Computer Vision Best Papers

by Lord Omlette.
Created 2006-04-30, 270 BMT.
Updated 2008-10-04, 190 BMT.

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• CVPR
• ECCV
• ICVGIP

IEEE CVPR

CVPR @ dblp.

• 2008
  • Best Paper: Christoph H. Lampert, Matthew B.Blaschko and Thomas Hofmann. Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search
  • Best Paper: Oliver Woodford, Ian Reid, Philip Torr and Andrew Fitzgibbon. Global Stereo Reconstruction under Second Order Smoothness Priors
  • Best Student Paper: Prateek Jain, Brian Kulis and Kristen Grauman. Fast Image Search for Learned Metrics
  • Student Paper Runner Up: Kai Ni, Anitha Kannan, Antonio Criminisi and John Winn. Epitomic Location Recognition (PDF)
  • Longuet-Higgins: H Schneiderman and T Kanade. Probabilistic modeling of local appearance and spatial relationships for object recognition
  • Longuet-Higgins: C Bregler and J Malik. Tracking people with twists and exponential maps (PDF)
• 2007
  • Best Paper: B. Leibe, N. Cornelis, K. Cornelis and L. van Gool. Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicle
  • Runner Up: A. Levin, A. Rav Acha and D. Lischinski. Spectral Matting (PDF)
  • Runner Up: O. Tuzel, F. Porikli and P. Meer. Human Detection via Classification on Riemannian Manifolds (PDF)
  • Best Student Paper: Y. Li, H. Ai, T. Yamashita, S. Lao and M. Kawade. http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~taoswap/GroupMeeting/Qi_Tracking_in_Low_Frame_Rate_Video.ppt (PPT)
  • Longuet-Higgins: J. Shi and J. Malik. Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation (PDF)
  • Longuet-Higgins: E. Osuna, R. Freund and F. Girosi. Training Support Vector Machines: An Application to Face Detection
• 2006
  • Best Paper: D. Hoiem, A. Efros and M. Herbert. Putting Objects in Perspective
  • Honorable Mention: A. Opelt, A. Pinz and A. Zisserman. Incremental Learning of Object Detectors Using a Visual Shape Alphabet (PDF)
  • Longuet-Higgins: H. Rowley, S. Baluja and T. Kanade. Neural Network-Based Face Detection
  • Longuet-Higgins: C. Schmid and R. Mohr. Combining Greyvalue Invariants with Local Constraints for Object Recognition
• 2005
  • Best Paper: Julien Pilet, Vincent Lepetit and Pascal Fua. Real-Time Non-Rigid Surface Detection (pdf)
  • Honorable Mention: Antoni Buades and Bartomeu Coll. A Non-Local Algorithm for Image Denoising
  • Honorable Mention: V. Kolmogorov, A. Criminisi, A. Blake, C. Rother, and G. Cross. Bi-Layer Segmentation of Binocular Stereo Video (pdf)
  • Honorable Mention: Vincent Cheung, Brendan J. Frey and Nebojsa Jojic. Video Epitomes (pdf).
  • Longuet-Higgins: David Mumford and Jayant Shah. Boundary Detection by Minimizing Functionals. 1985
  • Longuet-Higgins: Ted Adelson and John Wang. Layered Representation for Motion Analysis. 1993
• 2004
  • Best Poster: Y. Wexler, E. Shechtman and M. Irani. Space-Time Video Completion (pdf)
  • Outstanding Student Paper: K. Q. Weinberger and L. K. Saul. Unsupervised learning of image manifolds by semidefinite programming (pdf)
  • Best Paper: S. K. Nayar, V. Branzoi and T. Boult. Programmable Imaging using a Digital Micromirror Array
• 2003
  • Best Paper: Rob Fergus, Pietro Perona and Andrew Zisserman, Object Class Recognition by Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention: Tomas Werner. Constraint on Five Points in Two Images (pdf)
  • Best Student Paper: David Tschumperle and Rashid Deriche. Vector-Valued Image Regularization with PDE's: A Common Framework for Different Applications
• 2001
  • Best Paper: Matthew Brand. Morphable 3D Models from Video (pdf)
  • Best Student Paper: Lorenzo Torresani, Danny Yang, Gene Alexander and Christoph Bregler. Tracking and Modeling Non-Rigid Objects with Rank Constraints
• 2000
  • Best Paper: Haili Chui and Anand Rangarajan. A new algorithm for non-rigid point matching
• 1999
  • Best Paper: A. Can, C. V. Stewart and B. Roysam. Robust hierarchical algorithm for constructing a mosaic from images of the curved human retina
• 1998
  • Best Paper: S. Soatto and R. Brockett. Optimal and suboptimal structure from motion
• 1997
  • Outstanding Paper: J. B. Tenenbaum and W. T. Freeman. Separating style and content with bilinear models (pdf)
• 1994
  • Best Paper: H.Murase and S.K.Nayar. "Illumination Planning for 0bject Recognition in Structured Enviroments".
  • Best Student Paper: K. N. Kutulakos and C. R. Dyer. Occluding contour detection using affine invariants and purposive viewpoint control (pdf)
• Missing 1996, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1988, 1985, probably more?
• Some confusion over whether there was a CVPR in 1998. I don't know what to say.
• No CVPR in 2002, 1995.

