Newsletter – Vol. 28, December 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2018 Membership Renewal
New Editor-in-Chief for Signal Processing
New Editor-in-Chief for EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
EURASIP Publications: new Associate Editors for EURASIP-ELSEVIER Journals
Calendar of Events
EURASIP Seasonal Schools
Open Special Issues
Published Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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2018 Membership Renewal

A welcome message to EUSIPCO-2017 and Seasonal School participants

EURASIP extends a warm welcome to all EUSIPCO-2017 participants and attendees of one of the 2017 EURASIP Seasonal Schools as 2018 members of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). Your membership, which is valid through December 31, 2018, has been covered by your EUSIPCO-2017 or Seasonal School registration. We sincerely hope you will appreciate our Association's activities and initiatives.

EURASIP members enjoy a number of member benefits: EURASIP members receive EURASIP journals and selected books by Elsevier at discounted member prices, and enjoy registration fee discounts at a number of conferences that are organized in cooperation with EURASIP. In addition, EURASIP members receive a 10% discount on Open Access publication charges for their publications in EURASIP/SpringerOpen journals.

To learn more about our member benefits, upcoming conferences and other EURASIP news, please visit the EURASIP website. We would also like to take the opportunity to draw your attention to our Open Library with freely downloadable PhD Theses and Conference Proceedings (e.g., EUSIPCO proceedings), as well as to invite you to make PhD Theses from your institution available through our PhD Theses database.

To update your profile and contact information, please visit the EURASIP Membership Server or visit "Membership" at the EURASIP website. If you do not already have an account on the Membership Server you will first have to sign up and then click on the automatically generated link to apply your EUSIPCO-2017 or Seasonal School credit.

For assistance, please feel free to contact us at membership@eurasip.org.

Finally, we will welcome any suggestions that you may have on improving our services, as well as your active participation in our operation.

Invitation to existing members to renew for 2018

This message is to invite all current members who did not attend EUSIPCO-2017 or any of the 2017 EURASIP Seasonal Schools to renew their EURASIP membership for the year 2018. We sincerely hope that you will continue to support our Association! Our membership fees have been kept at the same level as last year, while we continue to offer significant member benefits.

To renew your membership please visit the EURASIP Membership Server and sign in using:
Login: your e-mail
Password: your password

For assistance, please feel free to contact us at membership@eurasip.org.

All 2017 memberships are held open until January 15, 2018.

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New Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier-EURASIP Journal Signal Processing as of 2018
Elsevier and EURASIP would like to take this opportunity to thank Björn Ottersten, the outgoing Editor-in-Chief, for his remarkable work for the journal, and to introduce Geert Leus, the new Editor-in-Chief, to all readers of the EURASIP newsletter.
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O'Shaughnessy (image missing) On 1 January 2018, Geert Leus becomes the new EIC of "Signal Processing", the EURASIP-sponsored journal published by Elsevier. Geert takes over from Björn Ottersten, who has been in this position for over 10 years. During his term, the impact factor grew from 0.7 to 3.1 while the number of published articles grew from 160 to over 340. Google Scholar ranks this journal at place 4 based on the h5-index of journals and conferences in signal processing. EURASIP thanks Björn for his tremendous dedication to the journal, reviving it at turbulent times and subsequently bringing it near to the top of the signal processing area.

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New Editor-in-Chief for SpringerOpen EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing as of 2018
Springer and EURASIP would like to take this opportunity to thank Geert Leus, the outgoing Editor-in-Chief, for his outstanding work for the journal, and to introduce Pascal Frossard, the new Editor-in-Chief, to all readers of the EURASIP newsletter.
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O'Shaughnessy (image missing) On 1 January 2018, Pascal Frossard becomes the new EIC of JASP, taking over from Geert Leus whose term is ending after 5 years. EURASIP thanks Geert for his great work and efforts; during his term, the impact factor of the journal grew from 0.8 to 2.0 while Google Scholar ranks the journal at place 11 based on the h5-index of journals and conferences in signal processing.

