The SMPTE Student Paper Award Winners | Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers

The Student Paper Award Winners

The Student Paper Award recognizes an outstanding paper prepared and submitted by a Student Member. The paper receiving the Student Paper Award will be published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal and identified as the award-winning paper, giving recognition to the author and the institution at which the work was done.

2024- Irene Muñoz López

Irene is a recent graduate in Film production and Broadcast Engineering driven by a profound love for creativity and an enjoyment of technical challenges. Blending these two areas she discovered an interest for Virtual Production, and dedicated her Technical Project to investigate the Camera Tracking Techniques that are used in this process. In 2022-2023, she honed her storytelling skills with an internship at the Walt Disney Company as a Creative Producer for National Geographic. In her final year at the University of Surrey, she was able to showcase her abilities by producing the original short film UNCANCELLED and directing the multi-cam live show Univision Song Contest 2024. She has also been an active member of the award-winning student TV station for StagTV since her first year at Surrey, and was president of the society during her second and fourth year at university. Through StagTV, she also directed Univision 2023 which won Gold for Best Live Broadcast, and the Univision 2024 Heats awarded her a Silver for Best Directing at the NASTA ceremony 2024. She is currently working as an MSO with Vivid Broadcast, with whom she’s worked in events including Big Church Festival 2024.

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Past Winners

2023

No Student Paper Award Winner

2021

Aaron Demolder
Towards the Standardization of High-Quality Computer-Generated Holography Media Production Workflow

by Aaron Demolder, EngD Candidate & Research Engineer, Centre for Digital Entertainment (Bournemouth University, UK) and VividQ Ltd (Cambridge, UK)

2020

Adam C. Burke, student at Rochester Institute of Technology, for his paper "Latency Perception in Cloud-Based Workspaces and Environments."

2019

Oscar Eduardo Estrada Torrejon and Nicholas Peretti, students at Rochester Institute of Technology, for their paper "Rotoscope Automation with Deep Learning."

2018

Jason Bud Ginsberg and Neil Movva, students at Stanford University, for their paper "Dynamic Field of View in a Tomographic Light Field Display."

Honorable Mention
Emily Faw, a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) who is now a color science technician at Technicolor, received an honorable mention for his paper “Quality Control of Stereoscopic 3-D Compositing Using Half-Occlusion Geometry.”

Honorable Mention
Catherine Meininger, a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) who is now a color scientist at Portrait Displays Inc., received an honorable mention for her paper "Determining Visibility Thresholds for Spatial and Spatiotemporal Chromatic Noise."

2017

Elizabeth DoVale, a recent graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, for her paper “High Frame Rate Psychophysics: Experimentation to Determine a JND for Frame Rate.”

Honorable Mention
Jonathan Bouchard, a student at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, received an honorable mention for his paper “Quality Control of Stereoscopic 3-D Compositing Using Half-Occlusion Geometry.”

2015

Jan Fröhlich, for the paper: "Gamut Mapping for Digital Cinema"

How Background Luminance Affects Perception

Sustainable Technology: Reducing Power Consumption of Projectors

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