July 2016

IEEE SPS has built a streamlined mechanism for employers to add a job announcement by simply filling in a simple job opportunity submission Web form related to a particular TC field. To submit job announcements for a particular Technical Committee, the submission form can be found by visiting the page below and selecting a particular TC. Visit the SPS Job Submission Form.

Please visit the Conferences and Events page on the IEEE Signal Processing Society website for upcoming Lectures by Distinguished Lecturers.

The Awards Board Chair, Jose' Moura, is seeking nominations for the position of Chair of the Fellow Reference Committee. The term of appointment is three years (1 January 2017-31 December 2019). The position is responsible for chairing the Fellow Reference Committee, which is responsible for evaluating nominations for IEEE Fellow that are referred for review by the IEEE Fellow Committee. The Fellow Reference Chair is also a member of the SPS Awards Board. The Fellow Reference Chair must hold the grade of IEEE Fellow and must be an SPS Member in good standing.

An important message from Rabab Ward, President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society about our Board of Governors NOT being in favor of the upcoming IEEE Constitutional amendment and the proponent and opposing views regarding this subject.

For our July 2016 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with hardware and signal processing issues of video processing. The section below covers patents granted recently for video enhancement, noise removal from videos, watermarking techniques, visual quality measurement and new video processing circuits.

The June 2016 special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE addresses the importance of GNSS technology in our life and reflect on its ubiquitous use in service infrastructures. Specifically, it focusses on various types of jammers and analyzes their effects on different processing stages and overall GNSS receiver performance

Jeff Dean, senior fellow at Google, presented how to understand data using deep learning, at Spark Summit 2016, in San Francisco, CA.

Ervin Sejdić and Murat Akcakaya are reporting on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Summer School on Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Big Data that took place in May 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh

Sayler, Andy (University of Colorado at Boulder) “Securing Secrets and Managing Trust in Modern Computing Applications” (2016) Advisor: Dirk Grunwald