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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.
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.
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.
WNYIPW 2014
November 22, 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.