Members of the IFS-TC community have received two IEEE SPS Best Paper Awards, an IEEE SPS Sustained Impact Paper Award, an IEE E SPS Meritorious Service Award and the IEEE Leon K. Krichmayer Graduate Teaching Award for Signal Processing this year. And the winners are ...
Reuters has implemented a new worldwide policy for freelance photographers that bans photos that were processed from RAW files. Photographers must now only send photos that were originally saved to their cameras as JPEGs. The news provider beliefs that RAW photos do allow for a greater degree of post-processing flexibility, so based on the new policy, it appears that Reuters found that photos processed from RAWs are more likely to distort the truth.
The IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology invite authors to submit manuscripts for a special issue on "Group and Crowd Behavior Analysis for Intelligent Multi-camera Video Surveillance".
Despite significant progress in human behaviour analysis over the past few years, most of today's state of the art algorithms focus on analysing individual behaviour in a simple environment monitored by a single camera.
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The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented. The 13th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take place in Seattle, WA, USA, on December 8-9, 2016.
More information available here.
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The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented. The 13th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take place in Seattle, WA, USA, on December 8-9, 2016.
More information available here.
The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on image and video processing and computer vision, invites submissions of proposals to organize a special session or a tutorial. ICIP 2016 will be held in Phoenix, AZ in September 2016. Proposal submissions are due November 16, 2015.
US Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence and Analysis is currently recruiting for their summer 2016 internship program. The announcement can be found at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/419113700 and more information about the program can be found at https://www.dhs.gov/ia-internship.
The IEEE Biometrics Council has recently published their latest newsletter.
Topics of the September 2015 edition include:
Spotlight: Large-scale Biometric Identification Projects
Report: CVPR 2015 Biometrics Workshop
Person Re-identification by Iterative Re-weighted Sparse Ranking
Forthcoming Events and Biometrics Conferences
New Biometrics Databases