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By Harry Wang January 17, 2009

This page summarizes the Best Paper Awards from Top Computer Vision Conferences, i.e., International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), European Conference and Computer Vision (ECCV), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) and Asian Conference of Computer Vision (ACCV).

ICCV Best Paper Awards

12th, ICCV, 2009, Tokyo, Japan (Coming…)
11th, ICCV, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Marr Prize Papers
  - Bradley Davis, P. Thomas Fletcher, Elizabeth Bullitt, Sarang Joshi: Population Shape Regression From Random Design Data
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
  - Ying Nian Wu, Zhangzhang Si, Chuck Fleming, Song-Chun Zhu: Deformable Template As Active Basis
  - Abhijeet Ghosh, Shruthi Achutha, Wolfgang Heidrich, Matthew O’Toole: BRDF Acquisition with Basis Illumination
  - Manmohan Chandraker, Sameer Agarwal, David Kriegman, Serge Belongie: Globally Optimal Affine and Metric Upgrades in Stratified Autocalibration

10th ICCV, 2005, Beijing, China
- Marr Prize Papers
  - Fredrik Kahl, Didier Henrion, Globally Optimal Estimates for Geometric Reconstruction Problems
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
  - Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Eron Steger, A Theory of Refractive and Specular Shape by Light-Path Triangulation
  - Oren Boiman, Michal Irani, Detecting Irregularities in Images and in Video
  - Stefan Roth, Michael J. Black, On the Spatial Statistics of Optical Flow
9th ICCV, 2003, Nice, France
- Marr Prize Papers
  - Andrew Fitzgibbon, Yonatan Wexler, and Andrew Zisserman, Image-based Rendering using Image-based Priors
  - Zhuowen Tu, Xiangrong Chen, Alan L. Yuille, and Song-Chun Zhu, Image Parsing: Unifying Segmentation, Detection and Recognition
  - Paul Viola, Michael J. Jones, and Daniel Snow, Detecting Pedestrians using Patterns of Motion and Appearance
8th ICCV, 2001, Vancouver, Canada
- Marr Prize Papers
  - Kentaro Toyama and Andrew Blake, Probabilistic Tracking in a Metric Space
  - Steven Seitz, The Space of All Stereo Images
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
  - Yaron Caspi and Michal Irani, Alignment of Non-Overlapping Sequences
  - Lior Wolf and Amnon Shashua, On Projection Matrices and their Applications in Computer Vision
7th ICCV, 1999, Kerkyra, Greece
- Marr Prize Papers
  - Kiriakos Kutulakos and Steven Seitz, A Theory of Shape by Space Carving
  - Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, Jana Kosecka, and Shankar Sastry, Euclidean Reconstruction and Reprojection up to Subgroups
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
  - Michael Black and David Fleet, Probabilistic Detection and Tracking of Motion Discontinuities
  - Ying Nian Wu and Song-Chun Zhu, Equivalence of Julesz and Gibbs Texture Ensembles
6th ICCV, 1998, Bombay, India
- Marr Prize Papers
  - Marc Pollefeys, Reinhard Koch, and Luc Van Gool, Self-Calibration and Metric Reconstruction in spite of Varying and Unknown Internal Camera Parameters
  - Phil Torr, Andrew Fitzgibbon, and Andrew Zisserman, The Problem of Degeneracy in Structure and Motion Recovery from Uncalibrated Image Sequences
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Paper
  - Richard Szeliski and Polina Golland, Stereo Matching with Transparency and Matting
5th ICCV, 1995, Cambridge, U.S.A.
- Marr Prize Papers
  - Michael Oren and Shree Nayar, A Theory of Specular Surface Geometry
  - Toshikazu Wada, Hiroyuki Ukida, and Takashi Matsuyama, Shape from Shading with Interreflections under a Proximal Light Source: Distortion-Free Copying of an Unfolded Book
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
  - Paul Viola and William Wells III, Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information
  - Anders Heyden, Reconstruction from Image Sequences by Means of Relative Depths
  - Yalin Xiong and Steven Shafer, Hypergeometric Filters for Optical Flow and Affine Matching
4th ICCV, 1993, Berlin, Germany
- Marr Prize Paper
  - Charles A. Rothwell, David A. Forsyth, Andrew Zisserman, and Joseph L. Mundy, Extracting Projective Structure from Single Perspective Views of 3D Point Sets
3rd ICCV, 1990, Osaka, Japan
- Marr Prize Paper
  - Shree Nayar, Katsushi Ikeuchi, and Takeo Kanade, Shape from Interreflections
2nd ICCV, 1988, Tampa, U.S.A.
- Marr Prize Paper
  - Brian Funt and Jian Ho, Color from Black and White
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
  - David Lowe, Organization of Smooth Image Curves at Multiple Scales
  - Vishvjit Nalwa, Representing Oriented Piecewise C2 Surfaces
  - Alan Yuille and Norberto Grzywacz, A Mathematical Analysis of the Motion Coherence Theory
1st ICCV, 1987, London, United Kingdom
- Marr Prize Paper
  - David Heeger, Optical Flow using Spatiotemporal Filters
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
  - John Tsotsos, A ‘Complexity Level’ Analysis of Immediate Vision
  - Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, and Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active Contour Models
  - Yiannis Aloimonos and Issac Weiss, Active Vision

