Best Paper Awards

"Fusing Annotations with Majority Vote Triplet Embeddings."
- By Brandon Booth, Karel Mundnich, and Shrikanth Narayanan
- Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop
"Automatic speaker age and gender recognition using acoustic and prosodic level information fusion"
- By Shrikanth Narayanan, Ming Li, and Kyu J. Han
- International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Best Paper Award

“Ultrawideband synthesis for high range resolution software defined radar"
- By Sam Prager and Mahta Moghaddam
- IEEE Radar Conference, 1st Place Student Paper Prize

FASTCF: FPGA-based Accelerator for Stochastic-Gradient-Descent-based Collaborative Filtering,
- By Shijie Zhou, Rajgopal Kannan, Min Yu and Viktor K. Prasanna
- Best Paper of ACM/SIGDA International Sumposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

A Framework for Generating High Throughput CNN Implementations on FPGAs
- By Hanqing Zeng, Ren Chen, Chi Zhang and Viktor K. Prasanna
- Best Paper Nominee of ACM/SIGDA International Sumposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, February 2018

“Understanding convolutional neural networks with a mathematical model,” the Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation"
- By C.C. Jay Kuo
- The 2018 Best Paper Award for the Journal of Visual Communications and Image

“Semantic image segmentation using encoder-decoder architecture assisted by global and local attention models (EDA-GLAM)"
- By Hao Xu, Siyang Li and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Best Student Paper Award in the Conference on Autonomous Vehicles and Machines of IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Burlingame, California, USA

"Morse Code Datasets for Machine Learning"
- By Sourya Dey, Keith M. Chugg and Peter A. Beerel
- Awarded Best Paper at 9th Int. Conf. on Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)

"Nanosecond electric pulses cause mitochondrial membrane permeabilization in Jurkat cells”
- By Tina Batista Napotnik, Yu‐Hsuan Wu, Martin A. Gundersen, Damijan Miklavčič, and P. Thomas Vernier
- The 2012-2016 most Influential Bioelectromagnetics (BEM) Paper award

"Integrated waveguide assisted electron emission device"
- By Fatemeh Rezaeifar and Rehan Kapadia
- 1st Place IVEC 2018 Best Student paper award

"A Game Theoretic Approach to Newsvendor Problems with Censored Markovian Demand"
- Best Track Paper Award in Operations Research of 2nd IEOM European Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

"Using Noise to Speed Up Video Classification with
Recurrent Backpropagation"
- By Olaoluwa Adigun and Bart Kosko
- IJCNN 2017 Best Paper Award

"Phantom Validation of Diffusion-Relaxation Correlation Spectroscopic Imaging (DR-CSI)."
- By Daeun Kim, Eamon K. Doyle, Jessica L. Wisnowski and Justin P. Haldar
- ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2017, p. 609.
- 1st Place Award for best abstract presentation from the ISMRM Quantitative MR Study Group

"Navigator-free EPI ghost correction using low-rank matrix modeling: Theoretical insights and practical improvements"
- By Rodrigo A. Lobos, Tae Hyung Kim, W. Scott Hoge and Justin P. Haldar
- ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2017, p. 449
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude

"Faster Diffusion-Relaxation Correlation Spectroscopic Imaging (DR-CSI) using Optimized Experiment Design"
- By Daeun Kim and Justin P. Haldar
- ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2017, p. 176
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude

"Wave-LORAKS for faster Wave-CAIPI MRI"
- By Tae Hyung Kim, Berkin Bilgic, Daniel Polak, Kawin Setsompop and Justin P. Haldar
- ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2017, p. 1037
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude

"The Exact Rate-Memory Tradeoff for Caching with Uncoded Prefetching"
- By Qian Yu and Salman Avestimehr
- IEEE Jack Keil Wolf Student Paper Award
- 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

"Measure and prediction of HEVC perceptually lossy/lossless boundary QP values"
- By Qin Huang, Haiqiang Wang, Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Capocelli Prize in 2017 Data Compression Conference (DCC)
- Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, USA, April 4-7, 2017

"Measure and prediction of HEVC perceptually lossy/lossless boundary QP values"
- By Qin Huang, Haiqiang Wang, Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Capocelli Prize in 2017 Data Compression Conference (DCC)
- Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, USA, April 4-7, 2017
“Understanding CNN via deep features analysis”
- By Hao Xu, Yueru Chen, Ruiyuan Lin and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Best Paper Award in the 2017 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit Conference (ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
“Age/Gender Classification with Whole-Component Convolutional Neural Networks”
- By Chun-Ting Huang, Yueru Chen, Ruiyuan Lin and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- The Springer Poster Book Prize in the 2017 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit Conference (ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

"A Robust and Tree-Free Hybrid Clocking Technique for RSFQ Circuits – CSR Application"
- By Ramy N. Tadros and Peter A. Beerel
- ElectronicsConference(ISEC), Sorrento, Italy, May 2017
- Award: Runners Up of the SNF Contest for Best Contributed ISEC 2017 Presentations

