The IEEE Signal Processing Society is a society of the IEEE. It is also known by the acronym IEEE SPS. In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Signal Processing Society is one of close to 40 technical societies organized under the IEEE's Technical Activities Board. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is IEEE's first technical Society.

From the IEEE SPS web site, the mission of the society is defined to be :

"The IEEE Signal Processing Society is an international organization whose purpose is to: advance and disseminate state-of-the-art scientific information and resources; educate the signal processing

Signal processing

Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...

 community; and provide a venue for people to interact and exchange ideas."

and the field of interest is defined to be:

"Signal processing is the enabling technology for the generation, transformation, extraction, and interpretation of information. It comprises the theory, algorithms with associated architectures and implementations, and applications related to processing information contained in many different formats broadly designated as signals. Signal processing uses mathematical, statistical, computational, heuristic, and/or linguistic representations, formalisms, modeling techniques and algorithms for generating, transforming, transmitting, and learning from signals."

History

The Signal Processing society was formed in 1948 as the Professional Group on Audio of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

Activities

The Society organizes many conferences every year and operates local chapters around the world. It coordinates the operation of several councils, task forces, and technical committees.

Publications

The Signal Processing Society oversees the publication of nine periodicals, including a magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

, newsletter

Newsletter

A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. Newspapers and leaflets are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email have gained rapid acceptance for the same reasons email in...

 and scholarly journals:

• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters
• IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
• Inside Signal Processing e-Newsletter
• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Co-sponsored journals include:

• IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering Magazine
• IEEE MultiMedia Magazine
• IEEE Sensors Journal
  IEEE Sensors Journal
  The IEEE Sensors Journal is published by the IEEE Sensors Council, and is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to sensors and sensing phenomena...
  
  
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing is a bi-monthly magazine, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, which publishes articles concerning technology related to the mobility of users, systems, data, and computing...
  
  
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia is an academic journal, published by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society covering multimedia technology and applications...
  
  
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications is published six times a year by the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The journal accepts both practical and theoretical papers dealing with new techniques, concepts, experiments and applications concerning all areas of...
  
  

Digital Library:

• Signal Processing electronic Library (SPeL)

The IEEE Signal Processing electronic Library (SPeL) is a comprehensive electronic collection of more than 50 years of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's periodicals, which includes all four transactions and letters, newsletters, magazines, and technical proceedings of the two major Society conferences and of most workshops. IEEE SPeL also features four joint transactions, which the Society is a partner. The library collection is available on three DVD-ROMs. It has a search engine, which allows searches based on full-text, as well as searches by such fields as author, title, subject and date. The collection provides a comprehensive database, which contains information about the technical articles that are published in the Society's journals

Conferences

The Society organizes, sponsors, and co-sponsors numerous conferences and workshops every year. A list of them can be found here.

See also

• International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
  ICASSP, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, is an annual research conference organised by the IEEE....
  
   (ICASSP)
• International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
• International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)
• IInternational Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT)
• International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIPS)
• International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)

External links

• The Signal Processing Society's Website