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of peer reviewi n g
can turbocharge aca-
Innovation is the product
and authorship.
demic and industrial
of exchanges between
Finally, there can
creativity and inno-
brilliant minds with
be no innovation eco-
vation. It will also
dissimilar experiences,
system without diver-
force the Society to
backgrounds, genders,
sity. Innovation is the
seriously address the
product of exchang-
needs of the 50% of
and belief systems.
es between brilliant
its members and 60%
minds with dissimilar experiences,
of its U.S. members, who are current-
backgrounds, genders, and belief
ly underserved.
systems. This is the time to address
But we can't always lag behind tech-
our unacceptably low racial and
nology and trends. The challenge with
gender diversity. This is also the time to
publications isn't only peer-reviewed
engage physically with our worldwide
open access. The success of arXiv es-
membership and expand in areas that we
tablished the value of rapid open ac -
have neglected. We can only eliminate
cess to preprints that have undergone
these fundamental weaknesses by in-
moderation but not full peer review.
novating and implementing strategies
Our open-access strategy will need to
that we had deemed hitherto unwork-
judiciously incorporate preprints that
able or unrealistic. We need to empower
aren't peer reviewed and anticipate, as
and unleash our younger members,
opposed to wait for, the evolving nature

aggressively recruit members outside
of academic circles, and adopt local
and industry sector dependent strate-
gies. We must strive to be known as a
welcoming and embracing Society that
will always be there to give your pro-
fessional career a boost.
In the next months, the Society will
reach out to you to get your innovative
suggestions, ideas, and feedback on
plans before they are executed. This is
YOUR Society and we all need to par-
ticipate in its governance. In the mean-
time, please email me your ideas and
feedback at sps-president@ieee.org.

Join the 5-Minute Video Clip Contest (5-MICC) at ICIP 2020

Fight the Pandemic
The IEEE Signal Processing Society is pleased to announce the 5-Minute Video Clip Contest (5MICC) at ICIP 2020 in United Arab Emirates (virtual conference) 25-28 October, 2020.
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Topic: image and video processing tools for fighting the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The
submitted video can cover any role that image and video processing may have in management
of pandemics. Examples: detection of coronavirus, identifying and tracking infected people,
COVID-19 detection from chest X-rays and CT images, and patients monitoring. The contest will
also accept "open topic" video submissions, regarding image and video processing for medicine.
Eligibility: Any team composed of one faculty member, at most one graduate student and 3-5
undergraduate students is welcomed to join the open competition
Website: The detailed guidelines are available on the official website:
https://signalprocessingsociety.org/get-involved/five-minute-video-clip-contest
Prize: The three teams with highest performance in the open competition will be selected as
finalists and will be invited to participate in the final competition at ICIP 2020 (virtual). The
champion team will receive a grand prize of 5,000$. The first and the second runner-up will
receive a prize of 2,500$ and 1,500$, respectively.
Important dates:
1. Submission of 30-Second Trailers: August 20, 2020.
2. Announcement of the best 10 teams: August 31, 2020.
3. Submission of the Full 5-Minute Video: September 30, 2020.
4. Final Contest at ICIP: 25-28 October, 2020.

An initiative of The IEEE Technical Committee for Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM)
Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2020.2999215

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