Student Paper Contest Finalists

ICASSP 2006 is pleased to announce the following student authors as finalists in the Student Paper Contest. They are presented in no particular order, and grouped by topic.

The finalists will be presenting their papers at ICASSP 2006 and based on the quality of their presentations, winners of the contest will be announced after the conference.

Signal Processing Theory and Methods

Lei Zhang, Nanyang Technological University
with Anamitra Makur, Nanyang Technological University
for the paper titled ENUMERATION AND PARAMETRIZATION OF DISTINCT DOWNSAMPLING PATTERNS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MULTIRATE SYSTEMS.

Patrick Vandewalle, EPFL
with Luciano Sbaiz, EPFL; Martin Vetterli, EPFL
for the paper titled Signal Reconstruction from Multiple Unregistered Sets of Samples using Groebner Bases.

Parvathinathan Venkitasubramaniam, Cornell University
with Lang Tong, Cornell University; Ananthram Swami, Army Research Laboratory
for the paper titled Minimax Quantization for Distributed Maximum Likelihood Estimation.

Christian Labat, IRCCYN (CNRS UMR 6597)
with Jérôme Idier, IRCCYN (CNRS UMR 6597)
for the paper titled Sparse blind deconvolution accounting for time-shift ambiguity.

Michael Ting, University of Michigan
with Alfred Hero, University of Michigan
for the paper titled DETECTION OF A RANDOM WALK SIGNAL IN THE REGIME OF LOW SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO AND LONG OBSERVATION TIME.

Hao Chen, Syracuse University
with Pramod Varshney, Syracuse University; James Michels, JHM Technologies; Steven Kay, University of Rhode Island
for the paper titled Approaching Near Optimal Detection Performance via Stochastic Resonance.

Dmitry Malioutov, MIT
with Jason Johnson, MIT; Alan Willsky, MIT
for the paper titled Low-Rank Variance Estimation in Large-Scale GMRF Models.

Audio and Electroacoustics

Mads G. Christensen, Aalborg University
with Søren Holdt Jensen, Aalborg University
for the paper titled Computationally Efficient Amplitude Modulated Sinusoidal Audio Coding using Frequency-Domain Linear Prediction.

Olivier Gillet, GET / Télécom Paris
with Gaël Richard, GET / Télécom Paris
for the paper titled Comparing Audio and Video Segmentations for Music Videos Indexing.

Robert Aichner, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
with Meray Zourub, University Erlangen-Nuremberg; Herbert Buchner, University Erlangen-Nuremberg; Walter Kellermann, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
for the paper titled Post-Processing for Convolutive Blind Source Separation.

Speech and Spoken Language Processing

Chia-yu Wan, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University
with Lin-shan Lee, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University
for the paper titled Joint Uncertainty Decoding (JUD) with Histogram-Based Quantization (HQ) for Robust and/or Distributed Speech Recognition.

David Suendermann, Siemens Corporate Technology
with Harald Hoege, Siemens Corporate Technology; Antonio Bonafonte, UPC; Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen; Alan Black, CMU; Shri Narayanan, USC
for the paper titled Text-Independent Voice Conversion Based on Unit Selection.

Charturong Tantibundhit, University of Pittsburgh
with J. Robert Boston, University of Pittsburgh; Ching-Chung Li, University of Pittsburgh; John D. Durrant, University of Pittsburgh; Susan Shaiman, University of Pittsburgh; Kristie Kovacyk, University of Pittsburgh; Amro A. El-Jaroudi, University of Pittsburgh
for the paper titled Speech Enhancement using Transient Speech Components.

Yi Chen, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University
with Chia-yu Wan, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University; Lin-shan Lee, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University
for the paper titled Entropy-based Feature Parameter Weighting for Robust Speech Recognition.

Joanna Mrozinski, Tokyo Institute of Technology
with Edward W. D. Whittaker, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Pierre Chatain, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology
for the paper titled Automatic Sentence Segmentation of Speech for Automatic Summarization.

Emilian Stoimenov, Institut fuer Theoretische Informatik
with John McDonough, Institut fuer Theoretische Informatik
for the paper titled MODELING POLYPHONE CONTEXT WITH WEIGHTED FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS.

Kai Yu, Cambridge University Engineering Department
with Mark Gales, Cambridge University Engineering Department
for the paper titled Incremental Adaptation Using Bayesian Inference.

David Zhao, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
with Bastiaan Kleijn, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
for the paper titled HMM-based Speech Enhancement using Explicit Gain Modeling.

Martin Layton, University of Cambridge
with Mark Gales, University of Cambridge
for the paper titled Augmented Statistical Models for Speech Recognition.

Aren Jansen, University of Chicago
with Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago
for the paper titled Intrinsic Fourier Analysis on the Manifold of Speech Sounds.

