Call for Papers

Instructions for Poster Presentations

11th Digital Signal Processing Workshop
3rd Signal Processing Education Workshop

Instructions for Poster Presentations

All papers accepted for the DSP and SPE Workshops will be presented during poster sessions that last approximately 2 hours. Authors will be provided with two poster boards, each 4 feet by 4 feet, for paper presentation. On the day of your presentation, authors are encouraged to meet at breakfast with the chairperson and other authors presenting during the Poster Session.

The schedule for the DSP & SPE Workshop poster sessions and the names of corresponding session chairpersons can be found at:

http://www.dsp2004.nmsu.edu/techprog.html

Poster sessions are a good medium for authors to present papers and meet with interested attendees for in-depth technical discussions. In addition, attendees find the poster sessions a good way to sample many papers in parallel sessions. Thus it is important that you display your message clearly and noticeably to attract people who might have an interest in your paper.

Your poster should cover the key points of your work. It need not, and should not, attempt to include all the details; you can describe them in person to people who are interested. The ideal poster is designed to attract attention, provide a brief overview of your work, and initiate discussion. Carefully and completely prepare your poster well in advance of the Workshop. Try tacking up the poster before you leave for the workshop to see what it will look like and to make sure that you have all of the necessary pieces.

For your poster presentation, two poster boards will be provided, each of which measures 4 feet tall by 4 feet wide. The poster boards will be placed close to one another, side by side (landscape orientation). Push tacks or Velcro adhesive will be provided at the conference to mount your poster to the boards.

The title of your poster should appear at the top in CAPITAL letters about 25mm high. Below the title put the author(s)' name(s) and affiliation(s). The flow of your poster should be from the top left to the bottom right. Use arrows to lead your viewer through the poster. Use color for highlighting and to make your poster more attractive. Use pictures, diagrams, cartoons, figures, etc., rather than text wherever possible. Try to state your main result in 6 lines or less, in lettering about 15mm high so that people can read the poster from a distance. The smallest text on your poster should be at least 9mm high, and the important points should be in a larger size. Use a sans-serif font (such as "cmss" in the Computer Modern family or the "Helvetica" PostScript font) to make the print easier to read from a distance.

Make your poster as self-explanatory as possible. This will save your efforts for technical discussions. There will not be any summaries given at the beginning of the poster sessions at the DSP or SPE Workshops, so authors need not prepare any overhead slides for their poster presentations. You may bring additional battery-operated audio or visual aids to enhance your presentation, but please keep an eye on your equipment to reduce the possibility of theft.

Prepare a short presentation of about 5 or 10 minutes that you can periodically give to those assembled around your poster throughout the 1.7-2 hour poster session. If possible, more than one author should attend the session to aid in presentations and discussions, and to provide the presenters with the chance to rest or briefly view other posters.

*****A note of recognition and thanks goes to the Organization Committee of the 2004 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing and the Conference Management Services (CMS) who allowed the DSP and SPE Workshops to copy most of the above text from the ICASSP'04 web site.