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8 Signal Processing Society Members Elevated to Senior Member

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is honored to announce the elevation of 8 of its members to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. These members have demonstrated outstanding professional performance, exhibited professional maturity through long-term experience, and established themselves as leaders in their respective IEEE-designated fields of interest.

Zhu, Yu (West Virginia University), “Multi-Modality Human Action Recognition” (2016)

Zhu, Yu (West Virginia University), “Multi-Modality Human Action Recognition” (2016) Advisor: Guo, Guodong Human action recognition is very useful in many applications in various areas, e.g. video surveillance, HCI (Human computer interaction), video retrieval, gaming and security. Recently, human action recognition becomes an active research topic in computer vision and pattern recognition. A number of action recognition approaches have been proposed.

Financial Signal Processing and Machine Learning, A.N. Akansu, S.R. Kulkarni and D.M. Malioutov, Eds. Wiley-IEEE Press, 2016.

Financial Signal Processing and Machine Learning, A.N. Akansu, S.R. Kulkarni and D.M. Malioutov, Eds. Wiley-IEEE Press, 2016. Description: The modern financial industry has been required to deal with large and diverse portfolios in a variety of asset classes often with limited market data available. Financial Signal Processing and Machine Learning unifies a number of recent advances made in signal processing and machine learning for the design and management of investment portfolios and financial engineering.

Postdoc in Biomedical Image Analysis

A postdoc position is available at the Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis (CBIA), which is a research division of the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Brno is the second largest Czech city with a rich history, splendid surroundings, several universities and several scientific parks. Masaryk University is the largest university in Brno with over 30,000 students and the second largest in the Czech Republic.

11 Nov.

Signal Processing in a Multimedia World: How the Science Behind our Digital Life Powers our Apps and Gadgets

Maximo Cobos, professor, University of Valencia

Our modern life takes place in a world that is full of sounds, images and videos. You probably wake up by listening to some relaxing tone on your phone, listen to some music while you go running, and send a voice message to say happy birthday to a close relative. Then, you probably receive a notification to check the cool photos your friend has just sent you from yesterday's party and, while you’re checking the news, a trailer from a wonderful movie appears on your screen. It’s still early in the morning and you’ve already experienced the ubiquity of our multimedia world.

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