SIVA Conferences : concern fees (update)

Although conferences = concern fees (with the anagram equivalence) for a few organizers, they allow to grab a few call for papers to other conferences. Grabbed from EUSIPCO 2012, along with cfp1 and cfp2 (on time-frequency theory and applications), and after a couple of proofs from a finally painfully published paper in Geophysics, the recent opening of GRETSI 2013 website in Brest, France, provides a good opportunity to release the latest updates on Signal, Image and Volume Analysis (SIVA) Conferences:

Eurographics 2013 (Annual conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics) calls for papers on 21/09/2013. CVPR 2015 (IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) is announced in Boston, Massachussetts, USA; ICIP 2016 (IEEE International Conference on Image Processing) in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; ICCV 2015 (International Conference on Computer Vision) in Santiago, Chile. 

One of the next target is ICASSP 2013 in Vancouver, Canada, with submission deadline on 19/11/2012. And many more at SIVA Conferences...

For those interested in writing time-frequency papers, two special issue call for papers:

• Call for Papers (CfP): Special issue on time-frequency methods for condition based maintenance and modal analysis
• Special issue on Signal Processing Magazine: Time-frequency analysis and applications

Major en *let - In honor of Jean Morlet

Jean Morlet (or the Major en -let, in french in the text), one of the fathers of all wavelets, along with some precursors, as in the nice notice Precursors in mathematics: early wavelet bases, by Hans G. Feichtinger, is honored at the end of October in Marseille, France.

A preliminary program below the Morelet crocodile:
October 27 - 29th, 2008
Continuous wavelet transform and Morlet's wavelet, 1978-2008 : International colloquium in honor of Jean Morlet
Organizer: G. Saracco (CNRS, CEREGE Aix-en-Provence)

Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques (CIRM), Campus de Luminy, Marseille, France

*Preliminary Program*:

1-Alex Grossmann: «Continuous wavelet theory and Morlet's wavelet» (Hommage à J. Morlet) , (CNRS-Evry)

2-Y. Meyer, membre de l'Académie des Sciences: «Des ondelettes continues en géophysique
aux bases orthogonales d'ondelettes» (hommage a J. Morlet) (ENS-Cahan)

3- Pierre Goupillaud : PR, Two superb mathematicians who's innovations were the product of asking question that others had overlooked. (Hommage à J. Morlet), (SEG., USA)

5-Patrick Flandrin, DR: Wavelets, surrogates and non-stationarities,(ENS-Lyon)

6-Stephane Jaffard, PR: Directional continuous wavelet transforms and application to directional smoothness of functions (Paris XII)

7-Ronald Coifman, PR: Wavelet and diffusion geometries on seismic data sets (Yale Univ., USA)

8-Alain Arneodo, DR: Surfing on the genome: a tribute to J. Morlet (ENS-Lyon)

9-Jean-Pierre Antoine: The wavelet transform on the sphere: continuous vs. discrete (Louvain, Belgique)

10-Jean-Luc Stark, : Compressed sensing in astronomy (CEA-Paris)

11-Nick Kinsbury: Complex-valued wavelets, the dual tree and the Hilbert Transform: Why these lead to
approximate shift invariance? (Cambridge Univ., GB)

12-Thierry Paul, DR: Non linear continuous wavelets and non linear coherent states (ENS-Cachan)

13-Ginette Saracco: Multi-scale tomography of buried magnetic or electrical sources: Its localization and characterization.
Application to archaeological structures or volcanic system (CNRS-CEREGE, Aix en provence)

14-Gregory Beylkin, PR: On approximation by Gaussian and its applications (Boulder Univ. Co, USA)

15-Marie Farge, DR: Continuous wavelet analysis of vortex bursting in turbulent flows (ENS-Paris)

16-Matthias Holschneider, PR, Directionnal Poisson wavelets on the sphere (Potsdam, Allemagne)

17- Jean-Claude Risset, DR emerite, medaille d'Or du CNRS, Morlet wavelet are good to hear (CNRS-LMA, Marseille)

18- Peter Frick, PR, Double Wavelet analysis: Method for recognizing stellar activity peculiarities (Moscou Russie)

19- Pascal Sailhac, From seismic wavelets to wavelet transform: using Berlage wavelets to the detection
and characterization of damped transient waves occurring in geophysical time-series", (IPG-Strasbourg)

20- Nicolas Thouveny, PR, Extraction of frequency modulation laws from Earth's magnetic field intensity records
by complex continuous wavelet analysis; contribution to understanding the geodynamo behavior. (CEREGE, Univ Aix-Marseille, Aix en Provence)

21- Say Song Goh, PR, Uncertainty Principles for the Continuous Wavelet Transform, (Rep Singapore)

