The IEEE Signal Processing Cup aims to provide undergraduate students with opportunities to form teams and work together to solve a challenging and interesting real-world problem using signal processing techniques. The final round of the 2016 SP Cup was held in March 2016 at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Shanghai, China. Three top teams from the preliminary round held before the conference were selected and invited to present their work at ICASSP 2016.
The past decade has seen a tremendous growth in multimedia systems and applications in various areas ranging from surveillance to social media. While these systems and applications have been instrumental in improving the way of life for the end users; in the process the people's privacy might be put at risk. In particular, in most social networking websites, users upload their information without any guarantees on privacy.
Data hiding is the science and art of imperceptibly embedding some secret data, e.g., marks or messages, into a host media. The secret data are detected and extracted at a receiving end for various purposes. Data hiding has been the topic of tremendous research efforts during the past decade from both academia and industry for a diverse range of applications such as media copyright protection, content authentication, digital rights management, media system monitoring, and covert communications.
Interference has long been the central focus for meeting the ever increasing requirements on quality of service (QoS) in modern and future wireless communication systems. Traditional approaches aim to minimise, cancel or avoid interference. Contrary to this traditional view, which treats interference as a detrimental phenomenon, recent interest has emerged on innovative approaches that consider interference as a useful resource for developing energy efficient and secure 5G communication systems.
The Fourth International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data will be held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2016 in San Francisco, April 10-15, 2016.
Papers are due on December 30, 2015 (extended, firm).
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.