AWARDS

 

ICASSP 2011 Best Student Paper Awards

Out of 659 candidate papers, the ICASSP Technical Program Committee has selected 6 students to be winners of Best Student Paper Awards. The winners are:

- Yaodong Zhang, for the paper co-authored with Li Deng, Xiaodong He, Alex Acero, entitled "A novel decision function and the associated decision-feedback learning for speech translation";

- Jiaxian Pan, for the paper co-authored with Wing-Kin Ma, entitled "A Lagrangian dual relaxation approach to ML MIMO detection: Reinterpreting regularized lattice decoding";

- Alexander Jung, for the paper co-authored with Sebastian Schmutzhard, Franz Hlawatsch, Alfred Hero III, entitled "Performance bounds for sparse parametric covariance estimation in Gaussian models";

- Ivan Dokmanic, for the paper co-authored with Yue M. Lu, Martin Vetterli, entitled "Can one hear the shape of a room: The 2-D polygonal case";

- Reza Parhizkar and Amin Karbasi, for the paper co-authored with Martin Vetterli, entitled "Calibration in circular ultrasound tomography devices";

- Tirza Routtenberg, for the paper co-authored with Joseph Tabrikian, entitled "Periodic CRB for non-Bayesian parameter estimation".

 

Three more ICASSP student-authored papers have won awards:

The IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant

The IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant, sponsored by IBM, honors the student authors of an outstanding ICASSP paper in the area of speaker and language recognition. This year, the award is presented to:

- Ondrej Glembek, for his paper co-authored with Lukas Burget, Pavel Matejka, Martin Karafiat and Patrick Kenny, entitled "Simplification and optimization of I-vector extraction".

 

IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant 

IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grants , sponsored by XD Huang, Alex Acero and Hsiao-Wuen Hon (Microsoft), are presented to:

- Nancy F. Chen, for her paper co-authored with Wade Shen, Joseph P. Campbell and Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo, entitled "Informative dialect recognition using context-dependent pronunciation modeling",

- Afsaneh Asaei, for the paper co-authored with Herve Bourlard and Volkan Cevher, entitled "Model-based compressive sensing for multi-party distant speech recognition".  

More information on this award is available here.

 

2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards

During ICASSP, the Signal Processing Society will present the 2010 SPS Awards. The recipients are listed here.

The Society will also honor its members who recently were elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow, listed here.