EURASIP NEWS LETTER ISSN 1687-1421, Volume 17, Number 2, June 2006 European Association for Signal, Speech, and Image Processing Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 2, June 2006 Contents EURASIP MESSAGES President’sMessage ........................................................... 1 AWARDS 2005 Nokia Foundation Recognition Award . ................................... 3 SHORT TUTORIALS A Tutorial on Relevance Vector Machines for Regression and ClassificationwithApplications ................................................ 4 EURASIP (CO-)SPONSORED EVENTS Report on the 2006 Second International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 2006) . ................................. 24 Report on the 7th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia InteractiveServices(WIAMIS) ................................................. 25 CalendarofEvents ............................................................ 27 CallforPapers:AdvancedConceptsforIntelligentVisionSystems .................. 28 Call for Papers: Fifth International Symposium on Communication Systems, NetworksandDigitalSignalProcessing(CSNDSP’06) ............................ 29 CallforPapers:eNTERFACE’06 ................................................ 30 Call for Papers: 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2006) ...... 32 Call for Papers: 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007) ...... 33 Call for Papers: International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA 2007) . ................................................. 34 Call for Papers: 13th International Conference on Systems, Signals & Image Processing (IWSSIP ’06) ........................................ 35 Call for Papers: International Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation, ClassificationandSecurity(IWMRCS) .......................................... 36 Call for Papers: An ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Non-Linear SpeechProcessing(NOLISP’07) ................................................ 37 Call for Papers: 26th Picture Coding Symposium (PCS 2007) . ................... 38 Call for Papers: 1st International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (Samt 2006) ............................................... 39 Call for Papers: 4th International Workshop on Total Least Squares and Errors-in-VariablesModeling .................................................. 40 Call for Papers: 2006 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2006) ................................................. 41 Call for Papers: International Conference on Artificial Neural Network(ICANN’06) ......................................................... 42 EURASIP JOURNALS EURASIPJournalonAppliedSignalProcessing .................................. 43 EURASIPJournalonAudio,Speech,andMusicProcessing ........................ 45 EURASIPJournalonBioinformaticsandSystemsBiology ......................... 46 EURASIPJournalonEmbeddedSystems ........................................ 48 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking .................. 49 SignalProcessing .............................................................. 50 SignalProcessing:ImageCommunication ....................................... 51 SpeechCommunication ....................................................... 52 EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems EURASIPJESCallforPapers ................................................... 54 EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Abstracts of EURASIP JASP, Volume 2006, Regular Issue .......................... 58 Abstracts of EURASIP JASP, Volume 2006, Special Issue on ImplementationAspectsandTestbedsforMIMOSystems ......................... 74 Abstracts of EURASIP JASP, Volume 2006, Special Issue on Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission . ............................. 83 Abstracts of EURASIP JASP, Volume 2006, Special Issue on AdvancedSignalProcessingforDigitalSubscriberLines ........................... 93 Abstracts of EURASIP JASP, Volume 2006, Special Issue on Frames and Overcomplete Representations in Signal Processing, Communications,andInformationTheory ......................................103 Abstracts of EURASIP JASP, Volume 2006, Special Issue on RadarSpace-TimeAdaptiveProcessing ..........................................114 Abstracts of EURASIP JASP, Volume 2006, Special Issue on Super-ResolutionImaging:Analysis,Algorithms,andApplications .................121 Abstracts of EURASIP JASP, Volume 2006, Special Issue on InverseSyntheticApertureRadar ............................................... 130 EURASIPJASPCallforPapers ................................................. 137 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Abstracts of EURASIP JWCN, Volume 2006, Regular Issue . ....................... 145 Abstracts of EURASIP JWCN, Volume 2006, Special Issue on QualityofServiceinMobileAdHocNetworks ...................................151 EURASIPJWCNCallforPapers ................................................158 EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing ................ 168 EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology ...................169 EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems ....................................170 International Journal of Biomedical Imaging ................................171 EURASIP Journal on Information Security .................................. 172 EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications EURASIPBookSeriesonSignalProcessingandCommunications ..................173 SignalProcessingfortheAcousticHuman-MachineInterface ......................174 AdvancesonNonlinearSignalandImageProcessing ..............................175 GeneticandEvolutionaryComputationforImageProcessingandAnalysis ..........176 AdvancesinSignalTransforms:TheoryandApplications ..........................177 How to Become a EURASIP Member ....................................... 178 EURASIP Membership Application ......................................... 180 EURASIP MESSAGES President’s Message As human societies continuously evolve to something new, either towards the positive or towards the negative, it seems that there are some values that retain the same significance throughout the centuries. As long as history goes back, there is proof that societies tend to value citizens that show an outstanding performance in an area that significantly con- tributes to the welfare of the society as a whole. EURASIP,everyyear,offers a small number of prestigious awards to scientists, from all over the world, whose major contributions left a distinct “stamp” on the Signal Processing community and research. For each award, a committee of experts, who are recognized in- ternationally, is formed that finally decides to offer the award to one among a number of strong candidates. This year’s EURASIP Awards recipients are: • Meritorious Service Award: Giovanni Sicuranza, “For Fundamental Activities in Non- linear Signal and Image Processing and for Continuous Commitment with EURASIP in the Last Ten Years.” • Individual Technical Achievement Award: Pierre Comon, “For Contributions in the Field of Blind Signal Processing and the Independent Component Analysis Method- ology.” • European Group Technical Achievement Award: Alfonso Farina, “For Development and Application of Adaptive Signal Processing Techniques in Radar Systems.” • Best Paper Award published in Signal Processing: R. Schober, W. H. Gerstacker, L. Lampe, for their paper: “On suboptimum receivers for DSCDMA with BPSK modulation,” Vol. 85(6), pp. 1149–1163, 2005. • Best Paper Award published in Image Communications: N. Bozinovic, J. Konrad, for their paper: “Motion analysis in 3D DCT domain and its application to video coding,” Vol. 20(6), pp. 510–528, 2005. • Best Paper Award published in Journal of Applied Signal Processing: G . Pasrija, Y. Chen, B. Farhang-Boroujeny, S. Blair, for their paper: “DSP ap- proach to the design of nonlinear optical devices,” Vol. 5(10), pp. 1485–1497, 2005. • Best Paper Award published in Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking: H. Li, H.V.Poor, for their paper: “Impact of channel estimation errors on multiuser detection via the replica method,” Issue 2, pp. 175–186, 2005. I would like to congratulate all the above colleagues for their achievements. Nomination will take place during EUSIPCO-06 in Florence. 2 EURASIP Messages This year, the EURASIP adcom has decided to establish the “Athanasios Papoulis” award, named after the great scientist and educator. The award will not be given regularly, but only on demand, i.e., every time an exceptional candidate, with significant contribu- tions in Education in the areas of Signal Processing and related technologies, is nominated. The award will be offered for the first time next year. See all of you in Florence to enjoy another EUSIPCO and have discussions on all aspects of Signal Processing research and education. Sergios Theodoridis President EURASIP AWARDS Awards 2005 Nokia Foundation Recognition Award Prof. Moncef Gabbouj The Award recognizes Professor Gabbouj’s achievements in the development of an international educational network and graduate engineering studies in Finland. Nokia Foundation has granted its 2005 Recognition Award to Professor Moncef Gab- bouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland for his merits in the development of an international educational network and graduate engineering studies in Finland since 1990. Dr. Gabbouj is a world-renowned expert who has progressively broadened international cooperation in the teaching