IMDSP TC Meeting - ICIP 2004 - Singapore, Monday Oct 25, 1-2:30pm
Minutes

Attendees: Aizawa, Altunbasak, Apostolopoulos, Astola, Chang, Goyal,
Guillemot, Herley, Ma , Manjunath, Ortega, Pappas, Pereira, Rabbani,
Rose, Torres.

Guests: Kot, Gray, Karam

+ ICIP Reports

ICIP 2004 - Singapore (Ma, Gray, Kot)

The organizers reported very strong participation. 2000+ papers
were submitted and 883 accepted. Over 900 participants registered
and 150 attended the tutorials. There was a discussion of the 
format of special sessions; papers in special session underwent
the regular review process. The organizers were congratulated for
putting together a very successful conference. 

ICIP 2005 - Genoa (Vernazza, Regazzoni, De Natale)

Reported on normal progress of organization, including loan from
society, contract with suvisoft, publicity etc. Requested 
suggestions for plenary and recommendations for reviewers. 

ICIP 2006 - Atlanta (Altunbasak)

Reported on preliminary work.

ICIP 2007 - New Orleans (Rodriguez)

Dates are chosen Oct. 14th-17th. 

Future ICIPs - San Diego. (Ortega), Alexandria, Egypt (Karam),
Brussels (Macq) were discussed.

+ Awards (Manjunath)

The TC discussed the following topics: i) 50% of the TC's positive
vote requirement and the related issue of TC participation in the
voting, ii) discussion of nominations at ICIP TC meeting, and iii)
increasing the window of eligibility for papers to 5 years.

There was a long discussion on these topic that was not conclusive.
Several proposals were made but there was not a general agreement to
change the current system.

More specifically, the consensus was that all TC members should be
encouraged to vote, and that this would tend to eliminate the problem
of papers receiving a majority but not a sufficient percentage of TC
positive votes. The topic of discussion of papers will be again
discussed (at the ICASSP 2005 TC meeting). Finally, any changes to the
window of eligibility would have to be approved at the society level.
This has been discussed with the current SPS awards board chair, Rama
Chellappa, and could be considered by this board in the future.

+ IMDSP Election (Ortega)

The TC agreed to elect 6 new members in 2004, and another 5 in 2005.