Call for Papers

welcome to SPICES 2026

IEEE SPICES has established itself as a flagship international conference series of the IEEE Kerala Section, fostering interdisciplinary research and collaboration in signal processing, informatics, communication, energy systems, and related fields since its inception.

Track 1: Signal Processing:

Speech and Audio Signal Processing, Image and Video Signal Processing, Remote Sensing, Multidimensional Signal Processing, Multirate Signal Processing, Wavelets and Filter Banks, Non-Linear Signal Processing, Bio-Medical Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Sensors and Sensing Techniques.

Track 2: Next Generation Communication Networks:

Antennas and Propogation, Cognitive radio systems and Networking, Multicarrier Communication Systems, Secure Communications and Cryptography, Space time coding and MIMO, Underwater Wireless Communication, Green telecommunications, Industrial electronics, IoT and Sensor Networks, Mobile & Wireless Networks, Next-Generation Networking and Internet, Optical Networks & Systems, Satellite and Space Communications, Smart Grid Communications, ADHOC and Sensor Networks, Network Security, Social Media and Networking, Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management in Networks.

Track 3: Intelligent Computing:

Multi-Core Processing, Databases and Data Mining Applications, Distributed Databases, Query and Search Engine Optimization, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, Algorithms for Numerical Linear Algebra and Data Structures, Large Scale Graph Analytics, High Performance Computing, Big Data Computing and its Applications, Hardware Acceleration for Parallel Applications, Parallelism in Scientific Data Visualization and Visual Analytics, Scientific/Engineering/Industrial Applications and Workloads, Exascale Computing and Cloud Platforms, Data Center Architectures and Services, Parallel Languages, Programming Environments and Performance Assessment, Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators.

Track :4 Cognitive Robotics:

Autonomous Agents, Cognitive Approach for Robotics, Collective and Social Robots, Control and Supervision Systems, Drones and Internet of Things for Surveillance, Engineering Applications on Robotics and Automation, Navigation and Control, Human-Machine Interfaces, Humanoid Robots, Human-Robots Interfaces, Industrial Networks and Automation, Intelligent Transportation Technologies and Systems, Mechatronics Systems, Mobile Robots and Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Modelling-Simulation and Architecture, Network Robotics, Perception and Awareness, Robot Design, Development and Control, Space and Underwater Robots, Surveillance, Fault Detection and Diagnosis, Telerobotics and Teleoperation, Vehicle Control Applications, Virtual Environment, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Recognition and Reconstruction.

Track 5: Advanced Analytics and AI Integration :

Machine Learning Theories, Models and Systems, Clustering, Classification and Regression Methods, Application of hybrid artificial intelligence approaches, Genetic programming, Business Data Analytics, Deep Learning and Deep Analytics, Healthcare and Clinical Decision, Human Activity Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Statistical Learning Theory, Scalable Analysis and Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, High Performance Computing for Data Analytics, Architecture Management and Process for Data Science, Data Science Meets Social Science, Security-Trust and Risk in Big Data, Data Integrity, Matching and Sharing, Privacy Preserving Big Data Access/Analytics, Bringing Big data to its knees by Deep Learning techniques, AI enabled Digital Solutions.

Track 6: Smart Energy Technologies:

Transportation and traffic systems, Smart city - modeling and simulation, Smart environment & ecosystems, Policy development, Mobility and transportation, Digital city and smart growth, Sustainability and energy efficiency, Intelligent infrastructure, Vehicle-to-infrastructure integration, Smart Urban Planning & Design Solutions, Technology Enabled Homes and Interiors, Robots Capabilities in Smart Cities, Smart buildings or Intelligent Infrastructure, Smart transportation and traffic systems, Smart emergency management.

Track 7: Instrumentation for Smart Systems:

Adaptive/Robust systems and control, Aerospace/Flight control and Surveillance systems, Emerging control theory and applications, Fractional order systems and control, Intelligent control and instrumentation, Process control and industrial automation, Non-linear control systems, Novel Instrumentation for Process Measurement, Optimization and optimal Control, Predictive control, Process control, Micro and Nanotechnology in Instrumentation and Measurement, Advances in modern instrumentation.

Track 8: Power Electronics and Smart Grids:

Intelligent micro-grids, Hybrid Renewable sources, Power system modeling and simulation, Power system planning and operation, Energy conversion techniques, Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Power electronics and Industrial Drives, Modelling-Simulation and Control of Power converters, Smart Devices & Metering, Fault Diagnosis, Condition monitoring, and Reliability of Electric Drives, Green Power and Energy Technologies, Smart Distributed and Autonomous Energy Systems, Energy Storage Systems, Power System Transients and Testing, Information and Communication infrastructure for future power systems.