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Rochester, NY Chapter

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Welcome to the Rochester Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society!

Here you can find the latest news about our upcoming events in the local area.  We encourage anyone with an interest in signal processing to attend our events.

IEEE involvement can offer a rich networking and professional development resource.  If you have any comments or are interested in volunteering, please contact us.


Chapter Officers

  • Chair: Alex Byrley, Mastodon Design
  • Vice-Chair: Eric Zeise, Consultant
  • Previous Chair (2017-2000): Ray Ptucha, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Previous Chair (2012-2017): Nathan Cahill, Rochester Institute of Technology

WNYISPW 2021

The 2021 Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop will be held on October 22nd, 2021 from 8:30am to 5:30pm.


Upcoming Seminars & Meetings



Select Previous Seminars & Meetings

Oct 4, 2019

WNYISPW2019 workshop website
Keynote speakers Dr. David Doermann, University at Buffalo, "Media Manipulation and its Threat on Democracy" and Dr. Andrew Gallagher, Google, "Embracing Uncertainty: Knowing When We Don't Know". Invited speakers Mujdat Cetin (Univ of Rochester), Gonzalo Mateos (Univ of Rochester), Rob Phipps (VisualDx), and Junsong Yuan (University at Buffalo).
Tutorials: Jianghao Wang (Mathworks), "Demystifying deep learning: A practical approach in MATLAB"; and Sidney Pendelberry (RIT), "Research Computing Tutorial".

  • Time: 09h00 - 17h00
  • Location: Rochester Institute of Technology, SLA Rochester, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
Oct 5, 2018

WNYISPW2018 workshop website
Keynote speakers Simon Lucey. Industry partner presentations and Mathworks. Invited speakers Brad Palmer (NVIDIA), Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College), Linwei Wang (RIT), Chenliang Xu (UofR), Richard Zanibbi (RIT), Zhengwu Zhang (UofR), and Christopher J. James (Univ of Warwick).

  • Time: 09h00 - 17h00
  • Location: Rochester Institute of Technology, SLA Rochester, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
Nov 17, 2017

WNYISPW2017 workshop website
Keynote speakers David Crandall and Gao Huang. Industry partner presentations and Mathworks. Invited speakers Edgar A. Bernal, Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Anh Nguyen, and Kevin Parker.

  • Time: 09h00 - 17h00
  • Location: Rochester Institute of Technology, SLA Rochester, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
April 04, 2017

Importance of Motion in Digital Video Imaging
(Majid Rabanni, Rochester Institute of Technology)

  • Time: 18h00 - 19h00
  • Location: RIT Institute Hall (INS), Room 1180 Henrietta, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
April 05, 2017

Tracking and 3-D Gaze of Humans
(Gabriel Diaz, Rochester Institute of Technology)

  • Time: 16h30 - 17h30
  • Location: RIT SLA, Room 2140 Henrietta, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
April 19, 2017

When Machine Learning Takes over Audio Signal Processing
(Paris Smaragdis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Time: 12h00 - 13h00
  • Location: University of Rochester, Computer Studies Building (CSB) 209 Rochester, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
Nov 18, 2016

WNYISPW2016 workshop website
Keynote speakers Jiebo Luo and Jason Yosinski. Industry partner presentations by NVIDIA and Mathworks. Invited speakers Nathan Cahill, Zhiyao Duan, Barton Fiske, Allison Gray, Christopher Kanan, Neeti Narayan, Shagan Sah

  • Time: 09h00 - 17h00
  • Location: Rochester Institute of Technology, SLA Rochester, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
April 17, 2016

Automatically Generating Natural Language Descriptions for Videos
(Subhashini Venugopalan, UT Austin)

  • Time: 18h00 - 19h00
  • Location: RIT Institute Hall (INS), Room 1140 Henrietta, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
December 4, 2015 WNYIPW 2015

September 21, 2015

Putting the Pieces Together: Assembling Puzzles and Shredded Documents
(Dr. Andrew Gallagher, Google, Inc.)

  • Time: 13h00 - 14h00
  • Location: RIT James E. Gleason Hall (GLE), Room 2580 (Xerox Auditorium); Henrietta, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
March 9, 2015

Surveillance from 9/11 to Boston: Will Crowd Sourced Surveillance Make Us Safer?
(Dr. Patrick J. Flynn, University of Notre Dame)

  • Time: 18h30 - 19h30
  • Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York, United States.  Please see online map.
November 7, 2014
WNYIPW 2014

November 22, 2013

WNYIPW 2013

October 1, 2013 - IEEE Day

Transcribing the Pitch Content of Polyphonic Music Audio
(Dr. Zhiyao Duan, University of Rochester)

  • Time: 18h30 - 19h30
  • Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York, United States.  Please see online map.

August 8, 2013

Joint Physical-layer and System-level Power Management for Delay-Sensitive Wireless Communications
(Dr. Nicholas Mastronarde, State University of New York at Buffalo)

  • Time: 18h30 - 19h30
  • Location: RIT Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Building 76 Room 1125 (auditorium); Henrietta, New York, United States.  Please see online map.