Award Recipients

2008 IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY AWARDEES
(RECEIVED IN 2009)

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan.

SOCIETY AWARD

Edward J. Delp, "for technical contributions to the areas of multimedia security and image and video coding."

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

Ralf Koetter, Andrew C. Singer, Michael Tüchler, for the paper entitled, "Turbo Equalization," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 21, Number 1, January 2004.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD

Mauro Barni, for the paper entitled, "What is the Future of Watermarking? – Part I," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 20, Number 5, September 2003, and Part II, Volume 20, Number 6, November 2003.

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Harry L. Van Trees, "for fundamental contributions to detection, estimation, and modulation theory, sensor array processing, and Bayesian bounds" and to Michael Unser, "for the contributions to the theory and practice of splines and their applications in signal and image processing."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Frederick C. Mintzer "for service to the IEEE Signal Processing Society."

EDUCATION AWARD

Bede Liu, "for outstanding contributions to graduate and undergraduate education and mentoring in signal processing."

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Javier Portilla, Vasily Strela, Martin J. Wainwright, and Eero P. Simoncelli, for the paper entitled, "Image Denoising Using Scale Mixtures of Gaussians in the Wavelet Domain," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 12, Number 11, November 2003.

Wei Yu and Tian Lan, for the paper entitled, "Transmitter Optimization for the Multi-Antenna Downlink With Per-Antenna Power Constraints," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 55, Number 6, June 2007.

Jingdong Chen, Jacob Benesty, Yiteng Huang, and Simon Doclo, for the paper entitled, "New Insights Into the Noise Reduction Wiener Filter," published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 14, Number 4, July 2006.

Giuseppe Riccardi and Dilek Hakkani-Tür for the paper entitled, "Active Learning: Theory and Applications to Automatic Speech Recognition," published in the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Volume 13, Number 4, July 2005.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD

Minh N. Do, for the paper co-authored with Martin Vetterli entitled, "The Contourlet Transform: An Efficient Directional Multiresolution Image Representation," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 14, Number 12, December 2005.

H. Vicky Zhao, for the paper co-authored with K. J. Ray Liu entitled, "Behavior Forensics for Scalable Multiuser Collusion: Fairness Versus Effectiveness," published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 1, Number 3, September 2006.

Hirokazu Kameoka, for the paper co-authored with Takuya Nishimoto and Shigeki Sagayama entitled, "A Multipitch Analyzer Based on Harmonic Temporal Structured Clustering," published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 15, Number 3, March 2007.

Animashree Anandkumar, for the paper co-authored with Lang Tong entitled, "Type-Based Random Access for Distributed Detection Over Multiaccess Fading Channels," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 55, Number 10, October 2007.

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE IEEE AWARDS.

The IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits is being presented to Teresa H. Meng (F'IEEE) - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. USA.

The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award is being presented to Shih-Fu Chang (F'IEEE) - Professor and Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Digital Video and Multimedia Lab, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Charles Sydney Burrus will receive a special recognition plaque from the IEEE Signal Processing Society marking his selection as the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal recipient. The Medal itself will be presented to Prof. Burrus at the IEEE Honors Ceremonies. IEEE selected Prof. Burrus to receive the medal, " for contributions to Fast Fourier Transform algorithms, digital filter design, and signal processing education."

The IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award is being presented to G. David Forney, Jr. and Daniel J. Costello for their paper entitled, "Channel Coding: The Road to Channel Capacity," published in the Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 95, Number 6, June 2007.

The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award is being presented to John Makhoul. IEEE selected Prof. Makhoul to receive the award, "for pioneering contributions to speech modeling." This award was founded and is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.