Pervasive broadband: opportunities for signal processing

Summary form only given. With the emergence of broadband telecommunications, we are moving in well-measured steps from nearly universal telephony to increasingly pervasive multimedia services. The author describes some of the fundamental opportunities that this context presents to the practitioners of advanced signal processing. These opportunities span conventional media processing disciplines such as signal capture, compression, synthesis, recognition and information retrieval, as well as a rich collection of technologies that has come to be known as communications signal processing. He remarks particularly on opportunities for enhancing lifestyle in the broadband-enabled home of the future.