Best Paper Awards 2023

PREMIA Best Student Paper Awards 2023

 

Winners of PREMIA Best Paper Awards 2023

Gold Award ($500)

  • Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining
    Qinghong Lin

Silver Awards (Certificate of Merit) ($200)

  • Multi-View Graph Contrastive Learning for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems
    Yuan Jiang
  • Heatmap Distribution Matching for Human Pose Estimation
    Haoxuan Qu
  • LaserMix for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
    Lingdong Kong

Certificate of Commendation ($100)

  • HuMMan: Multi-Modal 4D Human Dataset for Versatile Sensing and Modeling
    Zhongang Cai
  • Emotion Intensity and its Control for Emotional Voice Conversion
    Kun Zhou
  • GradMDM: Adversarial Attack on Dynamic Networks
    Lin Geng Foo

Certificate of Honourable Mention (Certificate only)

  • Text2Light: Zero-Shot Text-Driven HDR Panorama Generation
    Zhaoxi Chen
  • LGGNet: Learning From Local-Global-Graph Representations for Brain–Computer Interface
    Yi Ding

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 1 April 2022 and 31 May 2023.

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

Submission Deadlines:

  • Initial Deadline: 10 July 2023
  • Final Deadline: 20 July 2023

The nominated papers will be evaluated by a review panel authorized by the PREMIA board. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to present their papers at PREMIA’s Members’ Night & Annual General Meeting, which will be held on 2 August 2023. Awards will be determined following the presentations.

Award 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 must be a PREMIA member at the time of the event. Applicants can join PREMIA at the time of submission to be eligible for the 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 1 April 2022 and 31 May 2023, both dates inclusive, 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, natural language processing, robotics, multimedia, and more. Relevant methods include statistical techniques, neural networks, deep learning, evolutionary programming, fuzzy logic, transfer learning, and hardware implementation.
  6. Shortlisted candidates are required to attend the Members’ Night event and present their papers.
  7. For multiple submissions from the same author, only one award will be granted if selected.
  8. For a paper co-authored by several students, only one submission will be considered.

Submission Instructions:

  1. Submit your paper via the following link: PREMIA BSPC 2023 Submission.
  2. Attach the following documents with your submission:
    • 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.