The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

Best Paper Award
FACIAL EXPRESSION SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION WITH INTENSITY ALIGNMENT
Hao Wang

Best Student Paper Award
UNSUPERVISED NON PARAMETRIC DATA CLUSTERING BY MEANS OF BAYESIAN INFERENCE AND INFORMATION THEORY
Gilles Bougenière, Claude Cariou, Kacem Chehdi and Alan Gay

Best Paper Award
METHOD OF INTER-WORKING BETWEEN IMS AND NON-IMS (GOOGLE TALK) NETWORKS FOR MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
Zhongwen Zhu and Richard Brunner

Best Student Paper Award
A PROTOTYPE FOR PRACTICAL EYE-GAZE CORRECTED VIDEO CHAT ON GRAPHICS HARDWARE
Maarten Dumont, Steven Maesen, Sammy Rogmans and Philippe Bekaert

Best Paper Award
ROBUST AND REVERSIBLE NUMERICAL SET WATERMARKING
Gaurav Gupta, Josef Pieprzyk and Mohan Kankanhalli

Best Student Paper Award
RECOMMENDER TV - A Personalized TV Guide System Compliant with Ginga
Paulo Muniz de Ávila and Sérgio Donizetti Zorzo

Best Paper Award
ARITHMETIC CODING FOR JOINT SOURCE-CHANNEL CODING
Trevor Spiteri and Victor Buttigieg

Best Student Paper Award
A COMPONENT BASED INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING OF SWIMMING PERFORMANCE
Tanya Le Sage, Paul Conway, Laura Justham, Siân Slawson, Axel Bindel and Andrew West

Best Paper Award
THE WINDSURF LIBRARY FOR THE EFFICIENT RETRIEVAL OF MULTIMEDIA HIERARCHICAL DATA
Ilaria Bartolini, Marco Patella and Guido Stromei

Best Student Paper Award
ESTIMATION-DECODING ON LDPC-BASED 2D-BARCODES
W. Proß, M. Otesteanu and F. Quint