Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• Four Prairie chairs awarded to I. Laptev, J.-P. Laumond, J. Ponce and J. Sivic by the international selection committee.

• Best Paper Award at FG (Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition - http://fg2019.org/awards/) 2019. (M. Tapaswi)

• Best paper finalist at CVPR 2019 for the work of Z. Li, J. Sedlar, J. Carpentier, I. Laptev, N. Mansard and J. Sivic Estimating 3D Motion and Forces of Person-Object Interactions From Monocular Video, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2019) (More details at: https://www.ciirc.cvut.cz/vysledek-ciirc-cvut-se-dostal-do-uzsiho-vyberu-nejlepsich-clanku-prestizni-konference-cvpr-v-pocitacovem-videni/ and the list of all shortlisted papers is available at http://cvpr2019.thecvf.com/files/CVPR%202019%20-%20Welcome%20Slides%20Final.pdf)

• Best student paper awarded to H Cisneros, J Sivic, T Mikolov, Evolving Structures in Complex Systems at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (2019)

Visibility

• In 2019 we have recruited two excellent researchers with robotics background: Justin Carpentier and Jean-Paul Laumond, who will strengthen the team and will help developing a new research axis on learning embodied representations.

• J. Ponce co-organized the PRAIRIE AI Summer School, Paris, 2019.

• J. Ponce has been a key person in creating the PRAIRIE Institute for AI research in Paris, innagurated in October 2019.

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