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
AUTOREGRESSIVE FEATURES FOR A THOUGHT-TO-SPEECH CONVERTER
N. Nicolaou, J. Georgiou and M. Polycarpou
Best Student Paper Award
NOVEL HAPTIC TOOL AND INPUT DEVICE FOR BILATERAL BIOMANIPULATION ADDRESSING ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY
K. Houston, O. Tonet, C. Eder, A. Menciassi, P. Dario and A. Sieber
Best Paper Award
DEVELOPMENT OF A MYOELECTRIC CONTROLLER BASED ON KNEE ANGLE ESTIMATION
Adson Ferreira da Rocha, Alberto López Delis, Francisco Assis de Oliveira Nascimento, Geovany Araújo Borges and João Luiz Azevedo de Carvalho
Best Student Paper Award
A LOW-POWER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR ANALOG SPIKE DETECTION AND SORTING IN NEURAL PROSTHESIS SYSTEMS
A. S. Spinelli, A. Oliynyk, A. Bonfanti, G. Zambra, G. Baranauskas, L. Fadiga, R. Gusmeroli and T. Borghi
Best Paper Award
DEVICE FOR PROSODIC SPEECH RESTORATION - A Multi-Resolution Approach for Glottal Excitation Restoration
O. Schleusing, R. Vetter, Ph. Renevey, J.-M. Vesin and V. Schweizer
Best Student Paper Award
AL2O3 NANOLAYER AS EVANESCENT WAVEGUIDE FOR BIOMEDICAL SENSOR APPLICATION
A. Purniawan, P. J. French, Y. Huang, G. Pandraud and P. M. Sarro
Best Paper Award
AN INTEGRATED MULTI-CHANNEL SYSTEM FOR BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL ACQUISITION
Jakob M. Tomasik, Wjatscheslaw Galjan, Kristian M. Hafkemeyer, Dietmar Schroeder and Wolfgang H. Krautschneider