2026 IEEE Signal Processing Society Paper Awards Nomination Period Is Now Open! 

This survey requests the MMSP TC members and associates to recommend papers deserving to be nominated for a SPS paper award. These nominations will be reviewed and voted by the MMSP TC members before a final nomination is decided and submitted.

Types of awards (Click to get more information about scope, eligibility, evaluation criteria, conflicts, etc. for each award):

Best Paper Award

Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award

Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award

Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award

Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award

Sustained Impact Paper Award

Young Author Best Paper Award

Conflicts of Interest

Conflict of Interest (COI) concerns shall be disclosed in the survey and the following relations between nominator and nominee(s) should be avoided:

1. supervisor/student

2. supervisor/post-doc

3. manager/employee

4. shared institutional affiliations

5. recent (less than five years) research collaborations or joint authorship

In addition to these general COIs, there are specific restrictions to nominations depending on the type of award. Before making a nomination, please pay special attention to the possible Conflicts of Interest for each of these awards, and check carefully the descriptions of the awards linked above!  

Eligible journals 

Nominated papers should have appeared in one of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Transactions (journals listed under “Signal Processing Society Publications” top section), plus two joint publications: the Transactions on Computational Imaging and the Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. Note the Transactions on Multimedia is NOT eligible (T-MM best paper award is a separate award). 

Please check the specific award for detailed eligibility requirements.  

Deadline

Nominations for the 2026 SPS Best Paper Awards to be considered by the MMSP TC must be submitted no later than 27 July (Monday), 2026.