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Newsletter – Vol. 26, January 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS President's Message EURASIP Special Area Teams (SATs) Call for new Local Liaisons EURASIP Seasonal School Calendar of Events EURASIP Seminars Open Special Issues Recent Ph.D. Theses Job Posts

If this newsletter is not displaying properly, please view the online version President's Message This is the first EURASIP Newsletter of 2015. In the last issue of 2014, I welcomed all EUSIPCO-2014 participants and attendees of our 2014 EURASIP Seasonal Schools as 2015 members of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). In the past, we were collecting new membership almost only through EUSIPCO attendance. Today, you can also become a member by attending one of the EURASIP Seasonal Schools. We launched a program of Seasonal Schools in Signal Processing last year with the goal of providing graduate students, Ph.D. students, and early stage researchers with a background in signal processing and its applications. We hope in this way to bring our association's activities and initiatives to a bigger audience and so to increase our visibility, especially amongst young researchers and Ph.D. students. In 2014, we had two successful Schools, one in Pisa (Italy) on “Radar Signal Processing”, and one in Aalborg (Denmark), on “Advanced Psychoacoustics: Theory, Practice and Modelling". The next one will be held at CTTC in Barcelona (Spain) in June 2015 and it is devoted to “Foundations and Advances in Stochastic Filtering” (contact the organizer, Dr. Pau Closas, for more information). If you are interested in organizing a EURASIP Seasonal School, please submit your proposal white paper, following the guidelines reported in the Seasonal Schools webpage (www.eurasip.org). This year, we are starting a new two-year term of the elected EURASIP Board of Directors (BoD). After two years of presidency, I have been re-elected EURASIP President. I thanks the BoD members for giving me the opportunity to continue my work as President, counting on the help of the Past-President, Marc Moonen, and of the new EURASIP Board of Directors. Following the voting for the renewal of the BoD (announced in the Septβ€”Oct. 2014 issue of the Newsletter), we decided for a rotation on the charges, together with the creation of the new position of External Relations chair. I would like to express here my heartfelt thanks to the BoD members currently retiring from the Board, Maria Paula Queluz and Aggelos Pikrakis. They will continue to support and advise the Association as newly elected “Working Members”. In the new Board of Directors, the newly elected members, Fernando Pereira (Portugal) and Alle-Jan van der Veen (The Netherlands), will be in charge of the External Relations and Publications, respectively. Ana Perez-Neira will be our new Awards chair, Jean-Luc Dugelay the Membership Development chair, Patrick Naylor the Workshops/Conferences chair, and Abdelhak Zoubir our Secretary/Treasurer. In addition to that, Aggelos generously accepted the role of EURASIP officer with the task of Web Services Coordinator. In concluding, let me remind to put an eye on the deadlines for the next EUSIPCO that will be held in Nice (France), the capital of the Côte d'Azur. EUSIPCO 2015 is organized under the General Chairmanship of Prof. Jean-Luc Dugelay and Prof. Dirk Slock (EURECOM) and it promises to be a memorable event. The Call for Papers and more detailed information are available at www.eusipco2015.org. Looking forward to seeing all of you at EUSIPCO 2015! contributed by Fulvio Gini, EURASIP President back to top EURASIP Special Area Teams (SATs) Dear EURASIP Members, I am writing you to announce the launching of the EURASIP Special Area Teams (SATs) which gather groups of experts interested in a specific field and have the main objective to facilitate the interaction and communication of EURASIP associates in a specific scientific area, notably by sharing knowledge and visions, discuss trends, spreading information about innovations, create ties, facilitating collaboration beyond EURASIP, organize meetings and events, etc. The SATs should allow creating tighter ties between EURASIP members working in a specific area. It is expected that these objectives may allow EURASIP associates to feel that SATs bring added value and thus make EURASIP associates willing to propose SATs and be SAT members. SATs are established by the EURASIP Board of Directors following a proposal by at least ten EURASIP associates. The proposal should define the special area to address, detail the motivation why it is of benefit to establish a SAT in that specific scientific area, present a specific plan of activities and propose a (partial or complete) list of SAT founding members as well as the Chair and Vice-Chair. SAT proposals may be made at any time to the EURASIP President. The full definition framework for the SATs is available at the EURASIP Web page, notably at http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/SAT.pdf At this stage, all EURASIP members who feel that SATs may help them to connect better with their colleagues and reach the objectives listed above are welcome to submit their SAT proposals to the the EURASIP External Relations chair, Prof. Fernando Pereira (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). I hope that you may find this new EURASIP instrument useful and I look forward receiving your SAT proposals. contributed by Fernando Pereira, EURASIP External Relations Chair back to top Call for new Local Liaisons EURASIP is now on the point of renewing the Local Liaison (LL) Board and this message is to invite you to apply to become a LL officer. Among other benefits, EURASIP offers a scientific forum that any member can use to promote different kind of initiatives and LL’s are those who volunteer to propose which kind of initiatives are interesting to be organized. At www.eurasip.org you can find, for instance, the seminar series by outstanding speakers that has been organized by the actual LL’s. In general, a seminar day could be to have one main invited speaker, providing one or two lectures, together with a number of (shorter) lectures provided by local speakers. This has proved to be a successful format, but is merely given as an example here. EURASIP will provide funding for such activities, so that the organizers do not incur large financial risk. Aside from seminars given by outstanding speakers, among the activities that EURASIP can technically and economically support you can think of: - Winter or Summer schools; - PhD Forums or workshops organized by/for PhD