Best Paper Award
(formerly known as the Senior Award)
The Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Society's technical scope, and appearing in one of the Society's solely owned Transactions, irrespective of the author's age. The prize shall be $500 per author (up to a maximum of $1500 per award) and a certificate. In the event that there are more than three authors, the maximum prize shall be divided equally among all authors and each shall receive a certificate. Eligibility is based on a five-year window: for example, for the 1993 Award, the paper must have appeared in one of the Society's Transactions between January 1, 1988 and December 31, 1992. Current members of the Signal Processing Society Awards Board are ineligible. Judging shall be on the bases of general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. Up to six Best Paper Awards may be presented annually, either at the Society's Awards Ceremonies, normally held during ICASSP in the Spring or at ICIP in the Fall following selection of the winner(s). Self-nominations are not accepted or considered. Nominations may arise from any individual or a technical committee, editorial boards of the Society's publications, and shall be submitted directly to the Society's Awards Board. The Awards Board will insure that all nominations are vetted by the appropriate Society Technical Committee(s) prior to final nomination and subsequent balloting by the Awards Board.
Nominations must be received by the SPS Vice President-Awards and Membership as follows:
- Nominations from SPS Community: by 1 May
- Nominations from Technical Committees: 1 October
Recipients of the Best Paper Award
Audio and Electroacoustics
2007: A. Aggarwal
S. L. Regunathan
K. Rose
2006: G.D.T. Schuller
B. Yu
D. Huang
B. Edler
2002: S.C. Douglas
2001: J. Benesty
D. R. Morgan
M.M. Sondhi
1988: Y. Kaneda
M. Miyoshi
Bio Imaging and Signal Processing
2006: D. Shen
C. Davatzikos
Digital Signal Processing
1996: B.K. Natarajan
1994: J .F. Kaiser
P. Maragos
T. F. Quatieri
1991: D. Legall
M. Vetterli
1989: J. A. Cadzow
1988: P. P. Vaidyanathan
1987: Y. Bresler
A. Macovsk
Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing
2004: K. Rose
S. L. Regunathan
2003: T. F. Chan
L. A. Vese
2001: D. Taubman
1999: I. J. Cox
J. Killian
F. T. Leighton
T. Shamoon
1998: W. A. Pearlman
A. Said
1997: P. Moulin
1996: K. Ramchandran
M. Vetterli
1995: A. Aldroubi
M. Eden
M. Unser
1993: A. E. Jacquin
1992: H. S. Malvar
D. H. Staelin
1991: S. L. Eddins
M. J. T. Smith
Machine Learning for Signal Processing
(formerly known as Neural Networks for Signal Processing)
2007: J. Eriksson
V. Koivunen
Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing
1990: S. G. Mallat
1988: Y. Bresler
A. Macovski
1987: S. D. O'Neil
J. W. Woods
1986: J. P. Allebach
1985: M. R. Civanlar
H. J. Trussell
Multimedia Signal Processing
2007:O.G. Guleryuz
2005: W. Trappe
M. Wu
Z. J. Wang
K. J. R. Liu
2001: A. K. Katsaggelos
G. M. Schuster
Neural Networks for Signal Processing
1999: B. L. R. DeMoor
J. Suykens
J. Vandewalle
1998: S.-I. Amari
J.-F. Cardoso
1996: K. I. Diamantaras
S. Y. Kung
J. S. Taur
1995: J. N. Hwang
S. R. Lay
A. Lippman
1993: B.-H. Juang
S. Katagiri
Sensor Array and Multichannel
2007: G. Dimic
N.D. Sidiropoulos
2006: R. Kozick
B. Sadler
2005: A. L. Swindlehurst
G. Leus
2004: S. A. Vorobyov
A. B. Gershman
Z.-Q. Luo
2003: J. J. Fuchs
2001: R. Bro
G. B. Giannakis
N. D. Sidiropoulos
1999: P. Stoica
M. Viberg
Signal Processing for Communications
2007: H. Boche
M. Schubert
2006: E. Jorswieck
H. Boche
2005: R. Lopez-Valcarce
2004: M. Dong
L. Tong
2003: J. Riba
J. Sala
G. Vazquez
2002: S. Banerjee
M.K. Tsatsanis
R. Zhang
2000: S. Barbarossa
G.B. Giannakis
A. Scaglione
Signal Processing Theory and Methods
2006: T. Blu
P. Marziliano
M. Vetterli
2003: T. Blu
M. Unser
2002: V.H. Nascimento
A.H. Sayed
Spectral Estimation and Modeling
1990: R. H. Clergeot
A. Ouamri
S. Tressens
1989: A. Nehorai
P. Stoica
1988: Y. Rockah
P. M. Schultheiss
1987: G. F. Boudreaux-Bartels
T. W. Parks
1986: A. J. Barabell
M. Kaveh
Speech Processing
2005: S. Narayanan
A. Potamianos
2004: E. Bocchieri
B. Kan-Wing Mak
2002: M.J.F. Gales
2000: L. R. Bahl
D. Nahamoo
M. Padmanabhan
1999: V.V. Digalakis
O. A. Kimball
M. Ostendorf
1998: C. H. Lee
R. A. Sukkar
1997: T. P. Barnwell, III
A. V. McCree
1996: J. L. Gauvain
C. H. Lee
1995: K. K. Paliwal
B. S. Atal
1994: B.-H. Juang
C.-H. Lee
C.-H. Lin
1993: T. R. Fischer
J. D. Gibson
M. W. Marcellin
1991: L. R. Bahl
P. F. Brown
P. V. De Souza
R. L. Mercer
1990: T. Hanazawa
G. Hinton
K. J. Lang
K. Shikano
A. Waibel
1989: R. J. McAulay
T. F. Quatieri
1988: S. Furui
1987: E. L. Bocchieri
G. D. Doddington
1986: S. S. Evertt
G. S. Kang
1985: A. E. Rosenberg
K. L. Shipley
Statistical Signal and Array Processing
1998: A. O. Hero, III
J. A. Fessler
M. Usman
1997: J.-F. Cardoso
P. Duhamel
S. Mayrargue
E. Moulines
1992: D. M. Dlugos
R. A. Scholtz
Underwater Acoustics for Signal Processing
1987: J. P. Ianniello
1986: N. J. Bershad
P. L. Feintuch
F. A. Reed
1985: T. Kailath
M. Wax
VLSI for Signal Processing
1994: P. D. Hoang
J. M. Rabaey
1993: S.-F. Hsieh
K. J. R. Liu
K. Yao
1992: R. Jain
P. T. Yang
T. Yoshino
1990: R. F. Lyon
C. Mead