February 2015 | IEEE Signal Processing Society

2015 Member-Driven Initiatives – Funding Available

1 February 2015

Overview The Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has allocated $40,000 for Member-Driven Initiatives for the 2015 calendar…

Signal Processing Conferences

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1 February 2015

Please refer to the following webpage for the latest updates on upcoming conferences in Signal Processing. http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org…

SPS TC Job Marketplace

Research Opportunities

Society News

1 February 2015

Now IEEE SPS has built a streamlined mechanism for employers to add a job announcement by simply filling in a simple job opportunity submission Web…

Activity Update from the SAM-TC

Technical Committee News

1 February 2015

Several elections took place in the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) technical committee (TC). We congratulate Peter Willett and Martin Haardt for their election and assignment as new SAM TC Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively. We especially thank our past SAM TC Chair Dominic K.C. Ho who was chairing the SAM TC in the past two years for his excellent leadership and dedication.

Implementing a Distributed Deep Learning Network over Spark

Technical Committee News

1 February 2015

Deep learning is becoming an important AI paradigm for pattern recognition, image/video processing and fraud detection applications in finance. The computational complexity of a deep learning network dictates need for a distributed realization. The big data lab at Impetus, led by Dr. Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran, has built the first prototype of the distributed deep learning network over Apache Spark. They have parallelized the training phase of the network and consequently reduced training time.

Activity Update from the IFS-TC

Technical Committee News

1 February 2015

The mission of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/ifs-tc/) is to promote activities within the broad technical areas of information forensics and security.

Contests in Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Education & Resources

1 February 2015

During the last couple of months, a few new Signal Processing and Machine Learning contests were initiated. Some of the ongoing ones with a strong…

AASP TC Call for Organizing New Challenges

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Society News

1 February 2015

Three years after its launch, the AASP TC Challenges series has achieved its goal of stimulating ground-breaking approaches to hot topics in Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing. The challenges run so far have been great successes, leading to unprecedented participation, new publicly available datasets, and highly attended special sessions and workshops

Call for Nominations: Regional Directors-at-Large and Members-at-Large

Society News

1 February 2015

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Call for Nominations: JSTSP Editor-in-Chief

Society News

1 February 2015

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief for the following journal: IEEE Journal of Selected…

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