Newsletter – Vol. 32, May 2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EURASIP Awards: Announcement Best Paper Awards
EURASIP Awards: 2nd Call Fellow Nominations
New Open Access Book Series on Information and Learning Sciences Launched
Calendar of Events
EURASIP Seasonal Schools
Open Special Issues
Published Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
If this newsletter is not displaying properly, please view the online version
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 2021, the journals which, according to EURASIP regulations, met the awarding requirements are the following:

  • Signal Processing
  • Speech Communication
  • Signal Processing: Image Communication
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing

    The papers considered for this year's awards should have been published within the period 2016-2019.
    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 the upcoming virtual edition of EUSIPCO to be held in August 2021.

    Signal Processing (Elsevier): Si Qin, Yimin D. Zhang, Moeness G. Amin, and Braham Himed, "DOA estimation exploiting a uniform linear array with multiple co-prime frequencies", Signal Processing, vol. 130, pp. 37-46, Jan. 2017.

    Speech Communication (Elsevier): Masanori Morise, "D4C, a band-aperiodicity estimator for high-quality speech synthesis", Speech Communication, vol. 84, pp. 57-65, Nov. 2016.

    Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier): Denis Tomè, Federico Monti, Luca Baroffio, Luca Bondi, Marco Tagliasacchi, and Stefano Tubaro, "Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for pedestrian detection", Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 47, pp. 482-489, Sept. 2016.

    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer): Marco Di Renzo, Merouane Debbah, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Alessio Zappone, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Chau Yuen, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, George C. Alexandropoulos, Jakob Hoydis, Haris Gacanin, Julien de Rosny, Ahcene Bounceur, Geoffroy Lerosey, and Mathias Fink, "Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable AI meta-surfaces: an idea whose time has come", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2019, Article No. 129, Mar. 2019.

    EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (Springer): Dragana Sandić-Stanković, Dragan Kukolj, and Patrick Le Callet, "DIBR synthesized image quality assessment based on morphological multiscale approach", EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, vol. 2016, Article No. 4, Jul. 2016.

  • contributed by Maria Sabrina Greco, 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, 2021.

    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 (awards@eurasip.org).

    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 Maria Sabrina Greco, EURASIP Director for Awards back to top
    New Open Access Book Series on Information and Learning Sciences Launched
    The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and Now Publishers are glad to announce the launch of a new book series, the Open Access Book Series on Information and Learning Sciences . With Ali H. Sayed of EPFL as the Founding Editor-in-Chief, the Series will publish research monographs, graduate level textbooks, and edited volumes in fields related to Information and Learning Sciences. All titles in the series will be published as Open Access, under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. Books published in the series will also appear in print:

    Editor-in-Chief
    Ali H. Sayed, EPFL, Switzerland

    Editorial Board
    Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Alfred O. Hero, University of Michigan, USA
    Angelia Nedich, Arizona State University, USA
    H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, USA
    Sergios Theodoridis, University of Athens, Greece
    Abdelhak Zoubir, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

    Proposals can be submitted to the NOW publisher Mark de Jongh at the address (mark.dejongh@nowpublishers.com) or directly to the Series Editor Ali H. Sayed. All proposals submitted to the series will be subject to reviews.

    All EURASIP members will receive a discount on the Open Access Book Publication Fee, as well as discounts on the print copies of books published in the Series.
    contributed by Kostas Berberidis, EURASIP Director for Publications 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
    8th SPRINGEROPEN EURASIP JIVP's Free Web conferencing,
    Point Cloud Coding: Time for Learning-based Alternatives
    Jun. 2, 2021 Online webinar
    EUVIP 2021, 9th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing Jun. 23 - 25, 2021 Paris, France
    EUSIPCO 2021, 29th European Signal Processing Conference Aug. 23 - 27, 2021 Online event by Dublin, Ireland
    ISWCS 2021, 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems Sep. 6 - 9, 2021 Online event by Berlin, Germany
    ISPA 2021, 12th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis
    (Paper submission deadline: June 13, 2021)
    Sep. 13 - 15, 2021 Zagreb, Croatia
    SpeD, 11th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue
    (Paper submission deadline: June 20, 2021)
    Oct. 13 - 15, 2021 Online event by Bucharest, Romania
    EUSIPCO 2022, 30th European Signal Processing Conference Aug. 29 - Sep. 2, 2022 Belgrade, Serbia
    IWAENC 2022, 17th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement
    (Paper submission deadline: April 22, 2022)
    Sep. 5 - 8, 2022 Bamberg, 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
    UDRC-EURASIP Summer School 2021 Jun. 28 - Jul. 1, 2021 Online event by Edinburgh, UK
    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
    Light Field Imaging
    Aug. 1, 2021
    Speech Communication Deadline
    Pluricentric Languages in Speech Science and Technology
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
    Intelligent Sensors trends in Real-time Signal Processing Jun. 15, 2021
    AI for Pandemics Jul. 1, 2021
    Emerging Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Information Fusion and Its Applications for Massive RF Data in Smart Environments Jul. 1, 2021
    Edge Intelligent Sensors for Infectious Diseases Jul. 31, 2021
    Sparse/Low-rank Tensor Signal Processing for Communication and Radar Systems Dec. 30, 2021
    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
    Advances Industrial Mobile Communications Over Edge Computing: Challenges and Emerging Applications Sep. 15, 2021
    EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Deadline
    Data-Based Spatial Audio Processing Jun. 15, 2021
    EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Deadline
    Artificial Intelligence Based Techniques for Next Generation Image and Video Compression Jun. 5, 2021
    contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
    Recently Published Special Issues of EURASIP Journals
    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Issue
    Enabling Technologies for Networks beyond 5G
    Edited by: Narcis Cardona, Daniel Calabuig and Luis M. Correia
    May 2021
    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
    Dietzen, Thomas Spatio-Temporal Speech Enhancement in Adverse Acoustic Conditions KU Leuven Toon van Waterschoot, Marc Moonen, Simon Doclo 2019
    Jorge Ulises Munoz Minjares Improving Estimates of Genome CNAs by developing Probabilistic Masks for Microarray Data Universidad de Guanajuato Yuriy S. Shmaliy 2018
    Mallat, Khawla Efficient integration of thermal technology in facial image processing through interspectral synthesis EURECOM Jean-Luc Dugelay 2021
    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
    Fully-funded PhD position in Room Acoustic Modelling University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom Jun. 11, 2021
    PhD Position in the field of Audio Signal Enhancement Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Oldenburg Oldenburg, Germany Jun. 15, 2021
    Assistant Professor in Signal Processing Aalto University Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland Jun. 18, 2021
    PhD Thesis proposal: Detection and estimation of infrasonic broadband multiple sources using convolutional recurrent neural network University of Orléans Orléans, Loiret, France Jun. 30, 2021
    contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
    GET INVOLVED & STAY TUNED
    Copyright © 2020 European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). All Rights Reserved.