The Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC) promotes and guides the advancement of the field of image, video, and multidimensional signal processing. It provides leadership for the technical programs for ICIP and for the IVMSP-related areas at ICASSP; recruits and volunteers reviewers for ICIP and for the IVMSP-related areas at ICASSP; assists in proposing and organizing ICIP; organizes and operates IVMSP workshops and sessions at ICIP and ICASSP; and participates in a range of other SPS activities.

The Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) TC reports on the 2015 Signal Processing/Signal Processing Education Workshop and new TC members

For our July 2015 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with various applications of adaptive filtering. The section below covers patents granted recently for reducing blocking effect and ringing noise, radio frequency spektrum analysis, filter bank implementation, signal amplifying, low complexity filtering, magnetic fluid analysis, signal canceling and filter representation. In patent no.

Yousof Mortazavi (The University of Texas at Austin) "Analog-to-Digital Converter Circuit and System Design to Improve with CMOS Scaling", Advisor: Brian L. Evans Nanometer-scale CMOS processes create a hostile environment for voltage-domain analog processing due to reduced supply voltage and smaller capacitance, which increase speed and power efficiency for digital circuits.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks applications that propose research studies that extend experimental protocols beyond the range of acoustic psychophysical research studies widely performed today. This will require design of algorithms and research studies that validate the potential benefits from these novel approaches to acoustic signal processing.

Youssef, Khalid. (University of California, Los Angeles), “Progress toward the Next Generation of Bioreactors for 3D Tissue Engineering”, Advisor: Louis Bouchard This research is part of an interdisciplinary project to achieve composite tissue transplantation through novel technology that induces the growth of thick, immunocompatible, tissue implants that are compatible with the patient's immune system.

The special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE in July is the second issue focusing on reconfigurable systems. In the first special issue (vol. 103, no. 3, 2015) introduced by eNewsletter in June, the foundational concepts are addressed. In this special issue, the editors focus on the basic concepts discussed in the first issue by considering more advanced applications, the extension of reconfigurability to other phenomenologies/domains, and the impacts of selected emerging technologies.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is honored to announce the elevation of 22 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. Senior Member is the only membership grade that is eligible to be nominated for IEEE Fellow.

As a result of recent advances in MEMS/NEMS and systems biology, as well as the emergence of synthetic bacteria and lab/process-on-a-chip techniques, it is now possible to design chemical “circuits”, custom organisms, micro/nanoscale swarms of devices, and a host of other new systems at small length scales, and across multiple scales (e.g., micro to macro)