2002 ICASSP Meeting, May 16, Orlando.

Minutes of MMSP TC meeting  At

ICASSP 02 , Orlando, FL On  May 16, 2002

 

1)  Members were introduced.
 

2)  Approval of minutes of  Cannes meeting.
 

3) Award recipients were congratulated
 

4)  Election of 4 new members to take place before the meeting at ICME.
Further discussion and subsequent election will be conducted by email. 


5)  Minor changes in EDICS will take place before ICME. Further discussion
will be conducted by email.


6)  Report on MMSP01 by Jean-Luc Dugaley: 19% surplus,
2 special sessions on  a) Mobile MM, b) AV Processing.


7)  Sadaoki Furui reported on MMSP02: Paper submission deadline postponed,
2 tutorial and 3 special sessions planned.

8)  Report on ICME 2002 by Ortega: 700 submissions and 375 accepts.
Need more area chairs in overcrowded areas e.g., MM database.

9)  Report on ICME 2003 by Ray Liu: Gen (co) Chair is Rama Chellappa.
CMS will get contract.

10) Report on MMSP conference committee by Sankar  Basu. Separately
attached (below). Suggestion was made by Tsuhan Chen that multiple
ICME proposals for 2004 be consolidated.

11) Mauro Barni’s proposal to hold MMSP 04 in Siena approved by vote.

12) Ling Guan still have to talk to University of Toronto for hosting a future
MMSP/ICME.

13) EIC Tsuhan Chen announced that  Transactions on TMM has established a
best paper award. He also thought that the award should be given at ICME
every year. He also reported on TMM status and its future directions.

14) New Business:
 a) Election of New business will be carried out until ICME 2002.
 b) Deadline for best paper award solicitation by September 15.
 c) It was mentioned that call for special session ICASSP 03 is out and 

ICASSP 03 will be video conferences from Beijing.

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Subcommitete report on ICME/MMSP planning

Sankar Basu (Chair), Antonio ortega, K. J. R  Liu, John Sorensen, Ahmed
Tewfik, Joern  Osterman, Yu-Hen Hu, Tsuhan Chen

 

Attached at the bottom are some detailed discussion on the
issue of MMSP/ICME. Here are the findings and tentative recommendations:

 

1. It is premature to merge MMSP with ICME (although ICME is in good
health and concrete plans are under way for several years to come). We
might revisit this issue in the future again (MDSP workshop went on for
more than 15 years before it was discontinued after several years after
ICIP came into existence).

 

2. It appears though that for now it is a good idea to hold MMSP
bi-annually (instead of anuually) so that ICME and MMSP can continue
together without too much conflict. This would  mean we skip MMSP for 2003.

 

3. We move that proposal for MMSP 2004 by Mauro Barni at Siena  be
approved (we do not have another  proposal for MMSP2003/2004).

 

4. The MMSP  proposal by Ling Guan at Toronto is being converted to an
ICME proposal (with A.  Venetsanopoulos and others from U. of Toronto).
in 2005 or 2006. Ling Guan has agreed. A. Venetsanopoulos has been
contacted and Ling Guan has a bare bone committee in mind.

 

5. Status of ICME planning (this may be relevant in the planning of
future MMSP). ICME 2002 is projected as  a big success with total no of 
submissions between 800 and 1000 (Antonio Ortega has more info).

 

      ICME 2003 is in Baltimore (Rama Chellappa and Ray Liu).
      ICME 2004 in Asia has 4 competing proposals (decisions to be made
      In August).
      ICME 2005 tentative proposals have been discussed from Toronto
      and Amsterdam.


There is  a proposal in ICME steering committee to break the
"US-Asia-Europe" cycle and make it into "US-Asia-US- Europe" cycle.
This will be voted upon at the ICME steering commuttee.