Best Paper Awards 2022

Winners of PREMIA Best Paper Awards 2022

First Prize ($500) – Gold Award

  • Self-Supervised Learning Disentangled Group Representation as Feature
    Wang Tan (NeurIPS 2021)

Second Prizes ($200) – Certificate of Merit

  • Graph Neural Networks with Learnable Structural and Positional Representations
    Vijay Prakash Dwivedi (ICLR 2022)
  • GLEAN: Generative Latent Bank for Large-Factor Image Super-Resolution
    Chan Cheuk Kit Kelvin (CVPR 2021)
  • Emotional Voice Conversion: Theory, Databases, and ESD
    Zhou Kun (Speech Communication 2022)

Third Prizes ($100) – Certificate of Commendation

  • Animal Kingdom: A Large and Diverse Dataset for Animal Behavior Understanding
    ONG Kian Eng (CVPR 2022)
  • Is Someone Speaking? Exploring Long-term Temporal Features for Audio-visual Active Speaker Detection
    Tao Ruijie (ACMMM 2021)
  • Federated Learning for Personalized Humor Recognition
    Guo Xu (ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2022)

 

PREMIA Best Student Paper Awards 2022

Call for Submission/Nomination

The Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) invites students to participate in the PREMIA Best Student Paper Awards for papers (including journal and conference papers) accepted or published between 30 March 2021 and 31 March 2022.

Submissions can be made by the student author, with support from their supervisor, or nominated directly by the student’s supervisor.

Submission Deadline: 7 April 2022

The nominated papers will be evaluated by a review panel authorized by the PREMIA board. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give presentations at PREMIA’s Members’ Night, which will be held on 25 April 2022. The awards will be determined following the presentations.

Awards Categories:

  • Gold Award: Cash prize of S$500
  • Silver Awards: Cash prize of S$200
  • Honourable Mention Awards: Cash prize of S$100

Eligibility Criteria:

  1. The main author of the paper must be a PREMIA member at the time of the event. Applicants can join PREMIA at the time of submission to be eligible for this award. For membership registration or renewal, visit PREMIA Membership.
  2. The main author must be a registered student (full-time or part-time) at a tertiary education institution in Singapore at the time the paper was submitted for publication.
  3. The paper must report work done while the author was a student in Singapore.
  4. The paper must be accepted or published between 30 March 2021 and 31 March 2022 in a journal or a conference.
  5. The paper must address a topic relevant to PREMIA. Topics may include pattern recognition, machine intelligence, computer vision, image processing, speech analysis, robotics, and more. Relevant methods include statistical techniques, neural networks, deep learning, fuzzy logic, evolutionary programming, etc.
  6. Shortlisted candidates are required to attend the online Members’ Night event and present their papers.
  7. Only one award will be given per author, even if multiple papers are submitted.

Submission Instructions:

  1. Complete the PREMIA Best Student Paper Award application entry form (see attachment) and attach the following documents:
    • A PDF copy of the accepted or published paper.
    • A PDF copy of the acceptance notification letter/email from the journal editor or conference organizers.
    • The supervisor’s supporting or acknowledgment email.
    • Optional supporting documents such as reviewer comments or a statement from the supervisor.
  2. Submissions must be emailed as a single ZIP file containing all the required documents to PREMIA.
  3. For papers co-authored by several students, only one submission will be considered.

For inquiries or submissions, contact: Prof. Wen Bihan
Email: bihan.wen.uiuc@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: 7 April 2022