Shun Hing Best Student Paper Awards

There will be up to 3 best student paper awards sponsored by the Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Both oral and poster papers are eligible. The selection criteria include:

• novelty of the paper
• relevance of the paper to the conference
• reviewers' scores and comments
• quality of (oral/poster) presentation

To be eligible for consideration, a paper must have a student as the first author who will present the paper during the conference. A list of short-listed candidates will be announced before the conference, and a team of judges will attend their presentations and decide the winners. The final results will be announced at the end of the conference.

Award Winners

After a vigorous review process, the following 3 student papers received the Shun Hing Best Student Paper Award.

• Mr. Mengxue CAO, "Acoustic and Articulatory Analysis on Japanese Vowels in Emotional Speech"
• Mr. Kuan-Lang HUANG, "TDOA Information Based VAD for Robut Speech Recognition in Directional and Diffuse Noise Field"
• Mr. Guoli YE, "Speaker-Ensemble Hidden Markov Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition"