Travel Support for Student Participation in the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

国际声学语音与信号处理会议（ICASSP）是一年一度的盛会，是信号处理界最广泛参与的专家聚会。2014年，它将在意大利佛罗伦萨举行。从历史上看，大约25%的ICASSP参与者是学生。这是一个非常健康的统计数据，因为这门无所不在的学科的未来在很大程度上取决于将信号处理作为自己研究领域的年轻人的数量。许多学生是被认可论文的合著者，并在会议上发表演讲。对他们来说，ICASSP是一个独特的机会，可以与该领域的许多领导者会面，并通过接触与自己不同的研究领域来拓宽视野。对于他们来说，这次会议也是一个很好的机会，可以开始与可能成为他们未来合作者的人建立联系。不幸的是，预计参加佛罗伦萨会议的美国学生人数将比平时少。这主要是由于从北美到佛罗伦萨的旅行费用很高。该提案旨在为其中一些学生提供旅行支持，从而确保更好地代表美国学生参加ICASSP 2014。

The International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) is an annual event, and is the most widely-attended gathering of experts from the signal processing community. In 2014, it will take place in Florence, Italy. Historically, about 25% of the ICASSP participants have been students. This is a very healthy statistic because the future of this all-pervasive discipline is largely determined by the number of young people adopting signal processing as their field of endeavor. Many of the students are coauthors of accepted papers and presenters at the conference. For them, ICASSP is a unique opportunity to meet many of the leaders in the field and to broaden their horizons by being exposed to areas of research different from their own. The conference is also an excellent opportunity for them to start networking with people who will likely be their future collaborators. Unfortunately is expected that the number of US-based students attending the conference in Florence will be smaller than usual. This is largely due to the high travel costs to get to Florence from North America. This proposal aims at providing travel support for some of these students, hence, insuring better representation of US students at ICASSP 2014.