IMDSP Minutes: ICASSP 2001 Salt Lake City Convened at 11:30 Present: Members: Sicuranza, Dubois, Chou, Yagle, Gray Mitra, Pitas, Salembier, Ortega, Apostolopoulos Guests: Dugelay, Kotropoulos icip 2001 New and old members: Retiring: Thanks for your service! Bouman, Prof. Charles A. (4/01) Civanlar, Dr. M. Reha (4/01) Delp, Prof. Edward J. (1/01) Dubois, Prof. Eric (4/01) Lagendijk, Dr. Reginald (4/01) Mitra, Prof. Sanjit (4/01) New: Effros, Michelle (4/07) Doerschuk, Peter C. (4/07) Guillemot, Christine (4/07) Torres, Luis (4/07) Nishitani, Takao (4/07) The next IMDSP election will be held in the fall, please send nominations in October (I will solicit them by email). TC Officers: traditionally Vice Chair (Thrassos) becomes chair and retiring TC Chair nominates new Vice Chair. We have effectively assumed that the Vice Chair was the "Chair Elect." But by old and new bylaws, other nominations of members can be submitted. So officer election will be put to email vote along with new members in the fall. Officers take over in January. Technical Directions Committee: Phil chou will represent IMDSP at the Technical Directions Committee. The topics of that meeting were briefly discussed: -Signal processing topics (the question was raised what these are used for) -IEEE finances -TC Website: Charlie Bouman wishes to pass it on. Phil Chou and Bob Gray will seek a new home for the Website. -elections compliance **(Phil's subsequent report on the Technical Directions Committee meeting is appended below for your information.) Awards: Thanks to Phil for his work coordinating the nominations received. The TC did contribute to major awards nominations and a Signal Processing Magazine prize. The TC did not produce other paper prize nominations. The deadline for this round has been extended to 5/21 and additional nominations would be greatly appreciated.) A request was made for suggestions and volunteers for special issues of the SP Magazine. We have not had an IMDSP Workshop since Austria. Rama Chellappa has indicated he is considering a proposal for a 2002 Workshop. I have an ascii copy of the workshop manual if anyone is interested. A suggestion has also been made that we combine a future IMDSP workshop with the Picture Coding Symposium crowd. An afterthought: we could coordinate an IMDSP session or miniworkshop with the annual Data Compression Conference (DCC) (for the image/video coding and compression side of IMDSP). Society conferences were discussed. Pappas circulated an email report on ICIP 2001 prior to the meeting. The choice of Program Chair and the construction of the reviewer list followed TC bylaws. Yannis Pitas gave a report on the status of ICIP 2001 Thessalaniki. There was concern expressed regarding the increasing percentage of students (a good thing) resulting in lower conference income (a bad thing). Future conference and workshop proposers need to keep this fluctuation in mind. ***Afternote: This conference requires that at least one author of each paper actually register at full IEEE member rates in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings and the deadline was 5/15. Jean-Luc Dugelay mentioned the MultiMedia SP workshop in Cannes to be held just prior to ICIP 2001. Future Conferences: ICIP 2002 Rochester ICIP 2003 Barcelona ICIP 2004 No proposals yet, but both Singapore and Rio have been invited to consider submitting one. Please encourage others to do so as well. ICIP 2005 have a proposal for Genoa (Regazzoni/Vernazza) Formal approval will be requested at Thessaloniki ICASSP 2001 Orlando ICASSP 2003 Hong Kong ICASSP 2004 Montreal ICASSP 2005 proposal for Philadelphia (Petropulu) approved Brief mention of the BOG and Long Range Planning meetings. Finished at 12:30 Addendum: Technical Directions Committee Meeting Agenda with notes by Phil Chou. > > 1. Topics List - see separate attached file of signal processing topic areas. I would like your guidance on any updates needed for this list. > I want to finalize the revised version of the list by the TDC meeting at ICASSP. The "Topics List" is used for the general media. The IEEE has a brochure produced by the IEEE Publicity Office that the media (journalists, etc.) refer to when they have a technical question. The "Topics List" is used by the IEEE to direct the journalists to the appropriate IEEE society, and then Mercy can direct them to the appropriate person within the SP Society, usually a TC chair. At the meeting, there was some discussion of what should go into the Topics List, but that devolved into the following plan: Rich will ping the TC chairs by email, asking for suggestions for additions to the Topics List. Each TC chair will mail back their suggested additions. Rich will take the union of these suggestions, and send them out to all the TC chairs for final comments. Rich did not take our handwritten suggested additions, but wanted them by email so he could edit them more easily. So I am transcribing them for you below: Estimation and Identification Multimedia SP Radar Signal Processing Video Processing Wireless Digital Library Image & Video Quality Assessment Optical Signal Processing Texture Analysis Evolvable Hardware Quantum Computing Signal Restoration Signal Recovery (Inverse Problems) Quantization Nonlinear Signal Processing Multimedia Information Retrieval Mathematical Morphology > 2. State of IEEE Finances and its impact on SPS - as an introduction to > this topic, IEEE Corporate ran a huge deficit in 2000. The stock market > bombed. Everyone's investments dropped due to the stock market. SPS > investments lost 9% of their value. Due to Corporate's huge deficit, > the Corporate portion of the reserves were wiped out. To make up for > the rest of the deficit, individual Society reserves were taxed. Our > taxes were $851K, thus further reducing our reserves. (The prediction > at the beginning of 2000 was that this tax would be $625K.) Predictions > for 2001 are even worse, with the estimated tax being $1,393,000. We > will discuss what this means to your technical committee in specific > terms The bottom line for our TC is that as we are running workshops, please be cognizant of this financial situation. So not only must we budget accurately (even conservatively), but we must also close the books quickly, both to avoid IEEE penalties and to get the money in quickly. > 3. Websites - I have previously sent email asking if your TC has a > website, whether it is current, and what is on it. We will discuss this > a little further. SPIB is looking for a new home. Rich wants each TC web site to be hosted locally (i.e., by someone on the TC). He wants the pages to be kept up to date (e.g., with current members). He wants each TC site to link to the SP Society home page and vice versa. Rich will send out email to the TC chairs with pointers to all the TC web sites, so that we can visit each other's sites and converge on best practices. > 4. Timing of Elections for new members to a TC - It is an SPS policy > that all terms for both members and chairs of the TCs would be based on > a calendar year, Jan. 1 through Dec. 31. In order to implement this, > all elections must be held prior to Dec. 31. Once elections are > completed, results with the new roster of TC members should be forwarded > to the Society Office. Some TCs are still not in compliance with this > policy. No-op for IMDSP TC. We're in compliance. > 5. New Directions/Emerging Areas - a small, separate committee has been > formed to monitor emerging technologies that are relevant to signal > processing. Jelena Kovacevic is chair of a new committee to monitor new trends that the SP Society may want to keep track of and consider for new activities. Rich encourages the TCs to hold "Emerging Technology Symposia," which might be 2.5 day events with about 10 mini-tutorials on emerging technology. > 6. Any Other Business from your Committee Meetings None.