Pavel Matejka, Brno University of Technology
with Petr Schwarz, Brno University of Technology; Lukas Burget, Brno University of Technology; Jan Cernocky, Brno University of Technology
for the paper titled Use of Anti-models to Further Improve State-of-the-art PRLM Language Recognition System.

Mohamed Chibani, Université de Sherbrooke
with Roch Lefebvre, Université de Sherbrooke; Philippe Gournay, Université de Sherbrooke
for the paper titled RESYNCHRONIZATION OF THE ADAPTIVE CODEBOOK IN A CONSTRAINED CELP CODEC AFTER A FRAME ERASURE.

Bing Zhang, Northeastern University
with Spyros Matsoukas, BBN Technologies; Richard Schwartz, BBN Technologies
for the paper titled Discriminatively Trained Region Dependent Feature Transforms for Speech Recognition.

Ivy H. Tseng, University of Southern California
with Olivier Verscheure, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Deepak S. Turaga, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Upendra V. Chaudhari, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
for the paper titled Quantization for Adapted GMM-Based Speaker Verification.

Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing

Simone Balocco, CREATIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5515, INSERM U630, Lyon, France
with Olivier Basset, CREATIS, INSA Lyon, CNRS UMR 5515 INSERM U630, Lyon, France; Francesco Guidi, Microelectronic Systems Design Laboratory, Università di Firenze, Italy; Piero Tortoli, Microelectronic Systems Design Laboratory, Università di Firenze, Italy; Christian Cachard, CREATIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5515, INSERM U630, Lyon, France
for the paper titled Detection of microbubble trajectories on M-mode images using Kalman filtering.

Umut Ozertem, Oregon Health & Science University
with Deniz Erdogmus, Oregon Health & Science University; Tian Lan, Oregon Health & Science University
for the paper titled Mean Shift Spectral Clustering for Perceptual Image Segmentation.

Sathish Ramani, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
with Dimitri Van de Ville, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL); Michael Unser, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
for the paper titled Non-Ideal Sampling and Adapted Reconstruction using the Stochastic Matérn Model.

Bi Song, University of California, Riverside
with Ozgun Bursalioglu, University of California, Riverside; Amit Roy Chowdhury, University of California, Riverside; Ertem Tuncel, University of California, Riverside
for the paper titled Towards a Multi-Terminal Video Compression Algorithm Using Epipolar Geometry.

Jie Yu, University of Texas at San Antonio
with Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio
for the paper titled Constructing Descriptive and Discriminant Features for Face Classification.

Jiansheng Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
with Yiu Sang Moon, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
for the paper titled A STATISTICAL STUDY ON THE FINGERPRINT MINUTIAE DISTRIBUTION.

Vladimir Zlokolica, University of Ghent, TELIN Departement
with Aleksandra Pizurica, University of Ghent, TELIN Departement; Ewout Vansteenkiste, University of Ghent, TELIN Departement; Wilfried Philips, University of Ghent, TELIN Departement
for the paper titled Spatio-temporal approach for noise estimation.

Vincent Garcia, Laboratoire I3S - UNSA-CNRS
with Eric Debreuve, Laboratoire I3S - UNSA-CNRS; Michel Barlaud, Laboratoire I3S - UNSA-CNRS
for the paper titled A Contour Tracking Algorithm for Rotoscopy.

Arnab Ghoshal, Johns Hopkins University
with Sanjeev Khudanpur, Johns Hopkins University
for the paper titled Source Adaptation for Improved Content-Based Video Retrieval.

Yinpeng Chen, Arts Media and Engineering
with Hari Sundaram, Arts Media and Engineering
for the paper titled Basis Projection for Linear Transform Approximation in Real-Time Applications.

Basak Oztan, University of Rochester
with Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester
for the paper titled Continuous Phase Modulated Halftones and Their Application to Halftone Data Embedding.

Multimedia Signal Processing

Sibel Yaman, Ph.D. Student/Georgia Institute of Technology
with Chin-Hui Lee, Professor/Georgia Institute of Technology
for the paper titled An Iterative Constrained Optimization Approach To Classifier Design.

Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
with Pierre Moulin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
for the paper titled On Optimal Collusion Strategies for Fingerprinting.

Signal Processing for Communication

Matthew McKay, University of Sydney
with Alex Grant, Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia; Iain Collings, ICT Centre, CSIRO
for the paper titled Largest Eigenvalue Statistics of Double-Correlated Complex Wishart Matrices and MIMO-MRC.

Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Minnesota
with Georgios Giannakis, University of Minnesota; Stergios Roumeliotis, University of Minnesota
for the paper titled SOI-KF: Distributed Kalman Filtering with Low-Cost Communications using the Sign Of Innovations.

Chandra Murthy, University of California, San Diego
with Ethan Duni, University of California, San Diego; Bhaskar Rao, University of California, San Diego
for the paper titled High-Rate Analysis of Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels.