students, which promote the transversal competences that are requested in the European Space for Higher Education; - 3 Minutes Thesis competitions; - Etc. EURASIP mainly envisages ’ambitious’ activities, for a fairly large audience (minimum 50) with a formal registration and registration fees. The actual format of these activities is intentionally left largely undefined. Liaisons are appointed by EURASIP Board of Directors (BoD) and are chosen to best meet the profile of active people within the Signal Processing community. They are in charge not only of coordinating and stimulating local activities, but also of contributing to promote EURASIP at the national level, increasing the response to problems and inviting young collaborators and colleagues to submit their PhD theses. At every EUSIPCO there is a Local Liaison meeting, where we all put in common our ideas. To apply for LL officer you can contact me or any other BoD member, young collaborators are very welcome. For more information about the Local Liaison Program, how to enrol and to find out who your liaison is in your country, we encourage you to contact me or to visit www.eurasip.org. There you can also find different "Forms of Interest" that clarify the existing procedures. Also, any comments that you might have about "What do you expect from EURASIP?" are very welcome and can initiate some nice discussions. Ana I. Pérez-Neira (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) contributed by Ana I. Pérez-Neira back to top EURASIP Seasonal School Foundations and Advances in Stochastic Filtering The third EURASIP Seasonal School will be held 22β€”26 June 2015 in Barcelona (Spain) and will focus on “Foundations and Advances in Stochastic Filtering” (FASF2015). It will cover the theoretical foundations and tackle both methodological advances and state-of-the-art applications of stochastic filtering. The programme is arranged around five one-day tutorials delivered by internationally renowned researchers. The School aims at providing Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists the opportunity to meet some of the leading experts in the field and to learn from them. More information can be found in the flyer of the PhD school. contributed by Ana I. Pérez-Neira back to top Calendar of EURASIP Co-Sponsored Events Event organizers who wish to apply for EURASIP co-sponsorship should send an e-mail to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 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 PECCS 2015, 5th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems Feb. 11-13, 2015 Angers, France IWBF 2015, 3rd International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics March 3-4, 2015 Gjøvik, Norway CoSeRa 2015, 3rd International Workshop on Compressed Sensing Theory and its Applications to Radar, Sonar and Remote Sensing (Paper submission deadline: Feb. 2, 2015) June 22-24, 2015 Pisa, Italy EUSIPCO 2015, 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (Paper submission deadline: Feb. 13, 2015) Aug. 31 - Sep. 4, 2015 Nice, France RFID 2015, 5th International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology (Paper submission deadline: May 29, 2015) Oct. 22-23, 2015 Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany contributed by Patrick Naylor, EURASIP Workshops/Conferences Chair back to top Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals     Signal Processing Deadline Big Data Meets Multimedia Analytics May 1, 2015 Signal Processing: Image Communication Deadline Aesthetically-Aware Image and Video Analysis Feb. 1, 2015     Speech Communication Deadline Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication May 15, 2015     EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline 'Silencing the Echoes' - Processing of Reverberant Speech Feb. 1, 2015 Network Coding May 31, 2015 Recent Advances in Massive MIMO Systems May 31, 2015 Signal Processing for Big Data June 1, 2015   EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline Mobile Multimedia Cloud Computing Feb. 27, 2015   EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Deadline Bayesian Methods for Computational Systems Biology Feb. 15, 2015         EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Deadline Large Scale Learning for Media Understanding Jan. 31, 2015 High Dynamic Range Imaging: Providing a Step Change in Imaging Technology Mar. 31, 2015 Computer Vision in Road Safety and Intelligent Traffic Apr. 30, 2015      EURASIP Journal on Information Security Deadline Revised Selected Papers of ACM IH and MMS 2014 Feb. 6, 2015 Challenges for Multimedia Content Security in Social Networks Feb. 15, 2015 contributed by Alexander Bertrand, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top Recently submitted Ph.D. Theses in EURASIP Library Author Title & Link University Supervisors Publication Year Maggioni, Matteo Adaptive Nonlocal Signal Restoration and Enhancement Techniques for High-Dimensional Data Tampere University of Technology Alessandro Foi 2015 Jamali-Rad, Hadi Sparsity-Aware Wireless Networks: Localization and Sensor Selection TU Delft Geert Leus 2014 Astrinaki, Maria Performative Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis Applied To Interactive Designs University of Mons Thierry Dutoit, Nicolas d'Alessandro 2014 Micha Baum Improving Speech Recognition for Pluricentric Languages exemplified on Varieties of German TU Graz Gernot Kubin, Zdravko Kacic, Rudolf Muhr 2003 Correia, Pedro Daniel Frazão Multiple Description Coding for Path Diversity Video Streaming University of Coimbra Vitor Manuel Mendes da Silva, Pedro A. Amado Assuncao 2013 contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator back to top 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 Associate Professor in Signal Processing Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden March 20, 2015 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship Signal Processing Techniques for 5G Wireless Communications Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and TU Ilmenau Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Feb. 1, 2015 Pre-doctoral openings in Signal Processing, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain Jan. 31, 2015 Thèse video protection par modèle de saillance Université De Mons / Université D'Ottawa Mons, Belgium Jan. 30, 2015 contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator back to top GET INVOLVED & STAY TUNED Visit EURASIP website Join EURASIP Follow EURASIP on Twitter and LinkedIn Contact the EURASIP Newsletter Editors Copyright © 2015 European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). All Rights Reserved.

