Newsletter – Vol. 31, May 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Announcement Best Paper Awards
EURASIP Awards: 2nd Call Fellow Nominations
Calendar of Events
EURASIP Seasonal Schools
Open Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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EURASIP Awards: Announcement Best Paper Awards
The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) is pleased to announce this year's recipients of the Best Paper Awards. Recall that for the year 2020, the journals which, according to EURASIP regulations, met the awarding requirements are the following:

  • Signal Processing
  • EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • Signal Processing: Image Communication

  • The papers considered for this year's awards should have been published within the period 2015-2018.
    The evaluation process has been completed and EURASIP congratulates the authors of the following papers that have been selected for Best Paper Awards. Also, EURASIP is deeply thankful to the EiCs and all members of the Selection Committees for their valuable help in the awarding process. The awards will be presented at EUSIPCO 2020 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

    Signal Processing (Elsevier)
    Xueyang Fu, Delu Zeng, Yue Huang, Yinghao Liao, Xinghao Ding, and John W. Paisley, "A fusion-based enhancing method for weakly illuminated images", Signal Processing, vol. 129, pp. 82-96, Dec. 2016.

    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Springer)
    Ankit Singh Rawat, Arya Mazumdar, and Sriram Vishwanath, "Cooperative local repair in distributed storage", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2015, Article No. 107, Dec. 2015.

    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer)
    Robin Gerzaguet, Nikolaos Bartzoudis, Leonardo Gomes Baltar, Vincent Berg, Jean-Baptiste Doré, Dimitri Kténas, Oriol Font-Bach, Xavier Mestre, Miquel Payaró, Michael Färber, and Kilian Roth, "The 5G candidate waveform race: a comparison of complexity and performance", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2017, Article No. 13, Jan. 2017.

    Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier)
    Lixiong Liu, Yi Hua, Qingjie Zhao, Hua Huang, and Alan Conrad Bovik, "Blind image quality assessment by relative gradient statistics and adaboosting neural network", Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 40, pp. 1-15, Jan. 2016.

    contributed by Kostas Berberidis, EURASIP Director for Awards back to top
    EURASIP Awards: 2nd Call for Fellow Nominations

    EURASIP Fellow nominations are invited with a deadline of October 31, 2020.

    The EURASIP fellowship programme recognizes outstanding achievements of its members and volunteers. Each year, a select group of up to four signal processing researchers are elevated to EURASIP Fellow, the Association's most prestigious honour. Fellowships are awarded with a citation of the form “for contributions to …”, i.e. referring to a major long-term contribution to a technical field.

    How to Submit Nominations

    Any EURASIP member can nominate a colleague to be elevated to Fellow grade. Nominations should be submitted to the EURASIP Director for Awards by e-mail (berberid@ceid.upatras.gr).

    The nomination form can be downloaded from the EURASIP website at Fellowship-Nomination-Form.
    The deadline is October 31st of every year.

    The Board of Directors encourages you to share this information with your colleagues.
    contributed by Kostas Berberidis, EURASIP Director for Awards 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 Director for Technical Programs and Membership, 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 (subject to changes due to corona virus) Date Location
    SIGMAP 2020, 17th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications Jul. 8 - 10, 2020 Online streaming
    IWAENC 2020, 17th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement
    (Paper submission deadline: TBA)
    Aug. 31 - Sep. 3, 2020
    Postponed to early 2021 (TBA)
    Bamberg, Germany
    2020 IEEE Radar Conference, Renaissance meets advancing technology Sep. 21 - 25, 2020 Florence, Italy
    PECCS, 10th International Conference on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication and Sensors
    (Paper submission deadline: Jun. 8, 2020)
    Nov. 3 - 5, 2020 Budapest, Hungary
    EUSIPCO 2020, 28th European Signal Processing Conference Jan. 18 - 22, 2021 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    ISWCS 2021, 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
    (Paper submission deadline: Apr. 12, 2021)
    Sep. 6 - 9, 2021 Berlin, Germany
    contributed by Jean-Yves Tourneret, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership back to top
    EURASIP Seasonal Schools

