Award Recipients

2009 IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY AWARDEES
(RECEIVED IN 2010)

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2010 in Dallas, TX.

SOCIETY AWARD

Rama Chellappa, "for pioneering and fundamental contributions to image and video-based analysis and understanding."

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Alan S. Willsky, "for originality and innovation in stochastic mutliresolution modeling in statistical and graphical modeling, and in probabilistic control-driven signal processing" and to K. J. Ray Liu, "for pioneering and outstanding contributions for the advances of signal processing in multimedia forensics, security, and wireless communications."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Arye Nehorai "for exceptional and dedicated service as a leader in a broad range of activities for the Society and profession" and to Isabel Maria Martins Trancoso, "for outstanding service and leadership to the worldwide community in the field of speech processing."

EDUCATION AWARD

Robert M. Gray, "for outstanding contributions to education and mentoring in signal processing."

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

Neal Patwari, Joshua N. Ash, Spyros Kyperountas, Alfred O. Hero, III, Randolph L. Moses and Neiyer S. Correal for the paper entitled, "Locating the Nodes: Cooperative Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 22, Number 4, July 2005.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD

Richard G. Baraniuk, for the paper entitled, "Compressive Sensing [Lecture Notes]," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 24, Number 4, July 2007.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Zhou Wang, Alan Conrad Bovik, Hamid Rahim Sheikh, and Eero P. Simoncelli, for the paper entitled, "Image Quality Assessment: From Error Visibility to Structural Similarity," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 13, Number 4, April 2004.

Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo and Shuzhong Zhang, for the paper entitled, "Dynamic Spectrum Management: Complexity and Duality," published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume 2, Number 1, February 2008.

Quentin H. Spencer, A. Lee Swindlehurst, and Martin Haardt, for the paper entitled, "Zero-Forcing Methods for Downlink Spatial Multiplexing in Multiuser MIMO Channels," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 52, Number 2, February 2004.

Chul Min Lee and Shrikanth S. Narayanan, for the paper entitled, "Toward Detecting Emotions in Spoken Dialogs," published in the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Volume 13, Number 2, March 2005.

Jan Lukáŝ, Jessica Fridrich, and Miroslav Goljan, for the paper entitled, "Digital Camera Identification From Sensor Pattern Noise," published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 1, Number 2, June 2006.

Genyuan Wang and Moeness G. Amin, for the paper entitled, "Imaging Through Unknown Walls Using Different Standoff Distances," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 54, Number 10, October 2006.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD

Tomoki Toda, for the paper co-authored with Alan W. Black and Keiichi Tokuda entitled, "Voice Conversion Based on Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Spectral Parameter Trajectory," published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 15, Number 8, November 2007.

Florian Luisier, for the paper co-authored with Thierry Blu and Michael Unser entitled, "A New SURE Approach to Image Denoising: Interscale Orthonormal Wavelet Thresholding," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 16, Number 3, March 2007.

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE IEEE AWARDS.

Ronald Schafer 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. Schafer at the IEEE Honors Ceremonies. IEEE selected Prof. Schafer to receive the medal, "for leadership and pioneering contributions to the field of digital signal processing."

The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is being presented to John M. Cioffi. IEEE selected Prof. Cioffi to receive the award, "for pioneering discrete multitone modem technology as the foundation of the global DSL industry."

The IEEE Edison Medal is being presented to Ray Dolby. IEEE selected Prof. Dolby to receive the award, "for leadership and pioneering applications in audio recording and playback equipment for both professional and consumer electronics."

The IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications is being presented to Alfonso Farina. IEEE selected Prof. Farina to receive the award, "for continuous, innovative, theoretical and practical contributions to radar systems and adaptive signal processing techniques."

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE IEEE TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS

The 2010 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award is being presented to Alan N. Willson, Jr. IEEE selected Prof. Willson to receive the award, "for exemplary teaching and curriculum development and for inspirational guidance of PhD. student research in the area of circuits and systems."

The 2010 IEEE Control Systems Award is being presented to Graham Clifford Goodwin. IEEE selected Prof. Goodwin to receive the award, "for contributions to the theory and practice of digital and adaptive control."

The 2010 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award is being presented to Sadaoki Furui. IEEE selected Prof. Furui to receive the award, "for contributions to and leadership in the field of speech and speaker recognition towards natural communication between humans and machines." This award was founded and is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.