Acoustic, Speech and Music Signal Processing

1. TAC Name:
   Acoustic, Speech and Music Signal Processing
   
   
2. TAC Acronym:
   ASMSP
   
   
3. TAC Technical Area:
   The ASMSP TAC focuses on a wide range of audio and acoustic signal processing topic, including microphone and loudspeaker array processing; spatial audio capturing, processing and rendering; audio and speech enhancement and restoration; system identification and dereverberation; adaptive audio processing; speech perception, analysis, and synthesis; sound and music modeling, processing and coding; music signal analysis, processing and synthesis; music information extraction and retrieval; auditory modeling and hearing aids; quality and intelligibility measures; parallel processing and algorithm development for audio and acoustic applications; audio and acoustic signal descriptors and informatics.
   
   
4. TAC Chair and Co-Chair:
   
   
   
   Chair:
   Emanuël Habets
   International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
   Fraunhofer IIS, Audio & Multimedia Erlangen
   Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
   Phone: +49 9131 85 20503
   Fax: +49 9131 85 20524
   emanuel.habets at audiolabs-erlangen.de

   
   
   Vice-Chair:
   Mads Græsbøll Christensen
   Professor, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology
   Aalborg University
   Rendsburggade 14, 6-335
   9000 Aalborg, Denmark
   mgc at create.aau.dk

   
   
   
   
