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NEWS LETTER ISSN 1687-1421, Volume 19, Number 2, June 2008
European Association for Signal Processing
Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 2, June 2008 Contents EURASIP MESSAGES President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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EURASIP JOURNALS EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing: Image Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 EURASIP CO-SPONSORED EVENTS Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Call for Papers: Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP 2008) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Call for Papers: 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008) . . . . . 14 Call for papers: 2008 International Workshop on Local and Non-Local Approximation in Image Processing, LNLA 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Call for papers: The Second International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology RFID 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Call for papers: 17th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2009) . . . . . 17 EURASIP JASP Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 EURASIP JBSB Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 EURASIP JES Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 EURASIP JIS Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 EURASIP JIVP Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 EURASIP JWCN Call for Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Active and Passive Electronic Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advances in Acoustics and Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advances in Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advances in Artificial Neural Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advances in Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advances in OptoElectronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EURASIP Journal on Information Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Antennas and Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Biomedical Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Navigation and Observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Power Management Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Journal of Vehicular Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Journal of Control Science and Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Research Letters in Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Research Letters in Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Research Letters in Signal Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VLSI Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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President’s Message Over the last few years, EURASIP has launched (together with Hindawi Publishing Corporation) a number of new journals under the “open access” publication model, and has also converted two of its “toll access” journals into “open access” journals. EURASIP chose to experiment with this publication model, obviously not without continuing to support its established “toll access” journals (published by Elsevier). The “open access” mode, in the meantime, has had a wider impact on how the Association is run and how we now wish to position our Association. Many EURASIP operations and activities now indeed have an explicit “open access” ingredient: • All our previous EUSIPCO proceedings, including the most recent EUSIPCO-07 proceedings, are now freely downloadable from the “Open Library” section in our webpage (http://www.eurasip.org). • Making the workshop/conference proceedings freely available in our “Open Library” has now become a must (up to exceptions) for workshop/conference organizers to receive EURASIP support. • Several books published in the “EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications” have been made freely downloadable (details are given further up in this Newsletter issue). • All EURASIP newsletter issues, including the (current) most recent one, are now freely downloadable from the “Newsletter” section in our webpage. (To speed up distribution, EURASIP members will now receive an email alert when a new Newsletter issue is posted on the webpage. Members will also be given the opportunity to optout from receiving the printed version of the Newsletter, to save costs and trees in those cases where the printed version is not used or kept.) At the same time, even in this “open access” context EURASIP continues to offer significant member benefits. To name only one, EURASIP members receive a 10% discount on the article processing charges in our “open access” journals. With our new per-manuscript charge system, as explained in a previous Newsletter, the discount for one article is already larger than the annual member fee. We trust that the signal processing community and EURASIP members in particular, will appreciate this general policy of openness, and continue to support our Association. On a different note, I would like to draw everyone’s attention to the upcoming EURASIP AdCom elections. We are proud to present a collection of very strong candidates running for election or re-election. This newsletter contains information on the candidates and voting process. EURASIP members will also receive an invitation to cast their votes electronically. I strongly encourage every member to participate in these elections, so that the election results are indeed representative and that the next AdCom has the strongest possible mandate. Marc Moonen President
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EURASIP Fellows 2008
In 2007, the EURASIP Administrative Committee (AdCom) initiated a “Fellowship Programme,” to recognize outstanding achievements of its members and volunteers. Each year, a select group of signal processing researchers are elevated to “EURASIP Fellow,” the Association’s now most prestigious honor. It is our pleasure to announce the result of the 2008 “EURASIP Fellows” selection process. In recognition of their many important contributions to the field of signal processing, the EURASIP AdCom elevates the following individuals to “EURASIP Fellow 2008”: • • • •
Professor Pierre Duhamel, LSS/CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France. Professor Georgios Giannakis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Professor Bernd Girod, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. Professor Bjorn Ottersten, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
We wish to congratulate our new EURASIP Fellows on this most important achievement. The Fellowship Awards will be presented at EUSIPCO 2009, to be held in Lausanne, August 25–29 2008. In addition, to highlight the Fellowship Programme, Professor Pierre Duhamel and Professor Bjorn Ottersten will present a “Fellow Inaugural Lecture” at the conference. Marc Moonen President EURASIP Fulvio Gini EURASIP Awards Chairman
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EURASIP AdCom Elections 2008 EURASIP is managed by the EURASIP Administrative Committee (AdCom, Board of Directors). There are seven AdCom members. The EURASIP President serves a two year term as Past President, following his/her presidency. All other AdCom members are elected by the EURASIP members, and serve four year terms. EURASIP AdCom elections are held every two years. The EURASIP Advisory Committee confirms the AdCom election results and appointments. On December 31st, 2008, three current AdCom members are ending their term (Paulo Correia, Markus Rupp, Sergios Theodoridis). Listed below are the biographies of the candidates that will appear on the 2008 election ballot. An electronic procedure will be used to collect votes prior to the EURASIP General Assembly, which will be held during EUSIPCO 2008 at Lausanne, August 25–29. EURASIP members who have not voted electronically will receive a paper ballot at the EURASIP General Assembly. The results of the 2008 AdCom Elections will be announced at the General Assembly. To cast their votes, EURASIP members are invited to login to their EURASIP account on the membership server (by following the link “Membership” on http://www.eurasip.org and then follow the link “AdCom Elections”). Note that upon login, for security reasons, the server automatically generates a random number that is to be entered in the appropriate box on the ballot. When votes are properly registered, a confirmation email is sent to the address in the membership profile. The server stores votes in a manner that preserves voter anonymity. Electronic voting starts on June 1st, and ends on August 20th. Questions related to the voting procedure may be sent to
[email protected]. Candidates Biographies Paulo Lobato Correia graduated as an Engineer and obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior T´ecnico (IST), Universidade T´ecnica de Lisboa, Portugal, in 1989, 1993, and 2002, respectively. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of IST, and since 1994 he is a researcher at the Image Group of Instituto de Telecomunicac¸o˜ es. He participated in several national and international research projects, being the National representative for the the European COST 292 project. In 2004 he was General Co-Chairman of the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2004), and in 2007 he was Program Chair for the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS 2007). He is an Associate Editor for “IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology” and a member of the EURASIP/Elsevier Signal Processing Journal editorial board. He is an elected member of the EURASIP Administrative Committee. Current research interests include video analysis and processing, namely video segmentation, objective video segmentation quality evaluation, content-based video description and biometric recognition.
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Alex B. Gershman received his Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Radiophysics and Electronics from the Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia, in 1984 and 1990, respectively. From 1984 to 1999, he held several full-time and visiting research appointments in Russia, Switzerland, and Germany. In 1999, he joined the Department of ECE at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where he became a full professor in 2002. From April 2005, he has been with the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, as professor of Communication Systems. His research interests are focused on statistical signal and array processing, beamforming, multi-antenna and multi-user communications, and parameter estimation and detection. He has co-edited two books and (co)-authored some 110 journal and 180 conference papers on these subjects. He is currently Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Chair of the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee of the IEEE SPS, and member of the IEEE SPS Board of Governors as well as SPS Publication, Conference, and Technical Directions Boards. He is on the editorial boards of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and two EURASIP journals. He was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (1999–2005); Technical Co-Chair of the Int. Symp. on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Darmstadt, Germany, December 2003; Technical Co-Chair of the 4th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Workshop, Waltham, USA, June 2006; General Co-Chair of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 2005; and Tutorial Chair of EUSIPCO, Florence, Italy, September 2006. He is General Co-Chair of the 5th IEEE SAM Workshop, Darmstadt, Germany, July 2008. Dr. Gershman is Fellow of the IEEE and (co-)recipient of the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Best Paper Award; 2004 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Barry Carlton Award; 2002 Young Explorers Prize, Canada; 2001 Wolfgang Paul Award, Germany; and the 2000 Premier’s Research Excellence Award, Canada. He also co-authored the paper that received the 2005 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award. Petros Maragos received the M.Eng. Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1980, and the M.Sc.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, in 1982 and 1985. In 1985 he joined the faculty of the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked for 8 years as professor of electrical engineering, affiliated with the interdisciplinary Harvard Robotics Lab. He has also been a consultant to several industry research groups including Xerox’s research on image analysis. In 1993 he joined the ECE faculty of Georgia Tech, Atlanta. During parts of 1996–1998 he was on sabbatical and academic leave working as director of research at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing in Athens. Since 1998 he has been working as professor at the NTUA School of electrical & computer engineering. His research and teaching interests include signal processing, systems theory, pattern recognition, communications, and their applications to image processing and computer vision, speech processing and recognition, and multimedia. In the above areas he has published extensively. (Details can be found at http://cvsp.cs.ntua.gr/maragos/.)
