Welcome to the 17th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2010. Welcome to Rio de Janeiro – Brazil!

IWSSIP'10 brings together researchers and developers from both academia and industry to report on the latest scientific and theoretical advances, to discuss and debate major issues and to demonstrate state-of-the-art systems.

The 2010 conference takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the 17th to the 19th of June. The IWSSIP 2010 is organized by the Federal Fluminense University - UFF, Brazil, in co-operation with SBC, ABCM, LATEC, ABEPRO, IEEE Latin America Transactions and IEEE Region 9 / Latin American / South Brazil Section and Bahia Section. The conference is sponsored by CAPES-MEC, Computer Institute-IC and PROPPI/ UFF.

The IWSSIP’2010 proceedings include invited lectures by eminent experts and peer reviewed contributed papers on related topics. All papers were evaluated by at least two reviewers. After reviewing process, the Editorial Committee has selected 126 papers from 192 submitted. The papers are from 38 countries and are mainly in the following topics: Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Image and Video Processing and Coding. We would like to express our thanks to all the reviewers for their kindly effort within the review process.

We hope that this meeting will be useful for those interested in the state-of-the-art of theoretical, experimental and applied signal, systems and image processing techniques.

Finally, we wish to all participants a pleasant time in Rio de Janeiro, enjoying our conference, taking the opportunity to establish contacts and to make new friends!