It is the purpose of this award to recognize the outstanding paper prepared and submitted by a Student Member. Applicants must be current SMPTE Student Members. 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 award winner will also be recognized at the Annual Awards Gala. 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. All submitted papers must have the following information on the title page: title of paper; applicant's name; applicant's address, phone number, and email address; name of school; faculty member's or academic advisor's name and signature. Please visit the award's website for more information.