ICASSP 2008 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 2008 and based on the quality of their presentations, winners of the contest will be announced during the conference.
Francisco Pinto, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
with Martin Vetterli, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
for the paper titled "WAVE FIELD CODING IN THE SPACETIME FREQUENCY DOMAIN".
Victor Sanchez, The University of British Columbia
with Panos Nasiopoulos, The University of British Columbia; Rafeef Abugharbieh, The University of British Columbia
for the paper titled "EFFICIENT 4D MOTION COMPENSATED LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF DYNAMIC VOLUMETRIC MEDICAL IMAGE DATA".
Sriram Narayanan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
with Girish V. Varatkar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Douglas L. Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Naresh R. Shanbhag, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
for the paper titled "COMPUTATION AS ESTIMATION: ESTIMATION-THEORETIC IC DESIGN IMPROVES ROBUSTNESS AND REDUCES POWER CONSUMPTION".
Tobias Bocklet, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
with Andreas Maier, University Erlangen-Nuremberg; Josef Bauer, Siemens AG; Felix Burkhardt, T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH; Elmar Nöth, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
for the paper titled "AGE AND GENDER RECOGNITION FOR TELEPHONE APPLICATIONS BASED ON GMM SUPERVECTORS AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES".
Hualiang Li, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
with Tülay Adali, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
for the paper titled "STABILITY ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ICA USING WIRTINGER CALCULUS".
Lu Liu, Tsinghua University
with Yong Rui, Microsoft China R&D Group; Li-Feng Sun, Tsinghua University; Bo Yang, Tsinghua University; Jianwei Zhang, University of Hamburg; Shi-Qiang Yang, Tsinghua University
for the paper titled "TOPIC MINING ON WEB-SHARED VIDEOS".
Michael Rubsamen, Darmstadt University of Technology
with Alex B. Gershman, Technische Universität Darmstadt
for the paper titled "ROOT-MUSIC BASED DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION METHODS FOR ARBITRARY NON-UNIFORM ARRAYS".
Francesca Bassi, LSS – CNRS – Supelec - Univ Paris-Sud
with Michel Kieffer, LSS – CNRS – Supelec - Univ Paris-Sud; Claudio Weidmann, ftw Telecommunications Research Center Vienna
for the paper titled "SOURCE CODING WITH INTERMITTENT AND DEGRADED SIDE INFORMATION AT THE DECODER".
Mihailo Stojnic, California Institute of Technology
with Weiyu Xu, California Institute of Technology; Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Technology
for the paper titled "COMPRESSED SENSING - PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF A NULL-SPACE CHARACTERIZATION".
Guoqiang Zhang, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
with W. Bastiaan Kleijn, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
for the paper titled "AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL-BASED SPEECH PACKET-LOSS CONCEALMENT".