Reminder: 2015 Annual Reporting and Rebate Requirements: Due 15 March
All Section officers and Chapter/affinity group chairs will be contacted with a reminder that the following annual reports are required to be eligible for a rebate:
SPS Jobs Marketplace
Now IEEE SPS has built a streamlined mechanism for employers to add a job announcement by simply filling in a simple job opportunity submission Web form at the related TC section pages. To submit job announcements for a particular Technical Committee, the submission form can be found by visiting the page below and clicking on a particular TC. A link for the form can be found in the sidebar menu of the TC pages. Jobs can also be viewed from its individual TC pages or a combined listing that includes all TC jobs.
Special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE on Biomedical Signal Processing: From a Conceptual Framework to Clinical Applications
Biomedical signals have been widely used in the clinical setting for diagnostics, guiding therapy, patient monitoring, disease prevention, and risk assessment. The special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE in Feb. 2016 comprises 12 reviews that address challenges in applicative biomedical contexts by emphasizing the relevance of the methodological problem, the clinical importance of extracted information, and the possibility for future technological developments.
Update from the AASP-TC
The Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP) technical committee reports on augmented reality devices, 3D acoustic localization, binaural recording and rendering and spatial audio processing technologies.
Activity Update from the SAM-TC
The Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) technical committee reports on the upcoming IEEE SAM workshop in Rio de Janeiro, an announcement of the 2017 IEEE CAMSAP workshop, new SAM members and award nominations.
Upcoming Distinguished Lectures
| Chapter | Dates | Distinguished Lecturer | Lecture Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto | March 7, 2016 | Hamid Krim (NC State University, USA) | Lecture topic: "Convexity, Nullity and all that in Data Analysis". |
Vaish, Rajan, (University of California, Santa Cruz) “Mobilizing the Citizen Crowd” (2015)
Vaish, Rajan, (University of California, Santa Cruz) “Mobilizing the Citizen Crowd”,(2015), Advisor: James Davis
Crowdsourcing is a powerful approach to solve some of the biggest problems today - social and scientific. To harness the potential of crowdsourcing, researchers have often relied and successfully used crowd marketplaces such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. However, in spite of a large worker base and past successes, these platforms come with their own limitations.
Li, Hongjuan, (The George Washington University),” Privacy Preserving Friend Discoverym in Mobile Social Networks” (2016)
Li, Hongjuan, (The George Washington University),” Privacy Preserving Friend Discoverym in Mobile Social Networks” (2016), Advisor: Cheng, Xiuzhen
Mobile social networking has been increasingly popular with the explosive growth of mobile devices. By allowing mobile users to interact with potential friends around the real world, it enables new social interactions as a complement to web-based online social networks.
Recent Patents in Signal Processing (February 2016) – Image registration
For our February 2016 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with image registration.
Video of the month: NVIDIA Unveils Supercomputer for Self-driving Cars
At the first keynote of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled DRIVE PX 2, an automotive supercomputing platform for autonomous car driving. Please watch the video or visit NVIDIA Blog for more details.
NVIDIA @ CES 2016
