ICASSP 2005

All student paper contest participants will be contacted by email with instructions on how to proceed at this point.

Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Winners

Amit Agrawal, University of Maryland, United States for paper:
IMDSP-P9.13 (Paper #1531): 'Moving Object Segmentation and Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Using Two Frames'

Antoni Buades, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain for paper:
IMDSP-L2.1 (Paper #1898): 'Image Denoising by Non-Local Averaging'

Shan Du, University of British Columbia, Canada for paper:
IMDSP-L4.1 (Paper #2311): 'Statistical Non-Uniform Sampling of Gabor Wavelet Coefficients for Face Recongnition'

Yonggang Shi, Boston University, United States for paper:
IMDSP-L5.1 (Paper #3149): 'A Fast Level Set Method Without Solving PDEs'

Ha T. Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States for paper:
IMDSP-P7.10 (Paper #3311): 'Image-Based Rendering with Depth Information Using the Propagation Algorithm'

Emilio Maggio, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom for paper:
IMDSP-L10.2 (Paper #3698): 'Hybrid Particle Filter and Mean Shift tracker with adaptive transition model'

Signal Processing Theory and Methods Winners

Morteza Shahram, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States for paper:
SPTM-P10.2 (Paper #1463): 'Improved Spectral Analysis of Nearby Tones Using Local Detectors'

Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Minnesota, United States for paper:
SPTM-L3.4 (Paper #2213): 'Non-Parametric Distributed Quantization-Estimation Using Wireless Sensor Networks'

Caroline Chaux, Univ. Marne la Vallée, France for paper:
SPTM-P8.4 (Paper #2948): '2D Dual-Tree M-band Wavelet Decomposition'

Arthur Cunha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States for paper:
SPTM-P8.8 (Paper #3118): 'Bi-orthogonal Filter Banks with Directional Vanishing Moments'

Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Winners

Ting He, Cornell University, United States for paper:
SAM-P1.3 (Paper #2995): 'Nonparametric Change Detection in 2D Random Sensor Field'

Saeed Aldosari, Carnegie Mellon University, United States for paper:
SAM-L1.1 (Paper #3567): 'Saddlepoint Approximation for Sensor Network Optimization'

Multimedia Signal Processing Winner

Ashwin Swaminathan, University of Maryland, College Park, United States for paper:
MSP-L1.4 (Paper #2820): 'Security of Feature Extraction in Image Hashing'

Audio and Electroacoustics Winners

Ann Spriet, K.U. Leuven, Belgium for paper:
AE-P2.7 (Paper #2737): 'An instrumental variable method for adaptive feedback cancellation in hearing aids'

Heinz Teutsch, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany for paper:
AE-P1.11 (Paper #2822): 'EB-ESPRIT: 2D Localization of Multiple Wideband Acoustic Sources Using Eigen-Beams'

Machine Learning for Signal Processing Winners

Qi Zhao, The Pennsylvania State University, United States for paper:
MLSP-L2.1 (Paper #1115): 'Semisupervised Learning of Mixture Models with Class Constraints'

Robert Jenssen, University of Tromso, Norway for paper:
MLSP-P2.4 (Paper #1928): 'The Laplacian Spectral Classifier'

Yi-Ou Li, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States for paper:
MLSP-P1.3 (Paper #3935): 'Feature-selective ICA and Its Convergence Properties'

Signal Processing for Communications Winners

Haichang Sui, University of California, San Diego, United States for paper:
SPCOM-P9.2 (Paper #2104): 'RAKE Finger Placement for CDMA Downlink Equalization'

Youngchul Sung, Cornell University, United States for paper:
SPCOM-P4.3 (Paper #2651): 'A Large Deviations Approach to Sensor Scheduling for Detection of Correlated Random Fields'

Bin Liu, Syracuse University, United States for paper:
SPCOM-L3.1 (Paper #2963): 'Exploiting the Finite-Alphabet Property for Cooperative Relays'

Mikalai Kisialiou, University of Minnesota, United States for paper:
SPCOM-L6.2 (Paper #3062): 'Performance Analysis of Quasi-Maximum-Likelihood Detector Based on Semi-Definite Programming'

Yunnan Wu, Princeton University, United States for paper:
SPCOM-P1.1 (Paper #3523): 'Reduced-Complexity Network Coding for Multicasting over Ad hoc Networks'

Speech Processing Winners

Chen Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China for paper:
SP-L11.1 (Paper #2163): 'Static and Dynamic Spectral Features: Their Noise Robustness and Optimal Weights for ASR'

Jonas Richiardi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland for paper:
SP-P10.1 (Paper #3199): 'A probabilistic measure of modality reliability in speaker verification'

Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, University of Southern California, United States for paper:
SP-P1.2 (Paper #3361): 'An Automatic Prosody Recognizer using a Coupled Multi-Stream Acoustic Model and a Syntactic-Prosodic Language Model'

Andrew Hatch, The International Computer Science Institute, United States for paper:
SP-L8.1 (Paper #3437): 'Improved Phonetic Speaker Recognition Using Lattice Decoding'

Tiago Falk, Qingfeng Xu, Wai-Yip Chan, Queen's University, Canada for paper:
SP-L6.2 (Paper #3479): 'Non-Intrusive GMM-Based Speech Quality Measurement'

Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Winner

Chun Xue, University of Texas at Dallas, United States for paper:
DISPS-P1.10 (Paper #3205): 'Optimizing DSP Scheduling Via Address Assignment with Array and loop Transformation'

Signal Processing Education & Industry Technology Tracks Winner

Amrish Kapoor, King's College London, United Kingdom for paper:
ITT-P1.4 (Paper #1509): 'A Novel Combined ICA and Clustering Technique for the Classification of Gene Expression Data'