Abstract :
Cairo, Egypt, will host the 2009 IEEE International Con ference on Image Processing (ICIP) 7¿11 November 2009. This is the first time that ICIP will be held in the Middle East and only the second time that any major IEEE Signal Processing Society conference, ICASSP or ICIP, is taking place in this region (the first conference was ICASSP, which took place in Istanbul). ICIP 2009 is one of the main Society initiatives to reach out and have a signal processing global impact.