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Get Involved with Technical Committees via the Affiliate TC Membership

January 2018
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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.

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ICCV 2017 Best Paper Award: Mask R-CNN

January 2018
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Researchers from Facebook AI Research have won the Best Paper Award (Marr Prize) at the 16th International Conference on Computer vision (ICCV) 2017, held in Venice, Italy. The work, named "Mask R-CNN", addresses the problem of instance segmentation, which combines tasks of object detection and semantic segmentation. Below is the presentation given by the first author Kaiming He at the conference.

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What Should We Learn from IARPA’s Deep-Learning Challenge Seeks AI to Analyze Satellite Images

December 2017
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Spy satellites and their commercial cousins orbit Earth like a swarm of space paparazzi, capturing tens of terabytes of images every day. The deluge of satellite imagery leaves U.S. intelligence agencies with the world’s biggest case of FOMO—“fear of missing out”—because human analysts can sift through only so many images to spot a new nuclear enrichment facility or missiles being trucked to different locations.

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Recent Patents in Signal Processing (December 2017) – Active Contours

December 2017
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For our December 2017 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of applications of active contours.

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Get Involved with Technical Committees via the Affiliate TC Membership

December 2017
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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.

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Signal Processing in Action: Georgia Tech Professor David Citrin is Revealing the Secrets of 17th Century Artists, thanks to 21st Century Signal Processing

December 2017
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Georgia Tech professor David Citrin is revealing the secrets of 17th century artists thanks to 21st century signal processing. Using modern high-speed scanners and the advanced signal processing techniques, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are peering through layers of pigment to see how painters prepared their canvasses, applied undercoats, and built up layer upon layer of paint to produce their masterpieces.
 
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Signal Processing in Action: An Old Technique Could Put Artificial Intelligence in Your Hearing Aid

December 2017
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How can we use modern signal processing and artificial intelligence to enhance medical devices such as hearing aids? A new startup called Mythic in a Redwood City, California, is trying to revive analog computing for artificial intelligence.

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FEATURED ARTICLE

Humanoid Robot Can Backflip

December 2017
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Boston Dynamics, a leading developer of advanced dynamic robots, recently released a video showing that their humanoid robot Atlas can do backflips now.

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Activity Update from the IVMSP TC

November 2017
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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.

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New vending machines may include machine learning and facial recognition

November 2017
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Machine learning and new signal/image processing techniques are changing our lives at a rapid pace. However, would you think that your vending machine may actually have facial recognition algorithms to offer you a drink? That's new and interesting, but not so distant future.

For more details, please read https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/21/vending-machines-are-getting-smarter-with-machine-learning-and-facial-recognition/

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