Awards (chronological)

Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “For contributions to nonlinear image processing,” December 1995.

Recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award in 1998. This is the highest service honor given by the Society. Citation: “For Broad and Extensive Service Contributions to the Society, and in Particular for the Creation of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.”

Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000.

Recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2000.

Recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award, 2005. This is the highest technical honor given by the Society. Citation: “For Broad and Lasting Contributions to the Field of Digital Image Processing.”

Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America, “For fundamental research contributions to and technical leadership in digital image and video processing,” November 2006.

Recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award in 2008. This is the highest education honor given by the Society. Citation: “For Broad and Lasting Contributions to Image Processing, including popular and important image processing books, innovative on-line courseware, and for the creation of the leading research and educational journal and conference in the image processing field.”

Elected Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) “For pioneering technical, leadership, and educational contributions to the field of image processing,” December 2007.

Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana “For fundamental and enduring technical, educational and service contributions to the field of digital image and video processing,” September 2008.

Recipient of the Billy and Claude R. Hocott Award for Distinguished Engineering Research, The University of Texas at Austin. This is the highest engineering research award given annually to one member of the faculty of the Cockrell School of Engineering, October 2008.

Winner, IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for 2009, for the paper “Image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, volume 13, number 4, pages 600-612, April 2004. This is the highest paper award given by the Society, and is retrospective over the five years leading up to the award.

Recipient of the IS&T / SPIE Imaging Scientist of the Year Award, 2011. Citation: "For his seminal contributions to the computational aspects of biological visual perception, specifically in the areas of image and video quality."