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3. Publication News

Call for Nomination of Best Paper Award - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

The IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM) invites nominations for the Transactions Best Paper Award for 2009. If you have read a paper which you feel is of exceptional merit, please consider nominating it for the award.  The nominations period is open until 28 March 2009. Any paper published in T-MM in 2006, 2007, or 2008 is eligible.

Nominations should include: (1) nominator;  (2) bibliographic information for the paper; and (3) a short statement of support (less than 500 words) explaining the rationale for the nomination.  Please email nominations to Sheila Hemami, T-MM Editor in Chief, at <hemami AT ece.cornell.edu>, in plain text form (no attachments please).

Judging shall be on the bases of general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. The winner will be announced at ICME 2009 in June.

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

Special Issue Deadlines

Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (website)

• Model Order Selection in Signal Processing Systems – Deadline: 20 April 2009
• Speech Processing for Natural Interaction with Intelligent Environments - Deadline: 3 July 2009
• Statistical Learning Methods for Speech and Language Processing - Deadline: 7 August 2009

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

• Voice Transformation - Deadline: 1 April 2009

IEEE MultiMedia Magazine (website)

• Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia – Deadline: 15 May 2009

Recent Issues of SPS Sponsored and Co-sponsored Publications

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4. TC News

Audio and Electroacoustics Technical Committee (AE TC)

The scope of the Audio and Electroacoustics Technical Committee essentially includes all aspects of the processing of audio signals: sound production, reception, transduction, analysis, enhancement, semantics and information processing, coding, synthesis, rendition, and perception. The AE TC's activities in the first months of 2008 mainly focused on the TC review, which provided a great opportunity for systematic self-assessment and directions to further improve the standing of the TC. Learn more about the AE TC from this in-depth report.

Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (SLTC)

The Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee started 2009 with new leadership, a number of newly elected members, a new editing team for the TC's Newsletter, and a new TC website. Learn more about the activity updates of the SLTC from this exclusive report.

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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 2008 and 2009 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. Technical Initiatives, Trends, and Standards

Interested in learning advances, challenges, and future trends in hardware design and implementation of signal processing systems? Check out the expert opinions from the November 2008 DPS Forum of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

Image Processing for the Oil Sands Mining Industry

In a world that is in increasing needs for energy to fuel its economic development, everyone is keenly aware of the world's tightening oil supply.  However, few people know that the western Canadian province of Alberta has oil reserves of 174 billion barrels that is second only to Saudi Arabia.  Alberta's oil is extracted from oil sands and requires technological innovation to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and minimize the environmental impact.

Motivated by the July 2008 report on the CNN's morning TV show "American Morning" about Alberta's oil sands, the "In the Spotlight" column of November 2008 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine featured an article by Hong Zhang that discusses contributions of image processing for oil sands mining.
 

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Antoni Morell (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain):
"Convex Decomposition Perspective on Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation and Applications," September 2008.
Advised by Prof. Gonzalo Seco-Granados

Pattern Recognition, 4th Edition,
by Sergios Theodoridis and Konstantinos Koutroumbas, Elsevier, 2009.

Description from the publisher: This book considers classical and current theory and practice, of both supervised, and unsupervised and semi-supervised pattern recognition, to build a complete background for professionals and students of engineering. The authors have provided an up-to-date, self-contained volume encapsulating this wide spectrum of information. The very latest methods are incorporated in this edition: semi-supervised learning, combining clustering algorithms, and relevance feedback.

Visit the book's website for table of contents and ordering information.

Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips,
Edited by Robert S. Marks, David C. Cullen, Isao Karube, Christopher R. Lowe, and Howard H. Weetall, Wiley, 2007.

Description from the publisher: Biosensors and biochips are part of the huge and rapidly evolving areas of biomolecular and bioanalytical sciences. The market for biosensors and biochips is interdisciplinary and growing and has applications in a number of core research areas. With contributions from experts in the field, the Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips provides an essential reference, underpinning many of the applications used in medical diagnostics, environmental control and pharmaceutical and food industries. It presents an invaluable addition for those in both academia and industry.

Visit the book's website for more information.

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PhD Scholarship on Neuroimaging based Brain Network Comparison
at The University of Groningen, The Netherlands

The Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science of the University of Groningen has an opening for a 4-year PhD scholarship on brain network comparison.  Brain imaging techniques such as MRI and EEG are useful to study brain structure and function. A topic of active interest is the comparison of brain networks under different experimental conditions, or comparison of networks between healthy and patient groups. The goal of this project is the analysis and visualization of brain connectivity networks, covering both fundamental methodologies and application studies.  Fundamental problems to be addressed are: reconstruction and quantitative comparison of EEG/fMRI activation networks; network architecture under perturbation; integration of network exploration and analysis algorithms with graph visualization tools. The methods will be tested in application studies on aging and cognition.

Supervisors are Prof. dr. J.B.T.M. Roerdink (Computing Science) and Prof.dr.ir. N.M. Maurits (Neurology). Candidates should send their well motivated letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a list of courses and grades, a writing sample (e.g. Master's thesis), and the names and contact information of two referees to the email address at [j.b.t.m.roerdink AT rug.nl]. The deadline for applications is May 1, 2009. Visit this website for more details.

• Two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Signal Processing/Communications at The University of Newcastle, Australia

• Post-doctoral / Research Associate position in inverse imaging for semiconductor manufacturing at University of Hong Kong

• Ph.D. position in mathematical statistics - reliable detection of explosives and narcotics at Lund University, Sweden

• Post-doctoral research fellow on image quality assessment at University of Nantes, France

Interested in advertising graduate scholarship, post-doc positions, or funding opportunities?
Please prepare a short text of the announcement (150-200 words) and visit the web submission site to enter your input. It is recommended to include the deadline or valid period of the announcement, and an URL for more information such as group/research description and detailed qualification expectation in English. Contact Associate Editor Prof. Alessandro Piva at <alessandro.piva AT unifi.it> if you have any questions. Note that advertisements on faculty and other full-time position are in the domain of IEEE job advertisement (http://careers.ieee.org/g/); the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine also provides opportunities for paid advertisement.

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