IEEE CAS Society Blind Signal Processing Technical Committee Annual Meeting
Minutes of the 2008BSP TC Annual Meeting
Date: Tuesday May 20, 2008, 12:50 – 14:00
Venue: Room Greenwood, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA
Participants: Yujiro Inouye, Wei Xing Zheng, Toshihisa Tanaka, Dhyon Ho, Lieven De Lathauwer, Joos Vandewalle, P.P. Vaidyanathan, Mitsuru Kawamoto
- Opening of meeting.
At 13:00, Prof. Yujiro Inouye, Past Chairof BSP TC, opened the meeting.
- Introduction of members and officers of BSP TC.
The meeting chair welcomed everybody. Each participant introduced himself.
- Approval of the 2008 BSP TC meeting agenda.
The 2008 BSP TCmeeting agenda was distributed and approved unanimously.
- Approval of the 2007BSP TC meeting minutes.
The 2007BSP TC meeting minutes were distributedand approved unanimously.
- Report of accomplished technical activities (May 2007 to May 2008)
The report of BSP TC activities from May 2007 to May 2008 (that was filled out by individual TC members) was distributed.Members are asked to submit their activities before June 15, 2008 if they have not done so.
- Planning of upcoming events and near future activities (from May 2008 to May 2009).
a)Prof. Yujiro Inouye asked Dr. Joos Vandewalle, VP on Technical Activities of CAS Society, to provide an update on the TC proposal made in 2007 about publishing a special issue on BSP in IEEE TCAS-I.Dr. Joos Vandewalleresponded that the whole matter was delayed due to the transition from old EIC to new EIC for IEEE TCAS-I. He said that new EICaccepted the proposal in principle, but under two new elements: (i) It will not be a Full issue but a Special Section only (a Full issue will be only possible if there are many submissions and good quality papers); (ii)At least some circuits and systems elements (including implementation) should be included in the CFP. Dr. Joos Vandewalle will contact the EIC of IEEE TCAS-I and notify him that the TC agreed with the two new elements. The guest editor team led by Dr. Shoji Makino will modify the CFP properly.
b)Dr. Joos Vandewalle briefed that the CAS Society required that each TC clean up TC membership. Members who have not made any contributions to TC (such as email responses, annual report, annual meeting, TC track at ISCAS, etc.) over three years should be considered as inactive members and should be asked to become active. Formal members of TC should be active members only, while inactive members should be put on the separate list.
c)Dr. Joos Vandewalle briefed that the CAS Society planed to have a multi-conference each year. It will be a regrouping of several workshops, including some contests or competitions for design algorithms to compete for best results.
- Nomination/election of new BSP TC officers, the next Chair, Chair-Elect and Secretary.
Prof. Yujiro Inouye nominated Dr. Shoji Makinoas the TC Chair, nominated Prof. Wei Xing Zheng as the TC Chair-Elect, and nominated Dr.Mitsuru Kawamotoas the TC Secretary.Prof. Andrzej Cichocki will become the Past Chair.Prof. P.P. Vaidyanathan seconded the nominations. Elections of the new officers were made by a unanimous consent.
- Nomination/election of new BSP TC members.
There was no nomination of new members this time. Prof. P.P. Vaidyanathan suggested that the TC should consider nominating new members from industry in future.
- Designation of BSP Track Chair for ISCAS 2009.
Dr. Shoji Makino, Chair of BSP TC, will act as BSP Track Chair for ISCAS 2009.
- Special Session Proposals for ISCAS 2009.
Special sessions for ISCAS 2009 were discussed. It was proposed to have two special sessions (such as audio speech) from BSP TC for ISCAS 2009. Dr. Toshihisa Tanaka and Dr. Lieven De Lathauwer will get involved with special sessions. It was noted that ISCAS’2009 would have 20 special sessions and there are 16 TCs within the CAS Society.
- Nomination for IEEE and CAS awards.
There was no nomination this time.
- Other business
Prof. Yujiro Inouyementioned that there was no poster session for the TC at ISCAS’2008 and suggested that the TC should have at least one poster session at ISCAS. This issue should be taken care of by BSP Track Chair for ISCAS in future.
- Meeting adjourned
The meeting adjourned at 13:50.
Respectfully submitted by Wei Xing Zheng, and revised by Yujiro Inouye.