EURASIP AdCom Elections 2008 He has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions (ASSP and PAMI), and editorial board member for the journals Signal Processing and Visual Communications and Image Representation; general chairman or co-chair of conferences (VCIP’ 92, ISMM’ 96, VLBV’ 01, MMSP’ 07); and member of two IEEE SP committees. His research work has received several awards, including: a 1987 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award; the 1988 IEEE SP Society’s Young Author Paper Award for the paper “Morphological Filters;” the 1994 IEEE SP Senior Best Paper Award; the 1995 IEEE Baker Award for the most outstanding original paper in all IEEE publications (for the paper “Energy Separation in Signal Modulations with Application to Speech Analysis”); the 1996 Pattern Recognition Society’s Honorable Mention Award for the paper “Min-Max Classifiers;” 1995 election to IEEE Fellow; the 2007 EURASIP Technical Achievements Award for contributions to nonlinear signal processing and systems theory, image processing, and speech processing. Stephen McLaughlin was born in Clydebank, Scotland in 1960. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow in 1981 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. From 1981 to 1984 he was a Development Engineer with Barr & Stroud Ltd. (Glasgow) involved in the design and simulation of integrated thermal imaging and firecontrol systems. From 1984 to 1986 he worked on the design and development of high frequency data communication systems with MEL Ltd. In 1986 he joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh as a research fellow where he studied the performance of linear adaptive algorithms in high noise and nonstationary environments. In 1988 he joined the academic staff at Edinburgh, and from 1991 until 2001 he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to study nonlinear signal processing techniques. In 2002 he was awarded a personal Chair in Electronic Communication Systems at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests lie in the fields of adaptive signal processing and nonlinear dynamical systems theory and their applications to biomedical and communication systems. Prof. McLaughlin is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Ana Perez-Neira received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 1991 and 1995, respectively. Currently, she is a Full Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) (since 2006) and an Asso` de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya ciate Researcher at Centre Tecnologic (CTTC) (since 2002). From 1997 until 2006, she was an Associate Professor of UPC. She was vice-dean at Telecom BCN (ETSETB) from 2000 until 2003. She has been a visiting researcher at Siemens (N¨urnbergGermany), ANT Nachrichtentechnick (Bosch Telecom-Germany), RuhrUniversit¨at Bochum (Germany), CEPHAG in Grenoble (France), Shandong University (China). Her teaching and research interests are in Signal Processing, Analog and Digital Communications, Array processing, Space-Time Processing, Satellite Communications, Mathematical methods for communications, Nonlinear signal processing, Acoustics and Electro-Acoustics. She is the author of 3 book chapters, 3 patents, 24 journals and more than 120 conference papers (15 invited) in the area of statistical signal processing and fuzzy processing (IEEE Communications, IEEE-JSAC, IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE Wireless Communications, EURASIP Signal Processing), with applications to mobile/satellite communication systems, physical and access layers and editor of 3 special issues for EURASIP Signal Processing. She has participated in the organization of 3 conferences (ESA conference’ 96, SAM’ 04, IEEE-IWCLD’ 09), in national public and private founded projects
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(INTAS, RACE, ACTS, ESA, IST and Eureka European projects). She has been a member of Technical Program Committee of several international conferences and national panels and a reviewer for IEEE Transactions (Signal Processing, Communications, Wireless Communications, . . .). Markus Rupp received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1988 at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany and his Dr.-Ing. degree in 1993 at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany, where he worked with Eberhardt Haensler on designing new algorithms for acoustical and electrical echo compensation. From November 1993 until July 1995, he had a postdoctoral position at the University of Santa Barbara, California with Sanjit Mitra where he worked with Ali H. Sayed on a robustness description of adaptive filters with impact on neural networks and active noise control. From October 1995 until August 2001 he was a member of Technical Staff in the Wireless Technology Research Department of Bell-Labs at Crawford Hill, NJ, where he worked on various topics related to adaptive equalization and rapid implementation for IS-136, 802.11 and UMTS. Since October 2001 he is a full professor for Digital Signal Processing in Mobile Communications at the Technical University of Vienna where he served as Dean from 2005–2007. He was associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2002–2005, is currently associate editor of JASP EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, JES EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, Research Letters in Signal Processing, and is elected AdCom member of EURASIP. He authored and co-authored more than 250 papers and patents on adaptive filtering, wireless communications, and rapid prototyping, as well as automatic design methods. Abdelhak Zoubir received his Dr.-Ing. from Ruhr-Universit¨at Bochum, Germany. He was with Queensland University of Technology, Australia from 1992–1998 where he was Associate Professor. In 1999, he joined Curtin University of Technology, Australia as a Professor of Telecommunications and was Interim Head of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering from 2001 until 2003. In 2003, he moved to Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt, Germany as Professor and Head of the Signal Processing Group. His research interest lies in statistical methods for signal processing with emphasis on bootstrap techniques, robust detection and estimation and array processing applied to telecommunications, car engine monitoring and biomedicine. Dr. Zoubir gave the tutorial The Bootstrap: A Powerful Tool for Statistical Signal Processing with Small Sample Sets at ICASSP-99, held in Phoenix, Arizona, he is co-author of the monograph on Bootstrap Techniques for Signal Processing (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and he served as Guest Co-Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on Bootstrap Techniques for Signal Processing that appeared in July 2007. Professor Zoubir was Deputy Technical Chair (Plenary and Special Sessions) of ICASSP-94, held in Adelaide, Australia, Technical Chair of the 11th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing held in Singapore in 2001 and General Co-Chair of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing & Information Technology (ISSPIT 2003) held in Darmstadt, Germany. He was Member of the Technical Committee as Co-Chair for Plenary Sessions for ICASSP-08 held in Las Vegas, USA and is the General Co-Chair for the 5th IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM) to be held in Darmstadt, July 2008. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 1999-2005 and he currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the EURASIP journals Signal Processing and Advances in Signal Processing. Dr. Zoubir also served as a reviewer for award nominated papers, which appeared in the EURASIP Journal Signal Processing. He is a Member of the IEEE SPS Technical Committees Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) (since 2002), Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM) (since 2007) and Signal Processing Education (SPE) (since 2006).
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EURASIP Book Series freely downloadable
An electronic version of the following books published in the “EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications” is now freely available for all interested readers. These electronic files will be freely available until the end of this year, and the publisher will continue to make print editions of these books available for purchase. • High-Fidelity Multichannel Audio Coding, edited by Dai Tracy Yang, Chris Kyriakakis, and C.-C. Jay Kuo; available at http://www.hindawi.com/spc.1.html • Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, edited by Edward R. Dougherty, Ilya Shmulevich, Jie Chen, and Z. Jane Wang. http://www.hindawi.com/spc.2.html • Smart Antennas-State of the Art, edited by Thomas Kaiser, Andre Bourdoux, Holger Boche, Javier Rodriguez Fonollosa, Jorgen Bach Andersen, and Wolfgang Utschick. http://www.hindawi.com/spc.3.html • Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing, edited by K. J. Ray Liu, Wade Trappe, Z. Jane Wang, Min Wu, and Hong Zhao. http://www.hindawi.com/ spc.4.html • UWB Communication Systems—A Comprehensive Overview, edited by Andreas Molisch, Ian Oppermann, Maria Gabriella Di Benedetto, Domenico Porcino, Christian Politano and Thomas Kaiser. http://www.hindawi.com/spc.5.html • Advances in Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, edited by Stephen Marshall and Giovanni L. Sicuranza. http://www.hindawi.com/spc.6.html • Advances in Signal Transforms: Theory and Applications, edited by J. Astola, and L. Yaroslavsky. http://www.hindawi.com/spc.7.html • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for Image Processing and Analysis, edited by Stefano Cagnoni, Evelyne Lutton, and Gustavo Olague. http://www.hindawi.com/ spc.8.html
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EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing When I took over the responsibilities as Editor-in-Chief in 2005, a major overhaul of EURASIP’s flagship journal Signal Processing was launched with the goal of increasing the journal’s quality, spread, and impact. We have collected a new editorial board with highly distinguished and respected researchers in the field. The members of the board are active in all corners of the world and ensure a global spread of the journal. The editorial board now takes an active roll in the core activities of the journal, that is, handling the peer review process of manuscripts and deciding its future directions.
Bj¨orn Ottersten Editor-in-Chief
A web-based manuscript submission and review system was adopted which is integrated to the journal production system. Focus has been put on scientific quality, resulting in a reduced acceptance rate and page count for the journal. Much effort has been put on speedy handling of manuscript submissions and decreasing the time to decisions and publication. Today, we are starting to see the rewards of these efforts. Manuscript submissions have increased substantially and the increase in electronic downloads is impressive as shown below. As a goal, a first decision on a manuscript should be received within 12 weeks. We are approaching this goal, currently, the average time to first decision is 12.4 weeks. Overall, manuscript handling times (editorial and printing time) are about half compared to 2005. The improvements in the editorial processing time are given in the figure below. 70 60
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Special issues A selected number of special issues or special sections is being published every year. Recently published special issues include: • Tensor Signal Processing, J. Ruiz-Alzola, C.-F. Westin; February 2007. • Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation, A. K. Barros, J. C. Pr´ıncipe, D. Erdogmus; August 2007. • Total Least Squares and Errors-in-Variables Modeling, S. Van Huffel, I. Markovsky, R. J. Vaccaro et al.; October 2007. • Processing and Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks, Y.-C. Tseng, W.-C. Peng, V. C. M. Leung et al.; December 2007. And special issues in preparation include: • Processing and Analysis of High-Dimensional Masses of Image and Signal Data, (submission deadline: October 31, 2008). • Ethnic Music Audio Documents: From the Preservation to the Fruition, (submission deadline: November 30, 2008). Best paper and most cited awards The EURASIP Best Paper Award in Signal Processing in 2007 was received by: Leskow, J., Napolitano, A. Foundations of the functional approach for signal analysis, (2006) The journal has introduced a Most Cited Paper Award. Papers for this distinction are determined solely based on the highest number of cites, excluding self-citations, received for all journal articles published the last three years. The 2008 Most Cited Paper Award is shared by: Gardner, W. A., Napolitano, A., Paura, L., Cyclostationarity: Half a century of research, Signal Processing, April 2006. & Tsaig, Y., Donoho, D. L., Extensions of compressed sensing, Signal Processing, March 2006. The Most Cited Paper Award in 2007 was awarded to Dr. A. Ray, Symbolic dynamic analysis of complex systems for anomaly detection, Signal Processing, July 2004. In the past two years Signal Processing has seen an impressive increase in the number of articles downloaded from ScienceDirect as displayed in the graph. ×104 30
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Signal Processing: Image Communication
Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC) is the premiere research journal in the areas of image/video compression, networking and related image and video processing, and the Editorial Board of the journal is working hard to make SPIC even better every day. In 2007, the submission to first decision time is down, meaning that the Area Editors and referees processed manuscripts faster; submission to final disposition decreased, ensuring that authors received a decision about their manuscripts quicker; and the rejection rate was higher in 2007, leading to a better quality publication. This is good news all around.
