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Best Paper Award: Shoaib Meraj Sami, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, and Raghuveer Rao, “Deep Transductive Transfer Learning for Automatic Target recognition,” in SPIE Defense & Commercial Sensing, Conference 12521, Automatic target recognition XXXIII, May 1-4, 2023, Orlando, Florida.

Best Overall Conference Paper: Kelsey O'Haire, Sobhan Soleymani, Samuel Price, Nasser M Nasrabadi, “Juvenile Morph Dataset: A Study of Attack Detectability and Recognition Vulnerability,” 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST22), Nov. 14-15, 2022. (Virtual Conference)

Best Student Paper Award: F. Taherkhani, V. Talreja, J. Dawson, M. Valenti, N. M. Nasrabadi, “PF-CpGAN: profile to frontal coupled GAN for face recognition in the wild,” IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB’20), Sept. 28- 1 Oct., 2020, Houston, Taxes.

Best Paper Award: Syeda Nyma Ferdous, Moktari Mostofa, Uche Osahor, Nasser M. Nasrabadi “Target classification in infrared imagery by cross-spectral synthesis using GAN,” SPIE Symposium, Automatic Target Recognition XXX, Proc. SPIE. 11394, Anaheim CA, 27 April - 1 May 2020.
Best Outstanding Researcher, College of Engineering and Mine. Res., WVU, 2019
Best Researcher of the Year, College of Engineering and Mine. Res., WVU, 2019
Best Poster Paper Award: S. Soleymani, A. Dabouei, J. Dawson, N. M. Nasrabadi, “Defending Against Adversarial Iris Examples Using Wavelet Decomposition,” The Tenth IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2019), Sept. 23, 2019, Tampa, FL.
Best Student Paper Award: A. Dabouei, S. Soleymani, H. Kazemi, SM Iranmanesh, Jeremy Dawson, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, “ID Preserving Generative Adversarial Network for Partial Latent Fingerprint Reconstruction,” 9th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2018).

Best Poster Paper Award: S. M. Iranmanesh, H. Kazemi, S. Soleymani, A. Dabouei, N. M. Nasrabadi, “Deep Sketch-Photo Face Recognition Assisted by Facial Attributes,” 9th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2018).

Highest Impact Paper Award 2018, from IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, July 2018 for the paper Yi Chen, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Trac D. Tran, “Hyperspectral image classification Via Kernel Sparse,” IEEE Trans. On Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.51 no.1, pp.431-440, Jan. 2013.

Best Paper Award Grand Challenge: B. S. Riggan, N. J. Short, M. S. Sarfraz, S. Hu, H. Zhang, V. M. Patel, S. Rasnayaka, J. Li, T. Sim, S. M Iranmanesh, N. M Nasrabadi, “ICME grand challenge results on heterogeneous face recognition: polarimetric thermal-to-visible matching,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), San Diego, CA, 2018. (2nd Place Grand Challenges)
Best Workshop Paper: F. Taherkhani, N. M Nasrabadi, Jeremy Dawson, “A Deep Face Identification Network Enhanced by Facial Attributes Prediction,” IEEE CVPRW Salt Lake City, UT, June 18, 2018.
Best Paper Award: H. Kazemi, S. M. Iranmanesh, A. Dabouei, S. Soleymani, N. M. Nasrabadi, “Facial Attributes Guided Deep Sketch-to-Photo Synthesis,” IEEE Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WCAVW’18), Workshop on Cross-Domain Biometric Recognition, Lake Tahoe, NV, 12-15 March 2018.
Best Student Paper Award: A. Dabouei, H. Kazemi, S.M. Iranmanesh, J. Dawson, N.M. Nasrabadi, “Fingerprint Distortion Rectification using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,” the 11th IAPR International Conferences on Biometrics (ICB'18), February 20-23, 2018, Gold Coast, Australia.

2nd Best Paper Award: Zhangming Ding, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Yun Fu, “Deep Transfer Learning for Target Classification: MWIR to LWIR,” in SPIE Defense & Commercial Sensing, Conference 9844, Automatic Target recognition, Baltimore, MD, April 2016.
Best Student Paper: Umamahesh Srinivas, Yi Chen, Vishal Monga, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Trac D. Tran, “Discriminative Graphical Models for Sparsity-based Hyperspectral Target Detection,” IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, (IGARSS’12), Munich, July 25-30, 2012.
Best Student Paper: Haichao Zhang, Jianchao Yang, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Yanning Zhang, Thomas S. Huang, “Close the Loop: Joint Blind Restoration and Recognition with Sparse Representation Prior,” ICCV’2011, Barcelona, Spain, September 6-13, 2011.
Best Student Paper Honorable Mention: Haichao Zhang, Nasser M. Nasrabadi, Yanning Zhang, Thomas S. Huang, “Heterogeneous Multi-Metric Learning for Multi-Sensor Fusion,” Fusion 2011, Chicago, IL. July 5-8, 2011.
Best paper award: ``An Application of Wavelet-based Vector Quantization in Target Recognition,'' appeared in the Proc. IEEE Symposium Image, Speech, and Natural Language Systems}, pp.274-281, Washington DC, Nov. 1996.
Best paper award of IEE Electronics Division (UK), 1992 for ``Static and Dynamic Address-Vector Quantization of RGB-Color Images,'' appeared in the IEE Proceedings-I Communications, Speech and Vision, Vol. 138, No. 4, pp. 225-231, August 1991. (The Blumlein-Browne-Willans Premium, and the A. H. Reeves Premium).