News & Events 2016

A new paper from the group has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

December, 2016

The following paper from the group has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory:

T. Koch, “The Shannon lower bound is asymptotically tight,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 11, November 2016.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

November, 2016

The paper “Monte Carlo Methods through an Online Scheme for Convergence Assessment” by Víctor Elvira, Joaquín Míguez and Petar M. Djuric has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

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DroidsareHacking Team wins Hackathon Telefónica Third Prize

October, 2016

DroidsareHacking Team wins Hackathon Telefónica Third Prize. The DroidsareHacking Team is composed of Juanjo Campaña (GTS Group), Miguel Molina and Juan de Toro. The prizes are supported by Telefónica and Qualcomm Technologies. The goal of this initiative is the development of mobile applications based on Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that contribute to the improvement of our society. DroidsareHacking Team has developed a mobile application that detects the fall of elderly people and send alerts. More information about the prize: Hackathon Telefónica 2016.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in Digital Signal Processing

October, 2016

The paperCooperative Parallel Particle Filters for online model selection and applications to Urban Mobility by L. Martino, J. Read, V. Elvira, and F. Louzada has been accepted for publication in Digital Signal Processing.

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Tobias Koch awarded ERC Starting Grant

September, 2016

Tobias Koch, who is a Visiting Professor and Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow in our group, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant, which is given every year to the best young researchers in Europe. He will receive funding from the ERC for the next 5 years to carry out his project Information Theory for Low-Latency Wireless Communications (LOLITA).

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

September, 2016

The paper «Multiantenna GLR Detection of Rank-One Signals with a Known Power Spectral Shape under Spatially Uncorrelated Noise» by  J. Sala-Alvarez, G. Vazquez-Vilar,  R. Lopez-Valcarce, S. Sedighi and A. Taherpour has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

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A new paper from the group has been published in the Proceedings of the IEEE

September, 2016

The following paper from the group has been published in the Proceedings of the IEEE:

G. Durisi, T. Koch, and P. Popovski, «Towards massive, ultrareliable, and low-latency wireless communication with short packets,» Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 104, No. 9, September 2016.

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Invited talk: Bernhard Geiger (TU Munich, Germany)

September, 2016

Join us for an invited talk with Bernhard Geiger (TU Munich, Germany)

  • Title: Information-Theory for Markov Aggregation and Clustering
  • Event Date: September 6, 12:00-13:00.
  • Location: Room 4.2.E03; Torres Quevedo Building; Leganés Campus; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in Signal Processing

September, 2016

The paperEffective Sample Size for Importance Sampling Based on the Discrepancy Measures by L. Martino, V. Elvira, and F. Louzada has been accepted for publication in Signal Processing.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing Letters

September, 2016

The paperHeretical Multiple Importance Sampling by V. Elvira, L. Martino, D. Luengo, and M. Bugallo has been accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in Digital Signal Processing

August, 2016

The paperOrthogonal Parallel MCMC Methods for Sampling and Optimization by L. Martino, V. Elvira, D. Luengo, J. Corander, and F. Louzada has been accepted for publication in Digital Signal Processing.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in Signal Processing

August, 2016

The paperImproving Population Monte Carlo: Alternative Weighting and Resampling Schemes by  V. Elvira, L. Martino, D. Luengo, and M. Bugallo has been accepted for publication in Signal Processing

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Invited talk: Elaheh Moradi (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

July, 2016

Join us for an invited talk with Elaheh Moradi (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

  • Title: Machine learning approaches for structural Brain MRI
  • Event Date: July, 5. 12:00-13:00.
  • Location: 7.1.J07 Room; Juan Benet Building; Leganés Campus; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory

July, 2016

The paper Multi-Class Source-Channel Coding” by  I. E. Bocharova, A. Guillen i Fabregas, B. D. Kudryashov, A. Martinez, A. Tauste Campo and G. Vazquez-Vilar has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

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Research Work GTS at 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

June, 2016

The following group members will be presenting their work at the upcoming 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

June, 2016

The paper The Shannon lower bound is asymptotically tight by T. Koch has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

May, 2016

The paper Bayesian M-ary Hypothesis Testing: The Meta-Converse and Verdú-Han Bounds are Tight by G. Vazquez-Vilar, A. Tauste Campo, A. Guillén i Fàbregas and A. Martinez has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

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A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication in Statistics and Computing

March, 2016

The paper “Layered Adaptive Importance Sampling” by L. Martino, V. Elvira, D. Luengo, and J. Corander has been accepted for publication in Statistics and Computing.

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Invited Talk: David López-Pérez (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent)

January, 2016

Join us for an invited talk with David López-Pérez (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent).

  • Title: «Understanding Capacity Scaling through Dense Deployments in Future Radio Access Networks«
  • Event Date: February, 4. 12:00-13:00.
  • Location: 4.2.E03 Room; Torres Quevedo Building; Leganés Campus; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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