"Pre-demosaic Light Field Image Compression using Graph Lifting Transform"
- By Yung-Hsuan Chao, Gene Cheung and Antonio Ortega
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, September 2017
- Award: ICIP 2017 Best Student Paper Award

"Using Noise to Speed up Video Classification with Recurrent BackProbation"
- By Oliver (Olaoluwa) Adigun and Bart Kosko
- Best Paper Award of the IJCNN-2017 Conference

"The emerging field of signal processing on graphs: Extending high-dimensional data analysis to networks and other irregular domains"
- By David I Shuman, Sunil K. Narang, Pascal Frossard, Antonio Ortega, and Pierre
  Vandergheynst
- 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award

"Pre-demosaic Light Field Image Compression using Graph Lifting Transform"
- By Yung-Hsuan Chao, Gene Cheung, and Antonio Ortega
- ICIP 2017 Best Student Paper

"Optoelectronic Devices based on Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides"
- By H. Tian, M. L. Chin, S. Najmaei, Q. Guo, F. Xia, H. Wang, M. Dubey, and Han Wang
- Citations: Nano Research, 9 (6), 1543-1560, 2016
- Award: Top paper award in the journal Nano Research

"Automatic off-resonance correction with piecewise linear autofocus"
- By TB Smith, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 20th Scientific Sessions, Melbourne, May 2012, p218
"Noise Can Speed Convergence in Markov Chains"
- By Brandon Franzke and Bart Kosko
- Best Paper Award
- Physical Review E, vol. 84, 041112-1 - 041112-14, 10 October 2011.
"Accelerated Liver Fat Quantitation Using Parallel Imaging and Compressed Sensing"
- By SD Sharma, HH Hu, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Summa Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 20th Scientific Sessions, Melbourne, May 2012, p400.
"Towards Dynamic 3D MRI of Speech"
- By Y Zhu, YC Kim, MI Proctor, SS Narayanan, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 20th Scientific Sessions, Melbourne, May 2012, p294.
"Measurement of upper airway compliance using dynamic MRI"
- By YC Kim, X Wang, W Tran, MCK Khoo, KS Nayak
- ISMRM Merit Awards: Magna Cum Laude
- Proc. ISMRM 20th Scientific Sessions, Melbourne, May 2012, p3688.
"Channel Identification: Secret Sharing Using Reciprocity in Ultrawideband Channels"
- By Robert Wilson, R. A. Scholtz, and David Tse
- 2012 Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume: 2, No. 3, September 2007.
"Intelligibility classification of pathological speech using fusion of multiple high level descriptors"
- By Jangwon Kim, Naveen Kumar, Andreas Tsiartas, Ming Li and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Speaker Trait Challenge Award
- Proc. InterSpeech, 2012
“Kinetic Parameter Estimation in Dynamic PET with a Sparsity-Regularized Mixture Model.”
- By Y. Lin, J. P. Haldar, Q. Li, R. M. Leahy
- 1st Place Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Anaheim, 2012.

“Target Estimation Using UWB TOA Measurements”
- By J. Shen and A. F. Molisch
- Best Student Paper Award
- IEEE International Conference on Ultra-WideBand (ICUWB), 2011.
"Intoxicated Speech Detection by Fusion of Speaker Normalized Hierarchical Features and GMM Supervectors."
- By Daniel Bone, Matthew P. Black, Ming Li, Angeliki Metallinou, Sungbok Lee and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Speaker State Challenge Award Winner
- Proc. Interspeech, 2011
"Morphological variation in the adult vocal tract: A study using rtMRI."
- By Adam Lammert, Michael Proctor and Shrikanth Narayanan
- Northern Digital Inc. Excellence Award
- Proc. International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 2011.

"A Carbon Nanotube Spiking Cortical Neuron with Tunable Refractory Period and Spiking Duration"
- By Jonathan Joshi, Alice C. Parker, and Chih-Chieh Hsu
- Third Best Paper Award
- LASCAS Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Feb., 2010, Iguazu Falls, Brazil.
“Variational Techniques for Cardiac Image Analysis: Algorithms and Applications”
- By Jonghye Woo
- Best Dissertation Award – Best Experimental Work
- USC Viterbi School of Engineering, 2010.
"Automatic Classification of Married Couples' Behavior using Audio Features"
- By Matthew P. Black, Athanasios Katsamanis, Chi-Chun Lee, Adam Lammert, Brian Baucom, Andrew Christensen, Panayiotis Georgiou and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. Interspeech, 2010
“Label-Free High-Resolution Imaging of Live Cells with Deconvolved Spatial Light Interference Microscopy.”
- By J. P Haldar, Z. Wang, G. Popescu, Z.-P. Liang
- 1st Place Student Paper Award
- Proc. International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, 2010, pp. 3382-3385.
“Spatiotemporal Imaging with Partially Separable Functions: A Matrix Recovery Approach.”
- By J. P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Rotterdam, 2010, pp. 716-719.
“Robust water/fat separation in the presence of large field inhomogeneities using a graph cut algorithm.”
- By D. Hernando, P. Kellman, J. P. Haldar, Z.-P. Liang
- I. I. Rabi Young Investigator Award; ISMRM, 2009
- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 63:79-90, 2010.c

