APSIPA Grand Awards

In order to celebrate the APSIPA 10th Anniversary, we established the APSIPA Grand Award which is the highest annual award of APSIPA starting from 2018. The objective of this award is to show our great appreciation of those who contributed to APSIPA and has superior contributions/leadership in signal processing, information technology and communications.

Awardees of 2018:

• Sadaoki Furui
  for Founding the APSIPA and Pioneering Contributions to Speech Signal Processing
• K. J. Ray Liu
  for Founding the APSIPA, and Pioneering Contributions for the Advances of Signal Processing in Multimedia Forensics, Security, and Wireless Communications
• Jose M. F. Moura
  for Leadership in the Collaboration between APSIPA and IEEE, and Pioneering Contributions to Graph Signal Processing

APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award

The APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award is awarded at APSIPA ASC each year based on selection from the papers published in the preceding five years. Nominations with supporting comments should be sent to Editor in Chief or VP-Publications, who co-chair the Award Commitee by August 1.

• The first award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2016 to
  Simone Milani et al; for their paper "An Overview on Video Forensics".
• The second award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2017 to
  Yoshinobu Kajikawa et al; for their paper "Recent advances on active noise control: open issues and innovative applications".
• The third award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2018 to
  Chung-Hsien Wu et al; for their paper "Survey on audiovisual emotion recognition: databases, features, and data fusion strategies".
• The 4th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2019 to
  Sachin Chachada et al; for their paper "Environmental sound recognition: a survey".
• The 5th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2020 to
  Evangelos Alexiou et al; for their paper "A comprehensive study of the rate-distortion performance in MPEG point cloud compression".
• The 6th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2021 to
  Hiroshi Sawada et al; for their paper "A review of blind source separation methods: two converging routes to ILRMA originating from ICA and NMF".
• The 7th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2022 to
  Bin Wang et al; for their paper "Evaluating word embedding models: methods and experimental results".
• The 8th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2023 to
  Jinyu Li et al; for their paper "Recent advances in end-to-end automatic speech recognition".
• The 9th award was presented in APSIPA ASC 2024 to
  Fenxiao Chen et al; for their paper "Graph representation learning: a survey".
• The 10th awards were presented in APSIPA ASC 2025 to
  
  • Research paper award: Yuki Okamoto, Keisuke Imoto, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Ryosuke Yamanishi, Takahiro Fukumori, and Yoichi Yamashita, for their paper “Onoma-to-wave: environmental sound synthesis from onomatopoeic words", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Vol. 11: No. 1, e13. 2022.
  • Overview paper award: Xiaofeng Liu, Chaehwa Yoo, Fangxu Xing, Hyejin Oh, Georges El Fakhri, Je-Won Kang, and Jonghye Woo, for their paper “Deep unsupervised domain adaptation: a review of recent advances and perspectives", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Vol. 11: No. 1, e25. 2022

APSIPA KJRLiu_Mid-Career Award 2026

Guideline

1. Name and number of the Award: APSIPA awards up to THREE APSIPA K.J.Ray Liu Mid-Career Excellence Award selected each year from received nominations.
2. Award Committee:
   
   1. The Award Committee is chaired by the immediate past-President of APSIPA
   2. The Award Committee includes THREE-FIVE elected members, who are the President, President-elect, and 1-3 Board members.
3. Eligibility
   • The applicant must have at least 3 years of APSIPA membership;
   • The applicant must have held a PhD degree for 5-15 years; and
   • A significant part of the requirements, the applicant should have owned 2 papers in APSIPA ASC or at least 1 paper in APSIPA T-SIP as a corresponding author.
   • The applicant must have demonstrated sustained involvement in, and service contributions to, APSIPA. Such contributions may include, but are not limited to, participation in APSIPA conference organization, technical program committees, paper reviewing, chapter activities, special sessions, tutorials, workshops, student or young professional activities, editorial activities, or other APSIPA-supported initiatives
4. Timetable
   • The official call for entries is in March of every calendar year;
   • The deadline for enrolment is in late April of every calendar year;
   • The results will be announced in June of every calendar year
   • The awardees must be present at the APSIPA ASC (held in the last quarter of every year), and they will be invited to give presentations during the APSIPA ASC.
5. Prize Money
   • The awardees will each receive a prize money of US$500 and an award certificate.
6. This Guideline is approved and revised if necessary by the BoG.