The processing of digital information is ubiquitous in modern telecommunications, consumer electronics, medicine, and a wide range of industrial areas. In our daily life we have become dependent on the intelligent way mobile phones and computers communicate and process all sorts of digital information. Similarly professionals such as biologists and medical specialists need advanced information processing equipment to do their job.  

When we say Intelligent Information Processing we refer to the smart way of  hiding, compression, filtering, analysis, and recognition of digital data, such as digital speech and audio signals, digital video, and multimedia signals, encountered in telecommunications and consumer electronics, digital images, encountered in all kinds of industrial applications, biochemical measurements of DNA and proteins, encountered in the field of genomics and proteomics. The research and education of the 10 permanent faculty members and approximately 30 Ph.D./postdoctoral researchers of the ICT Group reflects the above spectrum of data and processing. The research themes range from multimedia processing and content management, to pattern recognition, cryptology, and bioinformatics. Education ranges from (stochastic) signal processing to data analysis and cryptography.

The Information and Communication Theory Group is in the Department of Mediamatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS) of the Delft University of Technology.

The group is involved in B.Sc. and M.Sc. courses in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Media and Knowledge Engineering, and Bioinformatics.