ICASSP 2016 Best Student Paper Award

Sponsored by: Starkey Hearing Technologies, iFLYTEK and IBM

The Best Student Paper Award recognises the authors of the best student papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). A paper is considered a student paper if and only if the first author/s is a student at the time of the paper submission. Student papers must be marked so during the paper submission. The Best Student Paper Award is shared among all students authoring the paper. All student papers can participate to the Best Student Paper Award independently of the paper area. All papers shall be equally judged. The Best Student Paper Award consists of a certificate and a money prize. The award will be announced at the opening ceremony of the conference. In case of a no-show of an awarded paper, the corresponding award will be revoked and not assigned to any other paper.

The following procedure will be followed to select the best student papers: During the review process, reviewers will be asked to assess if the student papers have Award quality. Based on these reviews, the Technical Committees will select the best student paper in each track amongst those accepted for the conference. The list of all best student papers per track will be published on the conference website and the authors of these papers will receive a certificate recognising their achievement. A committee of judges will independently review again all these papers and select no more than 6 finalists. The finalists are required to present their papers in front of the Award Selection Panel who will eventually decide the paper/s to be awarded with the Best Student Paper Award.

The candidates nominated by the technical tracks are:

• AASP 3952 "ROOM GEOMETRY ESTIMATION FROM ACOUSTIC ECHOES USING GRAPH-BASED ECHO LABELING," Ingmar Jager, Richard Heusdens, Nikolay D. Gaubitch
• BISP 2803 "LOW-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION OF INTENSITY FUNCTIONS ON THE SPHERE FOR SINGLE-PARTICLE DIFFRACTION IMAGING," Julien Flamant, Nicolas Le Bihan, Andrew V. Martin, Jonathan H. Manton
• DISPS 2526 "PERFECT ERROR COMPENSATION VIA ALGORITHMIC ERROR CANCELLATION," Sujan Gonugondla, Byonghyo Shim, Naresh Shanbhag
• IFS 2416 "OPEN-SET MICROPHONE CLASSIFICATION VIA BLIND CHANNEL ANALYSIS," Luca Cuccovillo, Patrick Aichroth
• IVMSP 2017 "RADAR IMAGING OF STATIONARY INDOOR TARGETS USING JOINT LOW-RANK AND SPARSITY CONSTRAINTS," Van Ha Tang, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Son Lam Phung, Fok Hing Chi Tivive
• IVMSP 3107 "A JOINT LEARNING APPROACH FOR CROSS DOMAIN AGE ESTIMATION," Binod Bhattarai, Gaurav Sharma, Alexis Lechervy, Frederic Jurie
• MLSP 1925 "ADAPTIVE MARGIN SLACK MINIMIZATION IN RKHS FOR CLASSIFICATION," Yinan Yu, Konstantinos Diamantaras, Tomas McKelvey, S.Y. Kung
• MMSP 2437 "LIGHTLY-SUPERVISED UTTERANCE-LEVEL EMOTION IDENTIFICATION USING LATENT TOPIC MODELING OF MULTIMODAL WORDS," Zhaojun Yang, Shrikanth Narayanan
• SAM 1542 "SUPER NESTED ARRAYS: SPARSE ARRAYS WITH LESS MUTUAL COUPLING THAN NESTED ARRAYS," Chun-Lin Liu, Palghat Vaidyanathan
• SPCOM 2674 "REAL-TIME JOINT ENERGY STORAGE MANAGEMENT AND LOAD SCHEDULING WITH RENEWABLE INTEGRATION," Tianyi Li, Min Dong
• SPTM 3535 "DIFFUSION STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION WITH NON-SMOOTH REGULARIZERS," Stefan Vlaski, Lieven Vandenberghe, Ali Sayed
• SL 2788 "HIGH-PITCHED EXCITATION GENERATION FOR GLOTTAL VOCODING IN STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK," Lauri Juvela, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Manu Airaksinen, Paavo Alku
• SL 3907 "SIGNER-INDEPENDENT FINGERSPELLING RECOGNITION WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ADAPTATION," Taehwan Kim, Weiran Wang, Hao Tang, Karen Livescu
• IOT 2487 "HIGH ACCURACY INDOOR LOCALIZATION: A WIFI-BASED APPROACH," Chen Chen, Yan Chen, Hung-Quoc Lai, Yi Han, K.J. Ray Liu
• SS 1898 "RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS FOR POLYPHONIC SOUND EVENT DETECTION IN REAL LIFE RECORDINGS," Giambattista Parascandolo, Heikki Huttunen, Tuomas Virtanen
• SS 4428 "MOBILE BEAMFORMING & SPATIALLY CONTROLLED RELAY COMMUNICATIONS," Dionysios Kalogerias, Athina Petropulu

