Newsletter – Vol. 24, March 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EURASIP Best Papers Awards
Calendar of Events
Open Special Issues
Published Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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EURASIP Awards: Announcement 2013 Best Paper Awards
The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) congratulates the authors of the following papers that have been selected for Best Paper Awards. The awards will be presented at EUSIPCO 2013 in Marrakech, Morocco.

Speech Communication
Tomoki Toda, Alan W. Black, Keiichi Tokuda, "Statistical mapping between articulatory movements and acoustic spectrum using a Gaussian mixture model", Speech Communication, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2008, Pages 215-227, 10.1016/j.specom.2007.09.001.

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Steven W. Peters, Ali Y. Panah, Kien T. Truong, Robert W. Heath Jr., "Relay architectures for 3GPP LTE-advanced", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Volume 2009, doi:10.1155/2009/618787.

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, Ch. Verikoukis, L. Alonso, "Persistent RCSMA: A MAC protocol for a distributed cooperative ARQ scheme in wireless networks" EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Volume 2008, doi:10.1155/2008/817401.

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Pierre Greisen, Simon Heinzle, Markus Gross, Andreas P Burg, "An FPGA-based processing pipeline for high-definition stereo video", EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Volume 2011, doi:10.1186/1687-5281-2011-18.

Signal Processing
A.C. Gurbuz, J.H. McClellan, W.R. Scott Jr., "Compressive sensing for subsurface imaging using ground penetrating radar", Signal Processing, Volume 89, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 1959–1972, doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.03.030.

We thank all the members of the Best Paper Award committees for their careful and thorough reading of the nominated papers. We would like to acknowledge those who served in these committees: Kostas Berberidis, Thierry Blu, Jean-Francois Bonastre, Mujdat Cetin, Jonathon Chambers, Paulo Lobato Correia, Georgios B. Giannakis, Ulrich Heute, Søren Holdt Jensen, Kevin Knuth, Geert Leus, Marco Luise, Ferran Marques, Stephen McLaughlin, Marc Moonen, Jean-Cristophe Pesquet, Kenneth Rose, Yoshinori Sagisaka, Augusto Sarti, Dirk Slock, Isabel Trancoso, and Abdelhak Zoubir.
contributed by Patrick A. Naylor, EURASIP Awards Chair 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 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.
Name & Link Date Location
IWBF 2013, International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics Apr. 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: Mar. 4, 2013)
Jun. 10-12, 2013 Paris, France
DSP 2013, 18th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing Jul. 1-3, 2013 Santorini, Greece
ISPA 2013, 8th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis
(Paper submission deadline: Apr. 1, 2013)
Sep. 4-6, 2013 Trieste, Italy
EUSIPCO 2013, 21st European Signal Processing Conference Sep. 9-13, 2013 Marrakech, Morocco
ELMAR 2013, 55th International Symposium ELMAR-2013
(Paper submission deadline: Apr. 3, 2013)
Sep. 25-27, 2013 Zadar, Croatia
contributed by Abdelhak Zoubir, EURASIP Events Coordinator back to top
Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
Signal Processing Deadline
Image Restoration and Enhancement: Recent Advances and Applications
June 1, 2013
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
Advances in Distributed Source Coding Apr. 15, 2013
Informed Acoustic Source Separation May 31, 2013
Signal Processing Techniques for Anywhere, Anytime Positioning May 31, 2013
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
Cooperative Cognitive Networks Apr. 1, 2013
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Deadline
Video Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics Mar. 31, 2013
EURASIP Journal on Information Security Deadline
Cyber-crime: New Trends, Challenges and Detection Jul. 25, 2013
contributed by Alexander Bertrand, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
Recently Published Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
Signal Processing Issue
Machine Learning in Intelligent Image Processing
Edited by Dacheng Tao, Dianhui Wang and Fionn Murtagh
June 2013
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
Colom Ikuno, Josep System Level Modeling and Optimization of the LTE Downlink Vienna University of Technology Markus Rupp 2013
Abou-Elailah, Abdalbassir Techniques for improving the performance of distributed video coding Telecom Paristech Frederic Dufaux, Marco Cagnazzo, Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Joumana Farah 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
Signal Processing for the Networked Battle Space (6 Research Fellows) Joint Research Institute in Signal and Image Processing at Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK Mar. 22, 2013
contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator back to top
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