Helmholtz Prize

The Helmholtz Prize is an award given biyearly by the Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence of the IEEE Computer Society at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) for 'Fundamental contributions in Computer Vision'. The award recognizes ICCV papers from ten years ago with significant impact on computer vision research. The award is named after the 19th century physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. This award (like its CVPR equivalent the Longuet-Higgins Prize) is one of the most prestigious recognitions of accomplishment a researcher can receive in the field of computer vision.

Helmholtz Prize recipients

• Awarded at ICCV 2013 –
  • Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin and Demetri Terzopoulos, "Snakes: Active Contour Models", ICCV 1987.
  • Michael J. Swain and Dana H. Ballard, "Indexing via color histograms", ICCV 1990.
  • Bill Freeman and Ted Adelson, "Steerable filters for early vision, image analysis, and wavelet decomposition", ICCV 1990.
  • Michael Black and P. Anandan, "A framework for the robust estimation of optical flow", ICCV 1993.
  • Paul Viola and William M. Wells III, "Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information", ICCV 1995.
  • Richard Hartley, "In Defence of the 8-Point Algorithm", ICCV 1995.
  • Carlo Tomasi and Roberto Manduchi, "Bilateral Filtering for Gray and Color Images", ICCV 1998.
  • Yossi Rubner, Carlo Tomasi and Leonidas J. Guibas, "A Metric for Distributions with Applications to Image Databases", ICCV 1998.
  • Song-Chun Zhu, Tai Sing Lee and Alan Yuille, "Region Competition: Unifying Snakes, Region Growing, Energy/Bayes/MDL for Multi-band Image Segmentation", ICCV 1995.
  • Zhengyou Zhang, "Flexible Camera Calibration by Viewing a Plane from Unknown Orientations", ICCV 1999.
  • Alyosha Efros and Thomas K. Leung, "Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling", ICCV 1999.

• Awarded at ICCV 2011 –
  • David G. Lowe, "Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant Features", ICCV 1999.
  • Yuri Boykov, Olga Veksler, and Ramin Zabih, "Fast Approximate Energy Minimization via Graph Cuts", ICCV 1999.
  • Vincent Caselles, Ron Kimmel, and Guillermo Sapiro, "Geodesic Active Contours", ICCV 1995.

• Awarded at ICCV 2009 –
  • Yehezkel Lamdan and Haim J. Wolfson, "Geometric Hashing: A General and Efficient Model-Based Recognition Scheme", ICCV 1988.

Note: until 2013 this award was called the Test of Time Award.

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