2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awardees

2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awardees

(Received in 2018)

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2018 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

SOCIETY AWARD

Alejandro (Alex) Acero, "for contributions to speech technology and leadership in the signal processing community."

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Patrick Flandrin, "for contributions to the theory and application of nonstationary signal analysis."
Ahmed H. Tewfik, "for contributions to digital watermarking, multimedia, and wavelets."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Mari Ostendorf, "for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."
John H. Cozzens, "for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society."

EDUCATION AWARD

C.-C. Jay Kuo, "for contributions to signal, image and multimedia education."

INDUSTRIAL LEADER AWARD

Alfonso Farina, "for contributions to radar array processing and industrial leadership."

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARD

Richard F. Lyon, "for contributions in integrated circuits, cameras, and audio processing."

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Visa Koivunen, Yacine Chakhchoukh and Michael Muma, for "Robust Estimation in Signal Processing: A tutorial-style treatment of fundamental concepts", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 29, No. 4, July 2012.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD

Ramsey Faragher, for "Understanding the Basis of the Kalman Filter Via a Simple and Intuitive Derivation ", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 29, No. 5, September 2012.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS BEST PAPER AWARD

Anish Mittal, Rajiv Soundararajan and Alan C. Bovik, for "Making a “Completely Blind” Image Quality Analyzer", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume 20, No. 3, March 2013.

OVERVIEW PAPER AWARD

Lu Lu, Geoffrey Ye Li, A. Lee Swindlehurst, Alexei Ashikhmin and Rui Zhang, for "An Overview of Massive MIMO: Benefits and Challenges", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 8, No. 5, October 2014.

SUSTAINED IMPACT PAPER AWARD

Richard Roy and Thomas Kailath, for "ESPRIT-Estimation of Signal Parameters Via Rotational Invariance Techniques ", IEEE Transactions on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, Volume 37, No. 7, July 1989.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Aliaksei Sandryhaila and José M. F. Moura, for "Discrete Signal Processing on Graphs", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 61, No. 7, April 2013.

Stamatios Lefkimmiatis, Aurélien Bourquard and Michael Unser, for "Hessian-Based Norm Regularization for Image Restoration With Biomedical Applications ", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 21, No. 3, March 2012.

Vincent Christlein, Christian Riess, Johannes Jordan, Corinna Riess and Elli Angelopoulou, for "An Evaluation of Popular Copy-Move Forgery Detection Approaches", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 7, No. 6, December 2012.

Ulugbek S. Kamilov, Vivek K Goyal and Sundeep Rangan, for "Message-Passing De-Quantization With Applications to Compressed Sensing", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 60, No. 12, December 2012.

Foad Sohrabi and Wei Yu, for "Hybrid Digital and Analog Beamforming Design for Large-Scale Antenna Arrays", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 10, No. 3, April 2016.

Nasser Mohammadiha, Paris Smaragdis and Arne Leijon, for "Supervised and Unsupervised Speech Enhancement Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization ", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing, Volume 21, No. 10, October 2013.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD

Jie Xu and Liang Liu, for the paper co-authored with Rui Zhang, for "Multiuser MISO Beamforming for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 62, No. 18, September 2014.

Konstantin Dragomiretskiy, for the paper co-authored with Dominique Zosso, for "Variational Mode Decomposition", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 62, No. 3, February 2014.

Wei Shi and Kun Yuan for the paper co-authored with Qing Ling, Gang Wu and Wotao Yin, for "On the Linear Convergence of the ADMM in Decentralized Consensus Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 62, No. 7, April 2014.

Morteza Mardani, for the paper co-authored with Gonzalo Mateos, and Georgios B. Giannakis, for "Subspace Learning and Imputation for Streaming Big Data Matrices and Tensors", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 63, No. 10, May 2015.

Mojtaba Soltanalian, for the paper co-authored with Petre Stoica, for "Designing Unimodular Codes Via Quadratic Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 62, No. 5, March 2014.

Roee Enbar, for the paper co-authored with Eran Eidinger, and Tal Hassner, for "Age and Gender Estimation of Unfiltered Faces", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 9, No. 12, December 2014.