Signal Processing - November 2017 - 2

COLUMNS
8 Panel and Forum

Challenges and Open Problems in
Signal Processing: Panel Discussion
Summary from ICASSP 2017

Yonina C. Eldar, Alfred O. Hero III,
Li Deng, Jeff Fessler, Jelena Kovacˇevic´,
H. Vincent Poor, and Steve Young

14 Community Voices

What Is the Future of Signal Processing?

Andres Kwasinski and Min Wu

17 Special Reports

Medical Optical Imaging

John Edwards

21 Reader's Choice

Top Downloads in IEEE Xplore

158 Lecture Notes

The Mystery Curve: A Signal Processing
Point of View

Soo-Chang Pei and Kuo-Wei Chang

164 Tips & Tricks

Fast- and Low-Complexity atan2(a,b)
Approximation

Vicente Torres, Javier Valls,
and Richard Lyons

176 Perspectives

To the Victor Go the Spoils:
AI in Financial Markets

Xiao-Ping (Steven) Zhang

DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editor

Signals and Signal Processing:
The Invisibles and the Everlastings

Min Wu

5 President's Message

Signal Processing Is More than
Its Beloved Name

Rabab Ward

170 Dates Ahead

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Min Wu-University of Maryland, College Park
U.S.A.

AREA EDITORS
Feature Articles
Shuguang Robert Cui-University of California,
Davis, U.S.A.
Special Issues
Douglas O'Shaughnessy-INRS, Canada
Columns and Forum
Kenneth Lam-Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hong Kong SAR of China
e-Newsletter
Ervin Sejdic-University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Social Media and Outreach
Andres Kwasinski-Rochester Institute
of Technology, U.S.A.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Mrityunjoy Chakraborty - Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, India
George Chrisikos - Qualcomm, Inc.,
U.S.A.
Alfonso Farina-Leonardo S.p.A., Italy
Mounir Ghogho-University of Leeds,
U. K.
Lina Karam-Arizona State University, U.S.A.
C.-C. Jay Kuo-University of Southern California,
U.S.A.
Sven Loncˇ
aric´-University of Zagreb, Croatia
Brian Lovell-University of Queensland, Australia
Jian Lu-Qihoo 360, China
Henrique (Rico) Malvar-Microsoft Research,
U.S.A.
Yi Ma-ShanghaiTech University, China
Stephen McLaughlin-Heriot-Watt University,
Scotland
Athina Petropulu-Rutgers University,
U.S.A.
Peter Ramadge-Princeton University,
U.S.A.
Shigeki Sagayama-Meiji University, Japan
Erchin Serpedin-Texas A&M University,
U.S.A.
Shihab Shamma-University of Maryland,
U.S.A.
Vahid Tarokh-Harvard University, U.S.A.
Wade Trappe-Rutgers University, U.S.A.
Gregory Wornell-Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, U.S.A.
Dapeng Wu-University of Florida, U.S.A.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS-COLUMNS AND FORUM

Ivan Bajic-Simon Fraser University, Canada
Rodrigo Capobianco Guido-
São Paulo State University, Brazil
Ching-Te Chiu-National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan
Panayiotis (Panos) Georgiou-University of
Southern California, U.S.A.
Hana Godrich-Rutgers University, U.S.A.
Xiaodong He-Microsoft Research
Danilo Mandic-Imperial College, U.K.
Aleksandra Mojsilovic-
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Vishal Patel-Rutgers University, U.S.A.

Fatih Porikli-MERL
Shantanu Rane-PARC, U.S.A.
Saeid Sanei-University of Surrey, U.K.
Roberto Togneri-The University of
Western Australia
Alessandro Vinciarelli-IDIAP-EPFL
Azadeh Vosoughi-University of Central Florida
Stefan Winkler-UIUC/ADSC, Singapore
Changshui Zhang-Tsinghua University, China

ASSOCIATE EDITORS-e-NEWSLETTER

Csaba Benedek-Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Hungary
Paolo Braca-NATO Science and Technology
Organization, Italy
Quan Ding-University of California,
San Francisco, U.S.A.
Pierluigi Failla-Compass Inc, New York,
U.S.A.
Marco Guerriero-General Electric Research,
U.S.A.
Yang Li-Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Yuhong Liu-Penn State University at Altoona,
U.S.A.
Andreas Merentitis-University of Athens,
Greece
Michael Muma-TU Darmstadt, Germany
Xiaorong Zhang-San Francisco State University,
U.S.A.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR-SOCIAL MEDIA/OUTREACH
Guijin Wang-Tsinghua University, China

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY

Rabab Ward-President
Ali Sayed-President-Elect
Carlo S. Regazzoni-Vice President,
Conferences
Nikos D. Sidiropoulos-Vice President,
Membership
Thrasyvoulos (Thrasos) N. Pappas-
Vice President, Publications
Walter Kellerman-Vice President,
Technical Directions

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY STAFF

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IEEE PERIODICALS MAGAZINES DEPARTMENT

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Dawn M. Melley, Editorial Director
Peter M. Tuohy, Production Director
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Publishing Operations

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