Applied Signal Processing

In Applied Signal Processing we focus on developing signal processing methods to address physically inspired or physically motivated problems arising in real applications, primarily in wireless communications and audio. Although the group uses advanced mathematical methods and modeling, the development of such mathematical tools only plays a secondary role. The group's research ranges from the development of fundamental limits, to implementation issues and experimental investigations.

The Applied Signal Processing Group conducts research in the following application areas:

• Telecommunications including Wireless and Mobile Communications -- all aspects of physical layer communications relevant to IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications.
• Applied Information Theory -- Information theory applied to physical communication systems such as time varying wireless channels; interdisciplinary works connecting neuroscience and communications.
• Space-Time Signal Processing -- Fundamental limits to the information content of wavefields in space with applications to information transfer in multiple antenna communication systems.
• Acoustic and Audio Signal Processing -- Design and analysis of microphone arrays; speaker arrays for surround sound synthesis; modeling, analysis and laboratory measurements of head related transfer functions; spatial audio; soundfield modeling; audio related imaging techniques.
• Broadband and Nearfield Sensor Arrays and Beamforming -- Theory and design of broadband array design; methodologies that deal with the nearfield apsects.
• Bio-Signal Processing -- Emerging application area with projects in ion channel modeling; Signal processing methods for heart rate variability; Real-time non-rigid registration of multi-modal medical images; and general interdisciplinary interests connecting engineering and biology.

Target achival journals span: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, and IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.