Grant Award Winners

Congratulations to the four winners of the Google Travel Grants:

Marc-Andre Jung - Technische Universität Braunschweig
Paper 2919: "TOWARDS REPRODUCIBLE EVALUATION OF AUTOMOTIVE HANDS-FREE SYSTEMS IN DYNAMIC CONDITIONS"
with Tim Fingscheidt and Lucca Richter (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
Sebastian Braun - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg London;
Daniel P. Jarrett - Imperial College;
Johannes Fischer - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg London;
Paper 4845: "AN INFORMED SPATIAL FILTER FOR DEREVERBERATION IN THE SPHERICAL HARMONIC DOMAIN"
with Emanuel A.P. Habets
Minje Kim - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper 5212: "COLLABORATIVE AUDIO ENHANCEMENT USING PROBABILISTIC LATENT COMPONENT SHARING"
with Paris Smaragdis
Chao Jia - The University of Texas at Austin
Paper 2561: "3D ROTATIONAL VIDEO STABILIZATION USING MANIFOLD OPTIMIZATION"
with Brian Evans

The Google ICASSP Student Travel Grants, sponsored by Google, honor students of outstanding papers in the signal processing area accepted for publication at ICASSP, sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. This is a cash grant, with a fixed dollar amount, donated by Google, which is to be used by each student to attend such conference or workshop.

Congratulations to the four winners of the IBM Research Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grants:

Michal Kozielski and Stefan Hahn - RWTH Aachen University
Paper 2352: "OPEN VOCABULARY HANDWRITING RECOGNITION USING COMBINED WORD-LEVEL AND CHARACTER-LEVEL LANGUAGE MODELS" with David Rybach, Ralf Schlüter, and Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University)
Christoph Matthias Nelke - RWTH Aachen University
Paper 2533: "DUAL MICROPHONE NOISE PSD ESTIMATION FOR MOBILE PHONES IN HANDS-FREE POSITION EXPLOITING THE COHERENCE AND SPEECH PRESENCE PROBABILITY" with Christophe Beaugeant (Intel) and Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University)
Marc-Andre Jung and Lucca Richter - Technische Universität Braunschweig
Paper 2919: "TOWARDS REPRODUCIBLE EVALUATION OF AUTOMOTIVE HANDS-FREE SYSTEMS IN DYNAMIC CONDITIONS"
with Tim Fingscheidt (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
Taufiq Hasan, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Gang Liu, and Navid Shokouhi - The University of Texas at Dallas
Paper 5335: "CRSS SYSTEMS FOR 2012 NIST SPEAKER RECOGNITION EVALUATION"
with Hynek Boril and John H.L. Hansen (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Announcement: IBM Research Spoken Language Processing Student Grants

The IBM Research Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grants, sponsored by IBM Research, honor students of outstanding papers in the spoken language processing area accepted for publication at ICASSP, sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. This is a cash grant, with a fixed dollar amount, administered by IBM Research, which is to be used by each student to attend such conference or workshop. The recipient(s) of the grant will be announced at ICASSP.

Congratulations to the two winners of the Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant:

Ann Lee - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Paper 3651: "MISPRONUNCIATION DETECTION VIA DYNAMIC TIME WARPING ON DEEP BELIEF NETWORK-BASED POSTERIORGRAMS"
with Yaodong Zhang and James Glass; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli - Carnegie Mellon, USA & INESC-ID/IST Portugal
Paper 5104: "A STYLE CAPTURING APPROACH TO F0 TRANSFORMATION IN VOICE CONVERSION"
with Luis C. Oliveira and Alan W. Black.

Announcement: Spoken Language Processing Student Grant

The IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant, sponsored by Drs. XD Huang, Alex Acero and Hsiao-Wuen Hon with proceeds from royalties of their book Spoken Language Processing (Prentice Hall, 2001), honors the student of an outstanding paper in the spoken language processing area accepted for publication in a conference (ICASSP) or a workshop (ASRU) sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. This is a cash grant, with a fixed dollar amount, administered by the IEEE Foundation, which is to be used by each student to attend such conference or workshop. The recipient(s) of the grant will be announced at an event during the conference or workshop.

Candidates must be pursuing a degree at a university. Papers will be judged on the basis of quality and need, which will be evaluated by the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Speech Technical Committee. The application should be sent to the chair of the Speech Technical Committee (john.hansen@utdallas.edu). Each conference or workshop will announce its deadline on its web site.

More information about the Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant is available at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/alexac/award.aspx

IEEE Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant:

Recipient: Shuai Huang - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Paper 4542: "DISCRIMINATIVE FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION
with Glen A. Coppersmith (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)

Announcement

The Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant Fund was established with a $10,000 contribution from IBM. It will be administered by the IEEE Signal Processing Society to honor the memory of the former member and IBM employee who died in 2008. Ramaswamy was manager of the Conversational Biometrics Group in the Human Language Technologies Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. He was a member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee. Candidates must be pursuing a degree at a university. The fund will support the recognition of an outstanding paper by a student in the technical area of speech and language recognition. The award will be presented at the annual IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

The Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Fund is a cash grant, with a fixed dollar amount, administered by the IEEE Foundation, which is to be used by each student to attend the ICASSP conference. The recipient(s) of the grant will be announced at an event during the conference.