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Abdelhak Zoubir Editor-in-Chief
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Applications of Signal Processing in Engineering and Beyond
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n my inaugural editorial, published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM) in January 2012, I quoted a leader of an automotive company in Germany who said, “The application of signal processing in the automotive industry has become of great importance to us and will play a major role in future activities of our company.” This issue of SPM includes a “Special Reports” column by Ron Schneiderman, where he reports on the importance of signal processing in automotive technology and highlights a wide range of signal processing applications. Undoubtedly, this area of engineering presents new challenges to the signal proDigital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2012.2226293 Date of publication: 5 December 2012
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE Abdelhak Zoubir, Editor-in-Chief — Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany AREA EDITORS Feature Articles — Marc Moonen, KU Leuven, Belgium Columns and Forum — Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London, UK and Andres Kwasinski, Rochester Institute of Technology Special Issues — Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa, Italy e-Newsletter — Z. Jane Wang, University of British Columbia EDITORIAL BOARD Moeness G. Amin — Villanova University Sergio Barbarossa — University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy Jeff Bilmes — University of Washington Helmut Bölcskei — ETH Zürich, Switzerland Yen-Kuang Chen — Intel Corporation Bernd Girod — Stanford University Jenq-Neng Hwang — University of Washington Michael Jordan — University of California, Berkeley Visa Koivunen — Aalto University, Finland Vikram Krishnamurthy — University of British Columbia Jian Li — University of Florida–Gainesville Mark Liao — National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Hongwei Liu — Xidian University, China Tom Luo — University of Minnesota V. John Mathews — University of Utah
cessing practitioner, not only because of the continuous introduction of new legislations, such as safety regulations, but also because automobile manufacturers continuously seek new ways to differentiate their vehicles. In the November 2012 issue, SPM published the “Life Sciences” column “Computational Prediction of Important Regions in Protein Sequences.” The author showed how extracting functional regions from linear protein sequences shares many similarities with problems in signal processing, which suggests the application of signal processing tools to solving a problem in life science. The power of the signal processing discipline is its application to diverse areas of engineering and beyond. We are living in a most interesting and challenging era
Satoshi Nakamura — Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Kuldip Paliwal — Griffith University, Australia Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu — Télécom ParisTech, France H. Vincent Poor — Princeton University Ali Sayed — University of California, Los Angeles Yoram Singer — Google Research Victor Solo — University of New South Wales, Australia Sergios Theodoridis — University of Athens, Greece Patrick J. Wolfe — Harvard University Min Wu — University of Maryland ASSOCIATE EDITORS— COLUMNS AND FORUM Rodrigo Capobianco Guido — University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Aleksandra Mojsilovic — IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Douglas O’Shaughnessy — INRS, Canada Gene Cheung — National Institute of Informatics Alessandro Vinciarelli — IDIAP–EPFL Michael Gormish — Ricoh Innovations, Inc. Xiaodong He — Microsoft Research Fatih Porikli — MERL Stefan Winkler — UIUC/ADSC, Singapore Carlos Óscar Sánchez Sorzano — UAM, Spain Azadeh Vosoughi — University of Rochester Danilo Mandic — Imperial College, UK Roberto Togneri — The University of Western Australia Lina Karam — Arizona State University
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due to the continuous growth of interdisciplinary research that opens doors, not only for solving specific problems, but also developing new tools that derive from the application. SPM is a tutorial-style magazine that brings to the signal processing community bimonthly survey articles of the most recent advances in signal processing theory and applications. For this issue, I invited Andrea Cavallaro and Andres Kwasinski, the area editors for columns and forum, to write a brief on their editorial work. I encourage you to submit manuscripts for columns and forum, and make suggestions for timely topics for special issues and feature articles.
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