Recent Issues - March 2010
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SPS Member Receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Thomas Kailath of Stanford University (Standford, CA) has been selected to receive the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category "Information and Communication Technologies".
The Frontier of Knowledge Awards honor fundamental disciplinary or supradisciplinary Signal Processing Society Members Receive 2010 IEEE Technical Field Awards
The 2010 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award is being presented to Sadaoki Furui; the IEEE Control Systems Award is being presented to Graham Clifford Goodwin; and the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award is being presented to Alan N. Willson, Jr.
Steganography in Digital Media: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications (2009)
By Jessica Fridrich, Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2009.
Description from the publisher: Steganography, the art of hiding of information in apparently innocuous objects or images, is a field with a rich heritage, and an area of rapid current development. This clear, self-contained guide shows you how to understand the building blocks of covert communication in digital media files and how to apply the techniques in practice, including those of steganalysis, the detection of steganography.
Call for Proposal to Host ICME 2011 and 2012
The Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) invites proposals to host the 2011 and 2012 conference editions. With typically around 1000 submissions and 500 participants each year, ICME has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000.
Recent Patents in Signal Processing Areas (March 2010)
US 7,646,328 “Versatile Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator for Radars”;
US 7,645,929 “Computational Music-tempo Estimation”.
Compression for Multimedia (2010)
by Irina Bocharova, Cambridge University Press, January 2010.
Description from the publisher: Providing a thorough theoretical understanding of lossy compression techniques for image, video, speech, and audio compression, this book also covers the key features of each system, as well as practical applications, implementation issues, and design trade-offs.
Optimal Combining and Detection: Statistical Signal Processing for Communications (2010)
by Jinho Choi, Cambridge University Press, 1st edition, Feb.
Enhancing the Experience and Support for SPS Conferences
The IEEE Signal Processing Society organizes approximately twenty conferences, symposia and workshops each year. The Conference Board of the Society, chaired by SPS Vice President for Conferences, V. John Mathews, oversees all aspects of the conferences. The Board is currently engaged in an in-depth study of how to best enhance the quality, access and services for Society conferences. Learn more about the vision and new initiatives on Society conferences from his in-depth article.
