2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Announced

John Treichler
SPS Vice President–Awards and Membership

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 2010 awards during ICASSP 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.

SOCIETY AWARD:
Martin Vetterli, “for fundamental contributions to signal processing theory, technology and education.”

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Aggelos Katsaggelos, “for outstanding contributions to the fields of image and video processing.”

José M. F. Moura, “for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing.”

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD:
Lin-shan Lee, “for extraordinary service to the speech and signal processing for communications communities.”

Nikos D. Sidiropoulos, “for dedicated service and leadership in the field of signal processing for communications and networking.”

EDUCATION AWARD:
Richard Baraniuk, “for founding and promoting Connexions, a website to develop, use, and share free educational content.”

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD:

• Qing Zhao and Brian M. Sadler for the paper entitled, “A Survey of Dynamic Spectrum Access,” published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 24, Number 3, May 2007.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD:

• James L. Flanagan, for the paper entitled, “Parametric Representation of Speech Signals,” published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 27, Number 3, May 2010.

BEST PAPER AWARD RECIPIENTS:

• 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.
• Tülay Adali, Hualiang Li, Mike Novey and Jean-François Cardoso for the paper entitled, “Complex ICA Using Nonlinear Functions,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 56, Number 9, September 2008.
• Dmitry Malioutov, Müjdat Çetin and Alan S. Willsky for the paper entitled, “A Sparse Signal Reconstruction Perspective for Source Localization With Sensor Arrays,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 53, Number 8, August 2005.
• Steven Thomas Smith for the paper entitled, “Statistical Resolution Limits and the Complexified Cramér–Rao Bound,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 53, Number 5, May 2005.
• Jeremy Morris and Eric Fosler-Lussier for the paper entitled, “Conditional Random Fields for Integrating Local Discriminative Classifiers,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 16, Number 3, March 2008.
• Hiroyuki Takeda, Sina Farsiu and Peyman Milanfar for the paper entitled, “Kernel Regression for Image Processing and Reconstruction,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 16, Number 2, February 2007.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD RECIPIENTS:

• Kostadin Dabov for the paper co-authored with Alessandro Foi, Vladimir Katkovnik and Karen Egiazarian entitled, “Image Denoising by Sparse 3-D Transform-Domain Collaborative Filtering,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 16, Number 8, August 2007.
• Zhen-Hua Ling for the paper co-authored with Korin Richmond, Junichi Yamagishi, and Ren-Hua Wang entitled, “Integrating Articulatory Features Into HMM-Based Parametric Speech Synthesis,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, And Language Processing, Volume 17, Number 6, August 2009.
• 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.
• Geoffrey San Antonio for the paper co-authored with Daniel R. Fuhrmann and Frank C. Robey entitled, “MIMO Radar Ambiguity Functions,” published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 1, Number 1, June 2007.
• Duc Son Pham for the paper co-authored with Abdelhak M. Zoubir entitled, “Analysis of Multicomponent Polynomial Phase Signals,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 55, Number 1, January 2007.
• Liang Sun and Matthew R. McKay for the paper co-authored with Shi Jin entitled, “Analytical Performance of MIMO Multichannel Beamforming in the Presence of Unequal Power Cochannel Interference and Noise,”published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 57, Number 7, July 2009.