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CVPR Best Paper Awards

CVPR, 2009

Best Paper
- Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior (PDF, Supp Material) (Kaiming He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jian Sun (Microsoft Research Asia), Xiaoou Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong))
Best Paper - Honorable Mention
- Understanding and evaluating blind deconvolution algorithms (PDF, Extended technical report, data) (Anat Levin (MIT & Weizmann Institute), Yair Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Fredo Durand (MIT), Bill Freeman (MIT))
Best Student Paper
- Nonparametric Scene Parsing: Label Transfer via Dense Scene Alignment (PDF) (Ce Liu (MIT), Jenny Yuen (MIT), Antonio Torralba (MIT))
Best Student Paper - Honorable Mention
- A Tensor-Based Algorithm for High-Order Graph Matching (PDF) (Olivier Duchenne (Ecole Normale Superieure), Francis Bach (INRIA - ENS), In So Kweon (KAIST), Jean Ponce (Ecole Normale Superieure))

CVPR, 2008
- Best Paper/Best Student Paper/Runner-up Awards
  - 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
  - Best Student Paper Runner Up: Kai Ni, Anitha Kannan, Antonio Criminisi and John Winn. Epitomic Location Recognition
  - Best Poster: Taeg Sang Cho, Moshe Butman, Shai Avidan, William Freeman, The Patch Transform and its Applications to Image Editing
  - Best Student Poster: Jia Chen, Lu Yuan, Chi-Keung Tang, Long Quan, Robust dual motion deblurring
  - Best Poster Runner-up: Joerg Liebelt, Cordelia Schmid, Klaus Schertler, Viewpoint-independent object class detection using 3d feature maps
  - Best Student Poster Runner-up: Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao, Manifold-manifold distance with application to face recognition based on image set
  - Best Demo: Jamie Shotton, Matthew Johnson, Roberto Cipolla, Real-time Semantic Segmentation with Semantic Texton Forests
- Longuet-Higgins Prize (”fundamental contributions in computer vision that have withstood the test of time”)
  - H Schneiderman and T Kanade. Probabilistic modeling of local appearance and spatial relationships for object recognition
  - C Bregler and J Malik. Tracking people with twists and exponential maps

CVPR, 2007
- Best Paper/Best Student Paper/Runner-up Awards
  - Best Paper: B. Leibe, N. Cornelis, K. Cornelis and L. van Gool. Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicle
  - Best Paper Runner Up: A. Levin, A. Rav Acha and D. Lischinski. Spectral Matting
  - Best Paper Runner Up: O. Tuzel, F. Porikli and P. Meer. Human Detection via Classification on Riemannian Manifolds
  - Best Student Paper: Y. Li, H. Ai, T. Yamashita, S. Lao and M. Kawade, Tracking in Low Frame Rate Video: A Cascade Particle Filter with Discriminative Observers of Different Lifespans
  - Best Demo: Jan-Michael Frahm, Philippos Mordohai, Amir Akbarzadeh, Brian Clipp, Chris Engels, David Gallup, Xiaowei Li, Paul Merrell, Sudipta Sinha, Liang Wang, Changchang Wu, Qing-Xiong Yang, Herman Towles, Greg Welch, Ruigang Yang, David Nister and Marc Pollefeys, Real-time Urban Reconstruction
- Longuet-Higgins Prize (”fundamental contributions in computer vision that have withstood the test of time”)
  - J. Shi and J. Malik. Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation
  - E. Osuna, R. Freund and F. Girosi. Training Support Vector Machines: An Application to Face Detection

