The November 2017 special issue of SPM on deep learning for visual understanding surveyed deep-learning solutions under reinforcement; weakly supervised and multimodal settings, investigated their robustness; and presented overviews of their applications in domain adaptation, hashing, semantic segmentation, metric learning, inverse problems in imaging, image-to-text generation, and picture-quality assessment.

With the rapid development of multimedia technologies and the popularization of social networks, social multimedia content is being delivered to more and more users with a high quality of experience (QoE). However, as a huge amount of social users have ever-increasing demands to share and exchange multimedia content with each other, the current social multimedia analytics and delivery need to deal with various attacks perpetrated by malicious users or through spam content.

For our February 2018 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of image and video compression.
In patent no. 9,866,835 devices and methods for obtaining borehole images at a surface installation while a borehole-imaging downhole tool is logging a borehole are provided. One such method may involve, while the downhole tool is disposed in the borehole, obtaining a first borehole image at a first depth of investigation using the borehole-imaging downhole tool. 

Neurotechnology is one of the hottest areas of engineering, and the technological achievements sound miraculous: Paralyzed people have controlled robotic limbs with their brains, while blind people are receiving implants that send signals to their visual centers.

Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee  (IVMSP TC) promotes and guides the advancement of the field of image, video, and multidimensional signal processing. It provides leadership for the technical programs for ICIP and for the IVMSP-related areas at ICASSP...

The Signal Processing Society (SPS) has 12 Technical Committees and 3 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that support a broad selection of signal processing-related activities defined by the scope of the Society.

The 2018 IEEE Data Science Workshop is a new workshop that aims to bring together researchers in academia and industry to share the most recent and exciting advances in data science theory and applications.

Author: Song-Wen Huang  (University at Buffalo, the State University of New York) Advisor: Dimitris A. Pados
Radio frequency and underwater acoustic communications have grown rapidly in environmental monitoring, telecommunications, offshore oil exploration, and surveillance applications. Nonetheless, signals may still suffer from harsh challenges in wireless fading channels for high attenuation, multipath effect, and Doppler spread. 

Speech and Language processing (SLP) is essentially a series of sequence-to-sequence learning problems. Conventional SLP systems map input to output sequences through module-based architectures where each module is independently trained.