• MMTC Best Paper Awards:

2020:

Best Journal Paper Award:

H. Ning, X. Ye, A. Ben Sada, L. Mao and M. Daneshmand, “An attention mechanism inspired selective sensing framework for physical-cyber mapping in Internet of Things,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 9531–9544, Dec. 2019.

Q. Xu, Z. Su, and Q. Yang, “Blockchain-based trustworthy edge caching scheme for mobile cyber physical system,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1098–1110, Feb.  2020.

Best Conference Paper Award:

W. Zhao, B. Zheng, Q. Lin and H. Lu, “Enhancing diversity of defocus blur detectors via cross-ensemble network,” in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’19), June 8905–8913, 2019, Long Beach, CA.

C. Innamorati, T. Ritschel, T. Weyrich, and N. Mitra, “Learning on the edge: Explicit boundary handling in CNNs,” in Proc. 29th British Machine Vision Conference, Sep 1-11，2018, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

2018:

Best Journal Paper Award:

X. Wang, L. Gao, S. Mao, and S. Pandey, “CSI-based fingerprinting for indoor localization: A deep learning approach,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol.66, no.1, pp.763—776, Jan. 2017.

D. Wu, J. Yan, H. Wang, D. Wu, R. Wang, “Social Attribute Aware Incentive Mechanism for Device-to-Device Video Distribution,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2017, 19(8): 1908-1920.

Best Conference Paper Award:

Huaizheng Zhang, Han Hu, Guanyu Gao, Yonggang Wen and Kyle Guan, “DeepQoE: A Unified Framework for Learning to Predict Video QoE,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’18), July 23-27, 2018, Dan Diego, USA

Nikolaos Arvanitopoulos, Radhakrishna Achanta and Sabine Susstrunk, “Single Image Reflection Suppression,” The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 1752-1760, 2017.

2017:

Best Journal Paper Award:

Liang Zhou, “On data-driven delay estimation for media cloud,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 18, no.5, pp. 905-915, 2016

Best Conference Paper Award:

A. Ahmad, A. Floris, and L. Atzori, “QoE-aware service delivery: A joint-venture approach for content and network providers,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2016, pp.1-6      

K. Xiao, S. Mao, and J. K. Tugnait, “QoE-driven resource allocation for DASH over OFDMA networks,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, Washington, DC, Dec. 2016, pp.1-6

2015 :

Best Journal Paper Award:

Suman Deb Roy, Tao Mei, Wenjun Zeng, and Shipeng Li, “Towards Cross-Domain Learning for Social Video Popularity Prediction,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1255-1267, October  2013.

MMTC Best Conference Paper Award:

Szu-Yu Chou, Yi-Hsuan Yang, and Yu-Ching Lin, “Evaluating Music Recommendation in a Real-World  Setting: On Data Splitting and Evaluation Metrics”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on  Multimedia and Expo, June/July, 2015.

2013:

Best Journal Paper Award:

P. Ndjiki-Nya, M. Koppel, D. Doshkov, H. Lakshman, P. Merkle, K. Muller, and T. Wiegand, “Depth Image-Based Rendering with Advanced Texture Synthesis for 3-D Video,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 453-465, June 2011.

Best Conference Paper Award:

S. Shi, K. Nahrstedt, and R. Campbell, “Distortion Over Latency: Novel Metric for Measuring Interacti Performance of Remote Rendering Systems,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp. 1-7, July 2011.

• Outstanding Young Researcher Award:

2020:

Rui Wang, Associate Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Joongheon Kim, Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, South Korea, Director, Korea University Center for Teaching and Learning, Vice Director, Korea University Artificial Intelligence Engineering Center

• Outstanding Researcher Award:

2020:

Yonggang Wen Professor, IEEE Fellow, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Associate Dean (Research), College of Engineering, NTU Singapore 

Award Subcommittee

Mission:

Recognize outstanding contributions, both technical and service contributions, to the technical committee and the community it serves.

Board Approved New Members:

• Chair: Shiwen Mao
  Co-Chair:Kun Yang
• Members:
  Maria Martini,Chonggang Wang and, Christian Timmerer

AWARDS

There are 6 categories of awards:

1. Best Conference paper Award
2. Best Journal Paper Award
3. Distinguished Service Award
4. Outstanding Leadership Award
5. Outstanding Young Researcher Award
6. Outstanding Researcher Award.

The award includes a plaque. The Best Paper Award and the Distinguished Service Award should be given at a MMC TC meeting. The Best Conference paper Award should be given at the conference the paper is presented. The periodicity of the issuing of award as well the MMC TC meeting at which the award will be given shall be determined by the MMC TC chair by consulting the MMC Award subcommittee. The award winners should be listed in the MMC Web page.

MMC Award subcommittee

Technical committees that administer an award program shall have an Awards Subcommittee which is responsible for the selection of award recipients. The Awards Subcommittee Chair shall be appointed by the TC Chair and the TC Chair shall appoint four members to the subcommittee including at least one TC officer (unless conflicts of interest exist for all officers). The members of the Awards Subcommittee, including the Chair, shall be approved in a TC meeting and information on the Awards Subcommittee members  (name, affiliation, and email address) and their terms shall be posted on the TC web page.

1. The award subcommittee is the body responsible for indicating to the MMC TC chair those individuals to receive awards.
2. The award subcommittee should be composed by at least 4 MMC members.
3. Real or perceived conflicts of interest between  Awards  Subcommittee members and those TC members receiving the awards shall be disclosed.  In case of a real or perceived conflict  of   interest,  the  Awards  Subcommittee  member  shall  not  participate  in  the selection of award recipients.
4. The Chair of the TC Awards Subcommittee shall prepare an Awards Selection Report.
5. The TC Chair shall send the Awards Selection Report to the Technical Committees Director for approval.

