THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC. HONG KONG CHAPTER OF SIGNAL PROCESSING

The IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing was founded in 1992. During the last 18 years, the HK Chapter of Signal Processing has been actively participating in different academic activities and contributed to the development of the signal processing industry in Hong Kong. More than 200 seminars, technical workshops and tutorials on various advanced topics in signal processing were organised by the Chapter, which attracted a great number of participants from both the academic and industrial sectors. Among these events, the following events are worth mentioning:

• The 1994 International Symposium on Speech, Image Processing and Neutral Networks, which was held between April 14-16, 1994 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, was one of the most important events organized by the Chapter. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and was organized in co-operation with HKIE Electronics Division and IEE Hong Kong Centre. In that three-day's event, a large number of papers, which revealed the state-of-the-art of the fields of Speech Processing, Image Processing and Neural Networks, were presented in five parallel sessions by scholars from over 22 countries in the world. More than 300 attendees participated in the Symposium.
  
  
• The 2000 International Workshop on Multimedia Data Storage, Retrieval, Integration and Applications, which was held between January 13-15, 2000 at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. More than 100 experts and scholars in the areas of multimedia attended that event.
  
  
• The 2003 IEEE International Conference Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Hong Kong. The ICASSP is the most important annual event of the signal processing discipline in the world. Although the event was cancelled due to the SARS outbreak  in Asia, the IEEE Signal Processing Society were still impressed by our preparation work as well as the way we handled the cancellation.
  
  
• The 2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), which was held between December 15-18 in Hong Kong. The Chinese University of Hong Kong had kindly provided the venue. It was the first time that the event asked for full-paper submission and it was generally agreed that the quality of accepted papers were high.
  
  
• The 2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2010), which was held between September 26-29 in Hong Kong. It is the most important annual event of the image and video processing discipline in the world. The conferecne received 2545 properly completed paper submissions from authors of 44 countries. We are going to continue the ICIP legacy and reputation for technical excellence. The resulting program consists of many familiar topics plus a few that are intended to guide the Society into new and emerging areas.