Award Recipients

2007 IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY AWARDEES
(RECEIVED IN 2008)

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates the following SPS members who will receive the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

SOCIETY AWARD

Rabab Kreidieh Ward, "for outstanding technical contributions and leadership in advancing the field of signal and image processing."

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST PAPER AWARD

Petar M. Djurić, Jayesh H. Kotecha, Jianqui Zhang, Yufei Huang, Tadesse Ghirmai, Mónica F. Bugallo and Joaquin Miguez, for the paper entitled, "Particle Filtering," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 20, Number 5, September 2003.

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE BEST COLUMN AWARD

Richard Lyons, for the paper entitled, "Turbocharging Interpolated FIR Filters," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 24, Number 5, September 2007.

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

H. Vincent Poor, "for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing and its applications in wireless communications and related fields."

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

Rama Chellappa "for exemplary and sustained service in technical leadership capacities."

EDUCATION AWARD

Alan C. Bovik, "for broad and lasting contributions to image processing education, including popular and important image processing books, innovative on-line courseware, and for the creation of the leading research and educational journal and conference in the image processing field."

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Jan Eriksson and Visa Koivunen, for the paper entitled, "Identifiability, Separability, and Uniqueness of Linear ICA Models," published in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Volume 11, Number 7, July 2004.

Holger Boche and Martin Schubert, for the paper entitled, "Resource Allocation in Multiantenna Systems – Achieving Max-Min Fairness by Optimizing a Sum of Inverse SIR," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,, Volume 54, Number 6, Part I, June 2006.

Ashish Aggarwal, Shankar L. Regunathan and Kenneth Rose, for the paper entitled, "Efficient Bit-Rate Scalability for Weighted Squared Error Optimization in Audio Coding," published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 14, Number 4, July 2006.

Onur G. Guleryuz for the paper entitled, "Nonlinear Approximation Based Image Recovery Using Adaptive Sparse Reconstructions and Iterated Denoising – Part I: Theory, and Part II: Adaptive Algorithms," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 15, Number 3, Part I and Part II , March 2006.

Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo and Yuqing Gao for the paper entitled, "Maximum Entropy Direct Models for Speech Recognition," published in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Volume 14, Number 3, May 2006.

Goran Dimić and Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos for the paper entitled, "On Downlink Beamforming With Greedy User Selection: Performance Analysis and a Simple New Algorithm," published in the Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 53, Number 10, October 2005.

YOUNG AUTHOR BEST PAPER AWARD

Ana Petrovic and Oscar Divorra Escoda, for the paper co-authored with Pierre Vandergheynst entitled, "Multiresolution Segmentation of Natural Images: From Linear to Nonlinear Scale-Space Representations," published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 13, Number 8, August 2004.

Qiyue Zou, for the paper co-authored with Zhiping Lin and Raimund J. Ober entitled, "The Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Bilinear Systems," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 54, Number 5, May 2006.

XuanLong Nguyen, for the paper co-authored with Martin J. Wainwright and Michael I. Jordan entitled, "Nonparametric Decentralized Detection Using Kernel Methods," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 53, Number 11, November 2005.

Ami Wiesel, for the paper co-authored with Yonina C. Eldar and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) entitled, "Linear Precoding via Conic Optimization for Fixed MIMO Receivers," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 54, Number 1, January 2006.

Jing Liu, for the paper co-authored with Jian-Kang Zhang and Kon Max Wong entitled, "On the Design of Minimum BER Linear Space-Time Block Codes for MIMO Systems Equipped with MMSE Receivers," published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume 54, Number 8, August 2006.

SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERS RECEIVE IEEE AWARDS.

Robert M. Gray 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. Gray at the IEEE Honors Ceremonies. IEEE selected Prof. Gray to receive the medal, "for contributions to vector quantization and signal compression techniques."

The IEEE Simon Ramo Medal is being presented to Chrysostomos L. (Max) Nikias. IEEE selected Prof. Nikias to receive the award, "for outstanding leadership in engineering systems research and education, and for pioneering contributions to integrated media systems for the entertainment industry."

The IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award is being presented to Alfred L. M. Fettweis. IEEE selected Prof. Fettweis to receive the award, "for sustained contributions to circuits, systems, and signal processing, especially his seminal work on wave digital filters."

JAMES L. FLANAGAN SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING TECHNICAL FIELD AWARD.

The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award is being presented to Raj Reddy. IEEE selected Prof. Reddy to receive the award, "for leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence." This award was founded and is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Prof. Reddy requested that the award be presented at the IEEE Signal Processing Society's flagship conference, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), held in Las Vegas, Nevada, 30 March-4 April 2008.