CIS Papers Win IEEE Awards

On April 2, 2007, the IEEE Alabama Section announced the awards for the 2005-2006 Prize Paper Competition. Dr. Chengcui Zhang received both the first and second place awards with her papers "Spatio-Temporal Vehicle Tracking Using Unsupervised Learning-Based Segmentation and Object Tracking,", published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, special issue on Robotic Technologies applied to Intelligent Transportation Systems, and "A Latent Semantic Indexing Based Method for Solving Multiple Instance Learning Problem in Region-based Image Retrieval," published in the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2005). The latter paper was co-authored with Ph. D. Candidate Xin Chen. Dr. Barrett Bryant received the third place award for the paper "Transforming Business Process Models: Enabling Programming at a Higher Level," published in IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005). This paper was co-authored by Ph. D. graduates Wei Zhao and Fei Cao.

Featured in the attached picture are Dr. Barrett Bryant, Ph. D. Candidate Xin Chen, and Dr. Chengcui Zhang.