| Chairs Dinesh Kant Kumar
 School of Electrical and Computer System Engineering, RMIT University,
 Melbourne, Australia
 
 Hugo Gamboa
 Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal,
 Setúbal, Portugal
 Workshop Background and Goals
 Biological signals have become present in a wide range of applications 
                based on several areas related to signal acquisition and signal 
                classification. These types of signals have constructed a multidisciplinary 
                view where experts from life sciences join the engineering producing 
                some of the most notable present time systems working in the limits 
                of the human research. We have seen the opening of fertile new 
                areas discovering and explaining some of the complexity of the 
                human being, uncovering part of the mysteries of our body, brain 
                and genetic code. Our first edition of the workshop in Biosignal 
                Processing and Classification, aims to join the multidisciplinary 
                views of scientist that are producing insight work in the fields 
                related with Biosignals.
 
 
 Topics of interest include, but are not 
                limited to:
 Biosignal analysis and interpretation:
 - EEG, EP, EVP
 - EMG, sEMG, Facial EMG
 - ECG, BP, IBI, HRV
 - SK
 - Plethysmograph, Respiration measure
 - EOG, ERG, Eye gaze
 Biosignal processing techniques:- Statistical techniques
 - Independent Component Analysis
 - Time domain approaches
 - Frequency domain approaches
 - Wavelet based analysis
 - Biosignal feature extraction
 
 Biosignal classification techniques:
 - Supervised classification techniques
 - Unsupervised classification techniques
 - Artificial Neural Networks
 - Wavelet Networks
 - Syntactic approaches
 
 Biosignal systems:
 - Acquisition techniques
 - Handheld systems
 - Unimodal dedicated systems
 - Multimodal systems
 - Wireless transmission of biosignals
 - Biometric systems based on biosignals
 
 Biosignal applications areas:
 - Health monitoring
 - Human Computer Interaction
 - 2D and 3D Medical Imagining
 - Performance in sports using biosignals
 - Rehabilitation using biofeedback
 - Music, arts and entertainment
 - Biosignals in assistive technologies
 - Affective state detection
 - Stress detection
 - Cognition Overload
 Invited Speakers
 - Prof. Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, 
                U.K.
 Brief Bio:
 Kevin Warwick is a Professor of Cybernetics at the University 
                of Reading, UK where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, 
                control, robotics and cyborgs. He is also Director of the University 
                TTI Centre, which links the University with SME's and raises over 
                £2 million each year in research income. Kevin was born in Coventry, 
                UK and left school to join British Telecom, at the age of 16. 
                At 22 he took his first degree at Aston University, followed by 
                a PhD and research post at Imperial College, London. He subsequently 
                held positions at Oxford, Newcastle and Warwick Universities before 
                being offered the Chair at Reading, at the age of 32. As well 
                as publishing over 400 research papers, Kevin has appeared, on 
                3 separate occasions, in the Guinness Book of Records for his 
                robotics and Cyborg achievements. His paperback 'In the Mind of 
                the Machine' considered the possibility of machines in the future 
                being more intelligent than humans. His recent Cyborg experiments 
                however led to him being featured as the cover story on the US 
                magazine, 'Wired'. Kevin has been awarded higher doctorates both 
                by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. 
                He was presented with The Future of Health Technology Award in 
                MIT and was made an Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, 
                St. Petersburg. In 2000 Kevin presented the Royal Institution 
                Christmas Lectures, entitled "The Rise of the Robots".
 Workshop Program Committee
 Allan Kardec Barros, University of Sao Luiz, 
                Brazil
 Jim Bezdek, University of Florida, U.S.A
 Vince D. Calhoun, Yale University, U.S.A.
 Alberto Cliqute, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
 Ana Fred, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 E. Gaura, Coventry University, U.K.
 Jayadeva, IIT Delhi, India
 Dinesh K. Kumar, RMIT University, Australia
 Jan Larsen, Denmark Tech University, Denmark
 Yee Hong Leung, Curtin University of Technology, 
                Australia
 Hung T. Nguyen, University of Technology, Australia
 Jussi Parkkinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
 Serge H. Roy, Boston University, U.S.A.
 António Veloso, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, 
                Portugal
 Hans Weghorn, University of BA in Stuttgart, 
                Germany
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