IMDSP TC Minutes: ICIP 2003
IMDSP TC Minutes, September 15, 2003
ICIP-2003
Barcelona, Spain

(0) Attendance:

Kiyoharu Aizawa, Yucel Altunbasak, John Apostolopoulos, Shih-Fu
Chang, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Vivek Goyal, Robert Gray, Christine
Guillemot, Sheila Hemami, Benoit Macq, B.S. Manjunath, Aleksandra
Mojsilovic, Pierre Moulin, Antonio Ortega, Thrasyvoulos Pappas,
Ioannis Pitas, Majid Rabbani, Kenneth Rose, Philippe Salembier,
Giovanni Sicuranza, Luis Torres, Michael Unser, and Jelena
Kovacevic.


Guests: Alex Kot (ICIP-04), Carlo Regazzoni and Gianni Vernazza
(ICIP-05), Nikos Galatsanos (future workshop organizer), Mercy
Kowalczyk (SPS)

We had a quorum (22 voting members present, out of 34)

(1) ICIPs:

ICIP-2003
Report by Luis Torres (General Chair):
- 1200 attendance
- 1901 submissions, 828 accepted (44%)
- full review of special session submissions (2 rejected)
- 510 reviewers

ICIP-2004 (Singapore, October 24-27, 2004)
Report by Alex Kot (General Chair):
- venue fixed: Singapore convention center
- hotels nearby (~$100/night)
- local management company, Suvisoft for technical program
- website is up
- special session proposals due end of year
- The issue of whether the AEs of the Image Processing
Transactions should review papers for ICIP was discussed,
and it was suggested that the AEs review papers on a volunteer
basis.
- The issue of hard copy ICIP proceedings was also discussed,
and Mercy Kowalczyk said that, as long as the master CD is in
the right format for IEEE to print hard copies, future ICIPs
do not have to print and distribute hard copies of the
proceedings. 

ICIP-2005 (Genoa, Sept. 11-14)
Report by Gianni Vernazza (General Chair) and Carlo Regazzoni
(Technical Program Chair):
- venue: new congress center in downtown Genoa
- D.G.M.P. INCOR for conference managment
- Suvisoft for technical program 
- preliminary announcement printed and distributed at ICIP-03
- website registered (www.icip05.org)
- tentative plans for special sessions, tutorials, exhibits, publicity

ICIP-2006 (Atlanta)
Report by Yucel Altunbasak:
- venue: Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta (contract signed)
- room rates: $160+tax
- CMS for conference management
- budget presented to CB

ICIP-2007 (New Orleans)
(site approved by CB in the meeting that followed)

ICIP-2008,2009
- No formal proposals have been submitted.
- Manjunath discussed possibility of California proposal.

(2) IMDSP workshop
Several possibilities were discussed:
Montenegro: Biological signal processing (Jelena Kovacevic)
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Math and image processing (Pierre Moulin)
Ioannina, Greece: Statistical signal processing (Nikos Galatsanos)

(3) Technical sponsorships
The TC approved the following technical sponsorships

+ IWSSIP-2004 (19 yes, 2 abstain)

+ IPSN-2004 (21 yes)

+ PCS-2004 (20 yes)

(4) Awards (B.S. Manjunath)
The issue of TC member participation in voting was discussed.

(5) IMDSP TC Elections (chair/vice-chair)
A chair-election subcommittee consisting of the current chair
(Pappas) and past chair (Gray) will be nominating candidates for
chair (Antonio Ortega) and vice-chair. (Subcommittee has already
selected a candidate who, at the time of the meeting, had not yet
accepted the nomination.) Any member of the TC may nominate
another TC member (who agrees to serve). The election will be
held in October.

(6) IMDSP TC Elections (members)
This year we have to elect 5 new members to the TC.
Thrasos Pappas discussed the need to secure representation from
different research areas, different areas of the world that are
active in the IMDSP area, as well as women and minorities.
A diverse membership is critical for strengthening our TC and
expanding its influence, and of course, necessary for carrying out
our activities (ICASSP/ICIP reviews, awards, workshops, etc.).

(7) ICASSP review procedure and EDICS
The IMDSP TC chair is responsible for coordinating the review of
the IMDSP papers for ICASSP, and for putting together the IMDSP
sessions. As the number of submissions has been increasing over
the years, we discussed ways for reducing the load of the chair.
We also discussed the need for updading the ICASSP EDICS.