1999 MMSP Workshop Meeting, September 13, Copenhagen. *********************************************************************** Minutes of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee meeting at MMSP'99, Monday September 13. *********************************************************************** Presence: S. Basu, T. Chen, S. Furui, M. Hayes, Y.H. Hu, J.N. Hwang, A. Katsaggelos, S.Y. Kung, R. Liu, R. Mersereau, A. Ortega, J. Ostermann, J. Sorensen, J. Yao (for T. Taniguchi). Guests: Many. I. Call to Order by Ray Liu. II. Approval of minutes of last meeting at ICASSP'99. Minutes was approved. III. Reports A. Officers reports. - Ray Liu: Currently the TC has 38 members. B. Subcommittees reports. - Yu Hen Hu, Award Subcommittee Report: Bede Liu, Princeton University is Nominated for Society Award jointly with IMDSP TC. - IEEE Multimedia Conference Representatives Reports: A. ortega, J. Sorensen. During the initial efforts on identifying possible sites for the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Year 2000, several locations on the US West-Cost were contac- ted by the Steering Committee representatives, without positive result. Then IBM Yorktown Heights accepted to host the conferen- ce, and Sankar Basu is the General Chair. C. Reports of 1998 and 1999 MMSP Workshops. - Antonio Ortega: MMSP'98 was in economical balance. A small cash profit is to be returned to the IEEE SPS. In addition a number of proceedings and CDs were returned to IEEE. Since the workshop did not receive any payments for these proceedings, these can be considered as additional "in kind" profit: proceeds of the sale of these proceedings by IEEE will revert to the SPS. - John Sorensen: The MMSP'99 recieved 142 submissions and the proceedings and cdrom contains 113 papers/demos. Including students there were approx. 130 participants. D. Report of IEEE ICME, NYC, General Chair Sankar Basu. The report is in Appendix 1. In response: Yu Hen Hu: The SPS Society has 25,000 members and only approx. 3000 are regularly participants in ICASSP and ICIP. Multimedia might form a basis for an improved connection to industry, and thus serving a larger amount of members. F.inst. the ICME might have products an- nouncements. The DAC, Design Automation Conference was mentioned as a conf. with a large exhibition part. Tsuhan Chen: There is a need for an exhibition chair at ICME, and it is suggested that the ICME Steering Committee brings up this issue. Russ Mersereau: Maybe there can be a more open part of the conference for demos/exhibitions. It was suggested that the Steering Committee starts the process of identifying a site for the ICME 2001. IV. Unfinished Business. - Awards nominations and procedures - Tsuhan Chen. The following questions were raised: Does the TC need a certain procedure for awards nomination? Does the TC want to wait for some time, before nominating or should it start the process now? In response: All members can nominate through Yu Hen Hu. The awards subcommittee also seeks candidates. Russ Mersereau encouraged submission of candi- dates, he mentioned that the major awards nominations are kept for two years. It was decided to be more active in nominations, and that the awards subcommittee will prepare a report for the ICASSP 2000 MMSPTC meeting. It was agreed that the past TC chair should serve as Award and Nomination Subsommittee Chair. Y.H. Hu, as current Award Subcommittee Chair, will draft the procedures for discussion. V New Business. A. (i) Conference vs. Workshop: What do we want? It was debated if a workshop track is still desirable, simul- taneously with ICME. There was a motion to proceed with the plan- ning of the next MMSP workshop, which then will take place in 2001. The motion was approved unanimously. There is a tentative proposal from EURECOM, France for hosting 2001 Workshop, and another from Italy for 2002 Workshop. (ii) IEEE Pacific-Rim Multimedia Conference. S.Y. Kung suggested that the Int. Symposium on Multimedia Infor- mation Processing, Singapore 2000, could have technical sponsor- ship from this TC. The TC approved that. B. Multimedia E-Letter/Web publications. R. Liu asked if a MM-Letter was needed. Mersereau suggested that a Web-page might be sufficient. J.N. Hwang supported to set up a MM-Letter in connection to the Web-site. In general it was considered to be valuable channel for the TC work. It was decided to start the the development. C. Standard Subcommittee. It was concluded that it will be too difficult letting the TC act in an advisory role with respect to standards. D. Membership Development Subcommittee. Yu Hen Hu emphasized that the WS is a good seed for new membership. Tsuhan Chen mentioned the need for technical directions balance and quality. M. Hayes mentioned that one person is needed for this func- tion and suggested Tsuhan Chen as past TC Chair be responsible for membership development. E. PACKET VIDEO 2000: Request for Technical Sponsorship. http://www.diee.unica.it/pv2000/ A request for technical sponsorship from MMSP TC has been received from Technical Chair Maurizio Decina, Cefriel and Polytechnic of Milan. The request was approved. VI. Adjournment. The meeting adjourned at 22:15. Minutes prepared by John Sorensen. **************************************************************************** APPENDIX 1: ******************************************************************** Report to SPS MMSP-TC on the status of the ICME by General Chair - Sankar Basu ******************************************************************** A