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New Associate Editors for EURASIP-Elsevier Journals
EURASIP maintains a portfolio of three journals published by Elsevier, and can only do so thanks to the excellent management by the three Editors-in-Chief and the strong commitment of the editorial board members. We are therefore delighted to announce the new appointments in the editorial boards of the EURASIP journals published by Elsevier.
Signal Processing Affiliation
Massoud Babaie-Zadeh Sharif University of Technology (Iran)
Zai Yang Nanjing University of Science and Technology (Singapore)
Xiaojie Su Chongqing University (China)
Emanuele Grossi University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy)
Yujie Gu Temple University (USA)
Image Communication Affiliation
Chaker Larabi Université de Poitiers (France)
Roberto Caldelli University of Florence (Italy)
Yicong Zhou University of Macau (China)
Gui-Song Xia Wuhan University (China)
Stéphane Coulombe École de Technologie Supérieure (Canada)
Giulia Boato University of Trento (Italy)
Anastasios Tefas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Xueling Li Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Speech Communication Affiliation
Philip N. Garner Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland)
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Calendar of EURASIP Co-Sponsored Events
Event organizers who wish to apply for EURASIP co-sponsorship should send an e-mail to the EURASIP Events Director, containing the following information: (1) Name of the conference/workshop, (2) Place and dates, (3) Previous editions of the conference/workshop, (4) Previous co-sponsorship, (5) Expected number of attendees, (6) Names of plenary speakers, (7) A rationale as to why EURASIP should sponsor the conference/workshop.
Reports of past EURASIP co-sponsored events can be found on the 'Past Conferences' webpage.
Name & Link Date Location
SSP 2018, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop 2018
(Paper submission deadline: Jan. 26, 2018)
June 10-13, 2018 Freiburg, Germany
ICISP 2018, International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
(Paper submission deadline: Feb. 11, 2018)
July 2-4, 2018 Cherbourg, Normandy, France
ISWCS 2018, 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
(Paper submission deadline: Apr. 6, 2018)
Aug. 28-30, 2018 Lisbon, Portugal
EUSIPCO 2018, 26th European Signal Processing Conference
(Paper submission deadline: Feb. 18, 2018)
Sep. 3-7, 2018 Rome, Italy
EURASIP RFID 2018 Workshop,
(Paper submission deadline: May 1, 2018)
Sep. 11-12, 2018 Brno, Czech Republic
IWSLS2 2018 Workshop,
(Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2018)
Sep. 11-12, 2018 Vienna, Austria
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EURASIP Seasonal Schools

The EURASIP BoD welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of seasonal schools. For more information, click here.
Name & Link Date Location
15th IAPR/EURASIP International Summer School for Advanced Studies on Biometrics for Secure Authentication: Assuring Trustworthiness of Biometrics Jun. 11- 15, 2018 Alghero, Italy
Reports of past EURASIP Seasonal Schools can be found on the Seasonal Schools webpage.
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Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
Signal Processing: Image Communication Deadline
Tensor Image Processing
Feb. 9, 2018
Advances in statistical methods-based visual quality assessment
May 31, 2018
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques in Emerging Wireless Systems Jan. 14, 2018
Optimization methods for Key Enabling Technologies: 5G, IoT and Big Data Jan. 15, 2018
Recent Challenges & Avenues in Wireless Communication through Advance computational Intelligence or Deep learning methods Jan. 25, 2018
Research and Challenges of Wireless Networks in Internet of Things Mar. 30, 2018
Recent Advances in Link and System Level Analysis, Simulation and Experimentation for Mobile Wireless Communications Apr. 15, 2018
Emerging Intelligent Algorithms for Edge-of-Things Computing Jun. 28, 2018
Recent Advances in Internet of Things Security and Privacy Sep. 1, 2018
EURASIP Journal on Information Security Deadline
Cybersecurity: Trends, Issues, and Challenges Jan. 15, 2018
Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics Feb. 28, 2018
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Recently Published Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Issue
Experimental Evaluation in Wireless Communications
Edited by: Jose A Garcia-Naya, Robert Heath, Florian Kaltenberger, Markus Rupp and Javier Via
Nov. 2017
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Recently submitted Ph.D. Theses in EURASIP Library
Author Title & Link University Supervisors Publication Year
Antipov, Grigory Deep learning for semantic description of visual human traits Télécom ParisTech (Eurecom) Jean-Luc Dugelay, Moez Baccouche 2017
Ravanelli, Mirco Deep Learning for Distant Speech Recognition Fondazione Bruno Kessler Maurizio Omologo 2017
Hu, Yongchang Signal Strength Based Localization and Path-loss Exponent Self-Estimation in Wireless Networks Delft University of Technology Geert Leus 2017
Jukić, Ante Sparse Multi-Channel Linear Prediction for Blind Speech Dereverberation University of Oldenburg Simon Doclo 2017
Senyuva, Rifat Volkan Sparse Signal Recovery From Incomplete And Perturbed Data Bogazici University Emin Anarim 2016
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Job Posts
EURASIP encourages employers to post open research positions in Signal Processing on the EURASIP Job Site.
Open positions will be continuously accessible online and will be advertised monthly in the EURASIP Newsletter.
Open Positions Institution Location Closing Date
Early Stage Research Positions at the CTTC Optical Networks and Systems Department for MSCA-ITM-EID ON-FIRE project CTTC Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain Dec. 31, 2017
Post-doctoral positions in Statistical Signal Processing for Gravitational Wave Astronomy CNRS AstroParticule et Cosmologie Paris, France Dec. 31, 2017
PhD Stipend in Low-resource Keyword Spotting for Hearing Assistive Devices Aalborg University Aalborg Øst, Denmark Jan. 1, 2018
W2 Professorship for Audio Signal Processing for the 'Internet of Things' University of Erlangen/Nuernberg, Fraunhofer IIS Erlangen, Germany Jan. 7, 2018
ERC-funded postdoctoral research position in room acoustics modeling KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Feb. 4, 2018
ERC-funded PhD research position in optimization-driven acoustic signal processing KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Feb. 4, 2018
Postdoc in Machine Learning Technion Haifa, Israel Feb. 28, 2018
Radar - Communication Technion Haifa, Israel Mar. 31, 2018
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