A. Murat Tekalp Editor-in-Chief
Quality Ensuring that we publish the highest quality and timely research and survey articles is the primary goal of the SPIC Editorial Board. We are monitoring the performance of SPIC by the following criteria: (A) Citations to articles in the journal-reflects how well the journal and the articles are read and used in the science community. There are two common metrics to measure citations; they are the impact factor and cited half-life. (B) Usage statistics-reflects the readership trends. This is measured by the number of downloaded articles in a year. (C) Acceptance Ratio-reflects the selectivity of the journal during the peer review. It is computed as the ratio of number of accepted papers to that of submitted papers in a year. Recent special issues Recently published or to be published special issues include: ¨ • Three Dimensional Video and TV, M. R. Civanlar, J. Ostermann, H. M. Ozaktas, A. Smolic and J. Watson, February 2007. ¨ B. Akan, March 2007. • Mobile Video, L. Atzori, E. Izquierdo, P. Frossard and O. • Content Based Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval, E. Izquierdo, J. Benois-Pineau and R. Andr´e-Obrecht, September 2007. • Distributed Video Coding, Luis Torres, Christine Guillemot and Fernando Pereira, in
print. • Semantic Video Analysis for Interactive Multimedia Services, Yiannis Kompatsiaris,
Yannis Avrithis, Noel O’Connor, and Milind Naphade, in print. Currently, there is an open call for submission of papers on a special issue on Chinese Audio-Video Standard (AVS) and its Applications, which is guest edited by Wen Gao, Yu Lu, and King Ngan.
Signal Processing: Image Communication
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Impact factor Cited half-life Number of downloads Acceptance ratio
2007 1.109 (2006) 5.1 (2006) 63,905 29%
2006 1.264 (2005) 5.1 (2005) 45,460 32%
2005 1.043 (2004) 4.7 (2004) 37,034 34%
Note: The cited half-life is the median age of the articles that were cited each year.
Best paper and most cited paper awards There are two awards given to papers published in SPIC. They are: (i) the Best Paper Award given by EURASIP, and (ii) the Most Cited Paper Award given by Elsevier. The Elsevier Most Cited Paper Award in 2007 was received by: Y. Andreopoulos, A. Munteanu, J. Barbarien, M. van der Schaar, J. Cornelis, P. Schelkens, “In-band motion compensated temporal filtering,” vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 653–673, August 2004. More information about this award can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V08-4N68NFY-1/ 1/02b2c691ebac5ce9d36a53eba7697b72/. I would like to also mention the most downloaded paper that is published in 2007 (as of 6 February 2008): J. Huusko, J. Vehkaper¨a, P. Amon, C. Lamy-Bergot, G. Panza, J. Peltola, M. G. Martini, “Cross-layer architecture for scalable video transmission in wireless network,” vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 317–330, 2007. Author satisfaction Multimedia submission: SPIC now supports submission of multimedia files, including videos, together with manuscripts for review and eventual on-line publication. Reference linking: Reference linking is seamless click-through access to abstracts of referenced articles. Hyperlinks to the abstracts of referenced articles will be listed after each reference, enabling reviewers to check the reference directly. (If you have a ScienceDirect subscription you will be passed on to the full text immediately. Authors need not do anything additional to have the references in their manuscript linked, as this happens automatically). Publishing ethics: The Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) can be found on http://www.elsevier.com/ publishingethicskit/. This kit aims to act as a resource for addressing queries about issues such as plagiarism, authorship disputes, multiple submission and/or publication, and research misconduct. Elsevier is participating in the CrossRef Association’s (http://www.crossref.org/) pilot plagiarism software called CrossCheck in order to detect cases of plagiarism during the peer review process.
EURASIP (CO-)SPONSORED EVENTS
Calendar of Events EURASIP Chairperson/Information Involvement
Year Date
Event
2008 June 9–10
IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Informa- Santorini, tion Systems Greece
Cooperation Sergios Theodoridis http://cip2008.di.uoa.gr/
June 18–20
6th International Workshop on Content- London, Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2008) UK
Cooperation Ebroul Izquierdo http://cbmi08.qmul.net/
June 25–28
15th International conference on Sys- Bratislava, tems, Signals and Image Processing (IWS- Slovak SIP 08) Republic
Cooperation Gregor Rozinaj http://iwssip.stuba.sk/
June 29 to July 1
19th International Conference Biosig- Brno, Cooperation Jiri Jan nal 2008 Czech Republic http://www.dbme.feec.vutbr.cz/ bs2008.html
July 1–3
3rd International Conference on Image Cherbourg, and Signal Processing (ICISP 2008) France
Cooperation Abderrahim Elmoataz, Fathallah Nouboud http:// www.stlo.unicaen.fr/icisp2008/
July 6
Third Workshop on Multimedia Appli- Marrakesh, cations over Wireless Networks (Medi- Marocco aWiN 2008). The Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2008)
Cooperation Kostas Pentikousis, Periklis Chatzimisios http://mediawin.it.teithe.gr/
July 7–8
The 2nd EURASIP Workshop on RFID Budapest, Technology Hungary
Cooperation Peter Sziklai
July 23–25
6th International Symposium on Com- Graz, munication Systems, Networks and Dig- Austria ital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2008)
Cooperation Fary Ghassemlooy http://www.csndsp.com/
August 23-24
The 2008 International Workshop on Local and Non-Local Approximation in Image Processing, LNLA 2008
Cooperation Jaakko Astola http://sp.cs.tut.fi/ticsp/lnla08/
August 25–29
16th European Signal Processing Confer- Lausanne, ence (EUSIPCO 2008) Suisse
Location
Lausanne, Suisse
Sponsor
Jean Philip Thiran http://www.eusipco2008.org/
September 50th International Symposium ELMAR Zadar, 10–13 2008 Croatia
Cooperation Mislav Grgic http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
October 6–8
Cooperation Nader Alagha http://conferences.esa.int
10th International Workshop on Signal Rhodes, Processing for Space Communications Greece (SPSC 2008)
November Conference on Design and Architec24–26 tures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP 2008) 2009 June
Brussels, Belgium
Cooperation D. Milojevic, A. Morawiec http://www.ecsi.org/dasip/
International conference on signal pro- Santorini, cessing (DSP 2009) Greece
Cooperation 2009 Tanos Skodras http://www.dsp2009.org/ 2009
June 25–27
Nonlinear Speech processing (Nolisp 09) Vic, Barcelona, Spain
Cooperation Marcos Faundez Zanu
June
7th International Workshop on Content- Xania, Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2009) Greece
Cooperation Yannis Avrithis
August 24–28
17th European Signal Processing Confer- Glasgow, ence (EUSIPCO 2009) UK
Sponsor
Bob Stewart http://www.eusipco2009.org/
2010 August
18th European Signal Processing Confer- Aalborg, ence (EUSIPCO 2010) Denmark
Sponsor
Søren Holdt Jensen
Markus Rupp; Workshops/Confs Coordinator EURASIP
Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP 2008) Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium November 24-26, 2008
Call for Papers The development of complex applications, involving signal, image and control processing, is classically divided into three consecutive steps: a theoretical study of the algorithms, a study of the target architecture, and finally the implementation. Such a linear design flow is reaching its limits due to the intense pressure on design cycle and strict performance constraints. The approach, called Algorithm-Architecture-Matching, aims to leverage the design flow by a simultaneous study of both algorithmic and architectural issues, taking into account multiple design constraints, as well as algorithm and architecture optimizations. Introducing new design methodologies is necessary when facing the new emerging applications as for example advanced mobile communication systems or smart sensors based systems. This forms a driving force for the future evolutions of embedded system designs methodologies. The research community in Europe addressing these issues is very active both in academy and industry. The goals of this Conference are to present the latest results in the domain of design and architecture for signal and image processing and to initiate a regular meeting of European researchers addressing this topic. The DASIP Conference will give the opportunity for researchers to exchange the ideas and to build the collaboration on emerging topics and technologies. It also aims to strength the links between the European Information Society Technologies (IST) priorities and the researchers in the domain of design and architecture for signal and image processing.
