2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Announced

Michael Zoltowski
SPS Vice President - Awards and Membership

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On behalf of the Awards Board and the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), it is my great pleasure to congratulate the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious 2009 awards during ICASSP 2010 in Dallas, Texas.
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SOCIETY AWARD:

Rama Chellappa, "for pioneering and fundamental contributions to image and video-based analysis and understanding."
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TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:

Alan S. Willsky, "for originality and innovation in stochastic mutliresolution modeling in statistical and graphical modeling, and in probabilistic control-driven signal processing."

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K. J. Ray Liu, "for pioneering and outstanding contributions for the advances of signal processing in multimedia forensics, security, and wireless communications."

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MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD:

Arye Nehorai "for exceptional and dedicated service as a leader in a broad range of activities for the Society and profession."

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Isabel Maria Martins Trancoso, "for outstanding service and leadership to the worldwide community in the field of speech processing."

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EDUCATION AWARD:

Robert M. Gray, "for outstanding contributions to education and mentoring in signal processing."

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IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD:

• Neal Patwari, Joshua N. Ash, Spyros Kyperountas, Alfred O. Hero, III, Randolph L. Moses and Neiyer S. Correal, for the paper entitled, "Locating the Nodes: Cooperative Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 22, Number 4, July 2005.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD:

• Richard G. Baraniuk, for the paper entitled, "Compressive Sensing [Lecture Notes]," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 24, Number 4, July 2007.

BEST PAPER AWARD RECIPIENTS:

• Zhou Wang, Alan Conrad Bovik, Hamid Rahim Sheikh, and Eero P. Simoncelli, for the paper entitled, "Image Quality Assessment: From Error Visibility to Structural Similarity," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 13, Number 4, April 2004.
• Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo and Shuzhong Zhang, for the paper entitled, "Dynamic Spectrum Management: Complexity and Duality," published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 2, Number 1, February 2008.
• Quentin H. Spencer, A. Lee Swindlehurst, and Martin Haardt, for the paper entitled, "Zero-Forcing Methods for Downlink Spatial Multiplexing in Multiuser MIMO Channels," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 52, Number 2, February 2004.
• Chul Min Lee and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, for the paper entitled, "Toward Detecting Emotions in Spoken Dialogs," published in the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Volume 13, Number 2, March 2005.
• 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.
• Genyuan Wang and Moeness G. Amin, for the paper entitled, "Imaging Through Unknown Walls Using Different Standoff Distances," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 54, Number 10, October 2006.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD RECIPIENTS:

• Tomoki Toda, for the paper co-authored with Alan W. Black and Keiichi Tokuda entitled, "Voice Conversion Based on Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Spectral Parameter Trajectory," published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 15, Number 8, November 2007.
• Florian Luisier, for the paper co-authored with Thierry Blu and Michael Unser entitled, "A New SURE Approach to Image Denoising: Interscale Orthonormal Wavelet Thresholding," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 16, Number 3, March 2007.