Newsletter – Vol. 28, September 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Call for PhD Thesis Submission & Best PhD Thesis Award
EURASIP Early Career Award: 1st Call for Nominations
EURASIP Best Paper Awards – 2nd Call for Nominations
Calendar of Events
Open Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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Call for PhD Thesis Submission & Best PhD Thesis Award

The European Association for Signal Processing www.eurasip.org, created and maintains a database of PhD manuscripts at http://theses.eurasip.org which is one of the world's largest in the area of signal processing. The database also keeps tracks of monthly downloads and publishes regularly in its page the 10 top downloaded theses.

Every year a committee of experts nominated by the EURASIP Board of Directors selects up to three theses related to different areas of signal processing to be awarded ‘Best PhD Thesis’ awards. The selection process is based on the evaluation of the impact of the theses, their subsequent journal and conference publications and related citations received, and on the review reports of independent reviewers as well as on the download and citation statistics.

In order to select the 2018 best PhD theses, the temporal window of the years 2013 through 2015 is considered. The awards will be presented during the Awards Ceremony at EUSIPCO 2018. Each award consists of a certificate and of a travelling & accommodation reimbursement of 1K Euros for attending the Awards Ceremony

If you want to make your PhD thesis available in the EURASIP database, visit the site http://theses.eurasip.org and upload your thesis.

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EURASIP Early Career Award: 1st Call for Nominations
EURASIP Early Career Award is a Society Award which is given to an outstanding researcher and engineer working within the technical scope of EURASIP at an early or mid-stage of their career whose current work shows not only significant scientific achievements but also high potential to advance scientific knowledge through novel, timely and significant endeavors.

The candidates should:
  • be under 40 years old (at the nomination time);
  • be actively involved with EURASIP and the international signal processing community, having a recognized leadership in their field of action and a significant impact on the European research activities;
  • have a significant list of achievements, reflected by their curriculum vitae, namely in terms of relevant publications, original contributions, or inventive value (patents);
  • publish regularly in EURASIP journals;
  • participate regularly in conferences sponsored by EURASIP, and in particular in EUSIPCO conferences.

The nominations should be well supported, namely in terms of:
  • providing complete name of the candidate, education degrees, business titles, contact information, professional curriculum, EURASIP involvement;
  • documenting the major technical achievements of the candidate, namely by referencing books, papers, reports, standards contributions, patents, development of products, systems, facilities or services, technical presentations and courses developed
  • justifying why the candidate is worthy to receive this award, namely in terms of innovation, originality, creativity and relevance of contributions;
  • including support endorsement letters.
Nomination and endorsements should be as specific, accurate and complete as possible. The nomination form can be downloaded from the corresponding award section at www.eurasip.org.

The Early Career award consists of a certificate presented to the award-winner and 2000 euros.

Please submit nominations to the EURASIP Awards Director, Kostas Berberidis, by e-mail (berberid@ceid.upatras.gr).
The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2017.
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EURASIP Best Paper Awards – 2nd Call for Nominations
JEURASIP Best Paper Awards are presented annually to mark outstanding contributions published in the Journals sponsored by EURASIP.

For the year 2018, the journals which, according to EURASIP regulations, meet the awarding requirements are the following:
  • Signal Processing
  • Image Communication
  • Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
  • Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

All papers published in the above journals and have a publication date in the years 2013 to 2016, are eligible to be awarded. Only papers co-authored by BoD members or members of the selection Committees are not eligible for Best Paper Awards.

For each journal, a Committee co-chaired by the EURASIP Awards Director and the Editor-in-Chief carries out the assessment of the papers. The assessment criteria include:
  • Relevance of the topic.
  • Quality of the technical content.
  • Style of the presentation.
  • Originality.
For additional information on the scope and criteria for EURASIP awards, please visit the EURASIP website. There you may find further details of the nomination and awards process.
All EURASIP Members are invited to nominate eligible papers.

Please submit nominations to the EURASIP Awards Director, Kostas Berberidis, by e-mail (berberid@ceid.upatras.gr).
The deadline for nominations is 31st October 2017.

We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and peers.
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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)
10 - 13 June 2018 Freiburg, Germany
EUSIPCO 2018, The 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
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Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
Signal Processing: Image Communication Deadline
Deep Learning in Image and Video Forensics
Oct. 2, 2017
Tensor Image Processing
Feb. 9, 2018
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning Oct. 1, 2017
Network Localization Oct. 31, 2017
Optimization, Learning, and Adaptation over Networks Dec. 31, 2017
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
Advanced transceivers and networking for 5G mobile radio Oct. 16, 2017
Algorithmic Foundations of Wireless Network Oct. 31, 2017
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques in Emerging Wireless Systems Nov. 14, 2017
Optimization methods for Key Enabling Technologies: 5G, IoT and Big Data Jan. 15, 2018
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Deadline
Visual information learning and analytics on cross-media big data Nov. 30, 2017
Real-time Image and Video Processing in Embedded Systems for Smart Surveillance Applications Dec. 31, 2017
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Recently submitted Ph.D. Theses in EURASIP Library
Author Title & Link University Supervisors Publication Year
Fraga-Lamas, Paula Enabling Technologies and Cyber-Physical Systems for Mission-Critical Scenarios University of A Coruña Luis Castedo Ribas 2017
Kronvall, Ted Group-Sparse Regression - With Applications in Spectral Analysis and Audio Signal Processing Lund University Andreas Jakobsson 2017
Ronzhina, Marina Study of electrophysiological function of the heart in experimental cardiology Brno University of Technology Jana Kolářová, Marie Nováková 2017
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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
Academic position in the area of ELECTRONIC DESIGN OF SENSOR NETWORKS FOR HEALTH APPLICATIONS KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Sep. 30, 2017
Postdoc in Signal Processing on Graphs Technion Haifa, Israel Oct. 31, 2017
Postdoc in Signal Processing Postdoc in Signal Processing of Medical Imaging Technion Haifa, Israel Oct. 31, 2017
Postdoc in Radar Signal Processing Technion Haifa, Israel Oct. 31, 2017
Postdoc in Speech Intelligibility Enhancement Using Deep Neural Networks Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark Oct. 31, 2017
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 -- APC, Paris France CNRS AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Paris France Paris, France Dec. 31, 2017
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