[Legacy Report] SPA 2010 Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications

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With pleasure I can announce that this was already the 14th IEEE Conference Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications (SPA) organized by the
Division of Signal Processing and Electronic Systems, affiliated with the Faculty of Computing (Chair of Control and System Engineering) at the Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland.

IEEE SPA Conferences grew up from Signal Processing (SP) Workshops organized by the Polish IEEE Circuits and Systems Chapter (CAS Chapter for short) since 1993. Starting with the second ten of the SP Workshops, the name of the meetings was supplemented by a subtitle: "Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications". Thus we are having now four reasons to use the abbreviation SPA instead of the previously used SP. The workshops have
been transformed into conferences and in 2008 the second Chapter of the IEEE Poland Section, namely the Signal Processing Chapter (SP Chapter for short), joint the conference organization.

As the pleasant name ``SPA'' usually means "sanus per aquam", we should associate our SPA meeting with the motto "healthy and happy due to signal processing algorithms, architectures, arrangements, and applications".

Among the SPA aims are: presentation of the newest achievements in a wide and interdisciplinary area of signal processing and integration of researchers active in this and in related fields of science and technology, as these specialists usually represent various and to some extent even disjoint scientific disciplines.

Distinguished scientists and experts were our guests and participants.

We were having three very interesting tutorial presentations, which covered a quite broad spectrum of signal processing problems and, as I hope, evoked strong resonance in the audience. Among others they were prepared by: Professor Christian Kollmitzer, Professor Piotr Targowski, and Professor Heinrich Theodor Vierhaus.

I am sure that also all other presentations, especially this given by Professor Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas, Arlington, USA, the co-inventor of the discrete cosine transform, were very interesting to all SPA 2010 participants.

The second day the SPA schedule contained presentations of chosen results of the European
Seventh Framework Programme INDECT ``Intelligent Information System Supporting Observation,
Searching, and Detection for Security of Citizens in Urban Environment''. Last but not least we offered three Lab View workshops. Two of them were prepared by specialists from National Instruments and the third one was prepared by the SPA organizers.

Professor Adam Dabrowski

Chairman of the Polish IEEE SP and CAS Chapters

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