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| President's Message |
On January 1st, Markus Rupp will be retiring from the EURASIP Board of Directors (BoD) after many years of service as a BoD Member/Conferences Chair, President (2009-2010), and Past-President (2011-2012). I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Markus, it has always been a true pleasure to work with him. I trust Markus will continue to support the Association as an active Advisory Board Member (officially called a "Working Member", what's in a name).
I myself will now move into the Past-President seat, as a non-voting BoD member, after two terms as President (2007-2008 and 2011-2012). I am very grateful for being given the opportunity to serve as President, it again has been a true pleasure.
As already announced, Fulvio Gini has been appointed by the current BoD to the position of President. I wish him a very successful presidency, I fully trust the Associaton will be in good hands!
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contributed by Marc Moonen, EURASIP President
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| 2013 EURASIP Membership Renewal |
A welcome message to EUSIPCO-2012 participants
EURASIP extends a warm welcome to all EUSIPCO-2012 participants as 2013 members of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). Your membership, which is valid through December 31, 2013, has been covered by your EUSIPCO-2012 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 co-operation 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-2012 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 2013
This message is to invite all current members who did not attend EUSIPCO-2012 to renew their EURASIP membership for the year 2013. 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 2012 memberships are held open until January 15, 2013.
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contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator
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| 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 the EURASIP website you can find, for instance, the seminar series that has been organized by the current 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 proven 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;
- Seminars given by outstanding speakers;
- ...
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.
To apply for LL officer you can contact Ana I. Pérez-Neira 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 the liaison is in your country, we encourage you to contact us or to visit the EURASIP website. 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.
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contributed by Ana Pérez-Neira, EURASIP Membership Development Coordinator
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| EUSIPCO 2016: Call for Proposals |
This is a Call for Proposals for the 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2016) to be held in late August/early September 2016. EUSIPCO is sponsored by the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), founded on September 1, 1978 to "improve communication between groups and individuals that work within the multidisciplinary, fast growing field of Signal Processing in Europe and elsewhere, and to exchange and disseminate information in the field all over the world".
EUSIPCO is a learned and professional platform for dissemination and discussion of all aspects of signal processing. It features plenaries, tutorials, and lecture and poster sessions.
Proposals should include the following items:
- Proposed dates in 2016;
- Organizing committee members, including biographic information;
- A budget, which includes anticipated financial and in-kind support;
- Comprehensive information about the location and what it has to offer.
Proposals should be submitted to the EURASIP Events Coordinator who will advise at which EUSIPCO conference, proposals will be presented to the EURASIP Board of Directors.
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contributed by Abdelhak Zoubir, EURASIP Events Coordinator
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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 Coordinator, 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.
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| Name & Link |
Date |
Location |
| IWBF 2013, International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics |
April 4-5, 2013 |
Lisbon, Portugal |
| WOSSPA 2013, 9th International Workshop on Systems, Signal Processing and their Applications |
May 12-15, 2013 |
Zeralda, Algeria |
EUVIP 2013, 4th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
(Paper submission deadline: Feb. 15, 2013) |
June 10-12, 2013 |
Paris, France |
DSP 2013, 18th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing
(Paper submission deadline: Feb. 1, 2013) |
July 1-3, 2013 |
Santorini, Greece |
ISPA 2013, 8th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis
(Paper submission deadline: Apr. 1, 2013) |
September 4-6, 2013 |
Trieste, Italy |
EUSIPCO 2013, 21st European Signal Processing Conference
(Paper submission deadline: Mar. 3, 2013) |
September 9-13, 2013 |
Marrakech, Morocco |
ELMAR 2013, 55th International Symposium ELMAR-2013
(Paper submission deadline: Mar. 13, 2013) |
September 25-27, 2013 |
Zadar, Croatia |
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contributed by Abdelhak Zoubir, EURASIP Events Coordinator
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| Recently submitted Ph.D. Theses in EURASIP Library |
| Author |
Title & Link |
University |
Supervisors |
Publication Year |
| Turkan, Mehmet |
Novel Texture Synthesis Methods and Their Application to Image Prediction and Image Inpainting |
INRIA-Rennes |
Christine Guillemot |
2011 |
| Mendel, Stefan |
Signal Processing in Phase-Domain All-Digital Phase-Locked Loops |
Graz University of Technology |
Gernot Kubin, Boris Murmann |
2009 |
| Rajagopal, Manoj Kumar |
Cloning with Gesture Expressivity |
Telecom Sudparis |
Patrick Horain |
2012 |
| Gomez Jauregui, David Antonio |
3D Motion Capture by Computer Vision and Virtual Rendering |
Telecom Sudparis |
Patrick Horain |
2011 |
| Sun, Meng |
Constrained Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Vocabulary Acquisition from Continuous Speech |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Hugo Van hamme |
2012 |
| Uhlich, Stefan |
Parameter Estimation with Additional Information |
University of Stuttgart |
Bin Yang, Abdelhak Zoubir |
2012 |
| Wang, Qi |
Performance Evaluation of Practical OFDM Systems with Imperfect Synchronization |
Vienna University of Technology |
Markus Rupp |
2012 |
| Heidenreich, Philipp |
Antenna Array Processing: Autocalibration and Fast High-Resolution Methods for Automotive Radar |
Technische Universität Darmstadt |
Abdelhak Zoubir, Bin Yang |
2012 |
| Lazzeretti, Riccardo |
Privacy Preserving Processing of Biomedical Signals with Application to Remote Healthcare Systems |
University of Siena |
Barni Mauro |
2012 |
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contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator
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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.