Eligibility

The MMC TC chair is not eligible for any award.

Any member of the award subcommittee nominated for an award shall not participate in the selection process.

The MMC TC chair shall replace any member of the MMC subcommittee award if the number of active members in this committee is less than 4.

Selection Process

The MMC Award subcommittee is responsible for indicating the individuals selected to receive the awards to the MMC TC chair. The TC Chair shall send the Awards Selection Report to the Technical Committees Director for approval. The Technical Committees Director shall approve the Awards Selection Report within two weeks of receipt. If the Director does not approve the report, the TC Chair shall be contacted to discuss the issues raised. A revised report may be submitted to the Director for approval. If the outstanding issues are not resolved between Director and the TC Chair, the VP-TEA shall bring the matter to the TEA-C for a final decision. Decision shall be made in a period which will make feasible the handling of the award at the designated MMC TC meeting or conference. Selection criteria shall be established by the MMC Award subcommittee chair. The MMC Award subcommittee chair shall discuss with the subcommittee members the criteria to be employed.

The reviews, voting and any deliberations of the award subcommittee shall stay strictly confidential. No correspondence will be sent to authors of the nominated papers, and no complaint will be considered during the election process.

If the award subcommittee considers that no candidate fulfills the established criteria, no award should be issued regardless of the call for nomination.

Each award has its own nomination and selection procedure.

Nomination and Selection of each Award

Best Conference Paper Award

Basis for Judging:

– The topic must be consistent with the focus of the CSIM TC.
– The quality of the paper must be outstanding.

Eligibility:

– Any paper accepted to congress/conference/workshop/symposium sponsored by the Committee, in the previous three years of the nomination.
– The paper should be presented.

Nomination

The technical chair of the conference shall indicate not less than 3 papers consistent within the scope of the Committee. The technical chair of the conference shall select the papers among the ones best ranked. The technical chair of the conference shall not rank the selected papers when indicating them to the award subcommittee.

Best Journal Paper Award

Basis for Judging:

– The topic must be within the MMC committee scope.
– The quality of the paper must be outstanding.

Eligibility:

– Any paper published in an IEEE ComSoc journal/magazine that defined by MMC Award subcommittee, in the previous three years of the nomination.

– At least three papers should be considered for selection.- The paper should be presented.

Nomination

– Nominations shall be solicited by the chair of the MMC TC award subcommittee at MMC meetings or via e-mail posted on the committee mailing list. The solicitation of nominations for the awards via the MMC mailing list and via the MMC web page is mandatory and should detail the nomination process.

– It is recommended that nominations should include: Award name, Nominator name, affiliation, and contact info, Nominee name & affiliation, supporting statement.

Distinguished Service Award

Basis for Judging:

Exemplary service to the Committee over a sustained period of time.

Eligibility:

The nominee must be someone who has significantly contributed to the Committee for a sustained period of time.

Nomination

– Nominations shall be solicited by the chair of the MMC TC award subcommittee at MMC meetings or via e-mail posted on the committee mailing list. The solicitation of nominations for the awards via the MMC mailing list and via the MMC web page is mandatory and should detail the nomination process.

– It is recommended that nominations should include: Award name, Nominator name, affiliation, and contact info, Nominee name & affiliation, supporting statement.

Outstanding Leadership Award

Basis for Judging:

Exemplary service to the Committee over a sustained period of time.

Eligibility:

The nominee has been serving as a IG Chair/Vice-Chair and Board Director/Co-Director before or at the time of nomination.

Nomination

– Nominations shall be solicited by the chair of the MMC TC award subcommittee at MMC meetings or via e-mail posted on the committee mailing list. The solicitation of nominations for the awards via the MMC mailing list and via the MMC web page is mandatory and should detail the nomination process.

– It is recommended that nominations should include: Award name, Nominator name, affiliation, and contact info, Nominee name & affiliation, supporting statement.

Outstanding Researcher Award

Basis for Judging:

Outstanding Research Achievement in the areas of Multimedia& Communications.

Eligibility:

The nominee must be someone who has made significant technical contribution to research community; be an IEEE ComSoc Member and an active MMTC member at the time of nomination.

Nomination

– Nominations shall be solicited by the chair of the MMC TC award subcommittee at MMC meetings or via e-mail posted on the committee mailing list. The solicitation of nominations for the awards via the MMC mailing list and via the MMC web page is mandatory and should detail the nomination process.

– It is recommended that nominations should include: Award name, Nominator name, affiliation, and contact info, Nominee name & affiliation, supporting statement.

Outstanding Young Researcher Award

Basis for Judging:

Outstanding Research Achievement in the areas of Multimedia& Communications.

Eligibility:

The nominee must be someone who has made significant technical contribution to research community; be an IEEE ComSoc Member and an active MMTC member at the time of nomination; be within 10 years since completion of Ph.D. at the time of nomination.

Nomination

– Nominations shall be solicited by the chair of the MMC TC award subcommittee at MMC meetings or via e-mail posted on the committee mailing list. The solicitation of nominations for the awards via the MMC mailing list and via the MMC web page is mandatory and should detail the nomination process.

– It is recommended that nominations should include: Award name, Nominator name, affiliation, and contact info, Nominee name & affiliation, supporting statement.