September 2010

Contributed by Dan Schonfeld (IVMSP TC Nominations and Elections Subcommittee Chair)

Learn about the technological issues facing a broad deployment of 3DTV systems and the signal processing techniques that are used or need to be developed in the area of 3DTV.

Please read the details regarding ICIP2010, SPS's effort to reach out to the chapters and other constituents, and the new SPS FOI at President's Message column of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (September 2010).

Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC) promotes the advancement of multimedia signal processing technology with special emphasis on the interaction, coordination, synchronization, and joint processing of multimedia and multi-modality signals. In the past, the TC has also served as a home for incubating new areas that do not fall neatly into areas covered by existing TCs.

by Wan-Chi Siu, ICIP General Chair

The 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP2010 will be held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from September 26 to 29, 2010.

The Fellow Reference Committee is seeking nominations for four new members of the 2011 Fellow Reference Committee.

As the first step, embracing IEEE’s global strategy, SPM has decided to experiment with a translated reprint edition of SPM. The first edition in simplified Chinese is completed as of this writing and the printed version will be distributed to ICIP attendees in Hong Kong.

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Starting from 2008, the Denver Signal Processing Society Chapter created a competitive funding opportunity for undergraduate electrical engineering majors working on their senior projects.

Eleven video presentations from ICASSP 2010 and IEEE-THEMES 2010 are now available on IEEE.tv . The ICASSP collection includes presentations by Ronald Schafer, Metin Akay, James Truchard, and Moeness Amin. The THEMES collection includes the keynote address by Vwani Roychowdhury, as well as seven author presentations on Signal and Information Processing for Social Networks.