1997 ICASSP Meeting, April 21, Munich.

Minutes from the Annual Meeting of the

	Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee
	at ICASSP'97, Munich, April 21.

Prepared by: John Sorensen

Participants:
TC Members: Rama Chellappa, Tsuhan Chen, S. Furui, Yu Hen Hu, 
            Jenq-Neng Hwang, S.Y. Kung, K.J. Ray Liu, David Munson,
            Ryohei Nakatsu, Mark Smith, Hans-Joachim Stolberg (for Peter 
            Pirsch), John Sorensen, A. Murat Tekalp.
Guests: A.N. Akansu, Antonio Ortega, Joern Ostermann, Bhaskar Rao,
        Martin Vetterli, Kuansan Wang.

The meeting was carried through in accordance to the following agenda:

  I.   Call to Order
  II.  Reports
        A: Officers' reports
        B. Subcommittee' reports
  III. Unfinished business
        A. Approval of bylaw and procedures
        B. Terms of initial members
        C. Nominations for paper awards and other major awards
        D. Proposals for ICASSP98 Tutorials
        E. Article for SP Magazine Special Series
  IV.  New Business
        A. Nomination and election of new members
        B. Proposals for 1998 MMSP Workshop
  V.   Adjournment
  
Ad. I Call to Order.

  The TC chair Tsuhan Chen welcomed the participants to the meeting, 
  reviwed the Agenda and asked for additional agenda items.  There were 
  no additional items proposed.

Ad. II Reports.  
  A. Officers report. MMSP Workshop in Princeton, NY, June 23-25, 1997.
     In addition to the report in Appendix 1 of the Agenda it was stated
     that there were ~130 submitted and ~80 accepted papers for the WS.
  B. Subcommittees' reports.
     Bylaw and Membership (Subcommittee chaired by Yu Hen Hu)
       Report in Appendix 1 of the Agenda.
     Publication (Subcommittee chaired by K.J. Ray Liu)
       Report in Appendix 1 of the Agenda.
     Electronic Business (Subcommittee chaired by Reha Civanlar)
       Report in Appendix 1 of the Agenda.
 
Ad. III. Unfinished business
  A. Approval of bylaw and procedure.
     The Bylaw Appendix of the Agenda was discussed and was unanimously 
     approved.
     The TC will elect up to 8 new members per year.  After having passed
     the transient phase, the committee should have a total of 32 members
     plus liaison members.  

  B. Terms of initial members. A motion for emphasising volunteering was
     approved. 

  C. Nominations for paper awards and other major awards.
     The TC can nominate for
     Society Award, Technical Achievements Award, Meritorious Service 
     Award (Sep. 19), Best Paper Award (May 16), Young Author Best Paper 
     Award.

     In general the principles for nominations to associated editor
     of transactions will be confidential and mainly decided by the
     chair. All other nominations will be nonconfidential.

  D. Proposals for ICASSP98 Tutorials. (Jenq-Neng Hwang).
     Currently there are plans for 3 tutorials before noon and 3
     afternoon.
     Suggestions for tutorials are sent to Tutorials Chair Gary Bernard 
     Boeing Corporation. 
     A special scene for multimedia presentations are planned for
     ICASSP98. 
     
  E. Article for SP magazine Special Series.
     There is a need for editorial type articles. It is suggested 
     (S.Y. Kung) to write special columns on the spirit of multimedia eg. 
     with  2/3 picture and 1/3 caption text.

Ad. IV New Business.
  A. Nomination and election of new members.
     Is was suggested to have a subcommittee (chaired by S.Y. Kung) for 
     membership of the TC. Nomination is open to all members of SPS and 
     the TC is electing the members. It was also proposed that the
     nominator need to submit to SY a one paragraph write-up on behalf 
     of nominee before SY forwards the case to the TC for confirmation 
     or ballot.

  B. Proposals for 1998 MMSP Workshop and future workshops.
     A proposal for the 1998 MMSP Workshop has been received from
     prof. Antonio Ortega, IMSC at USC. The proposal of the place
     of the WS was approved unanimously. The WS will take place in 
     June 1998. The date is to be determined. USC will bring a 
     detailed proposal for the date and venue to the next TC meeting.

     There was a general discussion of the frequency of future WS
     and at what time of the year it should be placed.
     With respect to the frequency of the WS it was suggested to
     have it annually; biannually in US and sometimes in between in 
     Europe or Asia; mixed annual in US where the WS is combined with 
     TC IMDSP or SPEECH. There was a motion to postpone the decision on 
     frequency to the TC MMSP meeting in 1998. This was approved.
     The preferred WS placement in time of the year was discussed. 
     Suggestions was made on June, August or December although the
     latter month from some point of view is difficult. It is also
     necessary to take into consideration the schedules for ICASSP
     and ICIP.
 
Ad. V. Adjournment.
     Future meetings:
     The next MMSP TC meeting will be held at the MMSP Workshop in
     Princeton, June 23-25. The exact date will be announced.