Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• J. Ponce co-organized the PRAIRIE AI Summer School, Grenoble, 2018, which brought together 200 participants representing 44 different nationalities, and selected from 700 applications, with 60% students, 15% academics , and 25% industrials. 25% of these participants were women.

• I. Laptev served as Program Chair for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Salt Lake City, USA, 2018. CVPR is the largest computer vision conference. The 2018 edition has 3,309 paper submissions, 979 accepted papers and 6,128 registered attendees.

• J. Ponce has been a key person in creating the PRAIRIE Institute for AI research in Paris, announced on the occasion of the AI for Humanity summit organized by President Emmanuel Macron in 2018 (https://www.inria.fr/en/news/news-from-inria/launch-of-the-prairie-institute). He has also been a key player in bringing together its industrial and international partners.