Best Paper Awards
ICDSC has traditionally presented best paper awards. This year, each winner received a tablet pc, graciously donated by IBBT.
Procedure for the ICDSC best paper awards
Using the regular reviewing process all papers are ranked based on their quality scores. The steering committee than selects from the top 5 papers that also cover the topics of the conference in the way they intend it. These 5 papers become the nominations for the best paper awards. At the conference 5 distinguished visitors from various backgrounds and without any relationships to the authors of the nominated papers are asked to rank the set. Near the end of the conference, from this ranked set the best paper and 2nd and 3rd prize are selected. 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize papers will receive an award certificate; the best paper also receives a prize from one of the sponsors. A tie for best paper will be avoided, ties for 2nd and 3rd prize can happen and will result in certificates. The certificates will go to all of the authors of the paper, the prize will be handed over to the presenting author of the best paper. If the presenting author of the best paper is not present at the award ceremony, the prize will be handed out to the runner-up etc.
Procedure for the ICDSC best PhD forum awards
The PhD forum candidates defend their PhD challenges in front of an ad-hoc selected jury of distinguished conference visitors of various backgrounds, unrelated to the PhD candidates. The PhD candidates will present their idea and approach and will be intensively interrogated by the jury. It will reflect the flavours of a genuine PhD defence.
After hearing all candidates the jury will retract in camera and come to a verdict: a ranking the best defence and the runners up. The decision is made based on the quality of the idea, the presentation and the approach to the questions. Best and runner up PhD forum candidates will receive an award certificate; the best PhD forum candidate also receives a prize from one of the sponsors. A tie for best PhD candidate will be avoided, ties for runners up can happen and will result in certificates. The certificates will go to the winning PhD candidates. The 1st prize will be handed over to the best PhD candidate; if he/she is not present at the award ceremony, the prize will be handed out to the runner-up etc.
(Note that the candidate has to be a PhD student and has to defend his/her own PhD topic.)
Best Paper Awards ICDSC 2011:
1st prize:
Frederik Verbist, Nikos Deligiannis, Marc Jacobs, Joeri Barbarien, Peter Schelkens, and Adrian Munteanu,
ETRO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussels, Belgium and FMI-IBBT, Ghent, Belgium,
"A Statistical Approach to Create Side Information in Distributed Video Coding".
(shared) 2nd prize:
Adrian Ilie and Greg Welch,
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA,
"On-Line Control of Active Camera Networks for Computer Vision Tasks".
(shared) 2nd prize:
Edward Shen and Richard Hornsey,
Computer Science & Engineering, VISOR Lab, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada,
"Local Image Quality Metric for a Distributed Smart Camera Network with Overlapping FOVs".
(shared) 3rd prize:
Ali Akbar Zarezadeh and Christophe Bobda,
Department of Computer Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany and Department of Computer Science University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA,
"Enabling Communication Infrastructure and Protocol on Embedded Distributed Smart Cameras".
(shared) 3rd prize:
Mauricio Casares, Senem Velipasalar, Paolo Santinelli, Rita Cucchiara and Andrea Prati,
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA and DII & DiSMI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy,
"Energy-efficient Feedback Tracking on Embedded Smart Cameras by Hardware-level Optimization".
Best PhD forum Awards ICDSC 2011:
1st prize:
Frantz Pellisier,
LASMEA, Clermont-Ferrand, France,
"BiSeeMos: a Fast Embedded Stereo Smart Camera".
(shared) 2nd prize:
Manoj R. Rege,
Telecommunication Networks Group, Technical University Berlin, Germany.
"Using Participatory Camera Networks For Object Tracking".
(shared) 2nd prize:
Sebastian Gruenwedel,
Ghent University TELIN-IPI-IBBT, Ghent, Belgium,
"Multi-view occupancy maps using a network of low resolution visual sensors".
This year ICDSC 2011 was organised jointly with the ACIVS 2011 conference. In the ACIVS 2011 conference a similar procedure for selecting a best paper award was followed. Each winner received a tablet pc, graciously donated by Alcatel-Lucent. More information will appear on the ACIVS 2011 website.