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at the IEEE no later than 3 October
2016 to be counted. Members must
meet the eligibility requirements at the
time the ballot data is generated to be
eligible to vote. To be eligible to vote
in this year's Society election, you had
to have been an active SPS member or
affiliate (excluding student member)
prior to 1 August 2016. This is the date
when the list of eligible Society voting
members was compiled. The candidates
for regional director-at-large are
■ Regions 1-6: Radhakrishna (Radha)
Giduthuri and Zhengdao Wang
■ Region 8: Sven Loncaric, John
McAllister, and Ana Isabel PérezNeira.
The candidates for member-at-large are
■ Abeer A.H. Alwan
■ Homer H. Chen
■ Shoji Makino
■ Marc Moonen

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Antonio Ortega
■ Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu
■ Gaurav Sharma
■ A. Lee Swindlehurst
■ Zhi (Gerry) Tian.
The BoG is the governing body that
oversees the activities of the SPS. The
SPS BoG has the responsibility of establishing and implementing policy
and receiving reports from its standing
boards and committees and comprises
21 Society members: six officers of the
Society who are elected by the BoG,
nine members-at-large elected by the
voting members of the Society, four
regional directors-at-large elected locally by Society voting members of
the corresponding region, as well as
the Awards Board chair. The six officers are the president, president-elect,
the vice president-conferences, vice
president-membership, vice president■

publications, and vice president-technical directions. The executive director
of the Society shall serve ex-officio,
without vote.
Regional directors-at-large are SPS
members who are elected locally by
Society voting members of the corresponding Region via the annual election
to serve on the Society's BoG as nonvoting members and voting members of the
Society's Membership Board.
Members-at-large represent the member viewpoint in the Board decision
making. They typically review, discuss,
and act upon a wide range of items affecting the actions, activities, and health
of the Society.
More information on the SPS can be
found at http://www.signalprocessing
society.org/.

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convey and embrace this evolving scope
And yet, worldwide, a number of
of signal processing. Through engaging
signal processing programs and fundauthors and publishing agencies still
ing articles that reconsider the narrow
While we welcome and
flect the crossbreed of
scope of signal proappreciate articles on core
multiple traditionally
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signal processing areas,
separated areas-both
the 1970s or 1980s.
our magazine is uniquely
close and far-and
For example, in a
positioned to convey and
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ed, the funding agenthat are of interest
cies and graduate
of signal processing.
or benefit to signal
programs treated improcessing professionals and vice versa,
age processing separately from signal
we hope the magazine will contribute to
processing. This unfortunately would
foster synergies and exchanges between
constrain the breadth of students' prepareas and fields and help shape the future
aration in their training and limit the
landscape of signal processing-the scipotential source of innovations.
ence behind our digital life.
While we welcome and appreciate
This issue of the magazine showcases
articles on core signal processing areas,
an example of a cross-disciplinary area-
our magazine is uniquely positioned to

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

September 2016

a special issue on fascinating advances of
computational photography and display.
The timing also coincides with the IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) to be held in Phoenix, Arizona, which features a visual technology
showcase and visual innovation award.
As a final note, I would like to take this
opportunity to thank all of the reviewers
who have been so generous in offering
their precious time and efforts in providing critical and constructive comments
to the articles being considered by the
magazine. We appreciate their contributions that are essential to the success of
the magazine!

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