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Treichler "for sustained impact and
leadership to the security and intelligence industry through signal processing innovations."
The Industrial
Innovation Award is
presented this year to
Gary Elko "for outstanding contributions
toward industrial
research and commercialization of innovative electroacoustic
devices and microphone array signal processing." The Industrial Innovation
Award recognizes an individual or team
at any level who were industry employees whose technical contributions have
resulted in significant advances using signal processing technologies within the
scope of the Society. The prize is
US$1,500 per awardee (up to a maximum of US$4,500 per award) and a
plaque and certificate.

Outstanding Publications Honored
by SPS
A number of outstanding publications
are honored by the
Society. The Sustained Impact Paper
Award honors the author(s) of a journal
article of broad interest that has had
sustained impact over many years on a
subject related to the Society's technical
scope. The prize shall consist of
US$500 per author (up to a maximum
of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. To be eligible for consideration, an
article must have appeared in one of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society transactions or IEEE Journal of Selected
Topics in Signal Processing, in an issue
predating the spring awards board
meeting by at least ten years (typically
held in conjunction with ICASSP). This
year, the Sustained Impact Paper Award
recipients are Ingemar J. Cox, Joe
Kilian, F. Thomson Leighton, and Talal
Shamoon for their paper "Secure
Spread Spectrum Watermarking for
Multimedia," IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing, vol. 6, no. 12, Dec.
1997.
The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award honors the

author(s) of an article of exceptional
merit and broad interest on a subject
related to the Society's technical scope
and appearing in the Society's magazine.
The prize comprises US$500 per author
(up to a maximum of US$1,500 per
award) and a certificate. This year, the
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best
Paper Award recipients are Zhi-Quan
Luo, Wing-Kin Ma, Anthony Man-Cho
So, Yinyu Ye, and Shuzhong Zhang for
their article "Semidefinite Relaxation of
Quadratic Optimization Problems," published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 27, no. 3, May 2010.
The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award honors the
author(s) of a column of exceptional
merit and broad interest on a subject
related to the Society's technical scope
and appearing in the Society's magazine. The prize shall consist of
US$500 per author (up to a maximum
of US$1,500 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. This year, the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award
recipients are Antonio Plaza, Javier
Plaza, Abel Paz, and Sergio Sánchez
for their article "Parallel Hyperspectral
Image and Signal Processing," published in IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine, vol. 28, no. 3, May 2011.
The Overview Paper Award honors
the author(s) of a journal article of broad
interest that has had substantial impact
over several years on a subject related to
the Society's technical scope. A paper
considered for the award should present
an overview of a method or theory with
technical depth and application perspective. It should have a multiyear record of
impact and also be relevant to current
researchers and/or practitioners. The
prize shall consist of US$500 per author
(up to a maximum of US$1,500 per
award) and a certificate. This year, the
Overview Paper Award recipients are
Beibei Wang and K.J. Ray Liu, for
"Advances in Cognitive Radio Networks:
A Survey," IEEE Journal of Selected
Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 5, no. 1,
Feb. 2011.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

March 2016

Six Best Paper Awards were presented, honoring 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 transactions, irrespective of the author's age. The prize is
US$500 per author (up to a maximum
of US$1,500 per award) and a certificate. Eligibility is based on a five-year
window preceding the year of election,
and judging is based on general quality, originality, subject matter, and
timeliness. This year, the awardees are:
■ Mark A. Davenport, Petros T.
Boufounos, Michael B. Wakin, and
Richard G. Baraniuk, "Signal
Processing with Compressive
Measurements," IEEE Journal of
Selected Topics in Signal Processing,
vol. 4, no. 2, Apr. 2010
■ Moshe Mishali and Yonina C. Eldar,
"From Theory to Practice: SubNyquist Sampling of Sparse
Wideband Analog Signals," IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Signal
Processing, vol. 4, no. 2, Apr. 2010
■ Xiaoyang Tan and Bill Triggs,
"Enhanced Local Texture Feature
Sets for Face Recognition Under
Difficult Lighting Conditions," IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing,
vol. 19, no. 6, June 2010
■ Tomás Pevný, Patrick Bas, and
Jessica Fridrich, "Steganalysis by
Subtractive Pixel Adjacency Matrix,"
IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics and Security, vol. 5, no. 2,
June 2010
■ Junil Choi, David J. Love, and Patrick
Bidigare, "Downlink Training
Techniques for FDD Massive MIMO
Systems: Open-Loop and ClosedLoop Training with Memory," IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Signal
Processing, vol. 8, no. 5, Oct. 2014
■ Chunming Li, Chenyang Xu,
Changfeng Gui, and Martin D. Fox,
"Distance Regularized Level Set
Evolution and Its Application to
Image Segmentation," IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing,
vol. 19, no. 12, Dec. 2010.
The Young Author Best Paper Award
honors the author(s) of an especially
meritorious paper dealing with a subject
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