IFS TC Awards

Awards

The IEEE Signal Processing Society grants a number of Awards to recognize the achievements of its members. The members of the IFS community who received such an award in the past are listed below. The awards are granted annually and presented during the next edition of ICASSP.

2015

• MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD: Min Wu for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.
• SUSTAINED IMPACT PAPER AWARD: Ingemar J. Cox, Joe Kilian, F. Thomson Leighton and Talal Shamoon for the paper titled, "Secure Spread Spectrum Watermarking for Multimedia", published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 6, Number 12, December 1997.
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Xiaoyang Tan and Bill Triggs for the paper titled, "Enhanced Local Texture Feature Sets for Face Recognition Under Difficult Lighting Conditions", published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 19, Number 6, June 2010.
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Tomás Pevný, Patrick Bas and Jessica Fridrich for the paper titled, "Steganalysis by Subtractive Pixel Adjacency Matrix", published in the Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 5, Number 2, June 2010.

2014

• SOCIETY AWARD: K. J. Ray Liu for influential technical contributions and profound leadership impact.
• SPS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER: Min Wu, 2015-2016 (Information Forensics, ENF Forensics, Multimedia & Security Education).
• YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD: Tomáš Filler, Jan Judas and Jessica Fridrich for the paper titled, "Minimizing Additive Distortion in Steganography Using Syndrome-Trellis Codes", published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 6, Number 3, September 2011.

2013

• SPS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER: Alex C. Kot, 2014-2015 (Biometrics, Multimedia Forensics).

2012

• SPS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER: Mauro Barni, 2013-2014 (Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain, Digital Watermarking, Multimedia Forensics, Distributed Compression of Hyperspectral Imagery).
• BEST PAPER AWARDS: Yagiz Sutcu, Qiming Li and Nasir Memon for the paper titled, "Protecting Biometric Templates with Sketch: Theory and Practice", published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 2, Number 3, December 2007; Robert Wilson, David Tse, and Robert A. Scholtz for the paper titled, "Channel Identification: Secret Sharing Using Reciprocity in Ultrawideband Channels", published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 2, Number 3, December 2007.

2011

• SPS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER: Ton Kalker, 2012-2013 (Digital Watermarking, Robust Hashing, Loudness Models, Digital Right Management, Secure Biometrics) and Pierre Moulin, 2012-2013 (Robust Hashing and its Applications for Content Identification, Information Embedding: From Theory to Practice, Statistical Signal Modeling: Model Validation and Performance Bounds).
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Tanya Ignatenko and Frans M. J. Willems for the paper entitled, "Biometric Systems: Privacy and Secrecy Aspects", published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 4, Number 4, December 2009.

2010

• SPS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER: Nasir Memon, 2011-2012 (Image Forensics: Collection, Search, Attribution and Authentication, Biometric Security and Privacy, Network Forensics, Advanced File Carving and Techniques, Image Steganography and Steganalysis).
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Siwei Lyu and Hany Farid for the paper entitled, "Steganalysis Using Higher-Order Image Statistics", published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2006.
• YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD: Karthik Nandakumar, for the paper co-authored with Anil K. Jain and Sharath Pankanti entitled, "Fingerprint-Based Fuzzy Vault: Implementation and Performance", published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 2, Number 4, December 2007.

2009

• TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: K. J. Ray Liu, "for pioneering and outstanding contributions for the advances of signal processing in multimedia forensics, security, and wireless communications."
• BEST PAPER AWARD: Jan Lukáŝ, Jessica Fridrich, and Miroslav Goljan, for the paper entitled, "Digital Camera Identification From Sensor Pattern Noise", published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 1, Number 2, June 2006.

2008

• SOCIETY AWARD: Edward J. Delp, "for technical contributions to the areas of multimedia security and image and video coding."
• MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD: Frederick C. Mintzer, "for service to the IEEE Signal Processing Society."
• EDUCATION AWARD: Bede Liu, "for outstanding contributions to graduate and undergraduate education and mentoring in signal processing."
• IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD: Mauro Barni, for the forum article entitled "What is the Future of Watermarking?" – Part I, published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 20, Number 5, September 2003, and Part II, Volume 20, Number 6, November 2003.
• YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD: H. Vicky Zhao, for her paper co-authored with K. J. Ray Liu entitled "Behavior Forensics for Scalable Multiuser Collusion: Fairness Versus Effectiveness," published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 1, Number 3, September 2006.