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Special Issue Deadlines of SPS Publications

Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing

• Managing Complexity in Multiuser MIMO Systems - Deadline: 1 September 2008
   
• MIMO Radar and its Applications - Deadline: 20 January 2009

Recent Issues of SPS Sponsored and Co-sponsored Publications

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4. TC News

Technical Committee Endorsement on Upcoming SPS Award Nominations

Nominations for 2008 major SPS awards are open. As announced in the recent E-Newsletter, the award nominations should be submitted to SPS Vice President-Awards and Membership by 1 October 2008 and will be vetted by the appropriate technical committees.  Potential nominators are encouraged to contact related technical committees for the deadlines and procedures of TC-level nominations and endorsement.

The major SPS annual awards include honoring outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions related to signal processing through the Society Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the Education Award, and the Meritorious Service Award; the Society also recognizes outstanding publications in SPS journals and magazines through Best Paper Awards, Young Author Best Paper Awards, Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award and Best Column Award.

Upcoming TC Sponsored Events

• Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee  (TC website)

SiPS 2008 - 2008 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems
October 8-10, 2008, Washington, D.C. Metro Area, U.S.A.
http://www.sips08.org/

• Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (TC website)

MMSP 2008 - 2008 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
October 8-10, 2008, Cairns, Australia
http://www.mmsp08.org/

Inviting proposal to organize MMSP 2010 - Due 10 September 2008
Click here for the announcement in the April 2008 issue of the E-Newsletter.

• Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (TC website)

MLSP'08 - 2008 IEEE Workshops on Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Oct. 16-19, 2008, Cancún, Mexico
http://mlsp2008.conwiz.dk/

• Industry DSP Technology Standing Committee (SC website)

Industry Technology Track at ICASSP 2009 - See the Conference News section of this issue.

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Do you know?  IEEE SPS provides travel support for local chapters to invite SPS Distinguished Lecturers.  See a list of SPS 2007 and 2008 Distinguished Lecturers, and check each issue of the E-News for upcoming SPS Distinguished Lectures near you.  
 

If you are interested in organizing a new SPS chapter, or participating in activities in a SPS local chapter near you, please check out Local Chapter Resources. Additional questions and comments can be addressed to the SPS Chapters Committee..
 

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6. New Initiatives and Trends

Spoken Language Technology

Recent advances in Spoken Language Technology promise to provide personalized access to information and numerous ubiquitous services. Advances in natural language understanding, machine learning translation technology and information search and data mining contribute to a new generation of services and communication, from automated contact center services, to multilingual communication or fast access to information in large databases.

The Special Section on Spoken Language Technology in the May 2008 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine provides new and broad views on research advances in the area, as well as technical challenges, and impact of these new technologies in applications.

Learn Standards in a Nutshell from the latest issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in May 2008 on "MPEG-4 high-efficiency AAC coding" by J. Herre and M. Dietz.
 

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Lecture Notes featured in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

• "Wideband synthetic aperture beamforming for through-the-wall imaging" by M.G. Amin and F. Ahmad (July 2008)

DSP Tips and Tricks featured in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

• "Rethinking biased estimation" by S. Kay and Y.C. Eldar (May 2008)

• "Efficient Resampling Implementations" by D.W. Barker (July 2008)

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Yngve Selén (Uppsala University, Sweden):
"Model Selection and Sparse Modeling," October 2007.
Advised by Prof. Petre Stoica.

Parametric signal models are used in a multitude of signal processing applications. This thesis deals with signals for which there are many candidate models, and it is not a priori known which model is the most appropriate one. The first part of the thesis treats cases for which the set of models is relatively small, so that it is possible to evaluate each model in the set separately. The second part deals with sparse models, i.e., models sharing the same parameter vector, but for which any combination of zero valued and non-zero valued parameters is possible. Sparse models appear in a variety of applications, such as statistical data analysis, communications, and active sensing, such as radar and non-destructive testing.

Click here for more information about the thesis.

Interested in submitting or recommending a recent Ph.D. thesis?
Please prepare the following material and visit the web submission site to provide your input. Contact Associate Editor Prof. Alessandro Piva at <piva AT lci.det.unifi.it> if you have any questions.
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Mathematics of Digital Images: Creation, Compression, Restoration, Recognition
by S.G. Hoggar, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Description from the publisher: Compression, restoration and recognition are three of the key components of digital imaging. The mathematics needed to understand and carry out all these components are explained here in a style that is at once rigorous and practical with many worked examples, exercises with solutions, pseudocode, and sample calculations on images. The introduction lists fast tracks to special topics such as Principal Component Analysis, and ways into and through the book, which abounds with illustrations. The first part describes plane geometry and pattern-generating symmetries, along with some on 3D rotation and reflection matrices. Subsequent chapters cover vectors, matrices and probability. These are applied to simulation, Bayesian methods, Shannon's information theory, compression, filtering and tomography. The book will be suited for advanced courses or for self-study. It will appeal to all those working in biomedical imaging and diagnosis, computer graphics, machine vision, remote sensing, image processing and information theory and its applications.

An in-depth review is available in the July 2008 issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Visit the book's website for detailed Table of Contents and ordering information.

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Ph.D. Research Fellowship in Ocean Tomography
at Technical University of Lisbon

The Institute for Systems and Robotics, a research institute of Instituto Superior Tecnico - Technical University of Lisbon, offers one research position within project PHITOM - Probabilistic High-Frequency Ocean Tomography for Underwater Communications and Navigation. The chosen candidate will develop algorithms for Bayesian inverse problems in underwater acoustics, validate them on experimental data, and participate in the development of a self-contained software solution to extract environmental and navigation data from communications signals. The grant is offered for a period of 3 years, from October 2008, according to standard rates of the Portuguese Science Foundation for domestic BI/Lic (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores). Ideally, this work is envisaged as part of a Doctoral Dissertation. The application deadline is August 7.  Visit this web page for further information see  or contact Prof. Joao Gomes at [jpg AT isr.ist.utl.pt].

• Ph.D. Research Assistantship in Statistical Signal Processing at Uppsala University, Sweden

• Research Associate in Systems and Control at Uppsala University, Sweden

• Postdoctoral Fellowship on Vision and Pattern Analysis at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

• Ph.D. Assistantship and Postdoctoral Position in Multimedia Indexing at Institut EURECOM, France

• PhD Scholarship on Medical Signal Processing at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Interested in advertising graduate scholarship, post-doc positions, or funding opportunities?
Please prepare a short text of the announcement (150-200 words) and visit the web submission site to enter your input. It is recommended to include the deadline or valid period of the announcement, and an URL for more information such as group/research description and detailed qualification expectation. Contact Associate Editor Prof. Alessandro Piva at <alessandro.piva AT unifi.it> if you have any questions. Note that advertisements on faculty and other full-time position are in the domain of IEEE job advertisement (http://careers.ieee.org///); the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine also provides opportunities for paid advertisement.

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