A Green ICASSP 2020 in Virtual Barcelona
| Main Authors: | Pérez-Neira, Ana I., Mestre; Xavier |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4429919 |
Daftar Isi:
- One of our goals when we started to organize ICASSP in Barcelona was to promote an environmentally conscious conference, trying to reduce the use of paper, recycling plastic badges, replacing USB proceedings with electronic downloads and promoting the use of electronic tools as an alternative to the conference booklet. Now that the conference is over, we can say that we promised a green ICASSP and we certainly delivered! It goes without saying that the conference we had originally planned for was quite different from what it eventually turned out to be. In fact, our plans for ICASSP were continuously evolving according to a rapidly changing reality dictated by a pandemic that moved forward beyond the imaginable. At the beginning, there was a common believe that the pandemic would only affect some geographical areas of the globe, so our efforts were devoted to identifying the mostly affected sessions and moving them physically to an area of the conference venue that would permit remote presentations. At one point, we even tried to hire LCD screens for remote paper presentations and included a pair of Bluetooth earbuds as part of the registration package in order to have virtual poster sessions. Unfortunately, seven weeks before the conference started, we had to make the difficult decision of moving the conference to a fully virtual event. Judging by the current numbers, ICASSP’2020 has been a tremendous success. The total number of registrants is now over 16, 000, which is more than five times the highest number of registrants that ICASSP has ever had! Also, our 18 industry sponsors have been extremely supportive. This has created a great opportunity not only for academic interaction, but also for participating in the diverse industry activities. This conference has been the result of a team work, and this has been a wonderful experience. We have realized and sensed that there is an alive SPS community, active and supportive. The Technical Program Chairs, Markus Rupp, Christian Jutten and Pascale Fung have been proactive from day zero and key to build the foundations of ICASSP’2020. We thank them and also the whole organizing committee, and IEEE SPS staff, who incredibly teamed up in the last mile, when we decided to go fully virtual. Without them, this conference would not have been a reality. The result has been a colorful program that offered a wide range of activities, and which content has been available one month after the end of the conference in May (i.e., available till June 8th).
- NO ACK.