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| Open Positions |
Institution |
Location |
Closing Date |
| PhD Position in Adaptive Beamforming for Direct-to-Reverberant Ratio Control in High-End Audio Conferencing on Mobile Devices |
NXP Semiconductors Belgium NV |
Leuven, Belgium |
Dec. 21, 2012 |
| PhD Position in Multi-channel joint dereverberation and acoustic echo cancellation |
Nuance Communications Deutschland GmbH |
Ulm, Germany |
Dec. 31, 2012 |
| PhD Position in Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Dereverberation Algorithms |
Fraunhofer IDMT |
Oldenburg, Germany |
Dec. 31, 2012 |
| Post-Doc Position in Multimedia Fragment Repurposing |
EURECOM |
Sophia Antipolis, Biot, France |
Jan. 1, 2013 |
| Early Stage Researcher (ESR) in wireless localization field |
Tampere University of Technology (and other universities & industrial units in Europe) |
Tampere, Finland |
Jan. 15, 2013 |
| Post-doc in signal processing for MRI |
Uppsala University |
Uppsala, Sweden |
Jun. 1, 2013 |
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contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator
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| EURASIP Treasurer's Report (28/08/2011 - 31/08/2012) |
On August 28, 2011, the opening balance in Euros (€) was as specified in the table below.
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Opening
balance (28th August, 2011)
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€
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€
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Current
accounts:
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Fortis
account
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27170,75
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PayPal
account
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1189,78
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Total
in current accounts
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28360,53
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Savings
accounts:
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Fortis
savings account
Deutsche Bank account
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101495,91
101619,89
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Total in
savings accounts
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203115,8
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Total
available
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231476,33
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The main EURASIP account movements during the financial period considered are documented in the following two tables, for income and expenses, respectively:
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Income:
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€
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€
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Membership (incl. Journal
subscriptions)
CTTC Loan Payment
(EUSIPCO 2011)
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30468,90
15000,00
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Donations/review
charges:
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Elsevier
Springer
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10000,00
10000,00
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EUSIPCO 2011
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20000,00
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Bank
interests
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2344,79
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Total income
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87813,69
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Expenses:
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€
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€
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Elsevier
(Journal subscriptions)
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4124,75
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Hindawi
(Newsletters)
PhD
Thesis Awards
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8067,76
3000,00
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EURASIP 2011 Awards
EURASIP 2012 Awards certificates
EURASIP 2012 Awards plates
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4093,17
384,00
646,04
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EURASIP Seminars
EURASIP BoD meeting expenses
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4365,93
8705,83
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Administrative expenses
Web and membership development
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347,36
3728,36
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Taxes, bank costs
Loan to EUSIPCO 2013
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50,11
15019,36
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Total
expenses
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52532,67
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The closing balance on the August 31, 2012, was as specified in the table below:
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Closing
balance (31st August, 2012)
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€
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€
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Current
accounts:
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Fortis
account
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20186,01
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PayPal
account
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1157,85
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Total
in current accounts
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21343,86
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Savings
accounts:
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Fortis
savings accounts
Deutsche Bank account
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142585,01
102828,48
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Total
in savings accounts
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245413,49
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Total
available
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266757,35
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contributed by Maria Paula Queluz, EURASIP Secretary/Treasurer
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