committee including the finance chair, four technical track chairs, publicity and other chairs has been formed. Detailed committee is available from the conference website: www.ieee-multimedia.poly.edu Finance: ------- TMRF has been approved by all 4 societies, and each society has approved a loan of $12k (total $48k). Total budget amounts to approximately $375K. ICME account has a current balance of $53k. Finance Chair Peter Westerink (IBM) is working on this part. Publicity: --------- An ICME webpage is being hosted by the polytechnic university of New York (publicity co-chair Ed Wong), with European mirror site in Florence (Alberto DelBimbo's group), and Asian mirror site in Hiroshima (Tad Ichikawa's group). The webpage will be continually updated as more information becomes available. Publicity material in hard copy form has gone out to ISCAS'99, ICC'99 and ICMCS'99. Our next targets are ICIP'99, GlobeCom'99. Suggestions for other conferences where we should make more publicity material available are welcome. Local conferences in Europe and Asia can be good forum for such publicity. The CFP will appear as full page ads in: SP: Image Proc Transactions Signal Proc Transactions Multimedia Tranactions SP Magazine Trans. on Med. Imaging CAS: Transactions on CAS -part I (3 issues) Transactions on CAS -part II (3 issues) Video Technology Transactions Transactions on CAD Transactions on VLSI (if space available) CAS Newsletter CS: Transactions on PAMI Transactions on Knowledge Engineering Transactions on Visualization & Graphics Transactions on Parallel & Distrbuted Systems Multimedia Magazine (paid) Computer Magazine (paid) ComSoc: Communications Magazine (paid) ACM: Communications of ACM (paid) 11,000 hard copies of CFP are being mailed worldwide through IEEE. We also plan to send out CFPs by email. Good mailing lists will be appreciated from anyone. Publicity co-chair Jelena Kovacevic (Lucent), and Ed Wong (NY Poly) are working on it. Technical program: ----------------- Technical program, will consist of TUTORIALS, REGULAR PAPERS, PLENARIES, DEMOS/EXHIBITS. Tutorials are planned for all day Sunday, and the rest of the activities for the following Mon-Wed. There will be a three layer technical program committee: There are Four technical track chairs (one from each society; the conference, however, will have one homogeneous program). Their name are available in the website. There will be a 2nd layer of "area chairs" (approximately 20 in number) and a third layer of "program committee members". At this moment PC is underrepresented from European colleagues. Recommendations for more PC members from Europe are invited. The four technical track chairs will assign papers to the "program committee members" who will return the reviews to"area chair" who will in turn return recommendations to the four "technical track co-chairs". The technical track co-chairs will make up the final program based on these recommendations. We are planning a fully electronic paper submission/review system. Each paper will be reviewed by 2-3 reviewers and reviewers recommendations will be (electronically) returned to the authors. Paper submssion the site will he hosted by Columbia university in NY. Shih-Fu Chang has volunteered to administer the effort. The same software as that being used by MMSP-WS '99 will be used. There will be 4-6 half/full day tutorials. Tutorial co-chairs (Rama Chellappa and Alex Eleftheriadis) are looking into contracts that need to be made up in collaborations with 4 societies, as well as potential tutorial speakers. S. Y. Kung (Princeton) and Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia) are the plenary/guest speaker co-Chairs. They have compiled a preliminary list of invitees. Several special session are also expected. Deadlines: ---------- Submission of Regular Papers: December 1, 1999 Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2000 Camera Ready Copy: April 1, 2000 Panels, tutorials, demonstrations, exhibits deadline: Feb 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance March 15, 2000 Venue/date: ---------- Dates are July 29-Aug 2 '2000. With the help of site selection service provided by the IEEE Computer Society and the SP society we have signed a contract with NY Hilton. It was the site for 1988 ICASSP, and is centrally located in Manhatan - blocks away from central park, Rockafellar plaza, museum of modern art, the theater district and other major attractions. Publications: ------------- Submission material for review will consist of equivalent of 4 pages in standard two-column IEEE format. Final papers in hardcopy proceedings will be of the same length. Both hard copy and CD-rom proceedings will be published. The electronic (CD-rom) version will allow more space than 4 pages of text and may include audio, video files etc. in both pdf and html format. We are seeking the most appropriate printer for this. In view of the multi society copyright issues, IEEE press seems to be the most appropriate candidate. Sponsors: -------- Other than 4 IEEE societies, IBM Research will sponsor ICME. The Expo part will be sponsored by the telecommunications center of NY polytech. We are looking for further sponsors. Projected Attendance: -------------------- We are expecting an attendance of 600 with about 350-400 papers. Exhibits: --------- A separate publicity strategy and plan for the Expo part still needs to be drawn up. *********************************************************************