We are happy to announce the organization of the 12th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India from July 16 to 19, 2018.

The SPCOM series of conferences provide a forum for researchers from academia, research laboratories, and industries to come together to share and learn about current developments and emerging fields. As has been the custom, the conference shall feature several plenary talks, tutorials and invited papers by distinguished researchers from academia and the industry on topics of current interest. Please visit the conference website for more details: http://ece.iisc.ernet.in/~spcom/2018 .

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length (up to five pages long) PDF manuscripts on EDAS (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24183). The style file for the manuscripts and more details on the submission format can be found on the conference website given above. The conference proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore® digital library.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

5G Technologies
Array Signal Processing
Coding for Data Communications and Storage
Audio / Speech / Spoken Language Processing
Cognitive Radio
Compressive Sensing and High-Dimensional Statistics
Cooperative and D2D Communications
Computational Photography
Cyber Physical Systems
Digital and Multirate Signal Processing
Energy and Smart Grid Networks
Image / Video / Multimedia Signal Processing
Game Theory in Networks
Inverse Problems in Imaging
Green Communications
Neural/Biological Signal Processing
Information Theory
Radar/Sonar Signal Processing
Machine Learning in Communications and Signal Processing
Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures
Multihop and Heterogeneous Networks
Network Coding
Optical Communications and Networks
Signal Processing for Big Data 
Signal Processing for Communications
Signal Processing for Networks and Graphs
Signal Processing for the Internet of Things
Physical Layer Security
Source Coding and Data Compression
Statistical Signal Processing
THz, mmWave and RF Systems for Communications
Systems, Standards and Implementations
Vehicular Networks
Underwater Communications and Signal Processing
Wireless Communications
VLSI for Communications and Signal Processing


Important deadlines:
Abstract Submission: Monday, January 01, 2018
Full Paper submission: Monday, January 08, 2018 
Decision notification: Monday, April 02, 2018
Camera-ready submission: Wednesday, May 02, 2018


Committee Members:
General Co-Chairs: K. J. Vinoy, Chandra R. Murthy
TPC Co-Chairs: Neelesh B. Mehta, Srikrishna Bhashyam, David Wipf
Tutorials: Rajiv Soundararajan, Praneeth Netrapalli
Finance: Himanshu Tyagi
Publications: Parimal Parag
Publicity: Varun Raghunathan
Website: Aditya Gopalan
Local Arrangements: Chandramani Singh, Chandrika Sridhar


Sincerely,
Neelesh B. Mehta
TPC Co-chair
SPCOM 2018