Abstract :
Each year in spring, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), presents its annual awards. Several of these awards are related to Best Papers, and although this is not a rule, several of these papers have appeared in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. In this editorial, we are pleased to announce the articles receiving 2005 awards. For the 2006 awards, readers are encouraged to nominate candidate papers before September 1, 2006 to the Editor-in-Chief. Nominations will be judged by the relevant Society Technical Committees before being forwarded to the Awards Board.