Awards

Technical Committee

Awards

Award Committee Members

• Chair: Chia-Wen Lin
• Members: Fengqing Maggie Zhu, Giuseppe Valenzise, Guo-Jun Qi

One of the major duties of our TC is to send endorsed nominations to the SPS Awards Board for annual Paper and Major Awards.  The Awards Subcommittee does not originate these nominations, but rather calls for nominations from the TC membership (and other sources), sends slates of candidates to the TC membership for voting, collects votes, determines the winners, and forwards the endorsed nominations (at most one in each category) to the SPS Awards Board on behalf of the TC.

Recent awards nominated by the TC

• (2023) One paper nominated by the TC won the SPS Best Paper Award: H. Talebi and P. Milanfar, "NIMA: Neural Image Assessment," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 3998-4011, Aug. 2018.
• (2023) Junhui Hou, nominated by the TC, was selected as a co-recipient of the ICME 2023 Multimedia Rising Star Award.

Award nomination rules

Paper Awards

• Best Paper Award
• Young Author Best Paper Award
• SP Magazine Best Paper Award
• SP Magazine Best Column Award

Anyone (inside or outside the TC) can nominate papers in any of the following publications:

• Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

• Transactions on Image Processing

• Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

• Transactions on Signal Processing

• Signal Processing Magazine

Unfortunately, only papers appearing in one of the SP Society's solely owned Transactions (or SP Magazine) can be nominated, which rules out the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.  The Best Paper Award can be for any Transactions paper appearing in the previous 5 calendar years, the Young Author Best Paper Award (for authors under 30 at time of submission) can be for any Transactions paper appearing in the previous 3 calendar years, and the SP Magazine Award can be for any Magazine paper appearing before ICASSP of the current year.

  See the above links for eligibility details and previous winners.

Schedule

• June 1: TC is sent Call for Nominations for the SPS Paper Awards, due July 1.
• July 8: TC is sent Slate of Candidates, Ballot and Call for Votes, due July 29.
• August 5: If necessary, TC is sent Second-Round Ballot and Call for Votes, due August 26.
• September 1: Winners are announced to TC and endorsed nominations are sent to SPS Awards Board.

Sample Paper Award Nominations Form can be found on the Awards page under each individual award.

Major Awards

• Society Award
• Technical Achievement Award
• Meritorious Service Award

There is also an Education Award, whose nominations are endorsed by the Education TC.  See the above links for eligibility details and previous winners.

Schedule

• July 1: TC is sent Call for Nominations for the SPS Major Awards, due July 29.
• August 5: TC is sent Slate of Candidates, Ballot and Call for Votes, due August 26.
• September 1: If necessary, TC is sent Second-Round Ballot and Call for Votes, due September 23.
• October 1: Winners are announced to TC and endorsed nominations are sent to SPS Awards Board.

Sample of Major Award Nomination Form can be found on the Awards page under each award type.

Voting Procedures

We use the following procedure established by the IMDSP TC: http://www.mit.edu/~vgoyal/IMDSP/VotingProcedures.htm.