2012 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 2012 awards during ICASSP 2013.

SOCIETY AWARD: José M. F. Moura, "For outstanding technical contributions and leadership in signal processing."

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Shih-Fu Chang, "For pioneering contributions to signal processing for multimedia content analysis and retrieval."

Ali H. Sayed, "For fundamental contributions to adaptive and statistical signal processing."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD: Athina Petropulu, "For exemplary service in technical leadership capacities."

EDUCATION AWARD: Richard G. Lyons, "For sustained success in clarifying the intricacies of signal processing, and significant contributions improving the understanding of, and promoting, practical DSP."

BEST PAPER AWARD RECIPIENTS:

• Seung-Jean Kim, Kwangmoo Koh, Michael Lustig, Stephen Boyd, and Dimitry Gorinevsky "An Interior-Point Method for Large-Scale 11 Regularized Least Squares", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 1, No. 4, December 2007
• Tuomas Virtanen "Monaural Sound Source Separation by Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Temporal Continuity and Sparse Criteria", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume: 15, No. 3, March 2007
• David P. Wipf and Bhaskar D. Rao "An Empirical Bayesian Strategy for Solving the Simultaneous Sparse Approximation Problem", IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Volume: 55, No. 7, July 2007
• Robert Wilson, David Tse, and Robert A. Scholtz" Channel Identification: Secret Sharing Using Reciprocity in Ultrawideband Channels", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume: 2, No. 3, September 2007
• Yagiz Sutcu, Qiming Li, and Nasir Memon" Protecting Biometric Templates with Sketch: Theory and Practice", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume: 2, No. 3, September 2007
• Zhi Quan, Shuguang Cui, and Ali H. Sayed" Optimal Linear Cooperation for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 2, No. 1, February 2008

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD RECIPIENTS:

• DEANNA NEEDELLco-authored with Roman Vershynin" Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements Via Regularized Orthogonal Matching Pursuit" IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 4, No. 2, April 2010
• DAVID RAMÍREZco-authored with Javier Vía, Ignacio Santamaría and Louis L. Scharf" Detection of Spatially Correlated Gaussian Time Series" IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 58, No. 10, October 2010
• NAJIM DEHAKco-authored with Patrick J. Kenny, Réda Dehak, Pierre Dumouchel, and Pierre Ouellet" Front-End Factor Analysis for Speaker Verification" IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume: 19, No. 4, May 2011
• NGOC Q. K. DUONGco-authored Emmanuel Vincent and Rémi Gribonval" Under-Determined Reverberant Audio Source Separation Using a Full-Rank Spatial Covariance Model" IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume: 18, No. 7, September 2010

MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD:

• David Gesbert, Marios Kountouris, Robert W. Heath, Jr., Chan-Byoung Chae, and Thomas Sälzer" Shifting the MIMO Paradigm" IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 24, No. 5, September 2007

MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD:

• Erik G. Larsson" MIMO Detection Methods: How They Work" IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 26, No. 3, May 2009