MMSP 2024 Award Winners

The MMSP Awards Committee announced the following winners for the Best Paper Awards in recognition of their excellent research in multimedia signal processing:

Best paper:

Feature-Preserving Rate-Distortion Optimization in Image Coding for Machines

Samuel Fernandez (University of Southern California)*; Eduardo Pavez (University of Southern California); Antonio Ortega (University of Southern California)

Best student paper:

JPEG AI Compressed Domain Face Detection

Ayman Alkhateeb (University of Brescia); Alessandro Gnutti (University of Brescia)*; Fabrizio Guerrini (University of Brescia); Riccardo Leonardi (UNIBS); Joao Ascenso (IST-IT); Fernando Pereira (Instituto Superior Técnico – Instituto de Telecomunicações)

Best student paper honorable mention:

Exploiting Consistency-Preserving Loss and Perceptual Contrast Stretching to Boost SSL-based Speech Enhancement

Muhmmad Salman Khan Khan (student)*; Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna); Kuo-Hsuan Hung (Academia Sinica); Szu-Wei Fu (NVIDIA); Sabato M Siniscalchi (Università degli Studi di Palermo); Yu Tsao (Academia Sinica)