Awards and Honors
Al Bovik was recognized as a Thompson Reuters Highly-Cited Researcher for 2025.
Al Bovik was elevated to Fellowof the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), January 2024.
Al Bovik received the John Fritz Medal in 2024, "For foundational contributions to the theoretical and engineering aspects of perceptual picture and video quality prediction, leading to systems that ensure optimized visual quality for hundreds of millions of viewers daily".
Al Bovik waselected as a Member of Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe) in May 2023. Election to the Academy is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer whose work has impacted European technology and industry.
Al Bovik waselected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in November 2023.
Al Bovik was elevated to Life Fellow of the IEEE inSeptember 2023. IEEE Life Membership is bestowed upon an active IEEE member who is also an IEEE Fellow and: Has attained the age of 65 years, and been a member of IEEE for such a period that the sum of their age and their years of membership equals or exceeds 100 years.
Al Bovik was recognized as a Thompson Reuters Highly-Cited Researcher for 2023.
Al Bovik received the IEEE Edison Medal for 2022m, "Forpioneering high-impact scientific and engineering contributions leading to the perceptually optimized global streaming and sharing of visual media".
Al Bovik was elected as a Member of theUnited States National Academy of Engineering in February 2022.
Al Bovik received the 2022Gordon Lepley Teaching Award in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Թ of Texas at Austin. The award recognizes educators “Who relate to each student and who can grow in their teaching skills, ultimately inspiring the majority to learn.”
Al Bovik was recognized as a Web of Science Highly-Cited Researcher for 2022.
Al Bovik was elected as a Fellow of theUnited States National Academy of Inventors in November 2022.
Al Bovik received aBaM (“Bammy”) Award® from the International Trade Association for Broadcast & Media Technology, in December 2022, for"Perceptual picture quality algorithms and databases for streaming and social media".
Al Bovik and his former students Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Rajov Soundrarajan, and Hamid Sheikh each received individual Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the “Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization” in October 2021.
LIVE students Zaixi Shang, Joshua Ebenezer, and Al Bovik received the YouTube Top 10 Best Paper Award for the paper “Assessment of Subjective and Objective Quality of Live Streaming Sports Videos,” presented at the IEEE Picture Coding Symposium, 2021.
Al Bovik was recognized as a Web of Science Highly-Cited Researcher for 2021.
Al Bovik and his post-doc Lixiong Liu received the EURASIP Best Paper Award of the European Association for Signal Processing for 2020, for the paper “Blind image quality assessment by relative gradient statistics and adaboosting neural network.”
Al Bovik received The Թ of Texas at Austin Career Research Excellence Award for 2020. The award is given annually to a single individual from amongst more than 3000 faculty and research staff.
Al Bovik was recognized as a Web of Science Highly-Cited Researcher for 2020.
Al Bovik was recognized as a Web of Science Highly-Cited Researcher for 2019.
Al Bovik received the ICIP Pioneer Award (2019). Citation: For unparalleled leadership and contributions to the image processing community.
Al Bovik was named Honorary Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society, 2019
Al Bovik received the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processingfor 2019. Citation: For seminal contributions and high-impact innovations to the theory and application of perception-based image and video processing.
Al Bovik received the Progress Medal for 2019 from The Royal Photographic Society.This award has been given continuously since 1878.
Al Bovik was recognized as a Web of Science Highly-Cited Researcher for 2018.
Al Bovik is the recipient of the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing for 2018. This is a Technical Field Award and one of the IEEE’s highest honors. Citation: “For seminal contributions and high-impact innovations to the theory and application of perception-based image and video processing.”
LIVE Alumni Kalpana Seshadrinathan was amongst a select few young engineers asked to attend the National Academy of Engineering NAE's 2018 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, in Washington D.C. in June 2018. Details can be found .
LIVE Alumni Todd Goodall and Professor Al Bovik received the Best Paper Award from the 2018 Picture Coding Symposium, for the paper “Detecting source video artifacts with supervised sparse filters.”
