The rapid advancement and proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the past two decades significantly impacted how we do research. For instance, our research increasingly relies on growing computing power and storage capacity to gather and process the constant production of data - our observations of systems and phenomena we would like to understand, control, and improve.

For our December 2017 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of applications of active contours.

The increasing demand for wireless connectivity and the scarcity of spectrum for exclusive use have popularized the idea of multiple communication systems to share spectrum.

How can we use modern signal processing and artificial intelligence to enhance medical devices such as hearing aids? A new startup called Mythic in a Redwood City, California, is trying to revive analog computing for artificial intelligence.

In the past decade, there has been a transformative and permanent revolution in computer vision cultivated by the reinvigorated adoption of deep learning for visual understanding tasks. 

The Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has allocated $20,000 for Member-Driven Initiatives for the 2017 calendar year.

Webinar Details: Wednesday, 13 December 2017 from 2:30pm - 3:30pm (New York time) 
Attendee Registration Link: Register for Webinar, by Dr. Nikos Sidiropoulos

CAMSAP 2017 Plenary - Tensors and Probability: An Intriguing Union: Abstract: We reveal an interesting link between tensors and multivariate statistics. The rank of a multivariate probability tensor can be interpreted as a nonlinear measure of statistical dependence of the associated random variables. 

Join the 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), held at the Megaron Athens International Conference Centre in Athens, Greece. ICIP is the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on image and video processing and computer vision. 

Boston Dynamics, a leading developer of advanced dynamic robots, recently released a video showing that their humanoid robot Atlas can do backflips now.