Urbano, Leonardo F.. (Drexel University) “Robust Automatic Multi-Sperm Tracking in Time-Lapse Images”,  Advisor: Kam, Moshe (2014)Human sperm cell counting, tracking and motility analysis is of significant interest to biologists studying sperm function and to medical practitioners evaluating male infertility. Today, the prevailing method for analyzing sperm at fertility clinics and research laboratories is laborious and subjective.

K. J. Ray Liu, SPS Nominations and Appointments Committee Chair In accordance with the Bylaws of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, I am writing to solicit nominations for the Awards Board for the term 2015-17 and the Nominations and Appointments (N&A) Committee for the term 2015-16. This year, the Society will be filling TWO positions on the N&A Committee and TWO positions on the Awards Board.

Bio-inspired systems can be traced back to the invention of radar systems. They are getting even more attention in recent years with topics such as the internet-of-things, intelligence and cognition becoming more and more relevant. Actually, people never stop the pave of learning from nature, animals and human beings. Acoustic signals used by dolphins are studied to develop sonar systems in marine applications[1]. Bats’ multi-frequency transmission systems afford us lessons to optimize the cognitive radar systems for echolocation, tracking and detection targets[2].

The IEEE annual election balloting period began 15 August 2014. Eligible voting members can access their ballot electronically through the IEEE Annual Election Ballot Material page or return the paper ballot they received via first-class postal mail. The last day for receipt of IEEE annual election ballots is 1 October 2014, by 12:00 p.m. CT/17:00 UTC. Candidates for the 2015 IEEE President-Elect include IEEE Fellows Tariq S. Durrani, Frederick C. Mintzer, and Barry L.

The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) took place in Florence, Italy from May 4th – 9th 2014. Recordings of the opening ceremony and plenary sessions are now available for IEEE Signal Processing Society members on SigView the society’s online video archive and are accessible by clicking on the links below.

Conference Opening & Awards

The gender disparity in various disciplines of engineering has been a longstanding issue in the engineering community and IEEE societies alike. While meaningful strides have been taken to increase women’s involvement in STEM fields overall, women are still largely underrepresented in these fields, and especially in higher-ranking and leadership positions. In fact, of the Signal Processing Society’s more than 16,500 members, only 6.6% of them are women.

Each year, IEEE recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions or exercised leadership within IEEE-designated technical areas. The Signal Processing Society is honored to announce three of its members as recipients of the 2015 IEEE Technical Field Awards: IEEE James L.

Please refer to the following webpage for the latest updates on upcoming conferences in Signal Processing. http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/conferences/upcoming-conferences/

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.