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Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

  • Cordelia Schmid received the Humbolt research award, Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, Germany, 2015, and gave the Karen Spärck Jones lecture, annual event of the British Computer Society that honours women in computing research, 2015.

  • Cordelia Schmid was ranked among the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2015.

  • Yang Hua, Karteek Alahari and Cordelia Schmid won the VOT-TIR2015 challenge.

  • G. Cinbis (PhD, 2014) was awarded the 2014 AFRIF thesis prize for his thesis entitled “Fisher kernel based models for image classification and object localization” at Orasis 2015. He was supervised by Jakob Verbeek and Cordelia Schmid.

  • N. Dalal (PhD, 2006) together with his supervisor B. Triggs was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize 2015 for his PhD work, in particular the paper entitled “Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection” (CVPR 2005 paper).