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The following topics were dealt with: audio coding; signal enhancement; source separation; microphone and loudspeaker array signal processing; acoustic echo control; active noise control; sound perception; audio analysis and synthesis; multichannel biomedical signal processing; biomedical image processing; bioinformatics; scalable and multiview video coding; image filtering; stereoscopic and 3-D processing; video segmentation and tracking; feature extraction; image superresolution; biometrics; motion estimation; stereo processing; image coding; remote sensing imagery; image retrieval; image quality assessment; image modeling; video modeling; image restoration; intelligent vehicle applications; security methods for physical devices and media; data hiding methods in speech and audio; authentication; watermarking; fingerprinting; signal decomposition; learning methods; MLSP applications; statistical modelling techniques; signal extraction; dimensionality reduction; multimedia synchronization; multimedia indexing and retrieval; multimodal systems and applications; multimedia database; video transmission and coding systems; beamforming and space-time adaptive processing; sensor networks; sensor array processing; multi-antenna processing for wireless communications; signal processing education; cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum management; resource allocation; optimisation; game theory; precoding; sensor networks; distributed estimation; consensus averaging; information theory and networking; MIMO detection and decoding; OFDM; relay and cooperative systems; channel estimation and equalisation; space-time coding; vector precoding; diversity, blind estimation and performance analysis; cooperative processing over adaptive networks; compressed sensing; Monte Carlo methods for detection and estimation; sampling theory; nonstationary signal analysis; adaptive filters; digital and multirate filtering; signal reconstruction; multimedia social networks; signal processing for n- ural spike trains; multimedia surveillance; video search and event analysis; voice transformation; interference channels; spectrum sharing; robot audition; consensus gossiping; handling reverberant speech; discriminative training for ASR; robust speech recognition; voice conversion; voice search; spoken term detection; speaker verification; speaker diarization and clustering; speaker recognition; large vocabulary ASR; language and dialect identification; speech adaptation; speech enhancement; speech production, perception and analysis; spoken language understanding; language modeling and machine learning for speech processing; machine translation; dialog system; language acquisition and annotation; speech retrieval; and speech mining.