The topics of DASIP 2008 include but are not limited to: Methods and tools for Algorithm-Architecture-Matching System level design and hardware/software codesign RTOS for embedded systems Formal models and transformations Algorithm transformations and metrics Communication synthesis Architectural and logic synthesis Design verification, fault tolerance Performance analysis and estimations Rapid system prototyping, embedded software Embedded system security New and emerging architectures and technologies SoC and MPSoC Reconfigurable ASIP FPGA, dynamic reconfigurable systems Asynchronous circuits (self-timed) Analog circuits and mixed-signal circuits Biologically based or biologically inspired systems MEMS, bioMEMS Nano-technologies, quantum computing
Smart sensors Vision and audio sensor Fingerprint sensor, biosensor Structurally-embedded sensor Sensing requirements for active control systems Distributed and multiplexed sensors, sensors network Adaptive sensor, evolutionary sensor Sensor for health monitoring Sensor system monitoring Environmental monitoring Applications Embedded systems for automotive Embedded systems for health Embedded platforms for multimedia and telecom Analog mixed-signal design challenge Ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing Wearable computing Handheld devices (smart cameras, PDAs, GPSs) Security systems, cryptography Object recognition and tracking
Special sessions and demonstrations A number of special sessions are planned during the Conference. Example special sessions include the following: Design methodologies; New architectures for signal and image processing; Smart sensors; A case study dealing with signal and image processing implementations. Demonstrations are also welcome and we encourage Authors to present their work. A special time slot will be allocated during the Conference in order to allow participants to attend demonstrations. Prospective organisers of special sessions should submit proposals indicating: a) Title of the session; b) Rationale of the need for the special session at DASIP 2008; c) Short biography of the organizers; d) List of contributed papers (including titles, authors, contact information of the corresponding authors, and a short abstract of each contribution). Organisers should not contribute more than one paper; e) Preliminary full version of the overview paper is desirable. If submitted, it enhances the chances of the proposal acceptance. Proposals are due on or before April 1, 2008 and should be sent via email (in either pdf or plain ascii text form) to
[email protected]. Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic, the qualifications of the organisers and the authors of the papers proposed in the session and the balance of the topics across the technical areas in DASIP 2008. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the organisers April 8, 2008. Authors of the papers included in successful proposals should submit a manuscript on or before May 16, 2008. Manuscripts should conform to the formatting and electronic submission guidelines of a regular DASIP paper. They will be submitted via the online submission link and undergo peer review.
Instruction for Authors Electronic paper submission requires a full paper, up to 8 double-column IEEE format pages, including figures and references. Demonstration papers should not exceed 1 double-column IEEE format page long. A special issue in one of the Eurasip journals is planned after the Conference in order to publish the best papers of the Conference. The main conference topics will define the editorial of a book on the state-of-the art and perspectives in the domain of Signal and Image Processing Architectures to be published by Springer Science + Business Media publisher after the event. The authors of selected papers submitted to DASIP will be invited to prepare an extended manuscript for publication in this book.
Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: Notification of paper acceptance: Final camera-ready papers due:
May 16, 2008 July 18, 2008 October 10, 2008
Please visit the conference web site for paper submission, registration and current conference information. Conference Web Site: http://www.ecsi.org/dasip/
European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT The 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2008) is the sixteenth in a series of conferences promoted by EURASIP, the European Association for Signal, Speech, and Image Processing (www.eurasip.org). Formerly biannual, this conference is now a yearly event. This edition will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). EUSIPCO-2008 will focus on the key aspects of signal processing theory and applications as listed below. Exploration of new avenues and methodologies of signal processing will also be encouraged. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of EUSIPCO-2008. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Proposals for special sessions and tutorials are also invited.
x x x x x
Audio and Electroacoustics Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Multimedia Signal Processing Signal Detection and Estimation Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing Signal Processing for Communications
General Co-Chairman P. Vandergheynst, EPFL, Switzerland
[email protected]
Technical Program Co-Chairmen P. Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland
[email protected] A. Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
[email protected]
Plenary Talks M. Unser, EPFL, Switzerland
[email protected] S. Godsill, Cambridge Univ, UK
[email protected]
Areas of Interest x x
General Chairman J.-Ph. Thiran, EPFL, Switzerland
[email protected]
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Speech Processing Education in Signal Processing Nonlinear Signal Processing Medical Imaging and Image Analysis Signal Processing Applications (Biology, Geophysics, Seismic, Radar, Sonar, Remote Sensing, Astronomy, Bio-informatics, Positioning etc.) Emerging Technologies
Special Sessions C. De Vleeschouwer, UCL, Belgium
[email protected]
Tutorials N. Paragios, Ecole Centrale, France
[email protected] F. Bimbot, IRISA, Rennes, France
[email protected]
Publications R. Reilly, UC Dublin, Ireland
[email protected]
Local Arrangements M. Marion, EPFL, Switzerland
[email protected]
Finances
Best Student Paper Awards
M. Bach Cuadra, EPFL, Switzerland
[email protected]
There will be a student paper contest. Student authors who appear as first authors in a paper may enter the student paper contest.
G. Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
[email protected]
Publicity
M. Gabbouj, Tampere UT, Finland
[email protected]
International Liaisons B. Macq, UCL, Belgium
[email protected]
Submissions Procedures to submit a paper, proposals for special sessions/tutorials, will be detailed at www.eusipco2008.org. Submitted papers must be camera-ready, final, no more than five pages long all inclusive and conforming to the format that will be specified on the EUSIPCO web site above. More details will be given in due time on our web site:
www.eusipco2008.org
U.B. Desai, Indian Inst. of Tech., India
[email protected] D. Erdogmus, Orgon H&S University, USA
[email protected]
Exhibits J. Reichel, VisioWave S.A., Switzerland,
[email protected]
Call for Papers 2008 International Workshop on Local and Non-Local Approximation in Image Processing, LNLA2008 August 23-24, 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland LNLA2008 The past few years have witnessed dramatic developments in image processing. While wavelet expansions have finally established themselves as the prototype of a modern efficient approach to signal processing applications, adaptive local and non-local approximations have emerged as a novel surprisingly powerful tool for image analysis, restoration, compression, and enhancement. The current state-of-the-art in image processing exhibits a plethora of these diverse techniques, which are apparently very different but deeply and intimately related through concepts such as sparsity, redundancy, compressibility, and self-similarity. The purpose of the LNLA workshop is to gather specialists working or interested in these areas and create a friendly and relaxed atmosphere to talk about the most important issues in these fields. The workshop includes the following four keynote lectures: • "Structure adaptive methods in image denoising", Vladimir Spokoiny, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Germany • "Self-similarity, fractal models and spline approximation", Michael Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland • "A simple model for affine self-similarity of images and its applications", Edward Vrscay, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada • "Non local demosaicing", Bartomeu Coll, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain One of the goals is to reach a unified view of different approaches and generate ideas about novel image models which can explain and drive future developments.
Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: • statistical image analysis • natural image modelling • sparse and redundant (overcomplete) representations • directional, oriented, and anisotropic filters and transforms • adaptive transforms • higher-dimensional transforms • learned transforms • nonparametric approximations • fractal image coding • modelling of human vision • application and efficient implementation of adaptive approximations in imaging • image and video denoising, deblurring, and compression • inverse problems in imaging
Organizing Committee General Chair: Jaakko Astola Tampere Univ. of Technology jaakko.astola (at) tut.fi Co-Chairs: Karen Egiazarian Tampere Univ. of Technology karen.egiazarian (at) tut.fi Vladimir Katkovnik Tampere Univ. of Technology vladimir.katkovnik (at) tut.fi Technical Program Chairs: Atanas Gotchev Tampere Univ. of Technology atanas.gotchev (at) tut.fi Alessandro Foi Tampere Univ. of Technology alessandro.foi (at) tut.fi Publication Chair: Robert Bregovic Tampere Univ. of Technology robert.bregovic (at) tut.fi Finance: Pirkko Ruotsalainen Tampere Univ. of Technology pirkko.ruotsalainen (at) tut.fi Publicity: Atanas Boev Tampere Univ. of Technology atanas.boev (at) tut.fi
The LNLA 2008 workshop is organized by Tampere International Center for Signal Processing (TICSP) and sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing / Circuits and Systems Chapter in Finland, the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and TICSP. This workshop continues the tradition of the TICSP International Workshop on Spectral Methods and Multirate Signal Processing (SMMSP), held seven times in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, and of the TICSP International Workshop on Transforms and Filter Banks, held twice in 1998 and 1999. All accepted papers will be published by TICSP in its Proceedings and Report Series.
Workshop Secretariat: Pirkko Ruotsalainen Tampere Univ. of Technology pirkko.ruotsalainen (at) tut.fi phone +358-3-3115-3818 fax +358-3-3115-3817
The workshop is organized as a satellite event to the EUSIPCO 2008 Conference (August 25-29, 2008).
Workshop Website
Important Dates • • • •
Full paper (6-8 pages) Notification of acceptance Camera-ready paper Workshop dates
March 17, 2008 May 19, 2008 June 30, 2008 August 23-24, 2008
For further information please visit the workshop homepage http://sp.cs.tut/ticsp/lnla08/
The Second International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology
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7-8 July, 2008, Budapest, Hungary co-located with RFIDsec08 : 4th International Workshop on RFID Security 9-11 July, 2008, Budapest, Hungary
Call for Papers Following the first conference on RFID technology held in Vienna, Austria last year, the second international EURASIP workshop on RFID technology will provide a premium forum for presentation of the most recent research in this new technology. The objective is to continue, accelerate, and broaden the momentum already gained in this field. This call for papers intends to solicit contributions on the latest research of this new technology for wireless communication systems, spanning from the individual tag to entire systems based on RFIDs.
Important dates
Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
Extended abstract or full paper submission deadline: 5 May, 2008 Acceptance notification: 28 May, 2008 Final version due: 9 June, 2008 Conference: 7-8 July RFIDsec08: 9-11 July
Electromagnetic field measurements Antenna design Multiple antenna systems Modulation schemes for RFID Link, system, and network level simulations Hardware and software implementation issues Inductive coupling for DC supply Multi-frequency and broadband tags Smart tags, programmable tags, and embedded systems Sensor tags and RFID for asset tracking and localization Advances in passive long range RFID technology Manufacturing processes for RFID tags Applications and industrial experience
Program Committee Holger Arthaber Gildas Avoine Pavle Belanovic Heyno Garbe Magerl Gottfried Bernhard Jakoby Dimitris Kiritsis Christoph Mecklenbräuker Florian Michahelles Daniel A. Nagy Gerald Ostermayer Wolfgang Pribyl Markus Rupp Arpad L. Scholtz Robert Weigel Horst Zimmermann
Submission guidelines Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished work for presentation at the workshop in the form of full papers. Acceptance shall be based on an extended abstract of at most four pages, or (if already available) on full papers.
