Our Digital Life Podcast: A series by IEEE-SPS

In this interesting episode of IEEE Signal Processing Society podcast, Dr. Kashyap Patel, Research Scientist from Audio DSP and Machine Learning, Meta Platforms, Inc. interviews Professor Issa M.S. Panahi from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Their conversation sheds light on the global need for accessible and affordable hearing support devices. Professor Issa M.S. Panahi Prof. Panahi is a Professor in the Department...

In this episode of IEEE Signal processing Society podcast, Dr. Shinji Watanabe, an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University interviews two guests: Dr. Jonathan Le Roux, Distinguished Research Scientist and Dr. Gordon Wichern, both from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). Dr. Jonathan Le Roux Dr. Jonathan Le Roux is a Distinguished Research Scientist and Senior Team Leader at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Massachusetts. His research interests ...

In this episode, Prof. Hung-yi Lee, Professor at National Taiwan University, interviews Dr. Jinyu Li, Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft. Their conversation traces the evolution of speech translation from traditional cascaded pipelines to today's end-to-end, large language model (LLM)-powered systems. Jinyu Li Dr. Jinyu Li is Partner Applied Science Manager at Microsoft, where he leads a science team advancing speech, translation, and language technologies. He is an IEEE Fello...

In this episode, Nantheera Anantrasirichai (Pui), Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bristol, interviews Professor Alin Achim, Chair of Computational Imaging at the University of Bristol. Their conversation focuses on synthetic aperture radar (SAR), interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), and the role of computational imaging, signal processing, and machine learning in earth observation. Alin Achim Professor Alin Achim is Chair of Computational Imaging at the Univers...

In this episode, Marco Huber speaks with Marija Ivanovska, Assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. They discuss face morphing attacks and their impact on biometric identity systems, exploring how morphed images can deceive face recognition technologies used in passports and ID documents. The conversation also examines emerging approaches to detecting these attacks, including foundation models, multimodal AI, synthetic data, and other advances in ...