Newsletter – Vol. 30, July-August 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EURASIP Awards: 1 st Call Society Award Nominations
ERRATUM: Call Best Paper Award Nominations
EURASIP Journal Impact Factors
Calendar of Events
EURASIP Seasonal Schools
Open Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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EURASIP Awards: 1 st Call Society Award Nominations
Each year, EURASIP recognizes technical and professional achievements through its celebrated EURASIP Awards Program. As part of the organization’s overall mission to advance signal processing as a science and a profession, EURASIP’s Board of Directors annually evaluates the contributions of candidates for various awards that span a spectrum of professional and technological accomplishments.

EURASIP Members are invited to nominate candidates for EURASIP Society Awards that fall into the following categories:

  • Technical Achievement Award
  • Group Technical Achievement Award
  • Meritorious Service Award
  • Athanasios Papoulis Award
  • Early Career Award

  • For additional information on the scope and criteria for these awards, please visit the EURASIP website at www.eurasip.org. The website also gives details of the nomination process and copies of the nomination forms can be downloaded. A listing of previous award recipients with their award citations is also available on the EURASIP Awards webpage.

    Please submit nominations to the EURASIP Awards Director, Kostas Berberidis, by e-mail. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2019.

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

    contributed by Kostas Berberidis, EURASIP Director for Awards back to top
    EURASIP Best Paper Awards - Call for Nominations - ERRATUM
    *** The call for Best paper award nominations as sent in the June newsletter did not contain the correct list of eligible journals. This is corrected in the version below (as well as in the online version of the June newsletter) ***

    EURASIP Best Paper Awards are presented annually to mark outstanding contributions published in the Journals sponsored by EURASIP.
    For the year 2020, the journals which, according to EURASIP regulations, meet the awarding requirements are the following:

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

  • All papers published in the above journals that have a publication date in the years 2015-18, 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 Chair 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.
    The deadline for nominations is 31st October 2019.
    We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and peers.
    contributed by Kostas Berberidis, EURASIP Awards Director back to top
    2018 EURASIP Journal Impact Factors
    Journal Impact Factors are published each summer by Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters). The impact factors are based on citations in 2018 to articles published in 2016-2017.


    Signal Processing: Image Communication
    Elsevier

    Impact Factor: 2,814
    EURASIP J. on Image and Video Processing
    SpringerOpen

    Impact Factor: 1,534
    Speech Communication
    Elsevier

    Impact Factor: 1,661
    EURASIP J. on Audio, Speech and Music Processing
    SpringerOpen

    Impact Factor: 1,244
    Signal Processing
    Elsevier

    Impact Factor: 4.086
    EURASIP J. on Advances in Signal Processing
    SpringerOpen

    Impact Factor: 1,749


    EURASIP J. on Wireless Communications and Networking
    SpringerOpen

    Impact Factor: 1,592
    contributed by Alle-Jan van der Veen, EURASIP Publications Coordinator 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 Date Location
    ISWCS 2019,16th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
    Aug. 27-30, 2019 Oulu, Finland
    EUSIPCO 2019, 27th European Signal Processing Conference
    Sep. 2-6, 2019 A Coruña, Spain
    ISPA 2019, 11th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis  Sep. 23-25, 2019 Dubrovnik, Croatia
    SpeD 2019, 10th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue Oct. 10-12, 2019 Timisoara, Romania
    MDS 2019, Workshop on Mathematical Data Science (MDS) 2019 Oct. 13-15, 2019 Dürnstein, Austria
    EUVIP 2019, 8th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
    (Paper submission deadline: July 7, 2019)
    Oct. 28-31, 2019 Rome, Italy
    ICPRAM 2020, 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
    (Paper submission deadline: Oct. 4, 2019)
    Feb. 22-24, 2020 Valletta, Malta
    BIOSIGNALS 2020, 13th International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing
    (Paper submission deadline: Oct. 4, 2019)
    Feb. 24-26, 2020 Valletta, Malta
    ICISP 2020, 9th International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
    (Paper submission deadline: Jan. 12, 2020)
    Jun. 4-6, 2020 Marrakech, Morocco
    EUSIPCO 2020, 28th European Signal Processing Conference
    (Paper submission deadline: Feb. 21, 2020)
    Aug. 24-28, 2020 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    2020 IEEE Radar Confernce , Renaissance meets advancing technology
    (Paper submission deadline: Mar. 30, 2020)
    Sep. 21-25, 2020 Florence, Italy
    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 Date Location
    S3P-2019 Summer School on Signal Processing September 9-13, 2019 Arenzano, Italy
    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
    SPIC Deep Image/Video Feature Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction
    Sep. 15, 2019
    Computational Image Editing
    Jan. 15, 2020
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
    Medical Image Reconstruction with Low SNR Sep. 2, 2019
    Understanding and Designing Deep Neural Networks Sep. 30, 2019
    Recent advances and applications of time-frequency signal analysis Oct. 15, 2019
    Biomedical Informatics with Optimization and Machine Learning 2019 Dec. 31, 2019
    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
    Next Generation Wireless Medical Sensor Networks (WMSNs) for IoT-based eHealth Services Aug. 31, 2019
    Physical Layer Security Solutions for 5G-and-Beyond Sep. 1, 2019
    Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog Sep. 1, 2019
    Cognitive UAVs in Critical Missions: IoT-based Applications, Protocols and Deployments Sep. 1, 2019
    Evolutional Trends of Intelligent IoT in 5G Era Sep. 1, 2019
    Advanced Networking Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Networks Oct. 10, 2019
    New application domains for the cognitive-based solutions in the context of 5G and beyond Dec. 6, 2019
    Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods for Wireless Network Applications Dec. 31, 2019
    Distributed Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Heterogeneous Edge Computing Feb. 28, 2020
    Networking, Caching and Computation Issues in UAV-Enabled B5G Wireless Communication May. 5, 2020
    EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Deadline
    Advances in Audio Signal Processing for Robots and Drones Dec. 1, 2019
    EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Deadline
    Emerging Intelligent Media Technology for Public Security Sep. 30, 2019
    EURASIP Journal on Information Security Deadline
    Dependable Deep Learning for Security-Oriented Applications Aug. 31, 2019
    Security in Embedded Systems Sep. 16, 2019
    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
    Nagy, Amr Performance Enhancement for Filter Bank Multicarrier Methods in Multi-Antenna Wireless Communication Systems University of Strathclyde Stephan Weiss 2018
    Tanmay Tulsidas Verlekar Gait Analysis in Unconstrained Environments UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO Paulo Luís Serras Lobato Correia, Luís Eduardo de Pinho Ducla Soares 2019
    contributed by Alexander Bertrand, 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
    Postdoc position on signal processing for quantitative ultrasound (QUS) KU Leuven Leuven, Vlaams Brabant, Belgium Sept 1, 2019
    Professor in Control Systems for Human-Centered Applications KU Leuven Leuven, Vlaams Brabant, Belgium September 16, 2019
    contributed by Alexander Bertrand, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
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