ICIP 2026, in collaboration with the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Education Board, is offering education short courses at the conference. These courses will offer Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) certificates to those who complete them. Given that students, academics, and industry researchers and practitioners worldwide have diverse interests and areas of expertise, the SPS goal is to develop meaningful methods of offering beneficial and relevant courses in support of our members’ educational needs.
Short-course proposals are invited in the broader areas of image processing, imaging, and vision, covering theory, methods, systems, and applications. An extended list of conference topics of interest can found at https://2026.ieeeicip.org/topics/. However, topics closely related to those of the short courses presented in past ICIP and ICASSP conferences will not be considered.
General Information
Duration: each short course should have a total duration of either 6 or 9 hours and be delivered on September 13 and 14 in sessions of 3 hours each (inclusive of a 20-minute break), with no more than two sessions per day and at most one session on September 14.
Coverage: Short courses should be different from tutorials and aim for a broader view covering a wide spectrum of ideas and results in their area, and not focus only on research results from a specific individual or group.
Both established and emerging topics in signal processing are welcome. We also encourage experiential, hands-on components that introduce methods and tools.
Target Audience: 1) students, 2) researchers from universities or research labs/centers and industry, and/or 3) signal processing engineers and practitioners from industry.
Availability: ICIP 2026 Short Courses will only be available for in person attendance and the Short Course presenters are required to deliver the courses in person during ICIP 2026 with no virtual components. The maximum number of presenters per course is three. All short courses will be recorded for potential future use.
Exercise materials/Certificates: To enhance a deeper and multi-sided understanding of the course content, some exercise materials, and possibly some hands-on experimentation should be available for the course attendees.
Essential information to be included in a short course proposal:
- Title of the course.
- Presenter’s name, contact information, short biography including previous experience related to organizing and delivering short courses, and a maximum of five recent related publications (for each presenter).
- Abstract (maximum 250 words)
- Course description (max 5 pages excluding references and additional teaching materials, single column, 12pt):
- The rationale for the short course, including its importance, timeliness, broad usefulness, and how it can possibly introduce new ideas, topics, and tools to the SP community. A detailed description of the short course outlining the learning goals and the topics and subtopics covered. A description of any supporting course resources, e.g., books, notes, etc. A description of hands-on or lab components of the short course. A statement of any previous or related versions of this short course. A description of target attendees, and the expected prerequisite technical knowledge. A list of references.
- Although it doesn’t have to be complete, any available slides and hands-on lab materials could help the review committee understand the proposed course. We accept URL links to the external materials that host those teaching materials if they don’t fit in the PDF.
Short course proposals will be peer-reviewed based on the above information. Their review will be supervised by the SPS Education Board. The titles of selected short courses will be posted on the conference webpage. Short courses that do not attract sufficient registrants may be canceled. Subject to the agreement of the presenter(s), some of the short-course proposals may be selected for online presentation at a later stage separate from ICIP 2026.
We request your acknowledgement that all accepted short-course instructors will be willing and available to review technical edits during possible post-course production. Additionally, instructors must promptly provide any necessary course material upon request.
Submission Instructions
Proposals should be via the paper management system (to be opened in December 2025).
Important Dates
Short Courses Proposal submission due: December 17, 2025
Notification of acceptance: January 14, 2026
Education and Tutorial Chairs
Brendt Wohlberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Giacomo Boracchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
SPS Education Program Manager
Michelle Demydenko
SPS Education Board Liaison
Wei Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
All inquiries should be sent via e-mail to [email protected]