Welcome to the joint Queensland Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Societies. The membership of these societies consists of industry and academic professionals with a common interest in advancing signal processing and communications technologies. Through publications, conferences, seminars educational programs, local activities, and technical committees, the Societies aim to:

• Address the theory and application of filtering, coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analyzing, recognizing, synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals by digital or analog devices or techniques.
• Foster original work in all aspects of signal processing communications science, engineering, and technology
• Encourage the development of applications that use signals to transfer voice, data, image, and/or video information between locations
• Promote the theory and use of systems involving all types of terminals, computers, and information processors; all pertinent systems and operations that facilitate transfer; all transmission media; switched and unswitched networks; and network layouts, protocols, architectures, and implementations
• Strongly advance developments toward meeting new market demands in systems, products, and technologies such as personal communications services, multimedia communications systems, enterprise networks, and optical communications systems.

The joint Queensland chapter consists of all IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Society members who live in Queensland and North Queensland.

The main activities organised by the Chapter are talks, seminars, workshops, site visits and conferences. These events allow us to further our knowledge in the field as well as provide an opportunity to share ideas and network with our colleagues around the world.

Membership of the IEEE Communications Society or IEEE Signal Processing Society provides a range of benefits including:

• Access to the world’s leading communications, signal processing magazines and journal publications
• Discounted access to leading communications conferences such as ICASSP, SPAWC, Globecom, Infocom, WCNC, ICC and student travel grants.
• Involvement in technical committees to define and implement the technical directions of the Societies
• Eligibility for awards and peer recognition

If you are interested in joining the chapter please contact the chapter chair. More information on IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Societies can be found below.

IEEE Communications Society

IEEE Signal Processing Society

Speaker: Ollencio (Olly) D’Souza of TechnologyCare

Location: Building: S405T, S-Block, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4001

Date: 12-April-2012

Time: 12:00PM to 03:00PM (3.00 hours)

URL: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/11711

The 12th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (www.iscit2012.org) (October 2 - 5, 2012, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia)

Under the joint technical sponsorship of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (USA), the joint Queensland Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Societies, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication (EIC) of Japan, the ECTI Association of Thailand and the Korea Information and Communications Society (KICS), the conference will provide a forum for researchers, engineers and industry experts to discuss recent development, new ideas and break-throughs in communications and information technologies. The theme of the conference is “Communications and Information Technologies for Sustainable Economy”. The conference will also offer an exciting social program in Surfers Paradise in the beautiful region of the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore database and in the Elsevier Ei Compendex. The conference will assign a Best Paper Award among all the papers submitted to the conference. For more information and the submission process please refer to the conference website.

Prof. Qian Zhang of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) delivered a talk in Brisbane Australia for IEEE communications society's distinguished lecture tour (DLT) on 22nd August 2011. The title of the talk was “Cooperation in Cognitive Networks and was held at the Gibson room of Queensland university of Technology. It was attended by a mix of academic staff, students and industry. The talk was paced and formatted skillfully to address the need of the wider audience. Prof. Qian provided a broader insight into the cognitive radio and cooperation concepts. She also presented some recent advances in these areas. She also highlighted the importance of regulatory initiatives in these areas and the importance of spectrum efficiency measures for the future of wireless communications networks. There were some interesting questions from the audience at the end of the talk. The talk was followed by morning tea sponsored by the IEEE Queensland Section. This provided further networking opportunity for the audience.

Technical Seminar : Intelligent Surveillance & Video Analytics: Improved Security or Operational Excellence?