Complete Program Flow for Thematic Symposia (TSs)
Thematic Symposia (TSs) and Other Sessions at a Glance
This year the organizing committee of ICASSP 2009 tried to organize a new form of technical program as an experiment, referred to as Thematic Symposia (TSs). A Thematic Symposium (TS) is a link of multiple sessions of different types (plenaries, tutorials, special sessions, panels, regular lecture/poster sessions) sharing some common technical emphases, or the theme. An overview talk session is then assigned to this TS aiming at enhancing cross-disciplinary interaction and broad education. With the great help from all the Technical Committees (TCs), a total of 4 TSs were produced by clustering the sessions organized from accepted submitted papers. They are embedded in the existing very broad ICASSP program: