Longuet-Higgins Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Longuet-Higgins Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision is will be awarded at IEEE CVPR for papers that have “withstood the test of time.” Named after H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, this award aims to recognize papers from CVPR meeting of 10 years back that have had a fundamental impact on the field of Computer Vision. More specifically, “The contribution of Longuet-Higgins to computer vision and pattern recognition was a series of sudden and pinpoint advances resulting from extended scholarship rather than an accretion of archived output. Thus the Longuet-Higgins prize rewards an individual advance, represented by a single conference paper—underlining the special role of conference publications as the harbingers of innovation in this discipline.” This award was established in 2005.
The award papers are selected by a small committee, drawn from across the field by the conference chairs of a specific conference, and as far as possible excluding those who were authors of papers in the source conference.
Following is the list of winner from CVPR 2005, when this award was first instituted.
Awarded in CVPR 2005 (from CVPR 1995)
- David Mumford and Jayant Shah (1995), “Boundary detection by minimizing functionals,” CVPR 1985, pages 22-26.
- Ted Adelson and John Wang (1995), “Layered representation for motion analysis,” CVPR 1993, pages 361-366.
Awarded in CVPR 2006 (from CVPR 1996)
- H. Rowley, S. Baluja and T. Kanade (1996), ”Neural Network-Based Face Detection” CVPR 1996
- Cordelia Schmid and Roger Mohr (1996), “Combining greyvalue invariants with local constraints for object recognition”, CVPR 1996.
Awarded in CVPR 2007 (from CVPR 1997)
- J. Shi and J. Malik (1997), “Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation.” CVPR 1997.
- E. Osuna, R. Freund, and F. Girosi (1997), “Training Support Vector Machines: An Application to Face Detection.” CVPR 1997.
Awarded in CVPR 2008 (from CVPR 1998)
- H Schneiderman and T Kanade (1998) “Probabilistic modeling of local appearance and spatial relationships for object recognition.” CVPR 1998.
- C Bregler and J Malik (1998) “Tracking people with twists and exponential maps.” CVPR 1998
Awarded in CVPR 2009 (from CVPR 1999)
- Jinggang Huang, David Mumford, “Statistics of Natural Images and Models,” cvpr, vol. 1, pp.1541, 1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’99) - Volume 1, 1999
- Chris Stauffer, W.E.L. Grimson, “Adaptive Background Mixture Models for Real-Time Tracking,” cvpr, vol. 2, pp.2246, 1999 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’99) - Volume 2, 1999