22- Maurizio Fedi, Discrete and Continuous Wavelet Transform of potential fields with different choices of analyzing wavelets, (Naples Univ., Italie)

23- Roddam Narasimha, PR, Morlet Wavelets and the Solar Connection with Indian Monsoon Rainfall, (Bingalore, Inde)

24- Albert Cohen, PR, Adaptive multiresolution analysis based on anisotropic triangulations, (Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris)

25- Agissilaos Athanassoulis, Strengthening semiclassical approximations with the use of coarse-scale representations, (ENS-Ulm, Paris)

26- Nele de Shepper, Multi-dimensional continuous wavelet transforms and General Fourier transforms in Clifford Analysis, (Ghent Univ, Belgium)

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Ice Soup - About EUSIPCO 2008 (and signal in general)

The "Signal de Sauvabelin" is a beautiful wooden tower offering a great Laussane panorama. This "signal perspective" was celebrated at the very same place in Switzerland place last week at EUSIPCO 2008. Enjoy some other pictures taken from cold Swiss lakes (hence the Ice Soup) at Picasa.

Meanwhile, i may have another Signal Tower close to home, at La Defense (close to Paris), since Jean Nouvel recently won the contest for this renewal minded building.

Temporary exhibition of the contest's finalists at Cité Chaillot, from 25 June to 30 September 2008.

On my window by 2015. But since then, many other signal and image processing conferences will provide us with travel opportunities. The 17th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2009, conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland. An good reason to meet the 32th (Scottish) Signal Squadron? Discover the challenge, as they say. All along the watch tower, there must be some way out of here...

Conferences (Concern Fees?) - About hammers and nails

There is some concern about scientific conferences in general, and signal/image/video conferences in particular, as money making machines (hence the fees' concern anagram). Not only places where people meet, share, even copy or steal ideas... Remember the standard quote, attributed to Wilson Mizner (1876-1933):

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research

or maybe this quote has also been unfaithfully copied, since it often appear as

If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research

Steal or copy, two or many. Blame the the cut, correct and paste. Since Mizner's most famous plays is entitled The Deep Purple, shouldn't this sentence be refined along the lines of another solid rock band, Megadeth (Captive honour, from Countdown to extinction):

And when you kill a man, you're a murderer (plagiarist)
Kill many, and you're a conqueror (researcher, then)
Kill them all... Ooh... Oh you're a god!

What would be the research equivalent of "god"? Contributions welcome. Anyway, let us mention a few interesting conferences in signal or image processing. The upcoming EUSIPCO 2008, in Lausanne, Switzerland, along with the satellite international workshop LNLA 2008, dealing with "Local and Non-Local Approximation in Image Processing". Still waiting for the program and its novelties from the sparse or compressive sensing world.

And now for something completely different. About 10 years ago, the department head of an engineering school asked me whether people in the industry did use wavelets? My reply was: "do you teach wavelets to future engineers?" The answer was no. Anyway, there exists a conference dealing with wavelet applications in the industry, organized by Fred Truchetet and Olivier Laligant: SPIE Wavelet Applications in Industrial Processing VI (WAIP 2009), along with SPIE Electronic Imaging in San Jose, California, USA, 16-18/01/2009. Deadline for a short abstract: 16/06/2008.

My concern above was not about wavelets or anything else. But industrial business is often time consuming, cost bounded, and people tend to reuse known tools a lot. Even for weakly related problems. The quote here is the nail/hammer famous line. Though once again, several (digital) versions co-exist; one attributed to Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), founder of humanistic psychology:

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail

or this one, copied from his book "Psychology of Science":

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail

Apparently, this idea is good enough to have been used by several persons. Maslow's is said to originate from his mentor Michael Polanyi (1891-1976), while Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) is credited with

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

The only one i have been aware of before the world wide web was (in French)

Quand on n'a qu'un marteau dans sa boîte à outils, tous les problèmes ont la forme d'un clou

from a guy simply known as Juran. Which could be translated as:

When you only have a hammer in your toolbox, all your problems are nail-shaped

It might be Joseph M. Juran (1904-2008, he just died on February 28th), management consultant, quality guru. All these folks overlap (in time) and exhibit some redundancy (in some orthogonal direction), which are my two main signal processing concerns. Anyway my reply was about teaching concepts that could help future engineers seize new ideas when needed, to avoid pure repetition.

Another conference is GRESTI 2009 Symposium on Signal and Image Processing, to be held in Dijon, France, from 8 to 11 September 2009. Deadline 15 Feb. 2009. The last announcement for today is tentative, the Mathematical Methods for Natural Images and Textures Processing, organized by G. Peyré, J.F. Aujol and J. Fadili, at IHP, Paris, France, to be help in June 2009.