    The EURASIP BoD welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of seasonal schools. For more information, click here.
    Name & Link (subject to changes due to corona virus) Date Location
    PAINLESS Summer school Jun. 1 - 2, 2020 Remotely via teleconferencing facilities
    International Summer School for Advanced Studies on Biometrics for Secure Authentication Jun. 8 - 12, 2020 Remotely via teleconferencing facilities
    IEEE - EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing 2020 Postponed to 2021 (TBA) Ponza, Italy
    Harmonic and Multifractal Analyses: From Mathematics to Quantitative Neurosciences Postponed to 2022 (TBA) Montréal, Canada
    Reports of past EURASIP Seasonal Schools can be found on the Seasonal Schools webpage.
    contributed by Jean-Yves Tourneret, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership back to top
    Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
    If you are interested in organizing a special issue in one of the EURASIP journals, please contact the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
    Signal Processing: Image Communication Deadline
    Explainable AI on Emerging Multimedia Technologies
    Jun. 1, 2020
    Visual Information Processing for Underwater Images and Videos: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications
    Jul. 31, 2020
    Computer Vision for Augmented Reality
    Sep. 15, 2020
    Multimedia Big Data Privacy and Processing Based on Compressive Sensing
    Sep. 30, 2020
    Speech Communication Deadline
    Pluricentric Languages in Speech Science and Technology Nov. 30, 2020
    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
    Wireless Sensor Networks under 5G for Augmented Reality Aug. 15, 2020
    Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications in 6G: Emerging Applications, Novel Methodologies, and Enable Technologies Aug. 31, 2020
    Evolutional Trends of Intelligent IoT in 5G Era Aug. 31, 2020
    EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Deadline
    Data-driven ASP: Methods and Apps Sep. 30, 2020
    Data-Based Spatial Audio Processing Mar. 31, 2021
    EURASIP Journal on Information Security Deadline
    Facing emerging challenges in multimedia forensics Jul. 31, 2020
    contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
    Recently submitted Ph.D. Theses in EURASIP Library
    Author Title & Link University Supervisors Publication Year
    Joseph, Geethu Linear Dynamical Systems with Sparsity Constraints: Theory and Algorithms Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Chandra R. Murthy 2019
    Shi, Liming Speech Modeling and Robust Estimation for Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease Aalborg University Mads Graesboll Christensen, Jesper Rindom Jensen 2020
    contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor 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
    Adaptive compressed sensing methods for more efficient radar detection and localization (ESR6) Fraunhofer-Institut für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik FHR Wachtberg, Germany May 31, 2020
    Coded waveforms for colocated MIMO radar using sparse modelling Fraunhofer-Institut für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik FHR Wachtberg, Germany May 31, 2020
    PhD position in efficient very-wide-area ToF 3D sensing by means of Adaptive Compressive Sensing ZESS – Center for Sensor Systems, University of Siegen Siegen, Germany May 31, 2020
    Tomographic SAR reconstruction (ESR8) ZESS – Center for Sensor Systems, University of Siegen Siegen, Germany May 31, 2020
    PhD position in pseudo-passive indoor ToF 3D sensing exploiting light-based wireless communications infrastructure ZESS – Center for Sensor Systems, University of Siegen Siegen, Germany May 31, 2020
    PhD position on Learning with adversarial samples for eo multi-spectral images University Politehnica of Bucharest Bucureşti, Romania May 31, 2020
    PhD Position on Deep Depth from Defocus (Deep DFD) for near range and in-situ 3D exploration University Politehnica of Bucharest Bucureşti, Romania Jun. 1, 2020
    Deep Learning for Sar Data in Presence of Adversial Samples University Politehnica of Bucharest Bucureşti, Romania Jun. 1, 2020
    PhDs and PostDocs in Satellite and Wireless Communication Systems SnT - University of Luxembourg Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jun. 15, 2020
    Postdoc in Robust Streaming of Multi-Channel High-Quality Audio for Sound Field Control Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark Jul. 5, 2020
    ERC-funded Ph.D. position in signal processing algorithm design for next-generation neuro-sensor technology KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Jul. 30, 2020
    ERC-funded Postdoc position in signal processing algorithm design for next-generation neuro-sensor technology KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Jul. 30, 2020
    PhD in artificial intelligence for segmentation of time series KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Jul. 31, 2020
    Professorship (junior/senior): Embodied Learning Machines KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium Sep. 14, 2020
    contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
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