Bylaws

Approved 15 September 2011

500.0 TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES.

501. Technical Committees.

A Technical Committee is one that functions in a specific technical area. The creation of a new technical committee, changes in charters, or changes to the name of a technical committee must be approved by the Board of Governors. A Technical Committee shall operate in accordance with the bylaws and policies of the Society, in furtherance of the society’s mission.

Technical Committee Chairs are voting members of the Technical Directions Board. Each Technical Committee Chair holds one vote on the Technical Directions Board. In the event the Technical Committee Chair can not attend the Technical Directions Board meeting, an alternate may be assigned, however the alternate shall not have voting rights.

The Technical Committees of the Signal Processing Society are:

1. Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing
2. Bio Imaging and Signal Processing
3. Design and Implementation for Signal Processing Systems
4. Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing
5. Information Forensics and Security
6. Machine Learning for Signal Processing
7. Multimedia Signal Processing
8. Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing
9. Signal Processing for Communications and Networking
10. Signal Processing Theory and Methods
11. Speech and Language Processing.

The Industry DSP Technology Standing Committee and the Signal Processing Education Standing Committee shall; in every way function like a technical committee; its chair shall serve ex-officio, with vote on the Technical Directions Board.

1. Scope. Each Technical Committee shall promote activities within its area of technical interest, and shall provide expertise and assistance as follows:
   1. assist in the review of papers submitted to Society technical meetings;
   2. organize and operate society-sponsored/co-sponsored symposia, seminars, and workshops, or sessions at technical meetings of the Society or of the IEEE, at all levels, and at meetings of other organizations having Board-approved cooperative relationships with the Society, in accordance with IEEE rules and procedures and the rules for such meetings;
   3. make nominations in the Society awards process and vet nominations for technical excellence as requested by the Awards Board;
   4. assist Editors-in-Chief in identifying appropriate Associate Editor candidates;
   5. in addition, the Signal Processing Education Standing Committee shall promote all aspects of education relevant to the Society and its members.
2. Management. The Chair of each Technical Committee shall be elected by the Technical Committee itself. The term of office shall be two calendar years. A second term as Chair is permitted but may not be consecutive.
   
   The Technical Committee Chair is responsible for maintaining a roster of the members and communicating the Technical Committee's activities to the Vice President-Technical Directions of the Society and to the staff office.
3. Membership. Technical Committee members shall be a member of the Society.

502. Technical Subgroups.

A Technical Subgroup may be organized to cover a specified portion of the Society’s Field of Interest. Each Technical Subgroup shall be governed by a Technical Committee.

Subgroups may organize special issues of transactions or a special section in an issue of a transactions.

Any service for subgroup members, beyond those provided to all Society members, is the financial responsibility of the subgroup members. Any assessment to defray subgroup activities, whether monetary or otherwise, requires the endorsement of the Board of Governors and any other approval required by the rules and practices of the IEEE.

503. Technical Committee Reviews.

Technical Committees will be subject to a formal review. Each Technical Committee will undergo a review at least once every five years with the frequency of the review decided on by the TC Review Committee and the Vice President-Technical Directions at the end of the review process.