The Deadline for EURASIP Fellow Nominations is October 31st, 2012.

In 2007, the EURASIP Board of Directors (BoD) initiated a “Fellowship Programme”, to recognize outstanding achievements of its members and volunteers. Each year, a select group of European signal processing researchers (up to four) are elevated to “EURASIP Fellow”, the Association's most prestigious honour.

Where to Submit Nominations

Any EURASIP member can nominate a colleague to be elevated to Fellow grade. Nominations should be submitted to the EURASIP Awards chair, Fulvio Gini, by e-mail (f.gini@ing.unipi.it). The nomination form can be downloaded from the EURASIP website or requested from the Awards Chair. The deadline is October 31st of every year. Nominations will be passed to the chair of the Fellow Selection Committee who will consult with the committee to come up with a proposal (including a short citation for each candidate) to the BoD by December 31st of the same year. The BoD will take a decision by the end of January of the following year on new fellowship awards and the EURASIP President will then notify the successful individuals, and their names will be added to the Society WWW pages.

We encourage you to nominate highly deserving colleagues to this prestigious honour.

The Deadline for EURASIP Society Award Nominations is December 31st, 2012.
The Deadline for EURASIP Best Paper Award Nominations is October 31st, 2012.

Each year, EURASIP recognizes technical and professional achievements in signal and image processing technology through its celebrated EURASIP Awards Program. As part of the organization's overall mission to advance signal and image processing as a science and a profession, EURASIP's Board of Directors (BoD) annually evaluates the contributions of candidates for various awards that span a spectrum of professional and technological accomplishments.

EURASIP Members are invited to nominate candidates for EURASIP Awards, that fall into the following categories.

Society Awards:

• Meritorious Service Award
• Group Technical Achievement Award
• Technical Achievement Award
• Athanasios Papoulis Award

Best Paper Awards:

• Best Paper Award in Signal Processing
• Best Paper Award in Signal Processing: Image Communication
• Best Paper Award in Speech Communication
• Best Paper Award in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
• Best Paper Award in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
• Best Paper Award in EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing

For additional information, please visit the EURASIP website, where details on the nomination process are reported and downloadable copies of the nomination forms and of the “Awards Selection Procedures” document can be found. A listing of previous award recipients with their award citations is also available on the EURASIP Awards webpage.

Where to Submit Nominations

Nominations should be submitted to the EURASIP Awards chair, Fulvio Gini, by e-mail (f.gini@ing.unipi.it). The deadline for Best Paper Awards nominations is October 31st, 2012. The deadline for Society Awards nominations is December 31st, 2012.

We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and peers.

EURASIP congratulates the following colleagues who will receive the Society's prestigious Best Paper Awards. The awards will be presented at EUSIPCO-2012 in Bucharest, Romania.

Four Best Paper Awards will be awarded, honouring the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Society's technical scope, and appearing in one of the EURASIP journals in the 4-year window 2007–2010. The prize is 1000 EUR per paper and a certificate. For each journal, a collection of papers were pre-selected by the journal Editor-in-Chief, based on reviewers' scores, number of citations and number of downloads, or direct nomination by the members of the Editorial Board who managed the review process of the submitted papers. The nominated papers were then evaluated by a committee of four experts who selected the paper to be awarded based on general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. This year, the awardees are the following:

• Sheng Jing, David N. C. Tse, Joseph B. Soriaga, Jilei Hou, John E. Smee, and Roberto Padovani, for their paper “Multicell downlink capacity with coordinated processing,” published in the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. Volume 2008, Article ID 586878, 19 pages.
• Salama S. Ikki and Mohamed H. Ahmed, for their paper “Performance of multiple-relay cooperative diversity systems with best relay selection over Rayleigh fading channels,” published in the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. Volume 2008, Article ID 580368, 7 pages.
• Joachim H. G. Ender, for his paper “On compressive sensing applied to radar,” published in Signal Processing. Vol. 90, pp.1402–1414, 2010.
• P. Kauff, N. Atzpadin, C. Fehn, M. Muller, O. Schreer, A. Smolic, and R. Tanger, for their paper “Depth map creation and image-based rendering for advanced 3DTV services providing interoperability and scalability,” published in Signal Processing: Image Communication. Vol. 22, pp. 217–234, 2007.

For the first three journals the award is assigned yearly, for the last one every two years, as detailed on the EURASIP website. The Best Paper Awards are sponsored by the journals publishers, Springer and Elsevier.

Finally, we thank all the members of the Best Paper Award committees for their careful and thorough reading of the nominated papers. We would like to acknowledge those who served in these committees: Kostas Berberidis, Müjdat Çetin, Jonathon Chambers, Georgios B. Giannakis, Christine Guillemot, Ian Jermyn, Kevin Knuth, Geert Leus, Marco Luise, Marc Moonen, Jean-Cristoph Pesquet, Augusto Sarti, Dirk Slock, Murat Tekalp, Stefano Tubaro, and Abdelhak Zoubir.