Foreword from general chair: “Technical knowledge sharing in signal processing with a historic backdrop”

Selamat Datang (Welcome!) to the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications or more fondly known as IEEE ICSIPA 2013. As the 3rd in the series, this flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (Malaysia) (awarded Best Signal Processing Chapter 2011) has a good reputation for quality and a forum for valuable exchange of knowledge. It gains participation of esteemed researchers from both the local and international arena. This year, 169 papers were submitted by authors from various countries, with the majority being international authors. Of these, about 48% the papers were accepted and are to be presented at the conference.