ECCV

ECCV @ dblp.

• 2006
  • Longuet-Higgins: A. Levin and Y. Weiss. Learning to Combine Bottom-up and Top-down Segmentation (pdf)
  • Honorable Mention: S. W. Hasinoff and K. N. Kutulakos. Confocal Stereo
  • Honorable Mention: O. Ait-Aider, N. Andreff, J. M. Lavest and P. Martinet. Simultaneous Object Pose and Velocity Computation Using a Single View from a Rolling Shutter Camera
• 2004
  • Longuet-Higgins: T. Brox, A. Bruhn, N. Papenberg and J. Weickert. High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping (pdf)
  • Honorable Mention: René Vidal and Yi Ma. A Unified Algebraic Approach to 2-D and 3-D Motion Segmentation (pdf)
  • Best Paper in Cognitive Vision: Kenji Okuma, Ali Taleghani, Nando de Freitas, James J. Little and David G. Lowe. A Boosted Particle Filter: Multitarget Detection and Tracking (pdf)
• 2002
  • Best Paper: E. Shechtman, Y. Caspi and M. Irani. Increasing Space-Time Resolution in Video (pdf)
  • Best Paper: R. Davies, C. Twining, T. Cootes, J. Waterton and C. Taylor. 3D Statistical Shape Models Using Direct Optimisation of Description Length (pdf)
  • Best Papers: V. Kolmogorov and R. Zabih. Multi-camera Scene Reconstruction via Graph Cuts (pdf) and What Energy Functions can be Minimized via Graph Cuts? (pdf)
  • Best Paper: J. Gomes and A. Mojsilovic. A variational Approach to Recovering a Manifold from Sample Points (pdf)
  • Best Paper in Cognitive Vision: P. Duygulu, K. Barnard, N. de Freitas and D. Forsyth. Object Recognition as Machine Translation: Learning a Lexicon for a Fixed Image Vocabulary
• missing 2000, 1998, 1996, 1994, 1992, 1990

Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP)

ICVGIP @ dblp.

• 2006 n/a
• 2004 (pay attention when judge A Zisserman presents the best paper award to... A Zisserrman ¬_¬)
  • Best Paper: M.Pawan Kumar, P.H.S. Torr and A. Zisserman. Learning Layered Pictorial Structures from Video (PDF)
  • Honorable Mention: Alap Karapurkur, Nitin Goel and Sharat Chandran. The Fast Multipole Method for Global Illumination (PDF)
  • Honorable Mention: Vinay D. Shet, V. Shiv Naga Prasad, Ahmed Elgammal, Yaser Yacoob and Larry S. Davis. Multi-Cue Exemplar-Based Nonparametric Model for Gesture Recognition
• 2002
  • Best Paper: M. Varma and A. Zisserman. Statistical Approaches to Material Classification
  • Best Paper: S. P. Mudur, S. Venkata Babji and D. Shikhare. Advancing Fan-Front: An Efficient Connectivity Compression Technique for Large 3D Triangle Meshes