Activity Update from the DISPS Technical Committee

Published in TC News on 1 June 2015

by Zhiyuan Yan and Warren J. Gross (Vice-Chair and Chair of the DISPS TC)

The Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee (DISPS TC) has the mission to promote and support activities of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in the areas of: i) design, development and implementation of signal processing systems; ii) design of algorithms with implementation in mind and iii) design of software tools and methodologies to support the design of signal processing systems.

The TC holds biannual meetings. The spring meeting is held at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is the flagship conference of the Signal Processing Society. The fall meeting is held at the TC’s annual IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS). The TC is responsible for organizing the SiPS workshop as well as reviews of papers for both SiPS and the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (DISPS) track of ICASSP.

The technical committee currently has 31 Members, an Advisory Board, and Affiliate Members. New members for the TC will be selected in the Fall for the next 3-year term starting in January 2016. There will be several positions to be filled. The call for nominations will be announced in September 2015 on the DISPS web page. More information about the requirements for membership and the procedures for nomination are available on the TC’s membership webpage.

Conferences

The TC is represented at the DISPS track of ICASSP 2015 in Brisbane, Australia. This year the DISPS track had a total of 23 accepted papers, organized in one lecture sessions and two poster sessions.

The DISPS TC’s flagship event for this year, the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2015) will be held in Hangzhou, China from Oct. 14-16, 2015. The submission deadline was May 4, 2015. The General Chair will be Chaitali Chakrabarti (Arizona State University, US) and Nam Ling (Santa Clara University, US) and the Program Chairs Zhiyuan Yan (Lehigh University, US) and Min Li (NXP, Netherlands). All four are past or current TC members. The 2016 SiPS will be held in Dallas, US, and the General Chairs will be Marilyn Wolf (Georgia Tech, US) and Manish Goel (Texas Instruments, US) and the Program Chairs Joe Cavallaro (Rice University, US) and Zhongfeng Wang (Broadcom Corp., US). All of them are past or current TC members. In 2017, SiPS will be held in Lorient, France, and the General Chairs will be Coussy Philippe (Université de Bretagne Sud, France) and Warren Gross (McGill University, Canada) and the Program Chairs Jarmo Takala (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) and Andreas Burg (EPFL, Switzerland). All of them are current or past DISPS members.

The DISPS TC is organizing a Symposium on Signal Processing on Graphics Processing Units and Multicores in the 2015 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP 2015). This year’s GlobalSIP will be held in Orlando, Fl, Dec. 14-16 2015. The General Chairs of the symposium are Marilyn Wolf (Georgia Tech, US) and Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya (University of Maryland, US), and the Technical Program Chairs are Jarmo Takala (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) and Marco Mattavelli (EPFL, Switzerland). All four are current or past TC members. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2015.

Honors

Zhiyuan Yan continues as the Area Editor responsible for the DIS EDICS in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and Joseph Cavallaro and John McAllister as Associate Editors. Philippe Coussy, Lei Wang, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, and Mohammad Mansour continue as Associate Editors for IEEE Signal Processing Letters.