Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Cordelia Schmid received the Humboldt Research Award, granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

• Cordelia Schmid was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize at CVPR 2016 for the paper co-authored with Svetlana Lazebnik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Jean Ponce (ENS Paris/Inria) entitled "Beyond bags of features: spatial pyramid matching for recognizing natural scene categories".

• Cordelia Schmid was awarded the Inria - Académie des Sciences Grand Prize 2016.

• Thoth is one of the recipients of a hardware donation in the Facebook AI Research Partnership Program.

• Julien Mairal was awarded one of the ERC starting grants 2016.