Newsletter – Vol. 35, January 2024

Welcome to the first EURASIP newsletter of 2024. As the president of EURASIP, I am delighted to send to all members of our association my best wishes for this new year.

During the past year, EURASIP has been working intensively on serving its members through many activities including workshops, conferences, publications, summer schools and awards. On the other hand, EURASIP has also been very active in starting new activities including webinars, the creation of a EURASIP academy and developing the new student committee. All these activities have been conducted in close collaboration with the EURASIP Board of Directors (BoD), which has been restructured in 2024 as follows: Steve McLaughling as Director for Finance and Operations, Maria Sabrina Greco as Director for Awards, Esa Ollila as director for Publications, Björn Ottersten as Director for Technical Activities, Nelly Pustelnik as Director for Membership and Augusto Sarti as Director for Conferences. I would like to warmly thank the directors leaving the BoD, namely Kostas Berberidis and Toon van Waterschoot, whose work has been impressive during their term. I also would like to warmly welcome our new directors Nelly Pustelnik and Esa Ollila, who have been recently elected by the EURASIP members. Note that Toon van Waterschoot has been temporarily elected as Deputy Director for Conferences, working jointly with Augusto Sarti. Finally, I take the opportunity to thank the past president, Patrick Naylor, for his coaching and his precious recommendations.

The start of this new year is an opportunity for me to thank some people who are working intensively for EURASIP: Aldona Niemiro-Sznajder in charge of Management Support, Antoon Frehe for IT support, Evelyne Vanraes for Website Design and Database and Filip Elvander for Newsletters. We are extremely grateful to Aldona, Antoon, Evelyne and Filip for their excellent work and advice. I am not forgetting the Editors-in-Chief (EiCs) of our ELSEVIER and SPRINGER journals (Signal Processing, Image Communication, Speech Communication, Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Journal on Image and Video Processing, Journal on Information Security) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Book Series on Information and Learning Sciences published by NOW. The activities of all these EiCs and their Associate Editors have been outstanding during the past years. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the amazing work conducted by the eight technical area committees (TACs) of EURASIP, participating in almost all activities of the association, namely the organization of the conference EUSIPCO (by reviewing, proposing special sessions, …), the publications (paper submissions, organization of special issues, …) and the awards.

It is timely to mention EUSIPCO 2024 to be held in Lyon, France. The paper submission deadline is March 4, 2024. I am sure that it will be a great EUSIPCO organized by an excellent and dedicated team. We anticipate a multi-disciplinary technical program comprising keynotes, oral and poster sessions, tutorials and satellite workshops. It will provide an ideal forum for scientific discussion and dissemination of new findings and results. This will be the 32nd edition of EUSIPCO and I look forward to the chance of meeting you there.

To finish, I would like to wish you all a happy new year full of new signal and image processing experiences.

Jean-Yves Tourneret
EURASIP President

The EURASIP BoD welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of webinars. For more information, click here.

Below the list of upcoming webinars. Please check our webinar website for details.

Sound field analysis and reconstruction: recent developments, challenges, and outlook
Speaker: Efren Fernandez Grande
DATE and TIME: 30 January 2023 at 2pm CET
Link to the webinar
Abstract: Sound field reconstruction consists of estimating sound field properties from a set of spatio-temporal observations of an acoustic field. Such type of estimation is valuable in applications like spatial audio, active control of sound, VR/AR/XR, audio signal enhancement and transducer design – to name a few. There are however intrinsic challenges associated with measuring sound across space. Audible wavelengths span three orders of magnitude (17 m to 17 mm) and involve spatial sampling in three dimensions, resulting in a demanding problem. In this context, the talk focuses on the sensing, analysis, and reconstruction of sound fields over large spatial domains. We address the measurement of sound fields with microphone arrays, distributed sensors and remote acousto-optic sensing. We also discuss recent advances in signal processing and deep learning for sound field reconstruction, and demonstrate how models that capture generalizable physical properties of a sound field lead to better estimates than classical techniques that do not account for specific physical structure. As an outlook, we discuss how sound field analysis is approached in various domains of audio and acoustics and highlight some of the most promising avenues of current research in the field.
Measuring ‘pathology’ and 'normalcy' in brain MRI: the signal analysis perspective
Speaker: Paolo Bosco
DATE and TIME: 21 February 2024 at 3pm CET
Link to the webinar
Abstract: Brain MRI is becoming increasingly important in the study of both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative processes due to its enormous capabilities in the study of brain anatomy and function, with multiple applications in both research and clinical settings. However, the inherently non-quantitative nature of most MRI sequences poses significant challenges in the search for markers of pathology. This webinar will provide an overview of the key factors involved in evaluating brain MRI from a signal analysis perspective (e.g. signal registration, signal intensity normalisation, signal denoising) and illustrate some examples from clinical and research fields.

contributed by Nelly Pustelnik, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership

contributed by Steve McLaughlin, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership

contributed by Nelly Pustelnik, EURASIP Director for Technical Programs and Membership

If you are interested in organizing a special issue in one of the EURASIP journals, please contact the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

contributed by Esa Ollila, EURASIP Director for Publications

contributed by Esa Ollila, EURASIP Director for Publications

contributed by Filip Elvander, EURASIP Newsletter editor

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

contributed by Filip Elvander, EURASIP Newsletter editor

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