Student Paper Contest

Finalists

DISCRIMINATIVE GRAPHICAL MODELS FOR SPARSITY-BASED HYPERSPECTRAL TARGET DETECTION
         Umamahesh Srinivas; The Pennsylvania State University
         Yi Chen; The Johns Hopkins University
         Vishal Monga; The Pennsylvania State University
         Nasser Nasrabadi; U.S. Army Research Laboratory
         Trac Tran; The Johns Hopkins University
 
TEMPORAL POLSAR IMAGE SERIES EXPLOITATION WITH BINARY PARTITION TREES
         Alberto Alonso-González; Universitat Politàcnica de Catalunya
         Carlos López-Martínez; Universitat Politàcnica de Catalunya
         Philippe Salembier; Universitat Politàcnica de Catalunya
 
SEA SURFACE INFRARED EMISSIVITY WITH SURFACE REFLECTION
         Hongkun Li; Lunam University - University of Nantes
         Nicolas Pinel; Lunam University - University of Nantes
         Christophe Bourlier; Lunam University - University of Nantes
 
IMPROVED JACOBIAN FORMULATION FOR A UNIFIED MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL: VALIDATION AND NUMERICAL RESULTS
         Miao Tian; University of Colorado at Boulder
         Albin Gasiewski; University of Colorado at Boulder
 
CUBESAT-BASED DEMONSTRATOR FOR OPTICAL EARTH OBSERVATION
         Roger Jove-Casulleras; Universitat Politàcnica de Catalunya
         Adriano Camps; Universitat Politàcnica de Catalunya
         Juan Ramos; Universitat Politàcnica de Catalunya
 
INTERPRETING C-BAND SEA SURFACE DEPOLARIZATION OBSERVATIONS
         Bo Wang; Télécom Bretagne
         Bertrand Chapron; Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
         Alexis Mouche; Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS)
         Grégoire Mercier; Télécom Bretagne
         René Garello; Télécom Bretagne
         Ming Xia He; Ocean University of China
 
PROBABILISTIC LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION APPROACH TOWARD KNOWLEDGE-BASED SATELLITE DATA INTERPRETATIONS
         Shutaro Hashimoto; Hokkaido University
         Takeo Tadono; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
         Masahiko Onosato; Hokkaido University
         Masahiro Hori; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
         Takashi Moriyama; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
 
A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF WEAK INTERFERING DIGITAL SIGNALS IN RADIOMETRIC NOISE
         Eric McIntyre; University of Colorado at Boulder
         Albin Gasiewski; University of Colorado at Boulder
 
SUB-PIXEL MAPPING OF THE ALTERATION MINERALS USING ASTER DATA, A CASE STUDY FROM THE CENTRAL PART OF DEHAJ-SARDUIYEH COPPER BELT, SE KERMAN, IRAN.
         Mahdieh Hosseinjani; Shiraz University
         Majid H. Tangestani; Shiraz University
 
SEMISUPERVISED NONLINEAR FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
         Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier; University of Valencia
         Luis Gómez-Chova; University of Valencia
         Lorenzo Bruzzone; University of Trento
         Gustavo Camps-Valls; University of Valencia
 

Contest Details

All IEEE student members are invited and encouraged to enter the IGARSS 2012 Student Prize Paper Competition. Ten finalists will be selected by a committee to present their papers during a special session at the symposium in Munich. All finalists will be offered partial travel support funding. Three prizes will be presented: First Prize (Mikio Takagi Student Prize) endowed with US$ 1000.00, Second Prize endowed with US$ 750.00, Third Prize endowed with US$ 500.00, plus certificates for each.

To enter, a student should have submited the following documents online at the abstract submission page by 12 January 2012:

  1. A full, final, camera-ready paper formatted according to the paper kit section on final papers;
  2. A signed letter from a faculty advisor stating that the student:
    • is a candidate for a degree and IEEE student member,
    • will personally present the paper if accepted,
    • will publish in the IGARSS 2012 Proceedings,
    • will register and participate in the symposium, and
    • will attend the Awards Banquet (free ticket provided by Local Organizers to every finalist);
  3. Proof of your student status.

Contest guidelines:

  1. The first/principal author must be a student.
  2. The student must be an IEEE member.
  3. Each student can only submit one paper for consideration in the contest.
  4. The student must be in a degree program at the time of submission of IGARSS 2012 paper.
  5. The student must attend IGARSS 2012 and present the paper.
  6. The student will publish the paper in the IGARSS 2012 Proceedings.
  7. The full paper MUST BE FORMATTED ACCORDING TO THE PAPER KIT and must be uploaded through the online system by 12 January 2012.