Minutes of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee Meeting ICME 2008, New York City Thursday, July 2, 2009 Attendees: John Apostolopoulos, Oscar Au, Jeffrey Bloom, Yen-Kuang Chen, Phil Chou, Touradj Ebrahimi, Chia-Wen Lin, Ching-Yung Lin, Fernando Pereira, Amir Said, Marco Tagliasacchi, Anthony Vetro, Min Wu, Wenjun Zeng, Zhengyou Zhang The meeting was call to order at 12:05pm by the Chair Anthony Vetro. 1) INTRODUCTION 2) REVIEW AGENDA 3) WORKSHOP REPORTS - MMSP 2009 (Phil) Thanks to TC for reviews. 157 papers submitted, 3 reviews/paper. Decided to accept 99 papers (63%), which is is a little high, but lower than Chania in 2007 and approx inline with previous workshops. MMSP'09 had the lowest number of submissions in recent years, probably due to the economy. Hotel room requirement is still likely to be satisfied because the budget was for 100 papers. Plan to designate oral/poster soon. Keynotes and overview are already in place. Full technical program will appear on the web site by July 20. Encourage anyone planning to attend the workshop to check early on visa requirements. - MMSP 2010 (Anthony for Beatrice) The organizing team is finalizing the venue and budget. All seems to be proceeding forward as planned, no problems to report. 4) SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS - Awards (Amir) Results for Distinguished Lecturer are already forwarded to SPS Awards Board by June 30 deadline. Had four candidates, 19 TC members voted. Following rules, Sheila Hemami and Fernando Pereira were endorsed. Detailed breakdown of voring results will be sent to the TC. - Membership (Yen-Kuang) Written report distributed prior to meeting that analyzes current expertise among TC members with paper submissions to ICASSP 2009. Encourage nominations in multimedia database; also lacking experts in audio. Nominations will be solicited shortly. Nominations should include 1 page bio, identification of primary research areas. Due date by end of September. - Technical Directions (Anthony for Eckehard) Eckehard plans to follow up with the TC by email on revisions to our current EDICS. This should be done in time for ICASSP 2010 submissions. 5) ICME DISCUSSION 2009 report by Ching Yung: 814 submissions, down due to economy. Top 23% were accepted as oral, next 32% as poster, accepted more papers than we wanted in order to keep room night commitment. Number of people who showed up about 300, about 100 no-shows, especially from China because of US Visa. Many Japanese and others avoided because of Swine Flu. Summary of pre-steering meeting discussion by Zhengyou. 3 representatives from each society. Many of the representatives are current or former MMSP TC members. Vote for continuation of ICME. Other societies do not have their own workshop in this area so more interest from them to continue for this reason. CAS and ComSoc voted to move forward, SPS abstained, further discussion in the TC is needed. Perception that ICME has poor quality. Plan to lower acceptance rate to 30%. TCs should play larger role in managing reviews in the program tracks. Seminars and workshops that would be organized by TCs or individuals would also be encouraged. Discussion on increasing page length to 6 pages. Also discussed rotation: every year open competition from geographical location. Each organizing team would handle logistics. Vice-TPC chairs appointed by each society. New Steering Committee to be established with new charter. Current SC is not working, so want more active SC members, 2 elected members from each committee plus TMM EIC. Expect to meet quarterly and conduct business electronically. Suggested name: International Conference on Multimedia, but acronym is still ICME. Still needs to be approved by Societies and IEEE. ACM SIGMM expressed interest in being a technical co-sponsor. Held workshop at ICME'09. Next ICME will tentatively be in Singapore, June 28 - July 2, 2010. Submission deadline would be Nov 30. Good timing for many societies. Oscar is general chair. Chia-Wen Lin and Ming-Ting Sun will serve as TPC chairs. Fernando noted that this is not formally approved by any of the societies yet since a charter is needed. Anthony mentioned that SPS will be looking at our TC for a response and we should consider various options, including what to do with MMSP. Among the options are folding MMSP into ICME, running two events separate, focus only on MMSP. Fernando stated that some of the details with ICME need to be refined and tested. Success of defining ICME needs a good model - this is a key issue. Acceptance rate is another important issue and the role of posters should be evaluated. He suggests keeping the two events (ICME and MMSP) separate since it is too big risk to stop MMSP. In this way, the TC participates in the joint event and MMSP continues independently. Touradj commented that we should be sure this event does not canabalize MMSp workshop. Fernando responded, the workshop is different in that it is more focused, smaller size. Zhengyou commented that attendance of ICME'09 workshop is low. With the exception of ACM TPC workshop (running for multiple years with presentations on high level topics), other workshops have low attendance. Phil expressed some concerns about TC workload with two events each years and suggested alternating MMSP and ICME by year. Response from Ching-Yung that many papers submissions in a year, need for annual event and larger visible conferences. Min asked about SP society support and involvement of conference board. Ching-Yung also noted that he has had several discussions with Matthews, who supports us to have joint meeting, but would like to see the activity driven by interest from the TC. Anthony confirmed that Mercy is looking to our TC for a recommendation. Phil suggested that we follow up with the TC to further discuss timing, workload, impact on MMSP, etc. The meeting minutes should be a good starting point. Get suggestions on different options going forward, put a limited set of options together and poll the TC. 6) AOB None. 7) APPRECIATION Thanks to IBM for providing the phone bridge used during the meeting. 8) ADJOURN Chair closed the meeting at 1:20pm