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Past Award Winners

Past Award Winners
Below is a list of all the IEEE Access Best Video Award winners over the years:

2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015

2026 IEEE Access Best Video Award

Past Winners

2025 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Ultra-Lightweight Collaborative SLAM for Robot Swarms
Promotional Prize Winner: Aerial Dockable Multirotor UAVs: Design, Control, and Flight Time Extension Through In-Flight Battery Replacement
Promotional Prize Winner: AI-Driven Haptic Cues for Haptic Object Reproduction

2024 (Part 2) Winners:

Promotional Prize Winner: Semantic-Based Multi-Object Search Optimization in Service Robots Using Probabilistic and Contextual Priors
Promotional Prize Winner: A Suspended Pollination Robot With a Flexible Multi-Degrees-of-Freedom Manipulator for Self-Pollinated Plants

2024 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: An Optical Design for Interaction With Mid-Air Images Using the Shape of Real Objects
Promotional Prize Winner: AVI-Talking: Learning Audio-Visual Instructions for Expressive 3D Talking Face Generation
Promotional Prize Winner: TARES: A Game-Based Tangible Augmented Reality English Spelling Mastery System With Minimal Cognitive Load

2023 (Part 2) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Mobile Software Development Kit for Real Time Multivariate Blood Glucose Prediction
Promotional Prize Winner: ASEP: An Autonomous Semantic Exploration Planner With Object Labeling
Promotional Prize Winner: Can There Be a Two Way Hash Function?

2023 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Overcoming Obstacles with a Reconfigurable Robot using Deep Reinforcement Learning based on a Mechanical Work-Energy Reward Function
Promotional Prize Winner: Inferring Students’ Self-Assessed Concentration Levels in Daily Life Using Biosignal Data From Wearables
Promotional Prize Winner: The Omnirotor Platform: A Versatile, Multi-Modal, Coaxial, All-Terrain Vehicle

2022 (Part 2) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Feature Engineering: Toward Identification of Symptom Clusters of Mental Disorders
Promotional Prize Winner: Mixed Reality Human–Robot Interface With Adaptive Communications Congestion Control for the Teleoperation of Mobile Redundant Manipulators in Hazardous Environments

2022 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Interactive-Rate Supervisory Control for Arbitrarily-Routed Multitendon Robots via Motion Planning
Promotional Prize Winner: Smart Optical Sensors for Internet of Things: Integration of Temperature Monitoring and Customized Security Physical Unclonable Functions
Promotional Prize Winner: The STDyn-SLAM: A Stereo Vision and Semantic Segmentation Approach for VSLAM in Dynamic Outdoor Environments

2021 (Part 2) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: The Cubli: Modeling and Nonlinear Attitude Control Utilizing Quaternions
Promotional Prize Winner: Model Predictive Control With Environment Adaptation for Legged Locomotion
Promotional Prize Winner: On the Validity of Virtual Reality Applications for Professional Use: A Case Study on Color Vision Research and Diagnosis

2021 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: A Mobile Tele-Ophthalmology System for Planned and Opportunistic Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy in Primary Care
Promotional Prize Winner: ZeVis: A Visual Analytics System for Exploration of a Larval Zebrafish Brain in Serial-Section Electron Microscopy Images
Promotional Prize Winner: Adaptive Sequential Monte Carlo Filter for Indoor Positioning and Tracking With Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons

2020 Part (2) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Vibrotactile Captioning of Musical Effects in Audio-Visual Media as an Alternative for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People: An EEG Study
Promotional Prize Winner: Robots and Wizards: An Investigation Into Natural Human–Robot Interaction
Promotional Prize Winner: Clinical Micro-CT Empowered by Interior Tomography, Robotic Scanning, and Deep Learning

2020 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Agent Architecture for Adaptive Behaviours in Autonomous Driving
Promotional Prize Winner: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Wireless Communications: Antenna Design, Prototyping, and Experimental Results
Promotional Prize Winner: A Three-Tier Framework for Understanding Disruption Trajectories for Blockchain in the Electricity Industry

2019 (Part 2) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: kNN-STUFF: kNN STreaming Unit for Fpgas
Promotional Prize Winner: Software-Based Video-Audio Production Mixer via an IP Network
Promotional Prize Winner: 5G Evolution: A View on 5G Cellular Technology Beyond 3GPP Release 15

2019 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Hidden Outlier Noise and its Mitigation
Promotional Prize Winner: DL-Tags: DLT and Smart Tags for Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving, and Verifiable Supply Chain Management
Promotional Prize Winner: Wearable Sleepcare Kit: Analysis and Prevention of Sleep Apnea Symptoms in Real-Time

2018 (Part 2) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: FPGA Acceleration for Computationally Efficient Symbol-Level Precoding in Multi-User Multi-Antenna Communication Systems
Promotional Prize Winner: A Non-intrusive Heuristic for Energy Messaging Intervention Modelled using a Novel Agent-based Approach
Promotional Prize Winner: Innovative Human-Like Dual Robotic Hand Mechatronic Design and Its Chess-Playing Experiment

2018 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Design and Optimization of a Polar Satellite Mission to Complement the Copernicus System
Promotional Prize Winner: MultiDIC: An Open-Source Toolbox for Multi-View 3D Digital Image Correlation
Promotional Prize Winner: Frequency Selective Surface-Based Switched-Beamforming Antenna

2017 (Part 2) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Antenna Diagnostics and Characterization Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Promotional Prize Winner: Foveated Retinal Optimization for See-Through Near-Eye Multi-Layer Displays
Promotional Prize Winner: Working Together: A Review on Safe Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Environments

2017 (Part 1) Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Supporting Trembling Hand Typing Using Optical See-Through Mixed Reality
Promotional Prize Winner: Compact Full Duplex MIMO Radios in D2D Underlaid Cellular Networks: From System Design to Prototype Results
Promotional Prize Winner: On Spectral Coexistence of CP-OFDM and FB-MC Waveforms in 5G Networks

2016 Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: A Multi-Institutional Approach to Delivering Shared Curricula for Developing a Next-Generation Energy Workforce
Promotional Prize Winner: Design and Implementation of LPWA-Based Air Quality Monitoring System
Promotional Prize Winner: Systems Engineering of a Terabit Elliptic Orbit Satellite and Phased Array Ground Station for IoT Connectivity and Consumer Internet Access

2015 Winners:

Grand Prize Winner: Closed-Loop Control of Variable Stiffness Actuated Robots via Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
Promotional Prize Winner: Challenges in Concussion Detection Using Vocal Acoustic Biomarkers
Promotional Prize Winner: Cost-Efficient Open Source Desktop Size Radial Stretching System With Force Sensor

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