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2017-August – Sydney

This page contains information about the 109th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting to be held in Sydney on 10-11 of August 2017.

OpCom Reports

Director (Margaretha Eriksson) Director-Elect (Magdalena Salazar Palma)
Past-Director (Costas Stasopoulos) Secretary (Jan Verveckken)
Treasurer  (Ralph Kennel) V/C Member Activities (Antonio Luque)
V/C Student Activities (Efthymia Arvaniti) V/C Technical Activities  (Christopher James)

Subcommittee Reports

Action for Industry  (AfI) History Activities Coordinator (HA) Region 8 News (R8News)
Africa Area  (AA) Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee (HuA) Section Vitality Coordinator (SVC)
Awards & Recognition Subcommittee (A&RSC) Life Member Coordinator (LM) Standards Coordinator (StC)
Chapter Coordination Subcommittee (ChCSC) Membership Development Subcommittee (MDSC) Strategic Planning
Conference Coordination SubCommittee  (CoCSC) Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee Voluntary Contribution Fund Coordinator (VCF)
Educational Activities SubCommittee  (EASC) Professional Activities Subcommittee (PASC) Women in Engineering Coordinator (WIE)
Electronic Communications Coordinator (ECC) Young Professionals Subcommittee (YP)

Section Reports

Algeria Section Iceland Section Republic of Macedonia Section
Austria Section Iran Section Romania Section
Bahrain Section Iraq Section Russia Section
Belarus Section Israel Section Russia (Northwest) Section
Benelux Section Italy Section Russia (Siberia) Section
Bosnia and Herzegovina Section Jordan Section Saudi Arabia (East) Section
Bulgaria Section Kenya Section Saudi Arabia (West) Section
Croatia Section Kuwait Section Serbia And Montenegro Section
Cyprus Section Latvia Section Slovenia Section
Czechoslovakia Section Lebanon Section South Africa Section
Denmark Section Lithuania Section Spain Section
Egypt Section Malta Section Sweden Section
Estonia Section Morocco Section Switzerland Section
Finland Section Nigeria Section Tunisia Section
France Section Norway Section Turkey Section
Germany Section Oman Section UK and Ireland Section
Ghana Section Poland Section Ukraine Section
Greece Section Portugal Section United Arab Emirates Section
Hungary Section Qatar Section Zambia Section

Reimbursement

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Order of the Day – Sydney

Thursday, 10 August 2017

8:00 0:05 100 Procedural Call to Order Margaretha Eriksson
8:05 0:15 101 Procedural Roll Call and Introduction of New Officers Jan Verveckken
8:20 0:05 102 Procedural Introductory Remarks Eriksson/Verveckken
8:25 0:05 103 Action Approval of the Agenda Eriksson
8:30 0:05 104 Action Approval of the Consent Agenda Eriksson
8:35 0:35 105 Discussion IEEE Region 8 Director’s Address Eriksson
9:10 0:40 106 Discussion IEEE Foundation Delimar/Galuchie
9:50 0:20 Procedural Coffee Break
10:10 0:40 107 Discussion Student Activities Report Efthymia Arvaniti
10:50 0:40 108 Discussion Technical Activities Report Chirstopher James
11:30 0:01 109 Procedural Recess Eriksson
11:31 0:29 Social Group photo
12:00 1:00 Social Lunch
13:00 0:05 200 Procedural Call to Order Eriksson
13:05 1:00 201 Discussion Member Activities Report Antonio Luque
14:05 0:20 202 Discussion Section Development and Vitality Szabo
14:25 0:20 203 Discussion Africa Area Report Chukwudebe
14:45 0:20 204 Discussion Action for Industry Antoniou
15:05 0:20 205 Discussion Young Professionals Barros
15:25 0:20 Procedural Coffee Break
15:45 0:30 206 Discussion EPPI Delimar
16:15 0:30 207 Discussion Vienna Office Neppel
16:45 0:05 208 Procedural Recess Eriksson
16:45 1:30 Separate meeting Preparation of MDW in Africa, special meeting for African Sections only. Luque
19:00 3:00 Social Dinner: Hilton Hotel. Dress Code: Formal