"Stochastic Resonance in Continuous and Spiking Neuron Models with Levy Noise"
- By Ashok Patel and Bart Kosko
- Best Paper Award, 2009
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 12, 1993-2008, December 2008.
"Emotion recognition using a hierarchical binary decision tree approach"
- By Chi-Chun Lee, Emily Mower, Carlos Busso, Sungbok Lee and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Emotion Challenge Award Winner
- Proc. of Interspeech, 2009.
"Toward detecting emotions in spoken dialogs"
- By Chul Min Lee and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Paper Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2009
- IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13:2(293-303).
"Optimal allocation of time-resources for multihypothesis activity-level detection"
- By Gautam Thatte, Viktor Rozgic, Ming Li, Sabyasachi Ghosh, Urbashi Mitra, Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Murali Annavaram and Donna Spruijt-Metz
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2009.

“Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses: Design Constraints Based on Visual Psychophysics”
- By Noelle R.B. Stiles, USC Third Year Undergraduate
- Student Presentation Award
- 2007 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, San Jose, California, September 2007.
“Intraocular Camera for Retinal Prostheses: Optical Design”
- By Michelle C. Hauer, USC Ph.D. Candidate
- Student Presentation Award
- 2007 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, San Jose, California, September 2007
“A fully integrated 24GHz 4-channel phased-array transceiver in 0.13mm CMOS based on a variable phase ring oscillator and PLL architecture”
- By H. Krishnaswamy and H. Hashemi
- Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper
- IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2007.
"Analyzing the multimodal behaviors of users of a speech-to-speech translation device by using concept matching scores"
- By JongHo Shin, Panayiotis Georgiou and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2007.

“Video streaming over 3G networks with GOP-based priority scheduling"
- By Yongjin Cho, Do-Kyoung Kwon, C.-C. Jay Kuo, Renxiang Huang, Claudio Lima, Jim D. Black and James J. Pan
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), 2006.
“Iterative equalization and decoding for unsynchronized OFDMA uplink transmissions"
- By Man-On Pun, Michele Morelli and C.-C. Jay Kuo
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2006-F), Montreal, Canada, September 25-28, 2006.
"An attribute-based approach to audio description applied to segmenting vocal sections in popular music songs"
- By Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2006.

"An automatic prosody recognizer using a coupled multi-stream acoustic model and a syntactic-prosodic language model"
- By Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan and Shrikanth S. Narayanan
- Best Student Paper Award
- Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2005.
"Creating conversational interfaces for children"
- By Shrikanth S. Narayanan and Alexandros Potamianos
- Best Paper Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2005
- IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 10:2(65-78).
"A cross-layer quality of service mapping architecture for video delivery in wireless networks"
- By Wuttipong Kumwilaisak, Thomas Hou, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, C.-C. Jay Kuo and Ya-Qin Zhang
- Best Paper Award in Multimedia Communications; IEEE Communication Society, 2004
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 1685-1698, December 2003.

"Evaluation of an Ultra-Wideband Propagation Channel"
- By Jean Marc Cramer, Moe Z. Win and R. A. Scholtz
- S. A. Schelkunoff Prize Paper Award; IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 2003
- IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, May 2002.
"Hybrid Fixed-Dwell-Time Search Techniques for Rapid Acquisition of Ultra-Wideband Signals"
- By Eric Homier and R. A. Scholtz
- Best Paper Award (from the meeting organizers for the paper)
- IWUWBS2003, Oulu, Finland, June 2003.
"The Influence of Reverberation on Multichannel Equalization: An Experimental Comparison Between Methods"
- By S. Bharitkar and C. Kyriakakis
- Best Paper Award
- Proc. 37th IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA. Nov. 2003.

"Acquisition of Spread-Spectrum Signals by an Adaptive Array"
- By Duncan Dlugos and R. A. Scholtz
- Senior Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2002
- IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, August 1989.
“Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems”
- By Nilesh N. Karnik, Jerry M. Mendel and Qilian Liang
- Outstanding Paper Award
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 643-658, Dec. 1999.
"ATM Based Ultrawide Bandwidth (UWB) Multiple-Access Radio Network for Multimedia PCS"
- By Z. Win, J. H. Ju, X. Qiu , R. A. Scholtz V. O. K. Li,
- Best Paper Award
- Fourth Annual Engineers Conference at NetWorld+Interop, 1997.
"Strategies for minimizing the intercept time in a mobile communication network with directive/adaptive antennas."
- By J.-H. Oh and R. A. Scholtz
- Ellersick Award for the Outstanding Unclassified Paper
- Milcom Conference, 1997.
“Identification of Non-Minimum Phase Systems Using Higher-Order Statistics”
- By Georgios B. Giannakis and Jerry M. Mendel
- Best Paper Award; IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1992
- IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 37, March 1989.
"Maximum-Likelihood Seismic Deconvolution"
- By John Kormylo and Jerry M. Mendel
- Best Transactions Paper Award
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp. 72-82, January 1983.