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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Humans can listen to a target speaker even in challenging acoustic conditions that have noise, reverberation, and interfering speakers. This phenomenon is known as the cocktail party effect . For decades, researchers have focused on approaching the listening ability of humans. One critical issue is handling interfering speakers because the target and nontarget speech signals share similar characteristics, complicating their discrimination. 

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Analyzing the magnitude response of a finite-length sequence is a ubiquitous task in signal processing. However, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) provides only discrete sampling points of the response characteristic. This work introduces bounds on the magnitude response, which can be efficiently computed without additional zero padding. The proposed bounds can be used for more informative visualization and inform whether additional frequency resolution or zero padding is required.

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Linear regression models have a wide range of applications in statistics, signal processing, and machine learning. In this Lecture Notes column we will examine the performance of the least-squares (LS) estimator with a focus on the case when there are more parameters than training samples, which is often overlooked in textbooks on estimation.

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Apollo 11 was the first manned space mission to successfully bring astronauts to the Moon and return them safely. As part of NASA’s goal in assessing team and mission success, all voice communications within mission control, astronauts, and support staff were captured using a multichannel analog system, which until recently had never been made available. More than 400 personnel served as mission specialists/support who communicated across 30 audio loops, resulting in 9,000+ h of data. It is essential to identify each speaker’s role during Apollo and analyze group communication to achieve a common goal.

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

The underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is an issue that has been studied extensively [1] . Yet women still face many challenges, even though the demand for many STEM occupations has exploded. Many factors contribute to the low number of women in the STEM field. From an early age, girls are exposed to many cultural cues that dissuade them from participating in STEM fields. This gender bias is enforced by implicit or explicit messages from multiple sources.

A one-week workshop on “Demystify Women Empowerment: A Societal Practice” was conducted by the Women Development Cell, Gender Cell, IEEE Student Branch and IEEE SPS Chapter of CKPCET in association with IEEE SPS Gujarat Chapter and IEEE Gujarat Section during 3-7 April 2023 under the banner of IEEE Education Week celebration.

Josiane Zerubia (M.Sc. ’81, D.Eng. ’86, Ph.D. '88, 'Habilitation' '94) is a French Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA). She has also been Professor at ISAE-Supaero, Toulouse, France, for over 20 years. 

Do you have a colleague whose signal processing knowledge and expertise might be of greater interest to the broader Signal Processing Society community? SPS is now soliciting nominations for speakers to serve for two Society programs, Distinguished Lecturer Program (DL) and Distinguished Industry Speaker Program (DIS).

Do you know someone who has made notable contributions to signal processing or service to the IEEE Signal Processing Society? Now is your chance to recognize them by nominating them for an SPS award!

The Signal Processing Society (SPS) has 12 Technical Committees that support a broad selection of signal processing-related activities defined by the scope of the Society.

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

This paper deals with joint adaptive radar detection and target bearing estimation in the presence of mutual coupling among the array elements. First of all, a suitable model of the signal received by the multichannel radar is developed via a linearization procedure of the Uniform Linear Array (ULA) manifold around the nominal array looking direction together with the use of symmetric Toeplitz structured matrices to represent the mutual coupling effects. Hence, the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test (GLRT) detector is evaluated under the assumption of homogeneous radar environment.

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

In the second part of the series papers, we set out to study the algorithmic efficiency of sparsity-constrained sensing. Stemmed from co-prime sampling/array, we propose a generalized framework, termed Diophantine sensing, which utilizes generic Diophantine equation theory and higher-order sparse ruler to strengthen the sampling time (delay), the degree of freedom (DoF), and the sampling sparsity, simultaneously. It is well known that co-prime sensing can reconstruct the autocorrelation of a sequence with significantly more lags based on Bézout theorem.

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

This paper considers the problem of outlier censoring from secondary data, where the number, amplitude and location of outliers is unknown. To this end, a novel sparse recovery technique based on joint block sparse learning via iterative minimization (BSLIM) and model order selection (MOS), called JBM, is proposed which exploits the inherent sparse nature of the outliers in homogeneous background. The cost function proposed here, unlike many similar works in this field, does not require a dictionary matrix.

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

In this paper, new results in random matrix theory are derived, which allow us to construct a shrinkage estimator of the global minimum variance (GMV) portfolio when the shrinkage target is a random object. More specifically, the shrinkage target is determined as the holding portfolio estimated from previous data. The theoretical findings are applied to develop theory for dynamic estimation of the GMV portfolio, where the new estimator of its weights is shrunk to the holding portfolio at each time of reconstruction. 

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

In this paper, we show that the adaptive projected subgradient method (APSM) is bounded perturbation resilient. To illustrate a potential application of this result, we propose a set-theoretic framework for MIMO detection, and we devise algorithms based on a superiorized APSM. Various low-complexity MIMO detection algorithms achieve excellent performance on i.i.d. Gaussian channels, but they typically incur high performance loss if realistic channel models (e.g., correlated channels) are considered.

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

We consider the problem of monostatic radar sensing with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) joint radar-communications (JRC) systems in the presence of phase noise (PN) caused by oscillator imperfections. We begin by providing a rigorous statistical characterization of PN in the radar receiver over multiple OFDM symbols for free-running oscillators (FROs) and phase-locked loops (PLLs). 

IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

This paper examines the problem of bipartite consensus for Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy multi-agent systems subject to uncertainties. The principal intention of this work is to develop a non-fragile controller through which the considered multi-agent system can achieve bipartite consensus. An undirected signed graph is considered to describe the cooperative and competitive interaction among neighboring agents.

IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

This paper focuses on the constrained optimization problem where the objective function is composed of smooth (possibly nonconvex) and nonsmooth parts. The proposed algorithm integrates the successive convex approximation (SCA) technique with the gradient tracking mechanism that aims at achieving a linear convergence rate and employing the momentum term to regulate update directions in each time instant. 

IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

In this paper, we investigate the performance of a wide area network (WAN) with three hops over a mixed radio frequency (RF), reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted RF and Free space optics (FSO) channel. Here RIS and decode-and-forward (DF) relays are used to improve the coverage and system performance. For general applicability, the RF and FSO links are modelled with Saleh-Valenzuela (S-V) and Gamma-Gamma distribution, respectively.

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