As the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications, the 43rdedition of ICASSP attracted 2,300 attendees and 28 high-caliber exhibitors spanning 21,000 square feet of expo space.

Touting the theme “Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (AI): Changing the World,” the four-day conference featured several high-profile speakers and 150 educational sessions and meetings covering tech trends ranging from cyber security to how machine learning and AI is impacting society and technology. 

“Signal processing methods are powerful enablers of many modern technologies including communications, autonomous systems and intelligent devices or machines,” said Ali H. Sayed, president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, prior to the event. 

He added, “This conference will showcase the breadth and reach of our discipline.” 

Designed to introduce new developments in computer vision, speech recognition, speech synthesis and additional technologies underlying our digital life, ICASSP provides researchers and engineers with an engaging forum to exchange ideas and presenters with a platform to get their work peer-reviewed and published in conference proceedings, according to show officials.

Leading tech speakers included: 

• Yann LeCun, director of AI Research at Facebook and inventor of the convolutional network method that is widely used for image, video and speech recognition. 
• Alex Acero, senior director at Apple, in charge of speech recognition, speech synthesis and machine translation for Siri, Apple’s personal assistant for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Carplay, Macintosh and HomePod. 
• Luc Vincent, vice president of engineering at Lyft, where he leads the company’s Marketplace and Autonomous Platform division.