Newsletter – Vol. 32, September 2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS
President's Message
EURASIP BoD Election Results
Call for PhD Thesis Submission & Best PhD Thesis Award
Calendar of Events
EURASIP Seasonal Schools
Open Special Issues
Recent Ph.D. Theses
Job Posts
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President's Welcome Message
EURASIP extends a warm welcome to all new members, especially those that joined the Association last month at the 2021 edition of EUSIPCO organized in Dublin and held online.
This conference was very successful. A total of 440 papers were presented, and the two most popular tracks were ASMSP - Acoustic, Speech and Music Signal Processing, and TMTSP - Theoretical and Methodological Trends in Signal Processing.
On behalf of the entire Association, we send many thanks to the organizing committee of EUSIPCO 2021, particularly the General Chairs Rozenn Dahyot, Fernando Pérez-González; technical chairs Josiane Zerubia, Stephen McLaughlin, Maria Sabrina Greco; and key members of the local committee Gerard Lacey, finance chair and Julie Connelly, local chair. In addition, we enjoyed some excellent keynotes, including the EURASIP Fellow Inaugural Lecture given by Prof Walter Kellermann, as well as all the regular paper sessions and special sessions. These keynotes and other recent presentations are freely available on the EURASIP VZW YouTube channel or via eurasip.org.

EURASIP has been fully active throughout the pandemic, with meetings, workshops, conferences, and seasonal schools taking place online. It is remarkable how people have adapted to make the best possible outcome from difficult situations. I sincerely hope that EURASIP members, new and existing, will enjoy participating in and contributing to a variety of activities organized and sponsored by the Association. Our newly updated website at eurasip.org. is the place to find out what upcoming events are scheduled and to see other details, including EURASIP publications and awards. I take this opportunity to look forward to EUSIPCO 2022 planned to take place in Belgrade - in person and with the option for remote access. The conference dates are August 29th to September 2nd, 2022.
Please visit 2022.eusipco.org for details.

With best regards,
Patrick Naylor, EURASIP President back to top
EURASIP BoD Election Results 2021
Elections to the Board of Directors of EURASIP took place during August and September 2021.
I am delighted to announce that Björn Ottersten and Augusto Sarti have been re-elected to serve for a second term on the Board.
I am also delighted to announce that Stephen McLaughlin has been elected to join the Board.
These roles take effect from January 2022.

On behalf of all EURASIP members, let me take this opportunity to congratulate the successful candidates and to thank warmly all those who stood for election and all those who voted.

Patrick Naylor, EURASIP President back to top
Call for PhD Thesis Submission & Best PhD Thesis Award
The European Association for Signal Processing created and maintains a database of PhD manuscripts at http://theses.eurasip.org which is one of the world's largest in the area of signal processing. The database interface also shows download statistics and publishes regularly the 10 top downloaded theses.

Every year a committee of experts nominated by the EURASIP Board of Directors selects up to three theses related to different areas of signal processing to be awarded ‘Best PhD Thesis’ awards. The selection process is based on the evaluation of the impact of the theses, their subsequent journal and conference publications and related citations received, and on the review reports of independent reviewers as well as on the download and citation statistics.

In order to select the 2022 best PhD theses, the temporal window of the years 2017 through 2019 is considered. The awards will be presented during the Awards Ceremony at EUSIPCO 2022. Each award consists of a certificate and of a travelling & accommodation reimbursement of 1K Euros for attending the Awards Ceremony.

If you want to make your PhD thesis available in the EURASIP database, visit the site http://theses.eurasip.org and upload your thesis.
contributed by Sabrina Greco, EURASIP Director for Awards 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.
Name & Link (subject to changes due to corona virus) Date Location
SpeD, 11th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue Oct. 13 - 15, 2021 Online event by Bucharest, Romania
EUSIPCO 2022, 30th European Signal Processing Conference
(Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2022)
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
EUVIP 2022, 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
(Paper submission deadline: June 6, 2022)
Sep. 11 - 14, 2022 Lisbon, Portugal
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
Harmonic and Multifractal Analyses: From Mathematics to Quantitative Neurosciences Postponed to 2022 (TBA) Montréal, Canada
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
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Deadline
Sparse/Low-rank Tensor Signal Processing for Communication and Radar Systems Dec. 30, 2021
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing for Smart Internet of Vehicle Jan. 15, 2022
Signal Processing over Higher Order Networks Jan. 31, 2022
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Deadline
Backscatter Communications for the Internet of Things Dec. 1, 2021
Cell-Free Massive MIMO for 6G Feb. 15, 2022
Intelligent Systems and Smart Network Computing for Commercial and Industrial IoT May 31, 2022
Machine Learning for Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications Jun. 30, 2022
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing Deadline
Recent advances in computational sound scene analysis Apr. 1, 2022
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Deadline
Artificial Intelligence Based Techniques for Next Generation Image and Video Compression Nov. 30, 2021
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
Grm, Klemen Automated Face Recognition from Low-resolution Imagery University of Ljubljana Vitomir Štruc 2021
Stefan Pratschner Separability of Closely Spaced Users in Massive MIMO Systems TU Wien Stefan Schwarz 2021
Ljiljana Marijanovic Multiplexing Services in 5G New Radio: Optimal Resource Allocation based on Mixed Numerology and Mini-slot Approach TU Wien Stefan Schwarz, Markus Rupp 2020
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
Professor in Electrical Engineering: Control Systems For Human-Centered Applications KU Leuven Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium Nov. 16, 2021
contributed by Alexander Bertrand, EURASIP Newsletter Editor back to top
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