1. SS1: Advanced Sensors and Systems for Health Care Applications

   Organizer: VR Singh, FIEEE, National Physical Laboratory, India
   Email: vrsingh [ATmark] ieee.org

2. SS2: Deep learning for pattern recognition

   Organizer: Norliza Mohd Noor, UTM Razak School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Malaysia.
   Email: norliza [ATmark] utm.my

3. SS3: Recent advances in Digital Oilfield - Technologies & Applications

   Outline: Digital Oilfield special session is dedicated to the problem of oilfield industrial processes automation in order to enhance the oil recovery. Special attention is to be paid to the Data mining techniques. Researchers and oil production companies representatives are invited, who are interested in the following topics:
   • Oilfield operators' industrial decision support systems;
   • Contemporary and perspective automation control systems;
   • Enhancement of heavy oil production;
   • Oil wells recovery methods;
   • Artificial intelligence methods application in the tasks of oil industry;
   • Pattern recognition and digital image processing in the local oilfield tasks' solution.
   
   Organizer: Iakov Korovin, Southern Federal University, Russia.
   Email: korovin_yakov [ATmark] mail.ru
   Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, UK
   Email: gerald.schaefer [ATmark] ieee.org

4. SS4: Data for Policy and Public Good

   Outline: With advancement in Data processing, managing technologies, availability of high-performance hardware, more and more avenues for use of Machine learning and related mechanisms in policy and public good are opening. Big Data as a buzz word is proving to be a melting point of business, research and governance. Legacy statistical methods and social analytics are now being complemented by computational methods. More researchers are utilizing various computational methods and harnessing satellite image data, air and water quality data, market behavior, mobile call record data, public utility data to give policy and business decisions. We would like to propose research that are in cross-disciplinary mode and harnesses ideas from social science, computational science, any other branch of knowledge.
   Organizer: Moinul Zaber, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
   Email: zaber [ATmark] du.ac.bd

5. SS5: Tissue Engineering and Bioartificial Organ System

   Outline: The session focuses on tissue engineering research from the electronics and computational engineering perspective and its applications in the development of bioartificial organ system. Recently, various types of bioartificial organs have been developed to overcome the shortage of organ donor and the medication problem. Therefore, the aim of this session is to present the recent research and development in various fields related to the tissue engineering in the development of bioartificial organ sytem.
   Organizer: Azizi Miskon, National Defence University of Malaysia, Malaysia
   Email: azizimiskon [ATmark] upnm.edu.my

6. SS6: Advanced Image Recognition and its Application

   
   Organizer: Masakazu Morimoto, University of Hyogo, Japan
   Email: morimoto [ATmark] eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp
   Teijiro Isokawa, University of Hyogo, Japan
   Email: isokawa [ATmark] eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp

7. SS7: Generative Adversarial Neural Networks

   Organizer: Nabeel Mohammed, North South University, Bangladesh
   Email: nabeel [ATmark] nabeel.org

8. SS8: Signal Processing for Biomedical and Industrial Applications

   Outline: The main objective of the session is to focus on the technology accumulation, information and propagation about the latest advancements of signal processing in the fields of imaging, diagnostics, interface, systems control and communication for biomedical and industrial applications. Authors are gratefully encouraged to deliver their new developments to the concerned delegates and the participants of the session for the overall satisfaction of the conference.
   Organizer: Md. T. I. Khan, Saga University, Japan
   Email: khan [ATmark] me.saga-u.ac.jp

9. SS9: Soft computing for image processing and pattern searching

   Organizer: Pavel Vlasanek, Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
   Email: pavel.vlasanek [ATmark] osu.cz

10. SS10: Software Engineering for Quality Assurance

    Outline: Proper engineering processes can help to ensure the quality of a software product. Quality is always a concern throughout the entire software development lifecycle. The main objective of this session is to focus on various engineering techniques such as performance, security, scalability, testing, etc. of a software product. Authors are encouraged to submit their papers related to these software engineering aspects.
    Organizer:
    B M Mainul Hossain, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Email: mainul [ATmark] iit.du.ac.bd
    Shah Mostafa Khaled, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Email: khaled [ATmark] iit.du.ac.bd
    Md. Rayhanur Rahman, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Email: rayhanur.rahman [ATmark] iit.du.ac.bd
    Nadia Nahar, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Email: nadia [ATmark] iit.du.ac.bd

11. SS11: Signal and Image Processing for UAVs, Drones, Self-driving Cars, and Robotics

    Outline: This special session will showcase recent advances on signal and image processing for UAVs, Drones, IoT, Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics. A special journal issue will be launched after the conference.
    Organizer:
    Chowdhury Shahriar, Northrop Grumman Corporations, USA
    Email: cshahria [ATmark] vt.edu
    M Ahad, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Email: atiqahad [ATmark] du.ac.bd

12. SS12: Advanced Electro Active Polymer Materials and its Application

    Outline: Advanced Electro Active Polymer Materials and its Applications on Biomedical, Robotics, Space, Agriculture, etc. are under this special session. For any query, contact to the email below.
    Organizer:
    SRIJAN BHATTACHARYA, RCC Institute of Information Technology, India
    Email: srijaneie [ATmark] gmail.com

13. SS13: Advancements and Applications of Embedded Systems

    Outline: This session focuses on Real-time systems, Hardware/software co-design, Embedded systems architecture, Embedded software and hardware, Application-specific processors/devices, Embedded cybersecurity and cryptography.
    Organizer:
    Mohamad Khairi Ishak, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
    Email: khairiishak [ATmark] USM.MY

14. SS14: Brain Signal Processing

    Outline: This special session includes areas on: Brain computer interface, and applications based on EEG/MEG/fMRI.
    Organizer:
    Omar Farooq, Aligarh Muslim University, India
    Email: omar.farooq [ATmark] amu.ac.in

15. SS15: Artificial Intelligence in Distance Education

    Outline: In distance education, students are being taught based on tutorially designed learning materials and on his/her communication with the tutors instead of instructed by the physical presence of a tutor in a teaching classroom. In the last few years, a significant growth in distance education occurred, and it is still attracting an increasing number of participants. These web-based courses are providing a great support to the learners by taking advantage of the internet and at the same time they are offering great innovative possibilities. Many different artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning techniques are being used to facilitate the distance education platforms. The aim of this session is to present the recent research and development works related to artificial intelligence applications that can support distance education.
    Organizer:
    M. Ali Akber Dewan, Athabasca University, Canada
    Email: adewan [ATmark] athabascau.ca

16. SS16: Biomedical Image Analysis

    
    Organizer:
    Julius Hossain, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
    Email: julius.hossain [ATmark] embl.de

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