I. Laptev was awarded a Junior ERC Grant, starting in Jan 2013.

J. Sivic and I. Laptev (together with C. Schmid, Inria Grenoble) co-organized one week summer school on visual recognition and machine learning http://www.di.ens.fr/willow/events/cvml2012/ . The school has attracted 181 participants from 34 countries.

J. Ponce became a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

J. Ponce was awarded a US patent for the PMVS software developed in collaboration with Yasutaka Furukawa.