Instruction for authors Authors are asked to prepare both extended abstracts and full papers in LaTeX, using the LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must be submitted in .pdf format, and they will be handled through the EDAS online system, please find the link on the conference website.
Conference proceedings
The participants will receive an electronic (printable) version of the proceedings. At least one author must be registered at the conference for each paper presented to be included in the proceedings. The proceedings Organizing Committee will include both the papers of RFID2008 and the papers of RFIDsec08. Peter Ligeti The papers of RFID2008 will also be made available through the Markus Rupp EURASIP open library. Peter Sziklai
Local organization
Workshop Venue The workshop will be held in Budapest, at Eötvös Loránd University. Registration, workshop webpage: https://eltecrypt.cs.elte.hu/rfid2008 e-mail:
[email protected] You are encouraged to go for combined registration with RFIDsec08, on the same webpage.
Organising Committee
Call for Papers The 2009 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2009) is the seventeenth in a series of conferences organised by the European Association for Signal, Speech, and Image Processing (EURASIP, www.eurasip.org). The conference will be held in the Royal Concert Hall in the heart of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. EUSIPCO-2009 will focus on key aspects of signal processing theory, algorithms, architectures, and applications. Acceptance of submissions will be based on quality, relevance, and originality, with awards for the best student submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of EUSIPCO 2009 and presented during the conference. Proposals for tutorials and special sessions are invited. The conference will further include a series of keynote and plenary talks, as well as a CEO forum and exhibition.
Areas of Interest Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas: • • • • • • • • • •
Audio and electroacoustics Design, implementation and application of signal processing systems Multimedia signal processing, speech processing and coding Image processing and video coding Medical imaging and image analysis Signal detection and estimation Sensor array, multichannel, and multidimensional signal processing Signal processing for communications and wireless networks Non-stationary, non-linear and non-Gaussian signal processing Emerging technologies
Submissions Procedures to submit a paper and proposals for special sessions and tutorials are detailed at www.eusipco2009.org. Submitted papers must be camera-ready, no more than five pages long, and conforming to the standard laid out on the EUSIPCO 2009 web site. First authors who are registered students can participate in the student paper competition.
Website
www.eusipco2009.org
Important Deadlines Proposals for special sessions December 5, 2008 Proposals for tutorials February 6, 2009 Electronic submission of full papers February 6, 2009 Notification of Acceptance April 30, 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers May 29, 2009
Honorary Chair Peter Grant University of Edinburgh, UK General Chair Robert W. Stewart University of Strathclyde, UK Technical Co-Chairs Stephan Weiss University of Strathclyde, UK Patrick A. Naylor Imperial College, London Special Sessions and Plenaries Malcolm Macleod QinetiQ Ltd, Malvern, UK Jerry Gibson University of Barbara
California,
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Tutorials Lina Stankovic University of Strathclyde, UK Vladimir Stankovic University of Strathclyde, UK Publications Wei Liu University of Sheffield, UK Sangarapillai Lambotharan Loughborough University, UK Local Arrangements Christopher Morrison Linn Products Ltd, Glasgow Industrial Liaison Bill Templeman Scottish Enterprise International Liaison Michael Hoffman University of Nebraska, Lincoln Sunil Bharitkar Audyssey Laboratories Inc., L.A. Gan Woon Seng Nanyang Technological University
EURASIP JOURNAL ON ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
Special Issue on Signal Processing Advances in Robots and Autonomy
CALL FOR PAPERS The capabilities of robots and autonomous systems have increased dramatically over the past years. This success story partly depends on advances in signal processing which provide appropriate and efficient analysis of sensor data and enable autonomy. A key element of the transition of signal processing output to its exploitation inside robots and autonomous systems is the way uncertainty is managed: uncertainty originating from insufficient sensor data, uncertainty about effects of future autonomous actions and, in the case of distributed sensors and actuators (like for a team of robots), uncertainty about communication lines. The aim of this special issue is to focus on recent developments that allow passing this transition path successfully, showing either where signal processing is used in robotics and autonomy or where robotics and autonomy had special demands that had not been fulfilled by signal processing before. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Autonomous navigation: ◦ Outdoor navigation using geo-information and dedicated indoor navigation
solutions
◦ Collision avoidance/sense and avoid ◦ Dynamic feature maps, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) • Path planning: ◦ Proactive, based on open-loop optimization ◦ Reactive, based on adaptive control or model predictive control (MPC) ◦ Probabilistic approaches for maximizing the expected future information • Exploration: ◦ Networked teams of robots ◦ Sensor networks which mix static sensors with autonomous moving ones ◦ Distributed algorithms and communication aspects
The special issue will focus on the one hand on the development and comparison of algorithmic approaches and on the other hand on their currently ever-widening range of applications in any platform: underwater, surface, ground, and airborne. Special interest lies in probabilistic approaches and setups of distributed sensors and actuators.
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due
August 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
November 1, 2008
Publication Date
February 1, 2009
Guest Editors: Frank Ehlers, NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC), Viale S. Bartolomeo 400, 19138 La Spezia, Italy;
[email protected] Fredrik Gustafsson, Department of Electrical Engineering, Link¨oping University, 58183 Link¨oping, Sweden;
[email protected] ´ Matthijs Spaan, Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Avenue Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;
[email protected]
http://www.hindawi.com
EURASIP JOURNAL ON ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
Special Issue on CNN Technology for Spatiotemporal Signal Processing
CALL FOR PAPERS A cellular neural/nonlinear network (CNN) is any spatial arrangement of mainly locallycoupled cells, where each cell has an input, an output, and a state that evolves according to some prescribed dynamical laws. CNN represents a paradigm for nonlinear spatialtemporal dynamics and the core of the cellular wave computing (also called CNN technology). Partial differential equations (PDEs) or wave-like phenomena are the computing primitives of CNN. Besides, their suitability for physical implementation due to their local connectivity makes CNNs very appropriate for high-speed parallel signal processing. Early CNN applications were mainly in image processing. The possible availability of cellular processor arrays with a high number of processing elements opened a new window for the development of new applications and the recovery of techniques traditionally conditioned by the slow speed of conventional computers. Let us name as example image processing techniques based on active contours or active wave propagation, or applications within the medical image processing framework (echocardiography, retinal image processing, etc.) where fast processing provides new capabilities for medical disease diagnosis. On the other hand, emerging applications exploit the complex spatiotemporal phenomena exhibited by multilayer CNN and extend to the modelling of neural circuits for biological vision, motion, and higher brain function. The aim of this special issue is to bring forth the synergy between CNN and spatiotemporal signal processing through new and significant contributions from active researchers in these fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • • • • • • • •
Theory of cellular nonlinear spatiotemporal phenomena Analog-logic spatiotemporal algorithms Learning & design Bioinspired/neuromorphic arrays Physical VLSI implementations: integrated sensor/processor/actuator arrays Applications including computing, communications, and multimedia Circuits, architectures and systems in the nanoscale regime Other areas in cellular neural networks and array computing.
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due
September 15, 2008
First Round of Reviews
December 15, 2008
Publication Date
March 15, 2009
Guest Editors: ´ ´ Facultad de Fisica, ´ ˜ Departamento de Electronica David Lopez Vilarino, y Computacion, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain;
[email protected] ´ ´ Facultad de Fisica, Diego Cabello Ferrer, Departamento de Electronica y Computacion, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain;
[email protected] ´ ´ Facultad de Fisica, Victor M. Brea, Departamento de Electronica y Computacion, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain;
[email protected] Ronald Tetzlaff, Institute of Applied Physics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Max-von-Laue Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt/Main, Germany; r.tetzlaff@iap.uni-frankfurt.de Chin-Teng Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan;
[email protected]
http://www.hindawi.com
EURASIP JOURNAL ON ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
Special Issue on Game Theory in Signal Processing and Communications
CALL FOR PAPERS Game theory is a branch of mathematics aimed at the modeling and understanding of rational behavior in strategic situations. In the last decade, game theory has been applied to solve conflict problems in economics, and has found important applications in politics, sociology, psychology, and transportation. Game theory has more recently been employed to model and analyze modern communication systems, such as power control in wireless networks and routing in wire line networks. Also, it provides a structured approach to many important signal processing problems, including cognitive radio, waveform design, and dynamic spectrum access. Game theory is successfully applied to design decentralized algorithms and robust signal processing methods in various deployment scenarios. This special issue aims to promote the field of game theory to the signal processing audience. We are soliciting high-quality unpublished research papers addressing the theory and practice of game theory in signal processing and communications. Topics include, but are not limited to: • • • • • • • • •
Static non-cooperative games (Nash and Stackelberg equilibria) Finite and infinite dynamic games Cooperative (bargaining) game theory Auctions, coalitions, and pricing Game theory for resource allocation in communications Game theory for adaptive waveform design Game theory for cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access Stochastic games, repeated games, and fading channels Development of decentralized algorithms using game theory.
