January 2011

Do you know the articles that are published by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and ranked among the top 100 most downloaded IEEE Xplore articles?

Fellow Teresa H. Meng has been selected as an Academician of the Academia Sinica, the highest honor given to scientists in Taiwan. Based in Taipei, Academia Sinica is Taiwan’s national science academy. It supports research in a variety of fields, including mathematics, physical and life sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Data rates offered by mobile networks are increasing, as are the capabilities of mobile devices. With this, mobile multimedia services are getting wider distribution.

The face has been of keen interest to behavioral scientists. About 15 years ago, computer scientists became increasingly interested in the use of computer vision and graphics to automatically analyze and synthesize facial expression.

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IEEE has opened an office in India's Bangalore central business district. In Singapore, the IEEE Asia Pacific Operations Center recently moved from the Fleming Science Park to Fusionopolis.

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The Fifth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras will be held from August 23—26, 2011 in Ghent, Belgium.

Aalto University (formerly Helsinki University of Technology), Helsinki, Finland has 2 open tenure track faculty positions in Signal Processing.

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