Technical Committee News

The ash ejected into the atmosphere by the Eyjafjalla Icelandic volcano during its recent eruption posed such a threat to flights over much of Europe that the ensuing cancellations resulted in an unprecedented disruption of the European commercial air transportation system.

A Couple of News Items from the MMSP TC

The MMSP TC promotes the advancement of multimedia signal processing technology with special emphasis on the interaction, coordination, synchronization, and joint processing of multimedia and multi-modality signals.

Activity Update from the SAM-TC

The SAM TC addresses the areas of sensor array and multi-channel statistical signal processing. The committee interests span the areas of signal detection and estimation, direction-of-arrival estimation, beamforming, blind source separation, source localization and tracking, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and space-time coding, sensor networks, and multichannel signal processing.

Recent Patents in Signal Processing - March 2011

Activity Report from the SPTM-TC

The Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (SPTM TC) promotes activities in the technical areas of theory and methods of digital and statistical signal processing.

Deep Learning and Its Applications to Signal and Information Processing

Since 2006, deep learning—a new area of machine learning research—has emerged impacting a wide range of signal and information processing work.

Signal Processing in the Industry

The Industry Digital Signal Processing Technology (IDSP) Standing Committee was formed in 1999 to promote industry participation in the Signal Processing Society and ICASSP, in particular. Fields of interest span those covered by the Technical Committees of the SP Society but special emphasis is placed on practical industry applications of signal and image processing.

Can an Algorithm Recognize Montage Portraits as Human Faces?

For over a decade, there has been an increasing interest in face recognition in diverse fields such as pattern recognition, computer vision, telecommunications, video, security and Internet applications, and cognitive psychology.

Recent Patents in Signal Processing - February 2011

New Chairs Elected for Technical Committees

January 2011