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Due
October 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
January 1, 2009
Publication Date
April 1, 2009
Guest Editors: Holger Boche, Berlin Institute of Technology, 10623 Berlin, Germany;
[email protected] Zhu Han, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Boise State University Boise, ID 83725, USA;
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EURASIP JOURNAL ON BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Special Issue on Applications of Signal Processing Techniques to Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Proteomics
CALL FOR PAPERS The recent development of high-throughput molecular genetics technologies has brought a major impact to bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics. Classical signal processing techniques have found powerful applications in extracting and modeling the information provided by genomic and proteomic data. This special issue calls for contributions to modeling and processing of data arising in bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics using signal processing techniques. Submissions are expected to address theoretical developments, computational aspects, or specific applications. However, all successful submissions are required to be technically solid and provide a good integration of theory with practical data. Suitable topics for this special issue include but are not limited to: • Time-frequency representations • Spectral analysis • Estimation and detection • Stochastic modeling of gene regulatory networks • Signal processing for microarray analysis • Denoising of genomic data • Data compression • Pattern recognition • Signal processing methods in sequence analysis • Signal processing for proteomics. Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bsb/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology’s Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due
June 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
September 1, 2008
Publication Date
December 1, 2008
Guest Editors: Erchin Serpedin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128, USA;
[email protected] Javier Garcia-Frias, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-7501, USA;
[email protected] Yufei Huang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San-Antonio, TX 78249-2057, USA;
[email protected] Ulisses Braga Neto, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128, USA;
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EURASIP JOURNAL ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Special Issue on Challenges on Complexity and Connectivity in Embedded Systems
CALL FOR PAPERS Technology advances and a growing field of applications have been a constant driving factor for embedded systems over the past years. However, the increasing complexity of embedded systems and the emerging trend to interconnections between them lead to new challenges. Intelligent solutions are necessary to solve these challenges and to provide reliable and secure systems to the customer under a strict time and financial budget. Typically, intelligent solutions often come up with an orthogonal and interdisciplinary approach in contrast to traditional ways of engineering solutions. Many possible intelligent methods for embedded systems are biologically inspired, such as neural networks and genetic algorithms. Multiagent systems are also prospective for an application for nontime critical services of embedded systems. Another field is soft computing which allows a sophisticated modeling and processing of imprecise (sensory) data. The goal of this special issue is to provide a forum for innovative smart solutions which have been applied in the embedded systems domain and which are likely useful to solve problems in other applications as well. Original papers previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal are solicited. They should cover one or more of the following topics: • • • • • • • • • •
Smart embedded (real-time) systems Autonomous embedded systems Sensor networks and sensor node hardware/software platforms Software tools for embedded systems Topology control and time synchronization Error tolerance, security, and robustness Network protocols and middleware for embedded systems Standardization of embedded software components Data gathering, aggregation, and dissemination Prototypes, applications, case studies, and test beds.
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August 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
November 1, 2008
Publication Date
February 1, 2009
Guest Editors: Bernhard Rinner, University of Klagenfurt, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria;
[email protected] Wilfried Elmenreich, University of Klagenfurt, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria;
[email protected] Ralf Seepold, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911 Leganes, Spain;
[email protected] Volker Turau, Technische Universit¨at Hamburg-Harburg, 21073 Hamburg, Germany;
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EURASIP JOURNAL ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Special Issue on Formal Techniques for Embedded Systems Design and Validation
CALL FOR PAPERS Computing platforms that are embedded within larger systems they control, called embedded systems, are inherently very complex as they are responsible for controlling and regulating multiple system functionalities. Often embedded systems are also safety-critical requiring high degree of reliability and fault tolerance. Examples include distributed microprocessors controlling the modern cars or aircrafts and airport baggage handling system that track and trace unsafe baggage. To address this growing need for safety and reliability, formal techniques are increasingly being adapted to suit embedded platforms. There has been widespread use of synchronous languages such as Esterel for the design of automotive and flight control software that requires stronger guarantees. Languages like Esterel not only provide nice features for high-level specification but also enable model checkingbased verification due to their formal semantics. Other semiformal notations are also being proposed as standards to specify industrial embedded systems using, for example, the newly developed IEC61499 standard for process control. This standard primarily focuses on component-oriented description of embedded control systems. The goal of this special issue is to bring together a set of high-quality research articles looking at different applications of formal or semiformal techniques in specification, verification, and synthesis of embedded systems. Topics of interest are (but not limited to): • • • • • •
Verification of system-level languages Verification of embedded processors Models of computation and verification Models of computation for heterogeneous embedded systems IP verification issues Open system verification techniques such as module checking and applications of module checking • Formal techniques for protocol matching and interface process generation • Applications of DES control theory in open system verification • Adaptive techniques for open system verification
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Verification techniques for automatic debugging of embedded systems Formal approaches for secure embedded systems Hardware-software coverification of embedded systems Compositional approaches for SOC verification Verification of distributed embedded system.
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August 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
November 1, 2008
Publication Date
February 1, 2009
Guest Editors: Partha S. Roop, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand;
[email protected] Samik Basu, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA;
[email protected] Chong-Min Kyung, Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea;
[email protected] Gregor Goessler, INRIA Grenoble-Rhne-Alpes, 38334 Saint Ismier Cedex, France;
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EURASIP JOURNAL on Information Security
Special Issue on Secure Steganography in Multimedia Content
CALL FOR PAPERS Steganography, the art and science of invisible communication, aims to transmit information that is embedded invisibly into carrier data. Different from cryptography it hides the very existence of the secret. Its main requirement is undetectability, that is, no method should be able to detect a hidden message in carrier data. This also differentiates steganography from watermarking where the secrecy of hidden data is not required. Watermarking serves in some way the carrier, while in steganography, the carrier serves as a decoy for the hidden message. The theoretical foundations of steganography and detection theory have been advanced rapidly, resulting in improved steganographic algorithms as well as more accurate models of their capacity and weaknesses. However, the field of steganography still faces many challenges. Recent research in steganography and steganalysis has far-reaching connections to machine learning, coding theory, and signal processing. There are powerful blind (or universal) detection methods, which are not fine-tuned to a particular embedding method, but detect steganographic changes using a classifier that is trained with features from known media. Coding theory facilitates increased embedding efficiency and adaptiveness to carrier data, both of which will increase the security of steganographic algorithms. Finally, both practical steganographic algorithms and steganalytic methods require signal processing of common media like images, audio, and video. The field of steganography still faces many challenges, for example, • how could one make benchmarking steganography more independent from machine
learning used in steganalysis? • where could one embed the secret to make steganography more secure? (content
adaptivity problem). • what is the most secure steganography for a given carrier?
Material for experimental evaluation will be made available at http://dud.inf.tu-dresden.de/ ∼westfeld/rsp/rsp.html.
The main goal of this special issue is to provide a state-of-the-art view on current research in the field of steganographic applications. Some of the related research topics for the submission include, but are not limited to: • Performance, complexity, and security analysis of steganographic methods
• Practical secure steganographic methods for images, audio, video, and more exotic • • • • • • • •
media and bounds on detection reliability Adaptive, content-aware embedding in various transform domains Large-scale experimental setups and carrier modeling Energy-efficient realization of embedding pertaining encoding and encryption Steganography in active warden scenario, robust steganography Interplay between capacity, embedding efficiency, coding, and detectability Steganalytic application in steganography benchmarking and digital forensics Attacks against steganalytic applications Information-theoretic aspects of steganographic security.
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Information Security manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/is/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due
August 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
November 1, 2008
Publication Date
February 1, 2009
Guest Editors: Miroslav Goljan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA;
[email protected] Andreas Westfeld, Institute for System Architecture, Faculty of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Helmholtzstraße 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany;
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EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
Special Issue on Dependable Semantic Inference
CALL FOR PAPERS After many years of exciting research, the field of multimedia information retrieval (MIR) has become mature enough to enter a new development phase—the phase in which MIR technology is made ready to get adopted in practical solutions and realistic application scenarios. High users’ expectations in such scenarios require high dependability of MIR systems. For example, in view of the paradigm “getting the content I like, anytime and anyplace” the service of consumer-oriented MIR solutions (e.g., a PVR, mobile video, music retrieval, web search) will need to be at least as dependable as turning a TV set on and off. Dependability plays even a more critical role in automated surveillance solutions relying on MIR technology to analyze recorded scenes and events and alert the authorities when necessary. This special issue addresses the dependability of those critical parts of MIR systems dealing with semantic inference. Semantic inference stands for the theories and algorithms designed to relate multimedia data to semantic-level descriptors to allow content-based search, retrieval, and management of data. An increase in semantic inference dependability could be achieved in several ways. For instance, better understanding of the processes underlying semantic concept detection could help forecast, prevent, or correct possible semantic inference errors. Furthermore, the theory of using redundancy for building reliable structures from less reliable components could be applied to integrate “isolated” semantic inference algorithms into a network characterized by distributed and collaborative intelligence (e.g., a social/P2P network) and let them benefit from the processes taking place in such a network (e.g., tagging, collaborative filtering). The goal of this special issue is to gather high-quality and original contributions that reach beyond conventional ideas and approaches and make substantial steps towards dependable, practically deployable semantic inference theories and algorithms. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Theory and algorithms of robust, generic, and scalable semantic inference • Self-learning and interactive learning for online adaptable semantic inference • Exploration of applicability scope and theoretical performance limits of semantic in-
ference algorithms • Modeling of system confidence in its semantic inference performance
• Evaluation of semantic inference dependability using standard dependability criteria • Matching user/context requirements to dependability criteria (e.g., mobile user, user
at home, etc.) • Modeling synergies between different semantic inference mechanisms (e.g., content
analysis, indexing through user interaction, collaborative filtering) • Synergetic integration of content analysis, user actions (e.g., tagging, interaction
with content) and user/device collaboration (e.g., in social/P2P networks). Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due
November 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
February 1, 2009
Publication Date
May 1, 2009
Guest Editors: Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, 2600 AA Delft, The Netherlands;
[email protected] Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077;
[email protected] Edward Chang, Google Inc., China; University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA;
[email protected] Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA;
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EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
Special Issue on OFDMA Architectures, Protocols, and Applications
CALL FOR PAPERS Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) technologies are currently attracting intensive attention in wireless communications to meet the ever-increasing demands arising from the explosive growth of Internet, multimedia, and broadband services. OFDMA-based systems are able to deliver high data rate, operate in the hostile multipath radio environment, and allow efficient sharing of limited resources such as spectrum and transmit power between multiple users. OFDMA has been used in the mobility mode of IEEE 802.16 WiMAX, is currently a working specification in 3GPP Long Term Evolution downlink, and is the candidate access method for the IEEE 802.22 “wireless regional area networks.” Clearly, recent advances in wireless communication technology have led to significant innovations that enable OFDMA-based wireless access networks to provide better quality-of-service (QoS) than ever with convenient and inexpensive deployment and mobility. However, regardless of the technology used, OFDMA networks must not only be able to provide reliable and high quality broadband services, but also be implemented costeffectively and be operated efficiently. OFDMA presents many of the advantages and challenges of OFDM systems for single users, and the extension to multiple users introduces many further challenges and opportunities, both on the physical layer and at higher layers. These requirements present many challenges in the design of network architectures and protocols, which have motivated a significant amount of research in the area. Also, many critical problems associated with the applications of OFDMA technologies in future wireless systems are still looking for efficient solutions. The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers that report the latest research advances in this field from physical and network layers to practical applications. Original papers are solicited in all aspects of OFDMA techniques including physical layer issues, architectures, protocol designs, enabling technologies, theoretical studies, practical applications, and experimental prototypes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • • • •
Adaptive coding and modulation Signal processing for OFDMA Interference control techniques Bandwidth and resources allocation
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Efficient MAC protocol development Routing algorithms and congestion control schemes MAC and network layer management Cross-layer design and optimization Cooperative and game theoretic analysis Quality of service provisioning Network modeling and performance analysis Security and privacy management Broadband Wireless Access Testbed, experiment, implementation, standards, and practical applications.
