The mission of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC) is to promote activities within the broad technical areas of information forensics and security. The main activities addressed this year were the outcomes of the first IEEE Image Forensics Challenge, the organization and future organization of the two IFS workshops WIFS’14 and WIFS’15, and the nomination of the next IEEE TIFS Editor in Chief.

For our July 2014 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of Lidar based environment perception and modeling. The section below covers patents granted recently for Lidar related signal processing methods focusing on road traffic safety, robotics, radio service availability assessment or image based positioning.

For our June 2014 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of machine learning for detection of malicious communications, covering patents granted recently for methods for detecting malicious botnets, malware, or email transmissions.

The IEEE Biometrics Council is proud to announce that the Spring 2014 edition of its newsletter is now available. It contains a number of updates on biometric conferences/workshops and other IEEE activities related to biometrics

The Summer 2014 edition of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee’s Newsletter is now online. It includes a number of announcements from the TC chair, as well as a number of articles collated by the editorial boarded

A talk on "Big Data over Networks" is available on SigView discussing the big data system design issue by focusing on the interaction across signal processing, information storage, and underlying communication networks.

The DISPS TC has the mission to promote and support activities of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in the areas of: i) design, development and implementation of signal processing systems; ii) design of algorithms with implementation in mind and iii) design of software tools and methodologies to support the design of signal processing systems.

The Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP TC) is involved with activities that support the use of Machine Learning techniques for Signal Processing problems.

The title of this inaugural competition is "Image restoration/Super-resolution for Single Particle Analysis".

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