The IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) is a premier international forum addressing current and future challenges and new research directions on the design and implementation of signal processing systems.

For our March 2018 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of image segmentation
In patent no 9,886,647 systems, devices, and methods are presented for segmenting an image of a video stream with a client device by accessing a set of images within a video stream, identifying an object of interest within one or more images of the set of images, and detecting a region of interest within the one or more images. 

The Signal Processing Society (SPS) has 12 Technical Committees and 3 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that support a broad selection of signal processing-related activities defined by the scope of the Society. Technical Committees and Special Interest Groups are actively involved in awards, conferences, publications, and educational activities, and provide technical advice to the Society's leadership.

How do home assistants understand your spoken words? Signal processing, of course!
In our newest video, Signal Processing in Home Assistants, we explore how signal processing engineers use signal processing and machine learning to make home assistant technology possible.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of 2018-2019 winter schools under the S3P (Seasonal Schools in Signal Processing) Program.  S3P seasonal schools are typically either summer schools or winter schools, and are geared towards providing graduate students, early stage researchers, and practitioners with background on selected topics in signal processing. 

Sensor networks deployed in high-latency environments such as underwater acoustic and satellite channels find critical applications in disaster prevention and tactical surveillance. The sensors in these networks have limited energy reserves.

Webinar Details: 15 March 2018 from 9:00am - 10:00am (EDT) 
Attendee Registration Link: Register for Webinar, by Dr. Sergios Theodoridis and Dr. Sotirios Chatzis
Topic: A Tour into Deep Learning: From Its Origins to Cutting Edge Research and Open Challenges

The IEEE Signal Processing Society is very excited to offer the next webinar in our new series featuring “technical and technological innovations and their applications in signal processing” from top researchers and thought leaders in academia and industry. 

The November 2017 special issue of SPM on deep learning for visual understanding surveyed deep-learning solutions under reinforcement; weakly supervised and multimodal settings, investigated their robustness; and presented overviews of their applications in domain adaptation, hashing, semantic segmentation, metric learning, inverse problems in imaging, image-to-text generation, and picture-quality assessment.