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3. Publication News

Signal Processing Magazine Deadlines:  http://www.ieee-spm.org/?i=cfp 

Special Issue Deadlines

Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (website)

• MIMO Radar and its Applications - Deadline: 20 January 2009
• Compressive Sensing - Deadline: 20 February 2009
• Model Order Selection in Signal Processing Systems – Deadline: 20 April 2009

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (website)

• Signal Models and Representations of Musical and Environmental Sounds - Deadline: 15 December 2008
• Virtual Analog Audio Effects and Musical Instruments – Deadline: 15 March 2009
• Voice Transformation - Deadline: 1 April 2009

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (website)

• Electronic Voting - Deadline: 15 February 2009

IEEE MultiMedia Magazine (website)

• Multimedia-Metadata and Semantic Management - Deadline: 15 January 2009

Recent Issues of SPS Sponsored and Co-sponsored Publications

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4. TC News

News from the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC)

The MMSP TC is pleased to announce that the 2010 MMSP Workshop will be held in Saint Malo, France. It will be hosted by Telecom-ParisTech and INRIA-Rennes. As announced earlier, the 2009 MMSP Workshop will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October 2009, marking a milestone for the first time one of the major IEEE Signal Processing Society events to be held in Latin America. Details on call for paper submissions and special session proposals can be found at the MMSP'09 website.

The TC has elected Phil Chou (Microsoft Research, USA) to serve as MMSP TC chair for a two-year term 2010-2011. He will begin duties as Vice Chair in January 2009.

Also in January 2009, eight newly elected members will start their four-year terms. They are: Oscar Au, Francesco G.B. De Natale, Chia-Wen Lin, Jiebo Luo, Petros Maragos, Marco Tagliasacchi, Dapeng Oliver Wu, and Jian Zhang.  The TC thanks the following members with terms expiring this year for their services: Ingemar J. Cox (Past Chair), Li Deng, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Ling Guan, Christine Guillemot, Yun He, Nasir Memon, Shrikanth Narayanan, Fred Stentiford, and Stefano Tubaro.  Visit the MMSP TC website for more information about the TC activities and opportunities to be involved in.

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Do you know?  IEEE SPS provides travel support for local chapters to invite SPS Distinguished Lecturers.  See a list of SPS 2007 and 2008 Distinguished Lecturers, and check each issue of the E-News for upcoming SPS Distinguished Lectures near you.  

If you are interested in organizing a new SPS chapter, or participating in activities in a SPS local chapter near you, please check out Local Chapter Resources. Additional questions and comments can be addressed to the SPS Chapters Committee.
 

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6. New Initiatives and Trends

Smart Sensors and Bioprostheses Applications of Auxetic Materials

BBC News Online recently reported the creation of a smart curtain that can provide a new type of protection from explosions. The curtain is built using materials that are referred to as auxetic materials.  The name comes from Greek and suggests that these materials can expand in all directions when stretched along one direction. The interesting properties of these materials have already been known in the biomedical field, and are leading to emerging applications in smart sensors and bioprostheses. The same properties of auxetic materials that make them interesting also pose challenges in terms of signal processing, such as at the level of signal interpretation and signal control units.  Learn more about the auxetic materials, their biomedical applications, and the signal processing challenges from the In the Spotlight article by F. Scarpa in the September 2008 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

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DSP Tips and Tricks featured in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

• "Efficient Resampling Implementations" by D.W. Barker (July 2008)
   

• "Precise Variable-Q Filter Design" by S. Engelberg (September 2008)

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Statistical Signal Processing - Synthetic Aperture Sonar
at TU Darmstadt, Germany

The Signal Processing Research Group at Technical University Darmstadt invites outstanding candidates to apply for a postdoctoral fellow position on statistical signal processing. The postdoctoral fellow will work on externally funded projects, one of which is on Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS).

The position is initially for one year, and may be renewable. Candidates must satisfy the following criteria: a) A PhD in statistical signal processing; b) Profound knowledge in array processing, signal detection and parameter estimation; c) Experience with image analysis is desirable; d) Strong record of journal publications in the above areas. Application is via email to Prof. Abdelhak Zoubir at [zoubir AT spg.tu-darmstadt.de]. The application should be accompanied by Ph.D. transcripts, a list of publications, a list of supervised students if any, and residency status in Germany.

Postdoctoral Positions on MIMO Radar and Sensor Networks for Detection/Estimation
at Lehigh University, USA

The Signal Processing and Communication Research Lab at Lehigh University invites application for postdoctoral researcher positions. One research area of interests is on Sensor Networking, with an emphasis on networks focusing on Signal Detection and Estimation with complex sensors such as radar sensors. And another research area of interests is on MIMO radar.

Candidates are expected to have outstanding research records as shown in Ph.D. dissertations and publications in related areas; theoretical research leading to journal papers is desired.  Interested candidates should send a resume with references, a list of publications (include copy of a few relevant ones if available), a letter explaining how your background fits this project, and a transcript from your PhD school to: Prof. R. S. Blum, ECE Department - Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA. 18015.  Please indicate in the address field the applicable postdoc position (Postdoc in Sensor Networks Radar or in MIMO Radar). For more information contact Prof. Blum at [rblum AT Lehigh.EDU], or visit the group website.

EPSRC Industrial CASE PhD Studentship in Statistical Signal Processing
at Heriot-Watt University, UK

A fully funded EPSRC CASE PhD studentship in statistical signal processing is available to a UK student in the School of Engineering & Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in collaboration with SELEX Galileo. EU students who have been resident in the UK for over 3 years may also be eligible. The studentship will cover the fees and provide a tax-free stipend of around 13,900 pounds a year for three and a half years of PhD study. This project will involve the investigation of sensor fusion techniques to detect, identify and track formations (collectives) of targets to provide predictions of future formation behavior in complex sensor environments.

The student should have a minimum of a 2.1 in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or electrical engineering and have some experience of programming. Background in statistical signal processing, probability theory and Bayesian inference will be useful. Further information on the research field can be found here. Inquiries can be addressed to Dr. Daniel Clark at [D.E.Clark AT hw.ac.uk]

• PhD Position on Secure Identification and Authentication Codes at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

• PhD Scholarship in Cochlear Signal Detection and Modelling at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• Three-Year PhD Studentship on Variational Bayesian Filtering for Telecommunications at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Video Event Detection and Retrieval at Columbia University, USA

• Postdoctoral and Ph.D. Researcher Positions on Multi-sensor Signal Processing at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

• Ph.D. Research Assistantship to Explore the Potential of DSP for Digital Terrain Elevation Data at the Netherlands Defense Academy and Delft University of Technology

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