The finalists for presentations in the Best Student Paper Award Session (21-March, 1530, Room 5D+5E) are 2788, 1542, 2437, 2017, 2416, 2487

The winners of the IEEE ICASSP2016 Best Student Paper Awards, as announced in the Opening Ceremony and Awards Presentation, are

Chun-Lin Liu
1542 "SUPER NESTED ARRAYS: SPARSE ARRAYS WITH LESS MUTUAL COUPLING THAN NESTED ARRAYS"
with Palghat Vaidyanathan
(sponsored by Starkey Hearing Technologies)

Zhaojun Yang
2437 "LIGHTLY-SUPERVISED UTTERANCE-LEVEL EMOTION IDENTIFICATION USING LATENT TOPIC MODELING OF MULTIMODAL WORDS"
with Shrikanth Narayanan
(sponsored by Starkey Hearing Technologies)

Chen Chen, Yi Han
2487 "HIGH ACCURACY INDOOR LOCALIZATION: A WIFI-BASED APPROACH"
with Yan Chen, Hung-Quoc Lai, K.J. Ray Liu
(sponsored by Starkey Hearing Technologies)

The winners of the IEEE ICASSP2016 Speech and Language Processing Student Paper Awards, as announced in the Opening Ceremony and Awards Presentation, are

William Chan
3901 “LISTEN, ATTEND AND SPELL: A NEURAL NETWORK FOR LARGE VOCABULARY CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION”
with Navdeep Jaitly, Quoc Le, Oriol Vinyals
(sponsored by iFLYTEK)

Lauri Juvela, Bajibabu Bollepalli, Manu Airaksinen
2788 “HIGH-PITCHED EXCITATION GENERATION FOR GLOTTAL VOCODING IN STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK”
with Paavo Alku
(sponsored by IBM)

Chunxi Liu, Hao Tang, Vimal Manohar, Rose Sloan, Tyler Kekona
2944 “ADAPTING ASR FOR UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES USING MISMATCHED TRANSCRIPTIONS”
with Preethi Jyothi, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Sanjeev Khudanpur
(sponsored by IBM)

IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Travel Grant

Sponsored by: IBM Corporation

Winner of the IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant:
Chunlei Zhang, Shivesh Ranjan, Qian Zhang, Abhinav Misra, Gang Liu - University of Texas at Dallas
3660 "JOINT INFORMATION FROM NONLINEAR AND LINEAR FEATURES FOR SPOOFING DETECTION: AN I-VECTOR/DNN BASED APPROACH"
with Mahesh Kumar Nandwana, Finnian Kelly, John H.L. Hansen

Administered by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Travel Grant recognizes the student author(s) of an outstanding paper(s) on speaker and language recognition area accepted for publication in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Grant

Sponsored by: Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero and Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Winner of the IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant:
George Trigeorgis - Imperial College London, Erik Marchi - Technische Universität München
3686 "ADIEU FEATURES? END-TO-END SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION USING A DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL RECURRENT NETWORK"
with Fabien Ringeval, Raymond Brueckner, Mihalis Nicolaou, Björn Schuller, Stefanos Zafeiriou

Administered by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Spoken Language Processing Student Grant program honors the student(s) of an outstanding paper(s) in spoken language processing area accepted for publication in a conference (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing) or a workshop (IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding).