Researchers in the Signal Processing area are driving improvements in human-computer interaction, speech recognition and synthesis, medical and scientific imaging, and communications systems.
Work in speech and language engineering seeks to understand human language faculties and to develop computer systems with comparable faculties. Dynamic MRI, fast computed tomography, electron microscopy, laser imaging of ocean mines, and passive radar imaging of aircraft using radio and television signals are among the imaging systems being developed. Signal processing faculty collaborate closely with colleagues in communications and VLSI circuits to design next-generation microsystems.