LIVE Alumni Ming-Jun Chen and Che-Chun (Tony) Su and Professor Al Bovik, along with collaborators Do-Kyoung Kwon of Texas Instruments and Lawrence K. Cormack of UT-Austin’s Department of Psychology, are the recipients of the 2018 EURASIP Best Paper Award, for the paper “Full-Reference Quality Assessment of Stereopairs Accounting for Rivalry,” Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 28, no. 10, pp. 1143-1155, October 2013. The honor is retrospective over the five years leading up to the award.
LIVE Alum Anush Moorthy is the Director of a play entitled Unicorns that he also wrote, that will be appearing at the Nataak Theatre in April, 2018! See the announcement at:
LIVE Alum Sumohana Channappayya, now a tenured Associate Professor at IIT Hyderabad, has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from his school for the year 2017.
Live Alumni Anish Mittal and Rajiv Soundararajan and Professor Al Bovik are the recipients of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award for 2017, for the paper “Making a ‘Completely Blind’ Image Quality Analyzer,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 209-212, March 2013. This ‘high-impact’ Letters paper award is retrospective over the five years leading up to the award. This paper, published in 2013, has been the most highly-cited paper in IEEE SPL of any published since 2008.
LIVE alumnus Dr. Kalpana Seshadrinathan received the Best Paper Award for Industry at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, held in Beijing, China, in September 2017.
LIVE Alumnus Hamid Sheikh along with Al Bovik received a 2017 Google Scholar Classic Paper citation (Area: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) for their paper “Image information and visual quality,”IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 430-444, February 2006. Google ScholarClassic Papers are highly-cited papers that have stood the test of time, and are among the ten most-cited articles in their area of research published ten years earlier. The main algorithm developed in the paper, called the Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) Index, is a core picture quality prediction engine used to quality-assess all encodes streamed globally by Netflix.
LIVE Alumni Hamid Sheikh and Farooq Sabir, along with Al Bovik received a 2017 Google Scholar Classic Paper citation (Area: Signal Processing): “An evaluation of recent full reference image quality assessment algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 3440-3451, November 2006. Google ScholarClassic Papers are highly- cited papers that have stood the test of time, and are among the ten most-cited articles in their area of research published ten years earlier. The picture quality database and human study described in the paper, the LIVE Image Quality Database, has been the standard development tool for picture quality research since its first introduction in 2003.
Al Bovik is the recipient of the Edwin H. Land Medal for 2017 from The Optical Society and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Citation: “For substantially shaping the direction and advancement of modern perceptual picture quality theory, and for energetically engaging industry towards transforming his ideas into global practice.”
Al Bovik and two LIVE Alumni: Zhou Wang and Hamid Sheikh received the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Sustained Impact Paper Award, for the paper “Image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity,” published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in April 2004. This award is limited to papers published in an IEEE Signal Processing Society journal at least ten years prior to the award, thereby recognizing sustained impact over many years. As of December 2016, this paper has been cited nearly 14,000 times, making it the most-cited paper ever published in any IEEE Signal Processing Society transactions, journal, magazine, letters, or conference.
AlBovik was named a Highly-Cited Researcher by Thompson Reuters (2016), indicating that he is one of the top 1% of most-cited researchers within the field of Engineering.
LIVE alumni Rajiv Soundararajan and Al Bovik received the IEEECircuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for 2016, for the paper “Video Quality Assessment by Reduced Reference Spatio-Temporal Entropic Differencing,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 684 – 694, April 2013.Retrospective over the three years leading up to the award.
AlBovik was named a Highly-Cited Researcher by Thompson Reuters (2015), indicating that he is one of the top 1% of most-cited researchers within the field of Engineering.
Al Bovik received Television’s Highest Award, an individual from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in October 2015, for his work on the development of video quality prediction models which have become standard tools in broadcast and post-production houses throughout the television industry.
LIVE PhD Alumni Professor Zhou Wang and Dr. Hamid Sheikh also received individual Primetime Emmy Awards for this work.
