2004 MMSP Workshop Meeting, September 30, Siena, Italy.

IEEE SPS MMSP Technical Committee Meeting Minutes

Date: Sept. 30, 2004, 6:00-7:00 PM
Place: 2004 MMSP Workshop, Siena, Italy
Attended: Tsuhan Chen, Ingemar Cox, Yun Shi, Min Wu, J. A. Sorensen, Li Deng,
    Jenq-Neng Hwang, Nauro Barni, Pascal Frossard, M. Reha Civanlar, 
    Alessendro Piva (guest)

1. Membership Report (J. A. Sorensen)

   The issue of abolishing liaison membership in MMSP is discussed. An
   electronic vote to change the bylaw to effect this change will be 
   conducted later. The TC chair is to propose within the technical 
   direction committee to promote the coordination among different TCs 
   by including chairs of other TCs in the TC email list.

   The TC member feel that even after the liaison membership is abolished,
   the TC's size should remain at 32.

   New member nomination is still open. A vote for new TC members will be
   conducted electronically later.

2. Award nominations:
 
   The endorsement request from the speech TC to nominate 
   Professor S. Furui for the SPS society award has be voted and 
   passed unanimously. An updated nomination paper can be 
   found at 
   http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~mmsptc/tcmeeting/FuruiNomination.doc

   The nomination of Professor Jay Kuo for the technical achievement award
   has been voted and passed unanimously.
   
   The nomination for the best paper award has been discussed. The members
   feel that the award subcommittee should provide written opinions on the
   two nominations, and a recommendation. Due to concerns of conflict interests,
   several award subcommittee members can not participated the discussion. 
   Hence, the TC chair appointed Professors Ingemar Cox and Jenq-Neng Hwang 
   to join the current award subcommittee, and ask Professor Cox to lead the
   discussion on the 2005 best paper award nomination, and report to the TC.
   Some updated materials and the two papers being nominated can be found
   at http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~mmsptc/2004bestpaper/

   The issue that Trans. Multimedia now has its own best paper award has been
   discussed. It is understood that papers published in T. MM should still be
   eligible to be nominated for SPS best paper awards. The editors of T. MM
   will be encouraged to nominate high quality papers to the MMSP TC for 
   future best paper award nomination. 

3. Conference 
   Professor Yun Shi reported that MMSP2005 and MMSP2006 proposals will be
   circulated among TC members and to be approved through electronic votes
   shortly. 

   Mauro Barni reported MMSP 2004. There are more than 400 paper submissions
   with 130 papers accepted. There are 130 paid registrations, and no-shows
   are very rare. The committee unanimously applauded Professor Barni and
   his team for a very successful workshop.
   
4. New business

   Professor Tsuhan Chen comment on the low paper submission of MMSP area
   in ICASSP 2004. This issue will be passed to the technical direction
   subcommittee within MMSP TC for further discussion.