IMDSP TC Meeting - ICASSP 2005 - Tuesday March 22, 11:30am-1pm

+ ICIP:

Reports were provided for the following ICIPs. 

- ICIP 2005 - Genoa (Sicuranza)
     
     Record number of submission (2100+)

- ICIP 2006 - Atlanta (Altunbasak)

     Plenaries were discussed 

ICIP 2007 - New Orleans (Rodriguez)

There was a discussion of several ICIP informal proposals and general 
encouragement for the teams to do further work to get formal proposals
ready. 

ICIP 2008* - San Diego (Ortega)
ICIP 2009* - Brussels (Macq)
ICIP 2009* - Alexandria (Karam)

+ Awards (Hemami)

  - Discussion of papers at ICIP 2005 TC meeting, this idea and a
    pre-nomination process were endorsed by the TC. Sheila Hemami
    will solicit pre-nominations, then nomination letters and after
    an initial round of voting the finalist will be discussed at
    the TC meeting at ICIP 2005. 

+ ICASSP Best Student Paper Award (Ortega)

  - Discussion of proposed procedure: papers to be avaluated based on
    reviews/ranking from multiple TC members. The TC members involved
    read the papers and possibly also attend the presentations.  Each
    paper should be evaluated by at least 3 TC members. To make a
    decision we count the ranking of the paper by each reviewer as
    points and the papers with fewer points (higher ranking are
    chosen).
  

+ Special sessions (Goyal)

  - Guidelines, current and/or desirable, for organization of 
    special sessions. There was a discussion on this topic. It
    was felt that it would be good to provide guidelines so 
    all conferences use a similar process, e.g., all conferences
    review papers in special sessions. Also, it was not clear to 
    TC members what would be desired topics for these special 
    topics (focused sessions on topics within the scope of the 
    conference vs new emerging topics that cut across disciplines). 

+ New TC on Information Forensics and Security (IFS) (Ortega)

  - Now that TIFS is about to start, is there support for a TC
    in this area. There were no objections from those present. 

+ TC Chair/Vice Chair Elections (Ortega) 

+ IMDSP Workshop (Ortega)