Section: Dissemination

Scientific Animation

• Conference, workshop, and summer school organization:

  • Z. Harchaoui has co-organized the workshop “Optimization and Statistical Learning” at Les Houches, January 2013.

  • Z. Harchaoui and F. Pierucci: Co-organizer of the NIPS 2013 workshop on Greedy Algorithms, Frank-Wolfe and Friends - A modern perspective. December 2013.

  • C. Schmid and Z. Harchaoui: Co-organizers of the Inria Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School, Paris, July 2013. Attracted a total of 177 participants from 34 countries (49 participants from France, 57 from Europe and 71 from America, Asia, and Africa).

• Editor-in-chief:

  • C. Schmid: International Journal of Computer Vision, since 2013.

• Editorial boards:

  • K. Alahari: Guest editor for the Special Issue on “Higher Order Graphical Models in Computer Vision: Modelling, Inference and Learning” to be published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

  • J. Mairal: Guest editor for the Special Issue on Sparse Coding to be published in the International Journal of Computer Vision.

  • C. Schmid: Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, since 2005.

  • J. Verbeek: Image and Vision Computing Journal, since 2011.

• General chair:

  • C. Schmid: CVPR '15.

• Area chair:

  • C. Schmid: CVPR 2013, ICCV 2013.

  • J. Verbeek: BMVC 2013.

• Program committees (reviewers):

  • CVPR 2013: J. Verbeek, J. Mairal, K. Alahari, H. Wang, A. Gordo, Z. Harchaoui.

  • ICCV 2013: J. Verbeek, K. Alahari, H. Wang, A. Gordo.

  • NIPS 2013: J. Verbeek, J. Mairal, K. Alahari, Z. Harchaoui.

  • ICML 2013: J. Mairal, Z. Harchaoui.

  • IJCAI 2013: J. Verbeek.

  • BMVC 2013: K. Alahari, A. Gordo.

  • AISTATS 2013: Z. Harchaoui.

• Prizes:

  • Z. Harchaoui was awarded a Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge University) to participate to the “Inference for Change-Point and Related Processes” program in January 2014.

  • J. Mairal received the Cor Baayen prize, which is awarded annually by ERCIM to a promising young researcher in the field of Informatics and Applied Mathematics.

  • T. Mensink (former PhD student of LEAR) received the best PhD prize from AFRIF.