Ieee Comsoc Mmtc E-letter Multimedia Communications Technical Committee Ieee Communications Society E-letter Message from Mmtc Chair

Dear MMTC fellow members, Welcome to the September issue of IEEE MMTC E-letter! Time really flies. This is the first time I write to you as the vice-chair of MMTC. First of all, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the E-letter and R-letter editorial teams as well as chairs and vice–chairs of special interest groups (IG), and all contributors over the past two years. Their contribution and dedication have made both E-letter and R-letter valuable platforms for researchers in the multimedia communications society to share and exchange ideas. Special thanks also go to the former and current MMTC chairs, Dr. Haohong Wang and Dr. Jianwei Huang for their great leadership and strong support to E-letter and R-letter. Thank you! Looking forward, E-letter and R-letter editorial teams will continue to work with special issue groups of MMTC to bring to MMTC members the latest technological developments, hot research topics, and society news in multimedia communications and signal processing. Please follow closely our E-letter and R-letter. It is with my great pleasure to announce the new E-letter leadership team for the term of 2012-2014: Dr. Mao has served as MMTC IG Chair during the past two years. Starting from July 2012, E-letter will resume to be a bimonthly publication. Each issue of E-letter will feature a special issue on emerging topics that contributed by an IG and E-letter jointly and an industry column organized by an E-letter editor or guest editor. The special issue on emerging topics may consist of two types of papers, i.e., extended abstract from open call for papers or short invited papers from well-known researchers summarizing their recent works, possibly a paper published in premier IEEE publications. The full version of an accepted abstract will be recommended to fast-track review of an IEEE special issue organized by the IG. The industry column will focus on practical industry problems and solutions. Historically, many excellent E-letter contributions are position papers partially based on existing publications in top IEEE ComSoc conferences and journals. In the future, the E-letter board will make selected recommendations of these related existing publications to the R-letter board, further increasing the visibility of the E-letter contributors. Both Dr. Cheng and Dr. Wang have served as MMTC IG Chairs during the past two years. In the next two years, the new R-letter editorial board will continue to stimulate multimedia research by selecting high-quality papers on emerging …