2013 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Announced

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2014 in Florence, Italy.

SOCIETY AWARD: Al Bovik, for "fundamental contributions to digital image processing theory, technology, leadership and education."

Alan Willsky, for "fundamental contributions to probabilistic modeling and for pioneering work in the development and application of multi-resolution statistical methods."

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Yonina Eldar, for "fundamental contributions to sub-nyquist and compressed sampling, convex optimization and statistical signal processing."

Al Hero, for "information-theoretic advances in statistical signal processing and machine learning."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD: Ali H. Sayed, for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.

Rabab Ward, for exemplary service to and leadership in the Signal Processing Society.

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

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD:

Zhou Wang and A.C. Bovik,
"Mean Squared Error: Love it or Leave it? A New Look at Signal Fidelity Measures"
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 26, No. 1, January 2009.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD:

None presented for 2103.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS BEST PAPER AWARD:

Gan Zheng, Kai-Kit Wong, Arogyaswami Paulraj, and Bjorn Ottersten, "Collaborative-Relay Beamforming with Perfect CSI: Optimum and Distributed Implementation", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume: 16, No. 4, April 2009.

BEST PAPER AWARDS:

Amir Beck, Petre Stoica and Jian Li,
"Exact and Approximate Solutions of Source Localization Problems",
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 56, No. 5, May 2008.

Matthew Herman and Thomas Strohmer,
"High-Resolution Radar via Compressed Sensing",
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 57, No. 6, June 2009.

Chunming Li, Chiu-Yen Kao, John C. Gore, and Zhaohua Ding,
"Minimization of Region-Scalable Fitting Energy for Image Segmentation", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume: 17, No. 10, October 2008.

Robert Heath, Jr., Tao Wu, Young Hoon Kwon, and Anthony Soong, "Multiuser MIMO in Distributed Antenna Systems with Out-of-Cell Interference",
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 59, No. 10, October 2011.

George Dahl, Dong Yu, Li Deng, and Alex Acero,
"Context-Dependent Pre-Trained Deep Neural Networks for Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume: 20, No. 1, January 2012.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD:

Yuejie Chi, Louis Scharf, Ali Pezeshki and A. Robert Calderbank>, "Sensitivity to Basis Mismatch in Compressed Sensing"
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 59, No. 5, May 2011.

Kalpana Seshadrinathan and Alan Bovik,
"Motion Tuned Spatio-Temporal Quality Assessment of Natural Videos"
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume: 19, No. 2, February 2010.

Lin Li, Anna Scaglione, and Jonathan Manton,
"Distributed Principal Subspace Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks"
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 5, No. 4, August 2011.