IMDSP Minutes: ICASSP 2002
IMDSP TC Minutes, May 15, 2002 
ICASSP-2002 Orlando, Florida 
(0) Attendance: 
Yucel Altunbasak, John Apostolopoulos, Philip Chou, Mita Desai, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Peter Doerschuk, Janusz Konrad, Jelena Kovacevic, Pierre Moulin, Thrasos Pappas, Ioannis Pitas, Kannan Ramchandran (?), Philippe Salembier, Luis Torres, Josiane Zerubia 
Guests: Monty Hayes (ICIP-06, Atlanta), Alex Kot (ICIP-04, Singapore) 
There was no quorum (14 members present, out of 34) 
(1) ICIPs: 
- ICIP-2001 (Thessaloniki, Greece, October 10-14, 2001) Report by I. Pitas (general chair), C. Cotropoulos (finance chair), and T. Pappas (technical program co-chair): 
1540 regular submissions (record) 940 registrations 150 cancellations Technical program was successful despite 9/11 events Publicity was critical for the success of the conference Final budget showed 25% surplus 
- ICIP-2002 (Rochester, New York, September 22-25, 2002) No report 
- ICIP-2003 (Barcelona, Spain, September 14-17, 2003) Report by L. Torres (general chair) and P. Salembier (technical program co-chair): 
Contract signed Final call for papers (is it out already?) Selected SubiSoft (Finish company) for software for paper management Budget update Social program being decided Discussed two conference center alternatives and hotels 
- ICIP-2004 (Singapore, approved by the Conference Board) Report by Alex Kot 
Budget approved Change in convention center discussed Local conference management services Software company options discussed Concerns raised: security, publicity It was recommended that email notices be timed carefully 
Pitas brought up insurance issue for conference events, but difficulty of defining dangers was recognized. 
- ICIP-2005 (Genoa, Italy, approved by the Conference Board on 5-16) No report 
- ICIP-2006 (Atlanta, Georgia) Informal proposal discussed by Monty Hayes and Yucel Altunbasak Discussed hotels and venue 
- ICIP-2007 (Southern California) Informal proposal by Antonio Ortega (via email) 
(2) The next IMDSP workshop: Pappas discussed possible proposal by Feng Zhao (PARC) for a workshop on "Distributed sensors and collaborative signal processing" at a Northern California site. Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) TC, NSF, DARPA mentioned as possible co-sponsors. June/July 2003 date discussed. Issues raised: How specialized would it be? How strong would the networking component be? Should there be two-page summaries, four-page full papers, or both? Other issues: Is the workshop competing with MMSP? Co-organization with Europe? 
(3) Report on awards (Phil Chou) Presented and discussed results of paper nomination voting; Other issues discussed: 3 year eligibility limit; impact of nominated papers; citations; self-nominations, nomination rules; TC members whose papers are voted on do not vote; 3 or 4 way tie resolution clarification; 
(4) ICIP and ICASSP Reviewer lists: Pappas brought up issue of ownership of the ICIP and ICASSP reviewer lists and discussed need for explicit requirement that the conference management companies deliver the updated lists to the society in a standard format that contains all the necessary information (names, affiliations, emails, phone numbers, etc.). 
(5) Other issues discussed: - ICIP rule for conference registration (one full registration per paper) - Nominations for Distinguished Lecturers needed for next year