Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee

Awards

Award Committee Members

• Philip A. Chou (pachou@microsoft.com) - Chair
• Jean-Luc Dugelay (Jean-Luc.Dugelay@eurecom.fr)
• Amir Said (amir_said@hp.com)

One of the major duties of our TC is to send endorsed nominations to the SPS Awards Board for annual Paper and Major Awards.  The Awards Subcommittee does not originate these nominations, but rather calls for nominations from the TC membership (and other sources), sends slates of candidates to the TC membership for voting, collects votes, determines the winners, and forwards the endorsed nominations (at most one in each category) to the SPS Awards Board on behalf of the TC.

Paper Awards

• Best Paper Award
• Young Author Best Paper Award
• SP Magazine Best Paper Award
• SP Magazine Best Column Award

Anyone (inside or outside the TC) can nominate papers in any of the following publications:

• Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
• Transactions on Image Processing
• Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• Transactions on Signal Processing
• Signal Processing Magazine

Unfortunately, only papers appearing in one of the SP Societys solely owned Transactions (or SP Magazine) can be nominated, which rules out the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.  The Best Paper Award can be for any Transactions paper appearing in the previous 5 calendar years, the Young Author Best Paper Award (for authors under 30 at time of submission) can be for any Transactions paper appearing in the previous 3 calendar years, and the SP Magazine Award can be for any Magazine paper appearing before ICASSP of the current year.  See the above links for eligibility details and previous winners.

Schedule

• July 1: TC is sent Call for Nominations for the SPS Paper Awards, due July 31.
• August 1: TC is sent Slate of Candidates, Ballot and Call for Votes, due August 15.
• August 16: If necessary, TC is sent Second-Round Ballot and Call for Votes, due August 30.
• September 1: Winners are announced to TC and endorsed nominations are sent to SPS Awards Board.

Sample Paper Award Nominations Form

Major Awards

• Society Award
• Technical Achievement Award
• Meritorious Service Award

There is also an Education Award, whose nominations are endorsed by the Education TC.  See the above links for eligibility details and previous winners.

Schedule

• August 1: TC is sent Call for Nominations for the SPS Major Awards, due August 31.
• September 1: TC is sent Slate of Candidates, Ballot and Call for Votes, due September 15.
• September 16: If necessary, TC is sent Second-Round Ballot and Call for Votes, due September 30.
• October 1: Winners are announced to TC and endorsed nominations are sent to SPS Awards Board.

Sample of Major Award Nomination Form

Voting Procedures

For 2008 we are using the procedure followed by the IMDSP TC, described here: http://www.mit.edu/~vgoyal/IMDSP/VotingProcedures.htm.