Yunxia Chen, University of California at Davis
with Qing Zhao, University of California at Davis; Vikram Krishnamurthy, University of British Columbia; Dejan Djonin, University of British Columbia
for the paper titled Transmission Scheduling for Sensor Network Lifetime Maximization: A Shortest Path Bandit Formulation.

KEYVAN ZARIFI, Darmstadt University of Technology
with ALEX B. GERSHMAN, Darmstadt University of Technology
for the paper titled Subspace-Based Blind Channel Estimation in DS-CDMA Systems with Unknown Wide-Sense Stationary Interference.

Jun Zheng, University of California at San Diego
with Bhaskar Rao, University of California at San Diego
for the paper titled Capacity Analysis of Multiple Antenna Systems With Mismatched Channel Quantization Schemes.

Gesualdo Scutari, Dpt. INFOCOM, Univ. of Rome
with Sergio Barbarossa, Dpt. INFOCOM, Univ. of Rome; Daniel P. Palomar, Dpt. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
for the paper titled POTENTIAL GAMES: A FRAMEWORK FOR VECTOR POWER CONTROL PROBLEMS WITH COUPLED CONSTRAINTS.

Serdar Sezginer, Supélec
with Pascal Bianchi, Supélec
for the paper titled Cramér-Rao Bound and Training Sequence Selection for MIMO-OFDMA transmissions impaired by frequency offsets.

Michael Botros Shenouda, McMaster University
with Timothy Davidson, McMaster University
for the paper titled Robust Linear Precoding for Uncertain MISO Broadcast Channels.

Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing

Animashree Anandkumar, Cornell University
with Lang Tong, Cornell University
for the paper titled A LARGE DEVIATION ANALYSIS OF DETECTION OVER MULTI-ACCESS CHANNELS WITH RANDOM NUMBER OF SENSORS.

Daniela Donno, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano
with Arye Nehorai, ECE Department, University of Illinois at Chicago; Umberto Spagnolini, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano
for the paper titled Seismic Velocity/Polarization Estimation and Polarized Wavefield Separation.

Rostom AOUADA, SUPELEC
with Saïd AOUADA, Darmstadt University of Technology; Guy d'URSO, EDF; Abdelhak ZOUBIR, Darmstadt University of Technology
for the paper titled Source Detection and Separation in Power Plant Process Monitoring: Application of the Bootstrap.

Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems

Tung-Chien Chen, GIEE, NTU
with Yu-Han Chen, GIEE, NTU; Sung-Fang Tsai, GIEE, NTU; Liang-Gee Chen, GIEE, NTU
for the paper titled Architecture Design of Low Power Integer Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC.

Sungchung Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
with Kwyro Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Yuping Zhang, University of Minnesota; Keshab Parhi, University of Minnesota; Jin Lee, Information and Communications University; Sin-Chong Park, Information and Communications University
for the paper titled Probabilistic List Sphere Decoding for LDPC-coded MIMO-OFDM Systems.

Machine Learning for Signal Processing

Daisuke Kurata, Nagoya Institute of Technology
with Yoshihiko Nankaku, Nagoya Institute of Technology; Keiichi Tokuda, Nagoya Institute of Technology; Tadashi Kitamura, Nagoya Institute of Technology; Zoubin Ghahramani, University College London
for the paper titled Face Recognition based on Separable Lattice HMMs.

Mike Novey, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
with Tulay Adali, University of Maryland Baltimore County
for the paper titled Stability Analysis of Complex-valued Nonlinearities for Maximization of Nongaussianity.

Justin Dauwels, ETH Zurich
with Sascha Korl, ETH Zurich
for the paper titled A Numerical Method to Compute Cramér-Rao-Type Bounds for Challenging Estimation Problems.

Alexei Pozdnoukhov, IDIAP Research Institute
with Samy Bengio, IDIAP Research Institute
for the paper titled Semi-Supervised Kernel Methods for Regression Estimation.

Industry Technology Track

Madhusudana Shashanka, Boston University Hearing Research Center
with Paris Smaragdis, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
for the paper titled Secure Sound Classification: Gaussian Mixture Models.

Gail Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology
with Paul Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology
for the paper titled Chemical Source Localization in Unknown Turbulence Using the Cross-correlation Method.

Bio Imaging and Signal Processing

Max Little, Mathematics Institute, Oxford University
with Patrick McSharry, Maths Institute and Engineering Science, Oxford University; Irene Moroz, Mathematics Insitute, Oxford University; Stephen Roberts, Engineering Science, Oxford University
for the paper titled Nonlinear, Biophysically-Informed Speech Pathology Detection.

Varsha Sampath, Rochester Institute of Technology
with Vladimir Misic, University of Rochester, Medical Center; Eli Saber, Rochester Institute of Technology; Haisong Liu, University of Rochester, Medical Center; Yan Yu, University of Rochester, Medical Center
for the paper titled SEED LOCALIZATION USING TRUS AND GRF BASED GAUSSIAN FILTERING FOR BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATIONS.