Technical Committee News

The breadth of topics in signal processing continues to grow, propelled by advances in digital signal processing theory as well as in new application domains. At the 2011 IEEE ICASSP in Prague, the program committee revived the idea of expert overview sessions called “Trends,”

which are summary talks authored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees and presented by their keynote experts.

Recent Patents in Signal Processing (October 2011) - Medical Imaging

News from the SAM TC

CAMSAP 2011 will be held in Puerto Rico in December 2011. Also, the preparations for the next sensor array and multichannel signal processing (SAM) workshop are well underway.

TechWare: Financial Data and Analytic Resources

The financial industry is currently dominated by a handful of workhorse models, such as the capital asset pricing model and the Black-Scholes options pricing model. Quantitative financial analysis is mainly based on statistics and economics methodology. Signal processing applications, which hold promising potential, remain relatively unexplored within finance.

Its applications for financial data would add a new perspective and could further enrich financial research.

Farewell Alex

With great sadness, the SAM and SPTM TCs say farewell to our esteemed colleague and beloved friend Alex Gershman who passed away on August 12, 2011. Alex was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1962. He studied Radiophysics at the Nizhny Novgorod State University and started his research career at the Gorky Radiotechnical Institute where he completed his PhD.

SLTC Newsletter – Summer 2011

Bentham Science announces Recent Patents on Signal Processing and Recent Patents on Medical Imaging

Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of Recent Patents on Signal Processing and Recent Patents on Medical Imaging

Update and Planning from the Industry DSP Technology Standing Committee

Since most members of IDSP-SC are selected from outstanding individuals in industry, its mission is mainly to promote emerging signal processing applications and industry technology and also to promote industry participation in the SPS and IEEE.

Recent Patents in Signal Processing (September 2011) - Speech Processing