Conference and workshop organization

• I. Laptev, Co-organizer of the Workshop on Gesture Recognition at CVPR 2011. http://clopinet.com/isabelle/Projects/CVPR2011

• A. Zisserman, Co-organizer of the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge 2011 (VOC2011). http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2011/

• A. Zisserman, Co-organizer of the PASCAL VOC 2011 workshop at ICCV 2011 http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2011/workshop/index.html

• A. Zisserman, Co-organizer of the Mysore Park Workshop on Computer Vision 2011

Editorial Boards

• International Journal of Computer Vision (I. Laptev, J. Ponce, J. Sivic and A. Zisserman).

• Image and Vision Computing Journal (I. Laptev).

• Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision (J. Ponce, A. Zisserman).

• SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (J. Ponce)

Area Chairs

• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011 (J. Sivic).

• IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2011 (I. Laptev).

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2011 (I. Laptev, J. Sivic, A. Zisserman (Program board member)).

• European Conference on Computer Vision, 2012 (I. Laptev, J. Ponce, J. Sivic, A. Zisserman).

Program Committees

• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011 (I. Laptev, A. Zisserman, M. Rodriguez).

• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012 (I. Laptev, J. Sivic, A. Zisserman)

• Reviewer for the ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2011 (J. Sivic, A. Zisserman).

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2011 (K. Alahari, O. Duchenne, M. Rodriguez, O. Whyte).

• International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2011 (A. Zisserman).

• International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 (J. Sivic, A. Zisserman).

• A. Zisserman, reviewer for ERC grant applications.

PhD thesis committee:

• Biliana Kaneva, MIT, 2011 (J. Sivic)

• Meriem Bendris, Telecom ParisTech, 2011 (J. Sivic)

• Jerome Revaud, INSA Lyon (J. Ponce)

• Sebastien Dalibard, LAAS Toulouse (J. Ponce)

• Hedi Harzallah INRIA Rhone-Alpes (J. Ponce)

• Amael Delaunoy INRIA Rhone-Alpes (J. Ponce)

• Hoang Hiep Vu, ENPC (J. Ponce)

• Ana Lopes, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil, 2011 (I. Laptev)

• Pyry Matikainen, CMU, USA, 2011 (I. Laptev)

• Shuji Zhao, ETIS/LIP6, France, 2011 (I. Laptev)

• Sibt ul Hussain, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Grenoble (A. Zisserman)

HDR thesis committee:

• Theodore Papadopoulo, Universite de Nice. (J. Ponce)

Prizes:

• Andrew Zisserman was awarded the Rank Prize for his “outstanding contributions to modern computer vision".

• Julien Mairal, a former PhD student of J. Ponce and F. Bach wins several prizes for his PhD thesis about "Sparse coding for machine learning, image processing and computer vision", http://www.di.ens.fr/~mairal/resources/pdf/phd_thesis.pdf :

  • Best Thesis 2011 Prize of Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies of the EADS foundation. http://ns365501.ovh.net/en/2011-best-thesis-prize-winners

  • runner-up for the 2011 Gilles-Kahn prize (computer science). Prize awarded by Specif (society of computer science researchers and teachers of France) and supervised by the Academie des Sciences. http://www.specif.org/prix-these/historique.html

  • the 2010 PhD thesis prize from AFRIF (pattern recognition) http://www.afrif.asso.fr/node/12

• INRIA Prime d'excellence scientifique (I. Laptev, J. Sivic)

Other:

• Jean Ponce was named Head of the ENS computer science department in September 2011.

• Jean Ponce was named Head of the ENS computer science laboratory (LIENS, joint ENS/CNRS/Inria UMR 8548) in September 2011.

• Jean Ponce was in charge of the LIENS activities linked to the French “investissements d'avenir” (“investing in the future”) initiative, including the LIENS parts of two successful projects, the Laboratory of Excellence (“LABEX”) project of the Foundation of Mathematical Sciences, and the Excellence Initiative (“IDEX”) project of the “Paris Sciences et Lettres” Foundation, granted in 2011.

• Comites de selection de l'Universite de Caen, May 2011 (I. Laptev)