Department of Signal Processing

Department of Signal Processing is part of the Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering. Signal processing has been chosen as one of the strategic top fields of research specially supported by TUT. We have here among the many active researcher groups The Signal Processing Algorithm Group (SPAG) twice elected as Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence.

We offer studies combining signal processing of e.g. audio, images, video and biological signals, and hardware and software systems related with them. Different digital signals such as speech in mobile phones, sound in CD and mp3 devices, images and video in digital cameras and television as well as signals in measurement systems can be analyzed and processed with means of signal processing.

More than 180 people work in the Department of Signal Processing. Our teaching personnel consists of about 20 people from which 10 are professors. Around 50 of our personnel is working on a M.Sc. thesis and roughly 85 on a Ph.D. thesis. In addition to the researchers, we hire yearly several students as research assistants or summer employees. Our researchers have been employed mainly to the industry and research institutes.

Nearly half of our personnel, researchers and students come from countries outside of Finland. Every year dozens of international specialists of signal processing visit our Tampere International Center for Signal Processing (TICSP) and our researchers often go and visit international universities and conferences.  Our  Department has an international and relaxed atmosphere.