Student Researcher Lodging/Travel Grants

The CIP2010 Organizing Committee particularly invites and welcomes student participation in the conference as a key step in facilitating each individual student’s development within the scientific communities that have some interest on cognitive information processing.

Limited travel grants supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research will be available to full-time students. We plan to cover part of the student lodging/travel costs. Approximately 10 student grants at the average value of 350 Euros/grant are being planned to be distributed on a competitive basis. The students' advisors should provide a recommendation letter. The letters should be sent to the General co-Chair, Prof. Fulvio Gini (f.gini@iet.unipi.it).

Best Student Paper Awards

The CIP2010 Organizing Committee is continuing a tradition of encouraging student participation in the IAPR/EURASIP/IET/IEEE conferences by holding a competition to select the Best Student Paper of CIP2010 from among the papers submitted by university students at the graduate or undergraduate level (the student must be the first author of the paper).

Drawn from student papers that were submitted, self-identified for participation in the competition (by selecting the “Student” Category at the time of submitting the paper, after you have selected the Track), and accepted, a panel of experts from industry and academia will perform an initial scoring of the papers. This scoring will identify 6 to 10 leading papers that will undergo final evaluation, leading to the selection of the winners that will be announced at the conference banquet.

The CIP2010 Best Student Paper Competition is sponsored by Texas Instrument, Springer and Academic Press. The awards consist of three OMAP-L137/TMS320C6747 Floating Point Starter Kits, ten copies of the book “Pattern recognition and machine learning” (Springer, 2006), authored by C. Bishop, who is one of our Distinguished Speakers at CIP2010, and ten copies of the book “Pattern Recognition” (Academic Press, 2008), co-authored by S. Theodoridis and K. Koutroumbas. The workshop best paper awards selection process will be run by Prof. Sergios Theodoridis, the General co-chair, and Prof. Mérouane Debbah and Dr. Maria Sabrina Greco, the CIP2010 Technical Program co-chairs.