1. What is Signal Processing? Alex Acero President, IEEE Signal Processing

2. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 IEEE 420,000 members Largest association of technical professionals Formed in 1963 by the merger of –Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, founded 1912) –American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE, founded 1884) Has 39 Societies

3. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 SPS: First IEEE Society 1948: IRE Professional Group on Audio 1965: renamed the Group on Audio and Electroacoustics 1974: renamed Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Group 1976: first IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 1992: ASSP Society becomes the Signal Processing Society

4. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 What is Signal Processing?

5. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Membership - Long Term Trends IEEE/Total Society Memberships/SP Society (Dec. 2007-2014) SPS

6. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Membership - By Region  SPS is fourth largest technical society in the IEEE  Approximately 19,500 members – Dec 2015 US (R1-6): 38.7% R10: 25.1% R8: 29.5%

7. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Signal Processing Society Chapters 40 Chapters 51 Chapters 13 Chapters 8 Chapters 56 Chapters There are about 168 SPS chapters worldwide Regions 1-6 Region 7 Region 8 Region 9 Region 10

8. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Technical Committees: Then and Now Year 1976 – Digital signal processing – Digital measurement of noise – Electroacoustic transducers – Speech processing – Underwater acoustics Year 1987 – Audio and electroacoustics – Digital signal processing – Multidimensional signal processing – Spectral estimation and modeling – Speech processing – Underwater acoustics – VLSI for signal processing  Evolved and Broadened Scope of Signal Processing Year 2015 – Audio and electroacoustics – Bio imaging and signal processing – Design and implementation of signal processing and systems – Image, video, and multidimensional signal processing – Information forensics and security – Machine learning for SP – Multimedia SP – Sensor array and multichannel – SP for communication and networking – SP theory and methods – Speech and language processing – Industry DSP technology – Signal processing education – moved under Membership Board

9. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Machine Learning and Signal Processing

10. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Student Services Student Career Luncheon: –For students and companies to meet –The third Luncheon was held at ICASSP 2015 –65 students/fresh graduates and about 27 people from 10 companies registered to attend the event. –Total sponsorship was $7,400. IEEE SPS Travel Grants: –160 travel grants awarded in 2015 –http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/membership/sps-travel- grants/http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/membership/sps-travel- grants/

11. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Signal Processing Cup Opportunity for grad & undergrad students to form teams and work together to solve a challenging and interesting real-world problem using signal processing techniques and methods. 2015 challenge: Heart Rate Monitoring During Physical Exercise Using Wrist-Type Photoplethysmographic (PPG) Signals Sponsored by MathWorks with cash and software! 12 teams in 2014 49 teams in 2015 3 teams selected for the final competition at ICASSP

12. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Chapter of the Year The Chapter of the Year Award is presented annually to a Chapter that has provided their membership with the highest quality of programs, activities and services. The award consist of a certificate and a check in the amount of $1,000 to support local chapter activities. Recipients : 2015 – Gujarat Chapter 2014 – Malaysia Chapter 2013 – Italy Chapter 2012 – Tainan Chapter 2011 – Malaysia Chapter

13. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Summer Schools Membership development for students with interests in signal processing –www.signalprocessingsociety.org/community/seasonal-schools/www.signalprocessingsociety.org/community/seasonal-schools/ Recent Summer Schools: DatesLocationTopics September 7- 11, 2015 Italy “Summer School on Signal Processing (S3P 2015)” June 22-26, 2015 Barcelona “2015 IEEE SPS Summer School on Foundations and Advances in Stochastic Filtering (FASF 2015)” June 13-19, 2015 Croatia " 2015 IEEE SPS Summer School on Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis (SSBIPA 2015)”

14. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 SigView

15. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 SigPort

16. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Publications: Published Pages

17. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 Publications: Impact Impact Year 2013 factor Ranking Trans. on Medical Imaging3.816 Signal Processing Magazine4.59 Journal of Selected Topics on SP3.619 Trans. on Image Processing3.127 Trans. on Signal Processing3.223 Trans. on Wireless Comm.2.834 Trans. on Mobile Computing2.912 (CS-Info Sys) Trans. Info Forensics and Security2.158 Trans. on Multimedia1.815 (CS-Software Engr.) Trans. on Audio/Speech/Lang.2.639 Signal Processing Letters1.688 (Ranking category is electrical and electronic engineering, unless otherwise noted)

18. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP): Shanghai, China – 2016 New Orleans, LA – 2017 Seoul, South Korea – 2018 Brighton, UK – 2019 IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP): Phoenix, AZ – 2016 Beijing, China – 2017 Athens, Greece – 2018 Taipei, Taiwan – 2019 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP): Washington, DC – 2016 IEEE China Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP): Conferences - Upcoming

19. 12-CRS-0106 REVISED 8 FEB 2013  Benefits of SPS Membership FREE subscription of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in print or electronic forms FREE electronic access to ALL seven of the Society’s publications FREE monthly print and electronic issues of the Content Gazette, a catalog that allows you to browse the tables of contents of all the Society's publications FREE monthly electronic issues of the Inside Signal Processing eNewsletter Additional discounts to Society’s conferences/workshops May qualify for travel grants to conferences