Each year IEEE Access hosts a video award where authors that submit a video with their article submission to IEEE Access have a chance to win a $500 USD Amazon gift card. For more information on the award, please click here. Below is a list of all the IEEE Access Best Video Award winners over the years.
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