IEEE Signal Processing Society


The IEEE Signal Processing Society is a society of the IEEE. It is also known by the acronym IEEE SPS. In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Signal Processing Society is one of close to 40 technical societies organized under the IEEE's Technical Activities Board. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is IEEE's first technical Society.
From the IEEE SPS web site, the mission of the society is defined to be:
and the field of interest is defined to be:

History

The Signal Processing society was formed in 1948 as the Professional Group on Audio of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

Activities

The Society organizes many conferences every year and operates local chapters around the world. It coordinates the operation of several councils, task forces, and technical committees.

Publications

The Signal Processing Society oversees the publication of nine periodicals, including a magazine, newsletter and scholarly journals:
Co-sponsored journals include:
Digital Library:
The IEEE Signal Processing electronic Library is a comprehensive electronic collection of more than 50 years of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's periodicals, which includes all four transactions and letters, newsletters, magazines, and technical proceedings of the two major Society conferences and of most workshops. IEEE SPeL also features four joint transactions, which the Society is a partner. The library collection is available on three DVD-ROMs. It has a search engine, which allows searches based on full-text, as well as searches by such fields as author, title, subject and date. The collection provides a comprehensive database, which contains information about the technical articles that are published in the Society's journals.

Conferences

The Society organizes, sponsors, and co-sponsors numerous conferences and workshops every year. A list of them can be found .