2008 (10:00-12:00)

Sensor & Actuator Interface Circuits II  Chair: Maysam Ghovanloo - Georgia Institute of Technology;

Sensory Processing Circuits & Systems  Chair: Andre van Schaik - University of Sydney, Australia;

Vision Sensors II  Chair: Jonathan Tapson - University of Cape Town, South Africa;

Neuromorphic Circuits & Systems  Chair: Shih-Chii Liu - UNI - ETH Zurich, Switzerland;

Neural Systems & Applications  Chair: Jacob Vogelstein - Johns Hopkins University;

Switching Power Converters  Chair: Juri Jatskevich - Unir. British Columbia;

On-chip Low-power Electronics  Chair: Jaber Abu Qahouq - Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR;

Voltage Regulators & References II  Chair: Maysam Ghovanloo - Georgia Institute of Technology;

Tuesday May 20, 2008 (15:00-17:00)

Data Converters III  Chair: Luis Hernandez Corporales - Carlos III University, Madrid;

Amplifiers III  Chair: Alyssa Apsel - Cornell University;

Mixed Signal Circuits  Chair: Byunghoo Jung - Purdue University;

Analog Circuits & IC Technology II  Chair: Gaetano Palumbo - University of Catania;

Analog Techniques  Chair: Jorge Fernandes - Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID Lisboa;

Nano-inspired Technologies & Applications  Chair: Jing Jou Tang - Southern Taiwan University of Technology; Pamela Abshire - Univ. of Maryland;

Implementations of Nonlinear Circuits  Chair: Sergio Callegari - University of Bologna, ARCES/DEIS;

Nonlinear Circuits & Systems  Chair: Mario di Bernardo - University of Naples Federico II;

Wednesday May 21, 2008 (10:00-12:00)

Cryptography & Security  Chair: Mohamed Elgamel - University of Louisiana at Lafayette;

Crypto & Arithmetic circuits  Chair: Wael Badawy - University of Calgary;

Memory Circuits  Chair: Ming-Dou Ker - National Chiao Tung University; Radu Secareanu - Arizona State University;

Low-Power Circuits, Logic & Architectures  Chair: Mohammed Niamat - University of Toledo; Paul Ampadu - University of Rochester;

Arithmetic  Chair: Oscar Gustafsson - Linkoping University, SWEDEN;

SOC  Chair: Danella Zhao - University of Louisiana at Lafayette;

VLSI Systems  Chair: Koushik Maharatna - University of Southampton;

Interconnects, Clock, Noise Immunity & ESD Protection  Chair: Mohamed Elgamel - University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Lars Wanhammar - Linköping University;

Wednesday May 21, 2008 (15:00-17:00)

Signal Processing & Video  Chair: Vasily Moshnyaga - Fukuoka University;

Scalable, Distributed & Multiview Video Coding  Chair: Yap-Peng Tan - Nanyang Technological University;

Visual Signal Processing & Hardware  Chair: Shao-Yi Chien - National Taiwan University, Taiwan;

Rate Control & Encoder Optimization  Chair: Kai-Kuang Ma - Nanyang Technoligical University;

Advanced Video Coding Related Techniques  Chair: Chia-Wen Lin - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Gwo Giun Lee - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan;

Intelligent Videos & Graphics  Chair: Jar-Ferr Kevin Yang - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan;

Image & Video Processing & Recognition  Chair: Panos Agathoklis - University of Victoria;

Video Coding  Chair: Magdi Bayoumi - University of Luisiana;