Signal Processing Conferences
Please refer to the following webpage for the latest updates on upcoming conferences in Signal Processing.
http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/conferences/upcoming-conferences/
Member in the Spotlight: Neil Wachowski
In this series we introduce a member of our Society by means of an interview.
American Epilepsy Society Seizure Prediction Challenge
The American Epilepsy Society Seizure Prediction Challenge, hosted on Kaggle.com, started on August 25, 2014, and will end on November 17, 2014. It is the second phase of the Seizure Detection and Prediction Challenge designed by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Mayo Clinic. The first phase (ended on August 19, 2014), focusing on seizure detection, has attracted 200 teams, 241 players, and 4503 entries.
IEEE SPS 2014 Members-at-Large and Directors-at-Large Election Results
Three new Members-at-Large will take their seats on the Signal Processing Society Board of Governors beginning 1 January 2015 and will serve until 31 December 2017. Nine candidates competed for the three Member-at-Large positions. The successful candidates represent a broad spectrum of the Signal Processing Society. The Board of Governors will confirm the election results at their December Board meeting.
Image of the Month: Programmable Automotive Headlights Make Driving Glare Free and Safer
High beams are designed to illuminate dark roads, but may temporarily blind surrounding drivers.IEEE Sections Congress 2014: Inspiring Our Leaders of Tomorrow
IEEE Sections Congress 2014 (SC2014) was held 22-24 August 2014, at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The SC2014 theme was "Inspiring Our Leaders of Tomorrow," and attendees had opportunities to attend Breakout Sessions, Learning Labs, and Ignite Sessions. The exhibit hall had over 40 exhibitors, as well as poster sessions and special student projects on display.
IEEE Dues Change for e-Membership
The e-Membership program started as a pilot in 2011. The intent of the pilot was to test the impact of substantially reduced dues on membership recruitment and retention in countries where the per capita gross domestic product is US$15,000 or less. Data has shown that there was no significant increase on recruitment or retention during this period.
Thus, a dues increase is necessary to make the program economically sustainable. The MGA Board approved an increase in dues for the e-Membership option this past June.
Upcoming Distinguished Lectures – October 2014
The following SPS Distinguished lectures will be held in the upcoming months
Wachowski, Neil. (Colorado State University) “Characterization of Multiple Time-Varying Transient Sources from Multivariate Data Sequences”, (2014)
Wachowski, Neil. (Colorado State University) “Characterization of Multiple Time-Varying Transient Sources from Multivariate Data Sequences”, Advisor: Azimi-Sadjadi, Mahmood R. (2014)
Characterization of multiple time-varying transient sources using sequential multivariate data is a broad and complex signal processing problem.
Winners of the Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Challenge Announced
For the first time two teams jointly won the SAUC-E competition, the Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge - Europe. The ENSTA Bretagne team, with the robot SAUC-ISSE, and the DFKI GmbH-University of Bremen team, with the robot Avalon, triumphed over four other teams at the 9th edition. The 2nd prize went jointly to the ENSTA Bretagne team, with the robot CISSAU, and to University of Applied Sciences Kiel, with the robot TomKyle, which was awarded as well for the “Best Journal Paper”.
