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.

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

The Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC) reports on a special issue on spoofing and countermeasures for automatic speaker verification and a call for tutorials and special sessions at the WIFS 2016

Researchers from the Future Interfaces Group, an interdisciplinary research lab at Carnegie Mellon University, have developed a wearable interface that turns the skin on your arm into a touchscreen for your smartwatch.

For our June 2016 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with hardware and signal processing issues of medical imaging.

During the last couple of months a few new Signal Processing and Machine Learning contests were finished and new ones were initiated. A selection of some contests includes a contest by Home Depot on predictive relevance of search results and two contests on image recognition.

The AASP TC's mission is to support, nourish and lead scientific and technological development in all areas of audio and acoustic signal processing. These areas are currently seeing increased levels of interest and significant growth providing a fertile ground for a broad range of specific and interdisciplinary research and development.

For our May 2016 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of Markovian probabilistic modeling in signal processing applications, including Markov chains, Hidden Markov Models, Markov Random fields and Monte Carlo simulations.

The goal of the Special Issue of SPM on Brain Signal Analytics May 2016 is to bring together a diverse but complementary set of tutorial/review articles demonstrating the importance of incorporating signal processing strategies into the advances in neuroimaging techniques, data analytics, and modeling for brain function.

Michelle K. Lee, under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), recently announced new open data initiatives that will make access to tons of patent data much easier.