Newsletter – Vol. 35, March-April 2024

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 2023, the journals which, according to EURASIP regulations, met the awarding requirements are the following:

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

The papers considered for this year's awards should have been published within the period 2019-2022. 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 Editors-in-Chief and all members of the Selection Committees for their valuable help in the awarding process. The awards will be presented at the Awards Ceremony during the Opening Ceremony at EUSIPCO 2024.

Signal Processing
Haodong Li, Bin Li, Shunquan Tan, Jiwu Huang, “Identification of Deep Network Generated Images Using Disparities in Color Components”, Signal Processing, Volume 174, September 2020

Signal Processing: Image Communication
Dong Zhao, Long Xu, Yihua Yan, Jie Chen, Ling-Yu Duan, “Multi-scale Optimal Fusion model for single image dehazing”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Volume 74, May 2019

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Zhao Chen and Xiaodong Wang, “Decentralized computation offloading for multi-user mobile edge computing: a deep reinforcement learning approach”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2020

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Andreas Loukas, Nathanaël Perraudin, “Stationary time-vertex signal processing”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 20 August 2019

contributed by Sabrina Greco, EURASIP Director for Awards

EURASIP created and maintains a database of PhD theses at http://theses.eurasip.org, which is one of the World's largest in the area of signal processing. The database also keeps track of monthly downloads.

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. The selection process is based on the evaluation of the impact of the theses, their subsequent journal and conference publications and related citations received, on the download statistics as well as on the review reports of independent reviewers.

The 2024 winner is:

Stefan Vlaski, “Distributed Stochastic Optimization in Non-Differentiable and Non-Convex Environments”, UCLA
Supervisor: Ali H. Sayed

On behalf of the EURASIP Board of Directors, we would like to congratulate the winner.

contributed by Sabrina Greco, EURASIP Director for Awards

The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) is looking for a part-time colleague (2-4h/week) to coordinate and execute tasks relating to PR & communication and administrative membership support. You will work with a high degree of autonomy in a dynamic international environment on the frontier of scientific research and technology. More details on the job description and profile as well as information on how to apply can be found here.

contributed by Filip Elvander, EURASIP Newsletter editor

EURASIP Fellow nominations are invited with a deadline of October 31, 2024.
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 Jean-Yves Tourneret, EURASIP President

EURASIP invites proposals from potential organisers for the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2028 and beyond) to be held in late August/early September.

EUSIPCO is a learned and professional platform for dissemination and discussion of all aspects of signal processing. It features plenaries, tutorials, lectures and poster sessions, as well as an exhibition, and can host additional satellite events. EUSIPCO is sponsored by EURASIP and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Each edition is ran by a distinct organizing committee consisting of an international group of scholars that are well connected to EURASIP, normally with the support of a professional conference organizer (PCO).

• Proposed dates in 2028 (or later);
• Key organizing committee members, including biographic information;
• Tentative budget, which includes anticipated financial and in-kind support;
• Information about the location and what it has to offer.

contributed by Toon van Waterschoot, EURASIP Deputy Director for Conferences

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

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

contributed by Nelly Pustelnik, 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 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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