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processing, receiver design, and direction
finding architectures.
Bhiksha Raj, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
for contributions to speech recognition.
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Mount Kisco,
New York, for contributions to speech recognition and language processing.
Gael Richard, Paris, France, for contributions to analysis, indexing, and decomposition of audio and music signals.
Seb Savory, Ely, United Kingdom, for
contributions to digital coherent transceivers for optical fiber communication.
Behzad Shahraray, Middletown, New
Jersey, for leadership in content-based
processing and retrieval of multimedia
information.
Steven Smith, Lexington, Massachusetts, for contributions to statistical signal processing and applications to radar
and sonar.
Leif Sörnmo, Lund, Sweden, for contributions to biomedical signal processing
in cardiac applications.
Yannis Stylianou, Cambridge, United
Kingdom, for contributions to speech
analysis and communication.
Guaning Su, Singapore, for leadership in defense technology and management of educational institutions.
Sabine Susstrunk, Lausanne, Switzerland, for contributions to computational
imaging, color image processing, and
color computer vision.
Nuno Vasconcelos, La Jolla, California, for contributions to computer vision,
image processing, and multimedia.
Xianbin Wang, London, Canada, for
contributions to orthogonal frequencydivision multiplexing systems and distributed transmission technologies.
Zhen Wang, Vancouver, Canada, for
contributions to statistical signal processing for multimedia security and brain
data analytics.
Ying Wu, Evanston, Illinois, for contributions to motion analysis and pattern
discovery in computer vision.
Shuicheng Yan, Singapore, for contributions to subspace learning and visual
classification.
Rui Zhang, Singapore, for contributions to cognitive radio and energy harvesting communications.
Ce Zhu, Chengdu, China, for contributions to video coding and communications.
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2016 IEEE SPS Awards presented
in New Orleans, Louisiana
The IEEE SPS congratulates the following SPS members who will receive
the Society's prestigious awards during ICASSP 2017 in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
The Society Award
honors outstanding
technical contributions in a field within
the scope of the IEEE
SPS and outstanding
leadership within that
P.P. Vaidyanathan
field. The Society
Award comprises a plaque, a certificate,
and a monetary award of US$2,500. It
is the highest-level award bestowed by
the IEEE SPS. This year's recipient is
P.P. Vaidyanathan, "for pioneering contributions to signal processing theory
and education."
The Technical Achievement Award is presented this year to Jelena
Kova˘cevi´c "for contributions to the theory
and practice of signal
representations" and to
Jelena Kova˘cevi´c
Bhaskar D. Rao "for
fundamental contributions to array processing and sparsity-based
signal processing."
The Technical Achievement Award honors
a person who, over a
Bhaskar D. Rao
period of years, has
made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the Society,
as demonstrated by publications, patents, or recognized impact on this field.
The prize for the award is US$1,500, a
plaque, and a certificate.

K.J. Ray Liu

The Meritorious Service Award is presented this year to K.J. Ray
Liu "for exemplary
service to and leadership in the IEEE Signal
Processing Society."
The award comprises a

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plaque and a certificate; judging is based
on dedication, effort, and contributions
to the Society.
The Sustained Impact Paper Award
shall honor 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.
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. To
be eligible for consideration, an article
must have appeared in one of the IEEE
SPS 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 Zhou Wang, Alan
Conrad Bovik, Hamid Rahim Sheikh,
and Eero P. Simoncelli, "Image Quality Assessment: From Error Visibility to
Structural Similarity," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 4,
April 2004.
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 Marco F. Duarte and Yonina C.
Eldar, for "Structured Compressed Sensing: From Theory to Applications," IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, vol.
59, no. 9, September 2011.
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.

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