5. TAC membership:

   Name	Affiliation	Email	Term
   Jens Ahrens	Chalmers University of Technology, Sweeden	jens.ahrens at chalmers.se	2018 - 2020
   Fabio Antonacci	Politecnico di Milano, Italy	fabio.antonacci at polimi.it	2016 - 2021
   Tom Bäckström	Aalto University, Finland	tom.backstrom at aalto.fi	2019 - 2021
   Carmine Emanuele Cella	Ecole Normale Superieure, France	carmine.emanuele.cella at gmail.com	2019 - 2021
   Mads Christensen	Aalborg University, Danmark	mgc at create.aau.dk	2016 - 2021
   Simon Doclo	University of Oldenburg, Germany	simon.doclo at uni-oldenburg.de	2016 - 2021
   Sharon Gannot	Bar-Ilan University , Israel	gannotsh at gmail.com	2016 - 2021
   Daniele Giacobello	Sonos, Inc. USA	giacobello at ieee.org	2019 - 2021
   Emanuel Habets	Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany	emanuel.habets at audiolabs-erlangen.de	2016 - 2018 (Vice-Chair) 2019 - 2021 (Chair)
   Walter Kellermann	Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany	walter.kellermann at fau.de	2016 - 2021
   Jesper Kjær Nielsen	Aalborg University, Denmark	jkn at create.aau.dk	2019 - 2021
   Ina Kodrasi	Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland	ina.kodrasi at idiap.ch	2018 - 2020
   Heinrich Loellmann	FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany	Heinrich.Loellmann at FAU.de	2018 - 2020
   Shoji Makino	University of Tsukuba, Japan	maki at tara.tsukuba.ac.jp	2019 - 2021
   Shmulik Markovich-Golan	Ruhr University Bochum, Germany	Shmulik.markovich at gmail.com	2018 - 2020
   Rainer Martin	Ruhr University Bochum, Germany	Rainer.Martin at rub.de	2016 - 2021
   Alastair H. Moore	Imperial College, UK	alastair.h.moore at imperial.ac.uk	2018 - 2020
   Hélène-Camille Crayencour	University Paris-Sud, France	helene.camille.crayencour at gmail.com	2018 - 2021
   Julian Parker	Native Instruments, DE	julian.parker at native-instruments.de	2018 - 2020
   Mark Plumbley	University Paris-Sud, France	m.plumbley at surrey.ac.uk	2016 - 2021
   Gael Richard	TELECOM ParisTech, France	Gael.Richard at telecom-paristech.fr	2016 - 2021
   Augusto Sarti	Politecnico di Milano, Italy	augusto.sarti at polimi.it	2016 - 2018 (Chair) 2019 - 2021
   Sascha Spors	University of Rostock, Germany	sascha.spors at uni-rostock.de	2016 - 2021
   Toon van Waterschoot	KU Leuven, Belgium	toonvanwaterschoot at kuleuven.be	2019 - 2021

6. Former Members

   Name	Affiliation	Email	Term
   Stefan Bilbao	University of Edinburgh, UK	s.bilbao at ed.ac.uk	2016 - 2017
   Filippo Fazi	Univ. of Southampton, UK	Gael.Richard at telecom-paristech.fr	2016 - 2018
   Alberto Gonzalez	Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain	agonzal at dcom.upv.es	2016 - 2018
   Peter Jax	RWTH Aachen University, Germany	jax at ind.rwth-aachen.de	2016 - 2018
   Jean-Marc Jot	Magic Leap, CA, USA	jmmjot at gmail.com	2016
   John Mourjopoulos	University of Patras, Greece	mourjop at upatras.gr	2016 - 2017
   Patrick Naylor	Imperial College, UK	p.naylor at imperial.ac.uk	2016 - 2018
   Rudolf Rabenstein	Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany	rudolf.rabenstein at fau.de	2016 - 2017
   Xavier Serra	Pompeu Fabra University, Spain	xavier.serra at upf.edu	2016 - 2017
   Mark Sandler	Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK	mark.sandler at qmul.ac.uk	2016 - 2018
   Lauri Savioja	AALTO, Finland	lauri.savioja at aalto.fi	2016
   Gerald Schuller	Ilmenau University, Germany	shl at idmt.fraunhofer.de	2016 - 2018
   Vesa Valimaki	AALTO University, Finland	vesa.valimaki at aalto.fi	2016 - 2018

Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security

1. TAC Name:
   Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security 
   
   
2. TAC Acronym:
   BForSec
   
   
3. TAC Technical Area:
   The BForSec TAC focuses on multimedia security, data forensics, hashing, watermarking, covert communications (steganography and steganalysis), applied cryptography, biometric recognition, biometric forensics, video surveillance, physical layer security, network security, hardware security, data privacy with its different declinations in the field of biometrics, social networks, cloud, and big data, de-identification methodologies.
   
   
4. TAC Chair and Co-Chair:
   
   
   Chair
   Paulo Lobato Correia
   Instituto de Telecomunicações
   Instituto Superior Técnico
   Torre Norte, 10-15
   049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
   email: paulo.correia at lx.it.pt
   URL: https://www.it.pt/Members/Index/390

   
   
   Vice-Chair:
   Andreas Uhl
   Department of Computer Sciences
   Universität Salzburg
   Jakob-Haringerstr. 2
   A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
   Tel: +43 (0)662 8044 6303
   uhl at cosy.sbg.ac.at

   
   
   
   
5. TAC membership:
   
   

   Name	Affiliation	Email	Term
   Irene Amerini	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	amerini at diag.uniroma1.it	2019 - 2021
   Giulia Boato	University of Trento, Italy	giulia.boato at unitn.it	2018 - 2020
   Felix Balado	University College Dublin, Ireland	felix at ucd.ie	2019 - 2021
   Patrizio Campisi	Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy	patrizio.campisi at uniroma3.it	2018 - 2020
   Luca Caviglione	National Research Council of Italy	luca.caviglione at ge.issia.cnr.it	2018 - 2020
   Paulo Lobato Correia	Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	paulo.correia at lx.it.pt	2018 - 2020 (Chair)
   Tanya Ignatenko	GN Hearing A/S	t.ignatenko at IEEE.ORG	2016 - 2021
   Jörg Keller	FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany	joerg.keller at fernuni-hagen.de	2018 - 2020
   Emanuele Maiorana	Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy	emanuele.maiorana at uniroma3.it	2016 - 2021
   Wojciech Mazurczyk	Warsaw University of Technology, Poland	wmazurcz at elka.pw.edu.pl	2016 - 2021
   Aleksandra Mileva	Goce Delcev University of Štip, Macedonia	aleksandra.mileva at ugd.edu.mk	2019 - 2021
   Kamal Nasrollahi	Aalborg University, Denmark	kn at create.aau.dk	2018 - 2020
   Cecilia Pasquini	University of Innsbruck, Austria	cecilia.pasquini at uibk.ac.at	2019 - 2021
   Fernando Pérez-González	Universidade de Vigo, Spain	fperez at gts.uvigo.es	2016 - 2021
   Vitomir Štruc	Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia	vitomir.struc at fe.uni-lj.si	2018 - 2020
   Husrev Taha Sencar	TOBB University, Turkey	htsencar at etu.edu.tr	2016 - 2021
   Andreas Uhl	Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria	Andreas.Uhl at sbg.ac.at	2018 - 2020 (Vice-Chair)
   Sviatoslav (Slava) Voloshynovskiy	University of Geneva, Switzerland	svolos at unige.ch	2016 - 2021
   Steffen Wendzel	Worms University of Applied Sciences & Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Germany	wendzel at hs-worms.de	2018 - 2020

6. Former Members

   Name	Affiliation	Email	Term
   Patrick Bas	Ecole Centrale de Lille, France	patrick.bas at ec-lille.fr	2016 - 2017
   Zekeriya Erkin	TU Delf, Netherlands	z.erkin at tudelft.nl	2016 - 2018
   Thomas Gross	University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK	thomas.gross at ncl.ac.uk	2016 - 2017
   Anthony Ho	University of Surrey, UK	a.ho at surrey.ac.uk	2016 - 2018
   Alessandro Piva	University of Florence, Italy	alessandro.piva at unifi.it	2016 - 2018