IEEE SPS 5-Minute Video Clip Contest

Let There Be a Beam!

The IEEE Signal Processing Society is excited to announce the finalists of the first SPS 5-Minute Video Clip Contest!

The voting platform is now open, and you can help support the final three teams by voting for your favorite video! Cast your vote by 11:59 PM (ET) on Wednesday, 6 May 2020. You may only vote once.

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This year’s topic, Let There Be a Beam!, asked students to explore beamforming, which, based on a spatially distributed array of sensors (antennas, microphones, hydrophones, etc.), can form a beam in space for enhanced signal reception or transmission, which has a wide range of applications, such as radar, sonar, teleconferencing, radio astronomy, seismology, medical diagnosis and treatment, human computer interface, and wireless communications, etc. Students were also welcome to submit “open topic” videos about subjects besides beamforming.

Finalist Videos

Grand Prize
$5,000
Runner up
$2,500
Runner up
$2,500
Video Title: An Indoor Localization System Exploiting LTE Signals: A Synthetic Aperture-Based Beamforming Approach to Mitigate MultipathVideo Title: Fast beam alignment in millimeter wave radiosVideo Title: Co-prime Beamforming and Its Application to Speech Processing
University of California, IrvineThe University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Wollongong
Supervisor: Zaher (Zak) KassasSupervisor: Robert W. Heath Jr.Supervisor: Christian Ritz
Students:
Zainab Ashai
Xinyi Zhong
Qitai Meng
Ali Abdallah  
Students:
Juliet M. Leger
Kayla N. Tran
Frida K. Maldonado
Nitin Jonathan Myers
Students:
Jiahong Zhao
Hualin Ren
Zishan Gao
Hantao Zeng 

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