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/ journals/wcn/ Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due
August 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
November 1, 2008
Publication Date
February 1, 2009
Guest Editors: Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4;
[email protected] Alister G. Burr, Department of Electronics, University of York, York, YO10-5DD, UK;
[email protected] Lingyang Song, Wireless Group, Philips Research Laboratories, Cross Oak Lane, Redhill, Surrey RH1 5HA, UK;
[email protected] Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, 1325 Lysaker, Norway;
[email protected] Thomas Michael Bohnert, Siemens AG, 80312 Munich, Germany;
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EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
Special Issue on Advances in Propagation Modelling for Wireless Systems
CALL FOR PAPERS The true challenge for new communication technologies is to “make the thing work” in real-world wireless channels. System designers classically focus on the impact of the radio channel on the received signals and use propagation models for testing and evaluation of receiver designs and transmission schemes. Yet, the needs for such models evolve as new applications emerge with different bandwidths, terminal mobility, higher carrier frequencies, new antennas, and so forth. Furthermore, channel characterization also yields the fundamental ties to classical electromagnetics and physics, as well as the answers to some crucial questions in communication and information theory. In particular, it is of outstanding importance for designing transmission schemes which are efficient in terms of power or spectrum management. The objective of this special issue is to highlight the most recent advances in the area of propagation measurement and modeling. Original and research articles are solicited in all aspects of propagation, including experimental characterization, channel sounding, theoretical modeling, hardware emulation and new communication technologies. Topics include, but are not limited to: • • • • • • • • • • • • •
4G channel measurements and modeling Fixed wireless access (including outdoor-to-indoor) UWB propagation 60 GHz channel measurements and modeling Propagation models for wireless sensor networks, including RFIDs Spectrum sensing and channel prediction for cognitive radio Intra/inter vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure channel characterization Body area propagation modeling Double-directional and MIMO channels Multiuser MIMO channels Multi-hop and cooperative channels Polarimetric channels Shadowing correlation modeling
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Temporal variations in wireless channels Frequency and range dependence of parameters High-resolution algorithms for parameter extraction Channel prediction and tracking Numerical methods in wireless channel modeling Advances in channel emulation and sounding.
Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/ journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due
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First Round of Reviews
November 1, 2008
Publication Date
February 1, 2009
Guest Editors: Claude Oestges, Microwave Laboratory, Universit´e Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;
[email protected] Michael Jensen, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA;
[email protected] Persefoni Kyritsi, Antennas, Propagation and Radio Networking Section, Aalborg University, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark;
[email protected] Mansoor Shafi, Telecom New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand; mansoor.shafi@telecom.co.nz Jun-ichi Takada, Department of International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan;
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EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
Special Issue on Wireless Physical Layer Security
CALL FOR PAPERS Security is a critical issue in multiuser wireless networks in which secure transmissions are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain in highly mobile and distributed environments. In his seminal works of the late 1940s, Shannon formalized the concepts of capacity (as a transmission efficiency measure) and equivocation (as a measure of secrecy). Together with Wyner’s fundamental formulation of the wiretap channel in the 1970s, this work laid the groundwork for the area of wireless physical area security. Interest in this area has exploded in recent years, motivated by the rise of wireless networking in general and by the increasing interest in large mobile networks with light infrastructure, which are extremely difficult to secure by traditional methods. The objective of this special issue (whose preparation is carried out under the auspices of the EC Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications NEWCOM++) is to gather recent advances in the area of wireless physical layer security from the theoretical, such as the analysis of the secrecy capacity of various channel models, to more practical interests such as the development of codes and other communication schemes that can provide security in real networks. Suitable topics for this special issue dedicated to physical layer security include but are not limited to: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Opportunistic secrecy The wiretap channel with feedback Authentication over the wiretap channel Information theoretic secrecy of fading channels Secrecy through public discussion Wireless key distribution Multiuser channels with secrecy constraints MIMO wiretap channels Relay-eavesdropper channel Scheduling for secure communications Secure communication with jamming Game theoretic approaches for secrecy Codes for secure transmission Secure compression
• Cognitive approaches for secrecy • Physical Secrecy and Common Randomness • Secrecy with channel uncertainty.
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October 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews
January 1, 2009
Publication Date
April 1, 2009
Guest Editors: ´ Merouane Debbah, Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, Sup´elec, 3 rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France;
[email protected] Hesham El-Gamal, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, 205 Dreese Labs, 2015 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210, USA;
[email protected] H. Vincent Poor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Engineering Quadrangle, Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA;
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Editor-in-Chief Joaquin Sitte Australia Associate Editors Adel M. Alimi Tunisia Yasar Becerikli Turkey Shantanu Chakrabartty USA S. Chen China Paolo Del Giudice Italy De-Shuang Huang China Giacomo Indiveri Switzerland Naoyuki Kubota Japan Yutaka Maeda Japan
Open Access Advances in Artificial Neural Systems, as an open access journal, enables immediate, worldwide, barrier-free online access to the full text of published research articles, released under the “Creative Commons Attribution License.”
Frederic Maire Australia
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Advances in
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Aims and Scope Advances in Multimedia is aimed at presenting comprehensive coverage of the field of multimedia. The journal covers research and developments in multimedia technology and applications, including compression, storage, networking, communication, retrieval, algorithms, architectures, software design, circuits, multimedia signal processing, and multimodality devices and systems. Types of multimedia signals involved include audio, speech, video, image, graphics, geophysical, musical, sonar, radar, and medical signals. Manuscript Submission Manuscripts are invited and should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript through the online Manuscript Tracking System located at http://mts.hindawi.com.
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Open Access Advances in Multimedia, as an open access journal, enables immediate, worldwide, barrier-free online access to the full text of published research articles for all interested readers. Accepted articles are released under the “Creative Commons Attribution License,” by which the author remains the copyright holder and permits the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of the article in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Multimedia Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com
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Associate Editors Kiyoharu Aizawa Ehab Al-Shaer John F. Arnold Rajarathnam Chandramouli Chang Wen Chen Qionghai Dai J. Carlos De Martin Magda El Zarki Pascal Frossard Mohammed Ghanbari Jerry D. Gibson Pengwei Hao Chiou-Ting Hsu H. Jiang Moon Gi Kang Aggelos K. Katsaggelos Sun-Yuan Kung C.-C. Jay Kuo Wan-Jiun Liao Yi Ma Shiwen Mao Madjid Merabti William A. Pearlman Yong Pei Hayder Radha Martin Reisslein Reza Rejaie M. Roccetti A. Salkintzis Ralf Schäfer Guobin (Jacky) Shen K. P. Subbalakshmi Ming-Ting Sun H. Sun Y.-P. Tan Wai-Tian Tan Qi Tian Sinisa Todorovic Deepak S. Turaga Thierry Turletti Athanasios Vasilakos Zhiqiang Wu Feng Wu H. Yin Ya-Qin Zhang B. Zhu
Editor-in-Chief Frank Shi
Advances in OptoElectronics
Associate Editors Armin G. Aberle Xian An Cao Alison Chaiken W.-C. Chen
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aoe/
Philippe Goldner Volker Haerle
Aims and Scope Advances in OptoElectronics is a peer-reviewed open access journal, which aims to accelerate worldwide recognition, dissemination, and utilization of the most recent findings and achievements in optoelectronics. It provides quick publication of original short and lengthy articles on theoretical, applied, and system results in all emerging and established multidisciplinary areas of optoelectronics. Subject areas include but are not limited to: ▶ Materials, devices, components, electronics, design tools, packaging, reliability, manufacturing and applications of lasers, LEDs, OLEDs, and other photonic sources covering ultraviolet to infrared spectrum; luminescence and lighting ▶ Solar cells and photovoltaics; electro-optical imaging, sensors, and detectors ▶ Optical data storage/processing; fiber optics and optical communications ▶ Space and atmosphere optics and remote sensing; quantum optics, ultrafast photonics and cryptography; optical lithography and nano-/microelectronics manufacturing tools ▶ Optical interconnects; biomedical optics and microdevices. ▶ Micromachining and optical micro-/nanosystems; microscopy, instruments, and spectroscopy Open Access Advances in OptoElectronics, as an open access journal, enables immediate, worldwide, barrier-free online access to the full text of published research articles, released under the “Creative Commons Attribution License.” Publication Speed In order to ensure the fastest possible publication speed following the acceptance of a manuscript, once an article is accepted for publication after a rigorous peer-review process, we make the author’s version immediately available online. Then, in an average of 60 days, we publish the final edited version of the paper. Following an article-by-article schedule rather !DVANCESIN than an issue-by-issue schedule allows for a much faster publication speed, since articles are not /PTO%LECTRONICS delayed until an entire issue has been completed. Manuscripts are invited and should be submitted at http://mts.hindawi.com. International Editorial Board The journal has a distinguished Editorial Board with extensive academic qualifications, which ensures that the journal maintains high scientific standards and has broad international coverage. (INDAWI0UBLISHING#ORPORATION HTTPWWWHINDAWICOM
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Computational Intelligence & Neuroscience http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/
Aims and Scope Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience is a forum for the publication of research in the interdisciplinary field of neural computing, neural engineering, and artificial intelligence, where neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, engineers, psychologists, physicists, computer scientists, and artificial intelligence investigators among others can publish their work in one periodical that bridges the gap between neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and engineering. The journal provides research and review papers at an interdisciplinary level, with the field of intelligent systems for computational neuroscience as its focus. Manuscript Submission Manuscripts are invited and should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript through the online Manuscript Tracking System located at http://mts.hindawi.com. Open Access Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, as an open access journal, enables immediate, worldwide, barrier-free online access to the full text of published research articles for all interested readers. Accepted articles are released under the “Creative Commons Attribution License,” by which the author remains the copyright holder and permits the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of the article in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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International Editorial Board The journal has a distinguished Editorial Board with extensive academic qualifications, which ensures that the journal maintains high scientific standards and has broad international coverage. Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com
Volume 2007
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Editor-in-Chief Phillip Regalia
EURASIP Journal on
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Image and Video Processing
Jean-Luc Dugelay Associate Editors Driss Aboutajdine Tsuhan Chen Ingemar J. Cox A. Del Bimbo
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/
Touradj Ebrahimi Peter Eisert James E. Fowler
Contributed articles on image and video processing may be focused on specific techniques, on diverse functionalities and services, within the context of various activity sectors (e.g., multimedia, medical, aerial, robotics, security, communications, arts), or on employing diverse data formats.