Al Bovik received the Joe J. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award, The Թ of Texas at Austin. This is the highest engineering award Honoring professional achievement and leadership given annually to one member of the faculty of the Cockrell School of Engineering, May 2015.
AlBovik was named a Highly-Cited Researcher by Thompson Reuters (2014), indicating that he is one of the top 1% of most-cited researchers within the field of Engineering.
Professor Scott Actonof the Թ of Virginia, and former LIVE PhD student, has been named the next Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
Kalpana Seshadrinathan(LIVE PhD, 2010) recieved theIEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award(co-authored withAl Bovik) for 2013, for the paper “Motion tuned spatio-temporal quality assessment of natural videos,”IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 335-350, February 2010. This is the highest young author paper award given by the Society, and is retrospective over the five years leading up to the award.
Al BovikandZhou Wang(LIVE PhD, 2004) received theIEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Awardof the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2013, for the paper “Mean squared error: Love it or leave it? - A new look at signal fidelity measures,”IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 98-117, January 2009. This is the highest survey paper award given by the Society, and is retrospective over the five years leading up to the award.
Al Bovikreceived theNorbert Wiener Society Awardof the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2013. This is the highest award of any kind given by the IEEE SPS. Citation:“For fundamental contributions to digital image processing theory, technology, leadership and education.”
Zhou Wang(LIVE PhD, 2004) was electedFellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE)“For Contributions to Perceptual Image Processing and Quality Assessment,” December 2013.
Al Bovikreceived theHonorary Member Awardof the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2014. This is the highest award of any kind given by IS&T. Citation:“For his impact in shaping the direction and advancement of the field of perceptual image processing.”
Scott Acton(LIVE PhD, 1990) was electedFellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE)“For Contributions to Biomedical Image Analysis,” December 2012.
Al Bovikreceived theSPIE Technology Achievement Award, 2012. This is the highest technical honor given by the 17,000 member Society for Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers. Citation:“For Broad and Lasting Contributions to the Field of Perception-Based Image Processing.”
Al Bovikreceived theIS&T / SPIE Imaging Scientist of the Year Award, 2011. This is the highest technical honor collaboratively given by these two Societies. Citation:“For his seminal contributions to the computational aspects of biological visual perception, specifically in the areas of image and video quality.”
Al Bovikwas electedFellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering(AIMBE), October 2010.
Al BovikandZhou Wang(LIVE PhD, 2004) received theIEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Awardfor 2009, for the paper “Image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity,” published in theIEEE 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.
Al Bovikreceived theBilly and Claude R. Hocott Awardfor Distinguished Engineering Research, The Թ 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.
Al Bovikreceived theDistinguished Alumni Award of the Թ of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana“For fundamental and enduring technical, educational and service contributions to the field of digital image and video processing,” September 2008.
Zhou Wang(LIVE PhD, 2004) and his student Qiang Li received theBest Student Paper Awardat theÂIEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2008.
Al Bovikreceived theKarl Friedrich Gauss Education Awardof the IEEE Signal Processing Society 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.”
Al Bovikwas electedFellow 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.
Al Bovikwas electedFellow of the Optical Society of America,“For fundamental research contributions to and technical leadership in digital image and video processing,” November 2006.
Al Bovikreceived theClaude Shannon / Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Awardof the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2005.This is the highest technical honor given by the Society. Citation:“For Broad and Lasting Contributions to the Field of Digital Image Processing.”
Al Bovikwas named theKeys and Joan Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair Professorat The Թ of Texas at Austin, September 2005-present.
Al Bovikwas namedIEEE Signal Processing Distinguished Lecturerin 2000.
Al Bovikreceived theIEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000.
Al Bovikreceived theLeo L. Beranak Meritorious Service Awardof the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 1997. 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.”
Al Bovikwas electedFellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE)“For Contributions to Nonlinear Image Processing,” December 1995.
- John Jordan(LIVE PhD, 1990) was selected winner of the Թ of Texas all-campusOutstanding Dissertation Awardfor 1990 for the dissertation“On Using Chromatic Information in Stereo Correspondence.”