SMPTE Student Paper Award
This scholarship is being offered by SMPTE Student Paper Award. Learn more about the scholarship and the requirements below!
Amount available
Open Date
Application deadline
May 1, 2026
Eligibility Requirements
- Minimum GPA:
- Education level: N/A
- Application form required: Yes
- Drivers license required: No
- Financial analysis required: No
- Test scores required: No
- Transcript required: No
- Merit-based: Yes
- Special Requirements: Yes
About Scholarship
It is the purpose of this award to recognize the outstanding paper prepared and submitted by a Student Member. The paper receiving the Student Paper Award will be published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, giving recognition to the author and the institution at which the work was done. The paper must deal with some technical phase of motion pictures, television, photographic instrumentation, or their closely allied arts and sciences. There is no required technical level for the papers. Possible topics include ultra-high definition (UHD); color and dynamic range management; the future of media distribution; media infrastructure; workflow management; cloud and virtualized media processing; image acquisition and processing; content management, storage, restoration, and preservation; cinema processing and projection technology; human perception of images or sound; quality and monitoring of images and sound; compression; security; audio techniques; advances in display technologies; virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), as well as 360 degree video; machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in content creation. Please visit the award's website for more information.
Offered by: Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
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