News from the Speech and Language Processing TC
This issue features the next installment of our regular column, "Getting to Know Your Fellow Researchers", highlighting Douglas O'Shaughnessy, who is a Professor at INRS-Télécommunications (University of Quebec) in Montreal, Canada and the author of the textbook Speech Communications:
More beautiful stories about Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon has changed electrical engineering, and he was one of the greatest influencers on the field of signal processing. In recent years,…
Read moreRecent Patents in Signal Processing (July 2017) – Image denoising
For our July 2017 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of image denoising.
Read moreActivity Report from the AASP-TC
Published in TC News on 1 July 2017
Read morePassenger Screening Algorithm Challenge
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has kicked off a challenge to improve the algorithm Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses…
Read moreArtificial intelligence is shaping up a new workforce
A recent article by MIT Technology Review describes how artificial intelligence is changing a workforce in many companies today. In particular, they…
Read moreCan We Copy the Brain?
In the mid-1940s, a few brilliant people drew up the basic blueprints of the computer age. They conceived a general-purpose machine based on a…
Read moreAWS Chatbot Challenge 2017
The Amazon Lex service is now generally available, announced at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) 2017 San Francisco Summit. Amazon Lex is a fully managed AI service that enables developers to build conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. It is powered by the same deep learning technologies used in Amazon Alexa.
Recent Patents in Signal Processing (June 2017) – Audio Coding
For our June 2017 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with audio coding.
Activity Update from the IEEE Biometrics Council
The IEEE BMC reports on a new journal proposal, the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science and the IEEE Conference on Biometrics Theory, Application and Systems
