Newsletter – Vol. 26, June 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EURASIP Best Paper Awards - Call for Nominations
Calendar of Events
EURASIP Seminars
Open Special Issues
Published Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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EURASIP Best Paper Awards - Call for Nominations

EURASIP Best Paper Awards are presented annually to mark outstanding contributions published in the Journals sponsored by EURASIP.

For 2016 awards, papers are eligible that have a publication date in the years 2011 to 2014 inclusive, published in the journals:

  • Signal Processing
  • Speech Communication
  • Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
  • Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • Journal on Image and Video Processing

A committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief for each eligible journal 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. The website also gives further details of the nomination and awards process.

EURASIP Members are invited to nominate eligible papers.

Please submit nominations to the EURASIP Awards chair, Ana Pérez-Neira, by e-mail. The deadline for nominations is 31st October 2015.

We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and peers.

contributed by Ana Pérez-Neira, 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.
Reports of past EURASIP co-sponsored events can be found on the 'Past Conferences' webpage.
Name & Link Date Location
EUSIPCO 2015, 23rd European Signal Processing Conference Aug. 31 - Sep. 4, 2015 Nice, France
AFRICON 2015, Green Innovation for African Renaissance Sep. 14-17, 2015 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
SPED 2015, 8th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue
(Paper submission deadline: Jul. 15, 2015)
Oct. 14-17, 2015 Bucharest, Romania
RFID 2015, 5th International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology
Oct. 22-23, 2015 Rosenheim, Germany
contributed by Patrick A. Naylor, EURASIP Events Coordinator back to top
EURASIP Seminars
Upcoming Seminars Date Location
RTSP 2015 – EURASIP Tutorial Day
(by Henrique Malvar, Julius O. Smith III, Kurt Werner, Ioan Tabus, Alessandro Neri, André Kaup, Erchin Serpedin, Wonyong Sung, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, David Allstot, Mau-Chung Frank Chang)
July 6, 2015 Cluj-Napoca, Rumania
Reports and technical presentations of past EURASIP Seminars can be found on the EURASIP Seminars webpage.
contributed by Jean-Luc Dugelay, EURASIP Membership Development Coordinator back to top
Open Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
Signal Processing Deadline
Signal Processing for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Aug. 1, 2015
Signal Processing: Image Communication Deadline
Deep Learning with Applications to Visual Representation and Analysis
Sep. 15, 2015
Speech Communication Deadline
Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication Jul. 1, 2015
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
Distributed and Centralized Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks Aug. 1, 2015
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
Evolution of Radio Access Network Technologies towards 5G Jul. 31, 2015
Radio Channel models for higher frequency bands Jul. 31, 2015
System Level Modeling in Future Wireless Communications Aug. 15, 2015
Revolutionizing mHealth through next generation communication technologies Nov. 1, 2015
Big Data Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems Dec. 30, 2015
EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Deadline
Advances in Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics Sep. 15, 2015
Bayesian Methods for Computational Systems Biology Sep. 15, 2015
Signal processing and control solutions for individualized therapies Nov. 1, 2015
Statistical reverse engineering methods for high-throughput molecular data Nov. 1, 2015
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems Deadline
Energy Efficient Architectures for Embedded Systems Sep. 20, 2015
EURASIP Journal on Information Security Deadline
Challenges for Multimedia Content Security in Social Networks Jul. 10, 2015
Practicable Privacy Enhancing Technologies and Security Solutions for the Smart Grid User Domain Oct. 15, 2015
Recent Advances in Cybersecurity Oct. 20, 2015
contributed by Alexander Bertrand, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
Recently Published Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Issue
Advanced signal processing techniques and telecommunications network infrastructures for Smart Grid analysis, monitoring and management
Edited by: Julio Barros, Antonio Bracale, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Gary Chang, Emiliano Dall'Anese
Mar. 2015
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Issue
Technical Advances in the Design and Deployment of Future Heterogeneous Networks
Edited by: Lila Boukhatem, Adrian Kliks, Jordi Perez-Romero, Andreas Zalonis
Dec. 2014
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
Chow, Jacky Multi-Sensor Integration for Indoor 3D Reconstruction University of Calgary Derek Lichti, William Teskey 2014
Björk, Marcus Contributions to Signal Processing for MRI Uppsala University Peter Stoica 2015
Lejosne, Yohan Multi-Cell Multi-User MIMO Aspects: Delay, Transceiver Design, User Selection and Topology Telecom ParisTech Dirk Slock, Yi Yuan-Wu 2014
Atzeni, Italo Distributed Demand-Side Optimization in the Smart Grid Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa, Luis García Ordóñez 2014
González-Coma, José Pablo Quality of Service Optimization in the Broadcast Channel with Imperfect Transmit Channel State Information University of a Coruña Luis Castedo, Paula Castro, Michael Joham 2015
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
Postdoc position in Interaction of (de)reverberation with other acoustic artefacts/algorithms Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark Jul. 1, 2015
1 PhD and 4 Postdoc positions CentraleSupelec Paris, France Aug. 1, 2015
Post-Doctorate Researcher Technion Israel Jan. 1, 2016
contributed by Aggelos Pikrakis, EURASIP Web Services Coordinator back to top
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