February 2018

The 8^th Annual Vancouver Short Film Festival took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada this past January, and SPS earned it spots on the silver screen! Erin Cumming, director of Under the Radar, took home the Audience Choice Award during the festival.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief for the following journals: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks for a 3-year term starting 1 January 2019.

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. 

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 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.

Join the 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), held at the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre in Athens, Greece. ICIP is the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on image and video processing and computer vision.

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.

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.