Student Paper Contest Winners

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Industry Technology Track

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.