Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

R. Gribonval was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for contributions to the theory and applications of sparse signal processing.

Frédéric Bimbot was General Chairman of the Interspeech 2013 Conference in Lyon which gathered around 1400 participants.

The IEEE 2012 SPS Young Author Best Paper Award has been awarded to Ngoc Duong [4] , former Ph.D. student in the METISS team.