Signal Processing: algorithms, performance analysis and applications of techniques for the processing, understanding, learning, retrieval, mining, and extraction of information from signals. The theory and application of filtering, coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analyzing, recognizing,synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals, Speech and audio processing, Signal detection and estimation, Signal processing for communications, Design and implementation of signal processing systems, Signal processing education, Bioinformatics, Genetic Algorithms, Statistical Signal Processing, Audio and Electro acoustics. Image formation: Biomedical imaging, remote sensing, geophysical and seismic imaging, optimal imaging, synthetic-natural hybrid image systems, Image scanning, display, and printing: Scanning and sampling, quantization and half toning, color reproduction, image representation and rendering, display and printing systems, image-quality assessment.