Signals

Signal processing pervades ICT, and application areas from remote sensing and prospecting to industrial control. The Signal Processing research line is organized in two groups, Remote Sensing (Geophysics, Synthetic Aperture Radar), Signal processing for multimedia and telecommunications (Video and Image Processing, Audio Processing, Signal Processing for wireless communications). Both groups share the digital signal methodologies that were first developed for Geophysics and Audio processing, and then for Image processing and other applications. In the past, the group proposed motion-compensated video coding (1968), developed seismic migration in the 2D frequency domain (1975), and implemented the very first video digital satellite transmission (Sirio day, February 3, 1983). In the past two decades the Signal Processing research line has proven its ability to adapt and to respond quickly and effectively to the needs of Industry through novel intelligent signal processing methods. This ability has been widely proven through numerous industrial projects, and the many National, European and International projects.