Best Paper Awards

Friday 16 September 2011

CVSSP Researchers Win IEEE Award

The IEEE Chester W. Sall Memorial Award, sponsored by the IEEE Consumer Electronics society, and was awarded to CVSSP researchers at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 9-12 January 2011. Dr Anil Fernando and Mr Varuna de Silva attended the ICCE to accept the award from the president of the IEEE CE Society (see picture).

The paper leading to this award, “Object based coding of depth maps for 3D video coding” , authored by Varuna de Silva and co-authored by Dr Anil Fernando and Dr Lasith Yasakethu was published in the August 2009 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. It proposes an object based coding approach for depth maps in 3D video based on 3-Dimensional Motion Estimation. The particular work, conducted as a part of the Ph.D. work carried out by Varuna de Silva, is expected to have important implications for applications requiring low computational complexity.

IbPRIA 2011 Best Paper

Segun Oshin won the best paper award at IbPRIA 2011: 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis with co-authors, Andrew Gilbert and Richard Bowden for his paper titled “There is more than one way to get out of a car: Automatic Mode Finding for Action Recognition in the Wild”

ACM Conference Paper Award

Dr Reede Ren won the best paper prize at the 17th ACM Intl. Conf. On MultiMedia Modelling (MMM) 2011, for the paper “A Bag of Visual Words based Query Generative Model”, along with co-authors Dr John Collomosse and J. Jose. Reede is funded under Digital Dance Archives (DDA) video retrieval project running in CVSSP funded by the AHRC.