Initiatives & Trends

Something really innovative has happened in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, where the third IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) took place in November 2011. The 2011 WIFS, in a partnership with the Brazilian Association of Forensic Experts of the Federal Police (APCF), included in its program a series of oral presentations, posters, and demos, which represent an effort of the forensics experts to call the attention of academics to problems they often face.

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At the 2011 IEEE ICASSP in Prague, the program committee revived the idea of expert overview sessions called “Trends,” which are summary talks authored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees and presented by their keynote experts.

Starting from its September issue, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine publishes a serious of three columns summarizing the “Trends” expert sessions. As the second part, the column articles in the November issue allow readers to access the summaries of the following Trends sessions.

The breadth of topics in signal processing continues to grow, propelled by advances in digital signal processing theory as well as in new application domains. At the 2011 IEEE ICASSP in Prague, the program committee revived the idea of expert overview sessions called “Trends,”

which are summary talks authored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees and presented by their keynote experts.