Current topics - Tampere University of Technology

The Summer School on 3D Media Technologies, User Experience, and Computational Architectures will be held on 12.08. - 16.08.2012 in Varala Sports Institute, Tampere.

Alessandro Foi , Matteo Maggioni, Antonietta Pepe, and Jussi Tohka from the Department of Signal Processing have won the “Biometric measurements from fetal ultrasound images” challenge organized in conjunction of prestigious ISBI (IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging) 2012 conference.

The Academy of Finland has awarded a five-year research fellowship to Tuomas Virtanen from the Department of Signal Processing starting on September 1st, 2012.

Professor Jaakko Astola from the Department of Signal Processing was one of the four professors elevated to EURASIP Fellow.

Academy Research Fellow Alessandro Foi from the Department of Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology has been invited and nominated as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) for the period of 30.1.2012 - 30.1.2015.

Francesco Cricri from Department of Signal Processing received the Best Student Paper Award in the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2011 (ISM).

EURASIP awarded Mejdi Trimeche the Best PhD Award for the year 2011 for his theses work entitled "Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction Using Non-Linear Filtering Technologies". Academy Professor Moncef Gabbouj from Department of Signal Processing was his supervisor.

Ph.D. Raija Lehto from Department of Signal Processing was elected to IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) Board of Governors (BoG) for the period of 1.1.2012 - 31.12.2014. Five new members were elected to BoG which consists of 15 members.

Tapio Manninen, Heikki Huttunen, Pekka Ruusuvuori, and Matti Nykter have a best performing leukemia predictor in the Molecular Classification of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Challenge in DREAM6 conference. The task in the challenge was to diagnose AML from patient samples using flow cytometry data.

M.Sc. Seyed Alireza Razavi will publicly defend his doctoral thesis "On Statistical Modelling and Hypothesis Testing by Information Theoretic Methods" on Friday 12 August 2011 starting at 12 in Tietotalo, TB109 at TUT, Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering.

Heikki Huttunen, Jukka-Pekka Kauppi, and Jussi Tohka have won the Mind reading from MEG challenge organized in conjunction of ICANN 2011 conference. The task in the challenge was to decode the stimulus identity based on magnetoencephalography (MEG) recording done during naturalistic stimulation.