The Signal Processing Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research
and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) is organizing the international Winter School on Speech and Audio
Processing for Immersive Environments and Future Interfaces of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
(IEEE SPS Winter School on SAIE 2012, http://www.s3p-saie.eu/), which will take place during
January 16 – 20 2012, in FORTH, in Heraklion Crete, Greece.

The Winter School involves a series of lectures from distinguished researchers from all over the world
and is focused on current research trends and applications in the areas of audio and speech signal
processing. The Winter School also involves "hands-on" sessions, where students will be able to
work on practical aspects of speech and audio signal processing, as well as "demo" sessions where
researchers from FORTH and other institutes will demonstrate their implemented systems in these
fields.

This Winter School is the 4th in the Series of "Seasonal Schools in Signal Processsing" (S3P Program)
of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Previous Seasonal Schools were organized in The Netherlands,
Austria, and Taiwan. In the Winter School at FORTH, forty students and professionals will participate
from all around the world, with the opportunity to attend lectures taught by world-renowned
researchers and to have a close interaction with them, but also to meet each other to strengthen the
audio and speech research community.