Friday, 11 August 2017

8:00 0:05 300 Procedural Call to Order and Roll Call Eriksson/Verveckken
8:05 0:05 301 Discussion Secretary’s Report Verveckken
8:10 0:25 302 Discussion Treasurer’s Report Kennel
8:35 0:10 303 Discussion Future Conferences (Energycon, Melecon, GCC) Christopher James
8:45 0:10 304 Discussion Awards & Recognitions Stasopoulos
8:55 0:05 305 Discussion Nominations and Appointments Report and Election Instructions Stasopoulos
9:00 0:15 306 Discussion Vice Chair Candidate Presentations and Discussion Stasopoulos
9:15 0:15 307 Discussion Executive Session Stasopoulos
9:30 0:10 308 Procedural Elections Stasopoulos
9:40 0:20 Procedural Coffee Break
10:00 0:05 309 Discussion Presentation of Election Results Stasopoulos
10:05 0:20 310 Discussion Presentation of Director Elect Candidates Stasopoulos/candidates
10:25 0:40 311 Discussion GDPR changes Eileen Lach
11:05 0:10 312 Info Sections Congress Recommendations Verveckken
11:15 0:05 313 Info Next Region 8 SYP Congress Arvaniti/Barros
11:20 0:10 314 Info Next Region 8 Committee Meeting Stasopoulos/Verveckken
11:30 0:15 315 Action Motions Eriksson
11:45 0:20 316 Info New Business All
12:05 0:05 317 Action Adjournment Eriksson
12:10 1:00 Social Lunch

Consent Agenda

401 Action Approval of the minutes of the 108th Region 8 Committee meeting
402 Report Reports

 


DSP 2017 – 50th Anniversary – 22nd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing – August 23-25, London, United Kingdom

DSP 2017

50th Anniversary

22nd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing

August 23-25, London, United Kingdom


Call for Papers

The 22nd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2017), the most longstanding conference in the area of DSP, technically-cosponsored by the IEEE, will be celebrated for its 50th anniversary in London, UK, where it started in 1968. DSP 2017 belongs to a series of events which had its genesis in London and continued to Florence, Nicosia, Lemessos, Santorini, Cardiff, Corfu, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Beijing. In 2017 delegates will be brought right up to date in heart of London, the biggest, most vibrant and cosmopolitan capital in Europe. The conference will contain a number of special sessions organised by internationally recognised experts. The programme will also include presentations of new results in lecture and poster sessions, together with plenary sessions delivered by eminent scientists. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Call for Papers (PDF Version)

Technical Scope

The focus will be on signal processing theory, algorithms, and applications. We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:

  • Audio and acoustic signal processing
  • Bioinspired Signal Processing
  • Communication signal processing
  • Compressive sensing, dictionary learning, and sparse reconstruction
  • Cooperative networking
  • Design and implementation of signal processing systems
  • Estimation theory and applications
  • Financial signal processing
  • Image and video processing
  • Information forensics and security
  • Language processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical signal and image processing
  • Multimedia signal processing
  • Multi-way signal processing
  • Nonlinear signal processing and adaptive filters
  • Quantum Signal processing
  • Radar and sonar signal processing
  • Signal processing for education
  • Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
  • Sensor networks
  • Signal processing applications
  • Signal processing theory and methods
  • Speech processing

Important Dates

  • Special session proposals: 20th February 2017 2nd March 2017
  • Special Sessions notification of acceptance: 10th March 2017
  • Full paper submissions: 03rd April 2017
  • Notification of acceptance: 28th June 2017
  • Camera-ready papers: 10th July 2017
  • Author/early bird registration: 10th July 2017