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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Dear all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Thank you
for attending the last Task Force (TF) meeting in Rome. Please see attached a PDF
file with the meeting agenda and the TF results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Please see
below a brief overview of the discussed points:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">1<sup>st</sup>)
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">3D-ContourNet Book (Springer)</b> – Please
see, in the attached PDF file, the status of our three book chapters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">After discussion
with all Task Forces, the following deadline has been set for all chapters of
the book:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:40px" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">First Draft
(All contributions): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">March 21th, 2016</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The idea is to have the final draft (or a very advanced draft) by the end of this COST Action (end of April).</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br></b></span></p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">2<sup>nd</sup>)
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">STMS</b> – It is still possible to schedule
STSM this year as long as it finishes by mid-April. From our TF, a new STSM is
being planned:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-left:40px" align="left"><b><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Ricardo Monteiro</span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa,
Portugal)<br>
<b>Host Institution:</b> Poznan University of Technology, Poland</span></p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">3<sup>rd</sup>)
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Joint Publications</b> – Gathering
information of joint publications for the Final Report. Please see in the attached
file a list of the latest joint publications (from 2015).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">If you have
joint publications (from all Grant Periods) related to the Working Group (WG)
2, I kindly ask you to send them to Prof. Carl Debono.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">4<sup>th</sup>)
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">ICME 2016 Grand Challenge</b> – Discussion
about possible joint participation in the upcoming challenge on Light Image
Compression. From our TF,
two groups are considering participating:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:40px" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">ISCTE – Instituto</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Universitário de Lisboa (Lisbon,
Portugal)</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Instituto de
Telecomunicações (Leiria, Portugal) </b></p><div style="margin-left:40px">
</div><p style="margin-left:40px" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">University of
Cagliari</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">(Italy)</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Instituto de Telecomunicações (Leiria,
Portugal)</b></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">5<sup>th</sup>)
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">WG Final Meeting and Workshop</b> – the next
WG Meeting and the Final Workshop is going to be held in Sundsvall (Sweden), in
March 21<sup>st</sup>-23<sup>rd</sup>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Best
Regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Caroline.</span></p>
<br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Caroline
Conti<br><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="PT"><a href="mailto:caroline.conti@lx.it.pt" target="_blank">caroline.conti@lx.it.pt</a><br></span></span>PhD
candidate, Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações,<br>Torre Norte 10th floor, Av.
Rovisco Pais,<br>1049-001
Lisbon, PORTUGAL<br>Phone:
+351 218418164</font></p><p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p></div></div></div></div>
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