Minutes of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee Meeting ICASSP 2010, Dallas, Texas, USA Thursday, 18 March 2010 Voting Members: Francesco De Natale, Enrico Magli, Dan Ellis, Yap-Peng Tan, John Apostolopoulos, Oscar Au, Onur Guleryuz, Phil Chou, Min Wu, Anthony Vetro (by audio), Yen-Kuang Chen (by audio), Chia-Wen Lin (by audio), Jian Zhang (by audio), Ebroul Izquierdo (by audio) Associate Members: Dinei Florencio, Sheila Hemami Ex-Officio: Ahmed Tewfik Guests: Karim Seghuane (by audio), Wen Gao, Petar Djuric, Vicky Zhao, Yan Sun, Hsu-Feng Hsiao Phil Chou called the meeting to order at 7:10 am. There was no quorum at the start of the meeting or at any identifiable time during the meeting. 1. INTRODUCTIONS 2. REVIEW AGENDA 3. REPORT OF THE CHAIR Phil summarized the written Chair report. Ahmed noted that Associate Members need not be IEEE Members. 4. REPORTS OF SUBCOMMITTEES Phil summarized the written Awards report. Oscar summarized the written Conferences & Workshops report. Yap-Peng summarized the written Membership report. Francesco asked whether there is an upper limit on the number of Affiliate Members. Ahmed said that the purpose is to get people involved. Oscar suggested that we have a plan to interact with the Affiliate Members. Phil said that they will receive many pieces of communication regarding calls for papers, etc. Francesco summarized the written Technical Directions report. Phil noted that the TIP codes were approved by the Technical Directions Board. Phil summarized the written Webmaster report. Dan reported on his attendance at the SP Education TC meeting. It is a place to share best practices. They want to deliver tutorials to put on the web, and other activities. Let Dan know if you have any ideas. Ahmed noted that MMSP TC members will be recruited to give tutorials. Members outside the society will also be recruited to give tutorials. Phil summarized the written ICME Steering Committee report. Phil summarized the written TMM Steering Committee report. Sheila noted that there is a Call for Nominations for the next Editor-in-Chief, due April 1. Oscar asked about the Special Issue for ICME conference papers. Sheila said that she was strongly opposed to fast tracking of papers for such a special issue. Anthony noted that the TMM Steering Committee has an action item to work out the process for handling the ICME Special Issue. Sheila brought up the cap on special issues. Phil noted that the cap was removed. Ahmed asked about the motivation for the conference special issue. Oscar answered that the motivation came from the workshop organizers who had arrangements to publish their papers with a non-IEEE publisher. These arrangements had to be cancelled, per IEEE policy, but they need an outlet in an IEEE publication. There is no need to have special treatment in the review process relative to other special issues. 5. FUTURE MEETINGS Oscar and Yap-Peng commented on ICME 2010. Working with 6 Technical Chairs is hard, but can work and has not significantly delayed decision processes. Double-blind reviews are used, with 3 reviews per paper, at least. Ahmed asked whether the 6 chairs were assigned different areas. Oscar said that most of the submitted papers indicated their primary society affiliation, and such papers were routed to the corresponding Technical Chair. Ahmed asked whether there was a benefit to having the four extra chairs. Oscar indicated that the purpose was to ensure strong participation from all TCs. It has also helped the TCs exchange best practices. Phil, on behalf of Christine and Beatrice, invited everyone to attend MMSP 2010 in Saint-Malo. 6. PRESENTATIONS OF PROPOSALS FOR MMSP 2011 Karim Seghouane presented (by audio) the proposal for Canberra, Australia. The slides were sent to the TC beforehand. Phil asked about the experience of the OC in organizing workshops. Karim answered that all OC members had experience. Oscar asked whether any OC members have attended an MMSP workshop. Karim answered negative. Oscar asked about the proposed conference dates. Karim answered July. Oscar noted it was close to ICME. Karim said that the date can be moved. Oscar and Dan asked about the weather in July. Karim said it will be about 20 degrees. Anthony asked about registration cost. Karim said there would sponsorship to reduce the cost. Wen Gao presented the proposal for Beijing, China. Oscar asked about the proposed date. Wen said October 18-20, not that hot, it's beautiful in Beijing. Francesco asked about the ICIP dates. Sheila said that ICIP 2011 will be in September. Francesco asked about the break-even attendance point. Wen said about 110. He also mentioned that sponsorship from government and companies will provide a cushion. Petar Djuric presented the proposal for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Oscar asked whether the OC team generally comes to ICASSP. Petar replied that though they are very active locally, their budget is limited. Ahmed asked why the TC does not do the reviews. Phil said that the TC does the bulk of the reviews, but extra reviewers are needed. Enrico asked whether 200 papers accepted is optimistic, as it is out of line with previous workshops. Petar answered that these numbers will be adjusted. 7. AOB 8. ADJOURN The meeting adjourned at 8:35.