Signal Processing Cup

The IEEE SP Cup is a competition that provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to form teams and work together to solve a challenging and interesting real-world problem using signal-processing techniques and methods. Three teams will be selected to present their work, and prizes will be awarded at ICASSP 2015.

The competition title is

Heart Rate Monitoring During Physical Exercise Using Wrist-Type Photoplethysmographic (PPG) Signals

For details of the competition project, please click here.
This competition is proposed by the Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee.

The Signal Processing Cup final took place on Monday 20 April 2015.

SP Cup

We are pleased to announce the final ranking:

  • 1st  prize
    Signal Processing Crew Darmstadt
    Tim Schaeck, Christian Sledz, Hauke Radtki, Maximilian Huettenrauch, Patrick Wenzel, Bastian Alt, Alaa Alameer, Michael Muma, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
  • 2nd prize
    Supersignal
    Anik Khan, Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury, Rakib Hyder, Zahid Hasan, Md. Samzid Bin Hafiz, Mohammad Ariful Haque, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  • 3rd prize
    SSU
    Sunho Kim, Minkyu Jung, Hyunil Kang, Jungsub Lee, Gyehyun Baek, Baeksan On, Sungbin Im, Soongsil University
  • 4th place
    MIDITHA
    Vijitha Periyasamy, Abhishek Narwekar, Pradyumna Suresha, Navaneet Lakshminarasimha Murthy, Pavan C Madhusudana, Prasanta Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
  • 5th place
    Fractal
    Sk. Tanvir Ahamed, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Ishmam Zabir, Md. Tahmid Yasar, Shahriar Sabrir khan, Celia Shahnaz (supervisor), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
  • 6th place
    UNSW
    Kai Lin, James Smith, Ross Leon, Robert Makepeace, Nicholas Cummins, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, The University of New South Wales 
  • 7th place
    BigLeg@SMIE
    Zihao Zhang, Jian Liu, Xiaoyue Wu, Chaoying Wang, Qiaosheng Liang, Yuxuan Wang, Keke Li, Ran Yang, Sun Yat-sen University 
  • 8th place
    ACRI_MEMS
    Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Mohsen Eskandari, Ehsan Asadi, Shahrzad Kianidehkordi, Farokh Marvasti, Advanced Communications Research Institute (ACRI) 
  • 9th place
    UTDistinct
    Chengzhi Zong, Vasu Jindal, Michael Wertz, Jaejin Cho, Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas 
  • 10th place
    Taipei Amoeba
    Kuan-Lin Chen, Tzu-Ming Hsu, Wei-Yu Chen, Mong-Chi Ko, Yu-Cheng Liu, An-Yeu Wu, National Taiwan University 
  • 11th place
    NSS TRACK
    Jasir Vanduthodi, Johns Pius Thuluvah, Jisha Jayadevan Edathoot, Jenet Devassy Parokkaran, Angel  Mariya Panjikkaran, Nandakumar Paramparambath, NSS College of Engineering 
  • 12th place
    MARG_SnLJ
    Jaehun Kim, Dongsuk Sung, Sangil Lee, Howoong Jun, Kyogu Lee, Seoul National University 
  • 13th place
    Camellia
    Matthew O’Donovan, Laura Fennelly, Caitlin Keane, Andrey Temko, University College Cork

 

Participation in the Competition:
Each team participating in the competition is to be composed of one faculty member (whose role is the supervisor of the team members), at most one graduate student (who will assist the supervisor in supervising the undergraduate team members), and at least 3 but no more than 10 undergraduates. At least three of the undergraduate team members must be either IEEE SP members or student members.

Participating teams must submit their project by February 9, 2015 (11.59pm UTC). Each submission should include a report, in the form of an IEEE conference paper, on the technical details of the methods used and the results, as well as the programs developed (MATLAB is preferred). Participating teams must register to join the competition by January 16, 2015. The online registration system will be open in September 2014. By March 6, 2015, the best 3 teams will be identified to participate in the final competition at ICASSP2015.
Team registration for SP Cup 2015 is available via this link: https://www2.securecms.com/SPCup/Registration.asp

Important Dates:

Team registration to join the SP Cup competition:

January 16, 2015 (Friday)

Submission deadline for participating teams:

February 9, 2015 (Monday)
(11.59pm UTC)

Announcement of the best 3 teams:

March 6, 2015 (Friday)

Final competition at ICASSP 2015:

April 20, 2015 (Monday)

Team Prizes:

The champion:

$5,000

The first runner-up:

$2,500

The second runner-up:

$1,500

Each team invited to ICASSP2015 will have their travel expenses supported by the SP Society. Each team member is offered up to $1200 for continental travel, or $1,700 for intercontinental travel, and at most 3 people from each team will be supported.

Organisers:
Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee (BISP TC)
IEEE SPS Student Services Committee

Sponsor:

MathWorks logo

 

 

MathWorks is pleased to sponsor the 2015 SP Cup. MathWorks will provide complimentary software, including MATLAB and selected toolboxes, to teams registered for the SP Cup for use in the competition.

Enquiries:
Technical problems: zhilinzhang@ieee.org
General enquiry: sp-enq-spcup@ieee.org