Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

Olivier Faugeras received the Okawa Foundation Prize for "Pioneering contributions for computer vision and for computational neuroscience". The prize was awarded to him in Tokyo, Japan, in March 2015. He received the PAMI Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award in December 2015 at the ICCV 2015 in Santiago, Chile. This award is given to researchers in Computer Vision who have made major contributions to the field over their career and who have influenced the field in an extraordinary way.

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) Mathieu Desroches has defended an habilitation thesis on the 11th December 2015 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6. The title of his habilitation thesis is Complex oscillations with multiple timescales - Application to neuronal dynamics [15] . The reviewer of this HDR were: Eusebius J. Doedel (Concordia University, Canada), Christopher K. R. T. Jones (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) and Daniel Panazzolo (Université de Haute-Alsace, France). The jury was formed by : Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham, UK), Peter De Maesschalck (Hasselt University, Belgium), Olivier Faugeras (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France), Jean-Pierre Françoise (President of the Jury, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France), Christopher K. R. T. Jones (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) and Daniel Panazzolo (Université de Haute-Alsace, France).