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Manuscript Submission Manuscripts are invited and should be submitted by one of the authors via the online Manuscript Tracking System located at http://mts.hindawi.com.
Kenneth K. M. K. Lam
Open Access EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, as an open access journal, enables immediate, worldwide, barrier-free online access to the full text of published research articles. Accepted articles are released under the “Creative Commons Attribution License,” which permits the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of the article in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Publication Speed We are committed to keeping the publication speed of the journal as fast as possible, while at the same time ensuring a thorough peer-review process. In order to ensure the fastest possible publication speed following the acceptance of a manuscript, once an article is accepted we make the author’s version immediately available online. Then, in an average of 60 days, we publish the final edited version of the paper. Following an article-by-article schedule rather than an issue-by-issue schedule allows for a much faster publication speed, since articles are not delayed until an entire issue has been completed.
International Editorial Board The journal has a distinguished Editorial Board with extensive academic qualifications, which ensures that the journal maintains high scientific standards and has broad international coverage. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 410 Park Avenue, 15th Floor, #287 pmb, New York, NY 10022, USA
Christophe Garcia Ling Guan E. Izquierdo
Janusz Konrad Reginald L. Lagendijk
Riccardo Leonardi
Benoit Macq Ferran Marques Geovanni Martinez Gerard G. Medioni Nikos Nikolaidis Jörn Ostermann Francisco Jose Perales Thierry Pun Kenneth Rose B. Sankur Dietmar Saupe T. K. Shih Y.-P. Tan A. H. Tewfik J.-P. Thiran Andreas Uhl Jian Zhang
Editor-in-Chief Mauro Barni Italy
EURASIP Journal on
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Information Security
Jeffrey A. Bloom USA
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/is/
Jean-Luc Dugelay France
Aims and Scope The overall goal of the EURASIP Journal on Information Security is to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with the general field of information security with a particular emphasis on the use of signal processing tools to enable the security of digital contents. As such, it addresses any work whereby security primitives and multimedia signal processing are used together to ensure the secure access to the data. Enabling technologies include watermarking, data hiding, steganography and steganalysis, joint signal processing and encryption, perceptual hashing, identification, biometrics, fingerprinting, and digital forensics. Manuscript Submission Manuscripts are invited and should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript through the online Manuscript Tracking System located at http://mts.hindawi.com.
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Aims and Scope The overall aim of the International Journal of Navigation and Observation is to explore emerging concepts and applications in navigation, positioning, Earth observation, and related fields. The journal is directed at both practicing engineers as well as academic researchers. It will highlight new ideas and challenges in both application development and basic research, thus seeking to bridge the gap between innovation and practical implementation. Authors of manuscripts with novel contributions to the theory and/or the practice of navigation, positioning, and Earth observation are encouraged to submit their contributions for consideration. Manuscript Submission Manuscripts are invited and should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript through the online Manuscript Tracking System located at http://mts.hindawi.com. Open Access International Journal of Navigation and Observation, as an open access journal, enables immediate, worldwide, barrier-free online access to the full text of published research articles for all interested readers. Accepted articles are released under the “Creative Commons Attribution License,” by which the author remains the copyright holder and permits the unrestricted use, distribuInternational Journal of tion, and reproduction of the article in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aims and Scope The International Journal of Power Management Electronics aims to deal with technology and science that define and demonstrate next-generation power electronics, and advance the state of the art. The scope and coverage of the journal include but are not limited to: ▶ Novel devices (e.g., wide-bandgap, photonic devices) and applied technology for power electronics ▶ Power electronics and powermanagement controls for standalone and grid-connected alternative and renewable energy systems ▶ Fuel-cell, hybrid-electric vehicle power converter designs for vehicular International Journal of auxiliary and main power units Power ▶ System-on-chip (SoC), systemManagement in-package (SiP), and system-onmodule- (SoM-) based powerElectronics management electronics ▶ New loss-mitigating topologies and switching techniques ▶ Novel solutions for high-frequency magnetics ▶ Digital and smart power-management technology ▶ New concepts and technology applications of power electronics in power systems, telecommunications, motor drives, low-voltage applications (e.g., portable electronics, VRM) Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com
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Aims and Scope The aim of the open access, peer-reviewed International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing is to serve the large community of researchers and professional engineers working on theoretical and practical aspects of reconfigurable computing. The journal seeks to promote the use of reconfigurable computing for research, education, and applications. Original full and short papers on all aspects of reconfigurable computing, from hardware architectures and devices to custom computers and high-performance systems, are encouraged for submission. All aspects of reconfigurable computing are considered. Since the entire field is very dynamic, areas of interest include but are not limited to: ▶ Models, methods, tools, and architectures for reconfigurable computing ▶ Compilation, simulation, debugging, synthesis, verification, and test of reconfigurable systems ▶ Field programmable gate arrays and other reconfigurable technologies ▶ Self-adaptation, dynamic reconfiguration, evolvable hardware, and adaptive computing ▶ Algorithms implemented on reconfigurable hardware, hardware/software codesign, and cosimulation with reconfigurable hardware ▶ High-performance reconfigurable computing and reconfigurable computing education Application areas of reconfigurable computing include (but are not limited to) signal and image processing, communications, biomedical applications, consumer electronics, embedded systems, automation, intelligent systems, scientific computing, infotainment and multimedia, industrial applications, data compression, cryptography, robotics, and automotive.
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Aims and Scope International Journal of Vehicular Technology aims to cover the state-of-the-art advances in vehicular technologies and theoretical contributions that relate to new architectures, system design and analysis, new concepts and protocols, as well as practical applications that relate to prototypes, experiments, and new applications and services. International Journal of Vehicular Technology also covers wireless communications and mobile systems related to vehicular technologies. The areas of interest range from devices and components to signaling, protocols, and communication and control systems.
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Aims and Scope Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications aims at being a reference for researchers and practitioners who study the theory and application of methodologies pertaining to evolutionary computation and related fields. Original contributions are sought describing recent achievements in evolutionary computation research, with particular, but not exclusive, regard to genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary programming, evolution strategies, swarm intelligence, learning classifier systems, artificial immune systems, coevolution, interactive evolution, evolvable hardware, and hybrid approaches relying on the joint use of evolutionary computation methods and other computational intelligence and optimization methods.
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Aims and Scope Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications is dedicated to report the state-of-the-art research in the most important areas of information technology that are computer systems, networks, and communications. Subject areas covered by the journal include (but are not limited to): ▶ Cognitive, smart, and software radios; computer and network software storage ▶ Computer architecture and telecommunications, digital signal processing, multimedia and DSL-based applications, information theory, information systems, integrated circuitry, and voice applications ▶ Intelligent computer, network systems, Internet and web technologies, mobile and ubiquitous computing, network coding/cooperation, optical systems, communications, and networking ▶ PAN/LAN/MAN/WAN and high-speed packet data access ▶ Peer-to-peer, QoS, routing and switching, satellite and mobile cellular communications, security, privacy, and encryption ▶ Sensor, ad hoc, and mesh networks and vehicle-to-vehicle communications ▶ Wireless communications and networking Open Access Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications, as an open access journal, enables immediate, worldwide, barrier-free online access to the full text of published research articles, released under the “Creative Commons Attribution License.”
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