Multimedia Prize Paper Award

The Multimedia Prize Paper Award is an annual award for an original paper in the field of multimedia published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia in the previous two calendar years.   Authors of a single paper cannot receive the Multimedia Prize Paper Award in two consecutive years. The prize shall be a plaque and an honorarium of up to $500 per author.  The total honorarium is not to exceed $1000.  In the event that there are more than two authors, the maximum prize shall be divided equally among all authors and each shall receive a plaque. The basis for judging is the composite of: originality, utility, timeliness, and clarity of presentation.  Under normal circumstances, the Multimedia Prize Paper Award will be presented annually at the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) by the General Chair of the conference, in the name of the four sponsoring societies.  An award may not be given if a paper of high quality is not uncovered.

Nomination Information

The nomination period for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2008 Prize Paper Award is open until 4 May 2008. Any paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia during 2005, 2006, or 2007 is eligible.

Nominations should include:

1. Nominator
2. Bibliographic information for the paper
3. A short statement of support (less than 500 words) explaining the rationale for the nomination.

Judging shall be on the bases of general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. The winner will be announced at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2008) in June.

Nominations should be sent to the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Editor-in-Chief, Sheila Hemami (hemami@ece.cornell.edu in plain text form (no attachments please).

Award Recipients

2005

Tien-Tsin Wong, Chi-Wing Fu, Pheng-Arm Heng and Chi-Sing Leung for the paper entitled, "The Plenoptic Illumination Function," published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 4, Number 3, September 2002.

2004

Kunio Kashino, Takayuki Kurozumi, and Hiroshi Murase for the paper entitled, "A Quick Search Method for Audio and Video Signals based on Histogram Pruning," published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 5, Number 3, September 2003.

2003

Rakesh Mohan, John R. Smith and Chung-Sheng Li for the paper entitled, "Adapting Multimedia Internet Content For Universal Access," published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 1, Number 1, March 1999.