CVPR, 2006
- Best Paper/Best Student Paper/Runner-up Awards
  - 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
- Longuet-Higgins Prize (”fundamental contributions in computer vision that have withstood the test of time”)
  - H. Rowley, S. Baluja and T. Kanade. Neural Network-Based Face Detection
  - C. Schmid and R. Mohr. Combining Greyvalue Invariants with Local Constraints for Object Recognition

CVPR, 2005
- Best Paper/Best Student Paper/Runner-up Awards
  - Best Paper: Julien Pilet, Vincent Lepetit and Pascal Fua. Real-Time Non-Rigid Surface Detection
  - 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
  - Honorable Mention: Vincent Cheung, Brendan J. Frey and Nebojsa Jojic. Video Epitomes
- Longuet-Higgins Prize (”fundamental contributions in computer vision that have withstood the test of time”)
  - David Mumford and Jayant Shah. Boundary Detection by Minimizing Functionals. CVPR 1985, pages 22-26.
  - Ted Adelson and John Wang. Layered Representation for Motion Analysis. CVPR 1993, pages 361-366.

CVPR, 2004
- Best Poster: Y. Wexler, E. Shechtman and M. Irani. Space-Time Video Completion
- Outstanding Student Paper: K. Q. Weinberger and L. K. Saul. Unsupervised learning of image manifolds by semidefinite programming

CVPR, 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
- Best Student Paper: David Tschumperle and Rashid Deriche. Vector-Valued Image Regularization with PDE’s: A Common Framework for Different Applications

CVPR, 2001
- Best Paper: Matthew Brand. Morphable 3D Models from Video
- Best Student Paper: Lorenzo Torresani, Danny Yang, Gene Alexander and Christoph Bregler. Tracking and Modeling Non-Rigid Objects with Rank Constraints

CVPR, 2000
- Best Paper: Haili Chui and Anand Rangarajan. A new algorithm for non-rigid point matching

CVPR, 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

CVPR, 1998
- Best Paper: S. Soatto and R. Brockett. Optimal and suboptimal structure from motion

CVPR, 1997
- Outstanding Paper: J. B. Tenenbaum and W. T. Freeman. Separating style and content with bilinear models

CVPR, 1994
- Best Paper: H.Murase and S.K.Nayar. Illumination Planning for 0bject Recognition in Structured Environments
- Best Student Paper: K. N. Kutulakos and C. R. Dyer. Occluding contour detection using affine invariants and purposive viewpoint control

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ECCV Best Paper Awards

ECCV, 2008
- Best Paper/Best Student Paper/Runner-up Awards
  - Best Paper Award: Geremy Heitz and Daphne Koller. Learning Spatial Context: Using Stuff to Find Things.
  - Best Student Paper Award: Matthew B. Blaschko and Christoph H. Lampert. Learning to Localize Objects with Structured Output Regression.
- Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision (This Prize is awarded to papers published at ECCV that have withstood the test of time. It has a similar purpose to that of the Longuet-Higgins Prize awarded at CVPR. As this was the first time that the prize was awarded, all ECCVs up to 1998 were considered. For future ECCVs the prize will be restricted to papers that appeared at the conference ten years before.)
  - Michael Isard and Andrew Blake. Contour Tracking by Stochastic Propagation of Conditional Density. ECCV 1996, 343-356.
  - livier Faugeras, Quang-Tuan Luong, and Steve Maybank. Camera self-calibration: theory and experiments. ECCV 1992, 321-334.

ECCV, 2006
- Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award: A. Levin and Y. Weiss. Learning to Combine Bottom-up and Top-down Segmentation
- 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

ECCV, 2004
- Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award: T. Brox, A. Bruhn, N. Papenberg and J. Weickert. High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping
- Honorable Mention: René Vidal and Yi Ma. A Unified Algebraic Approach to 2-D and 3-D Motion Segmentation
- 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

ECCV, 2002
- Best Paper: E. Shechtman, Y. Caspi and M. Irani. Increasing Space-Time Resolution in Video
- Best Paper: R. Davies, C. Twining, T. Cootes, J. Waterton and C. Taylor. 3D Statistical Shape Models Using Direct Optimisation of Description Length
- Best Papers: V. Kolmogorov and R. Zabih. Multi-camera Scene Reconstruction via Graph Cuts and What Energy Functions can be Minimized via Graph Cuts?
- Best Paper: J. Gomes and A. Mojsilovic. A variational Approach to Recovering a Manifold from Sample Points
- 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

ECCV, 2000
- Joint Best papers
  - M. Irani and P. Anandan, Factorization with Uncertainty
  - J.Winn and C.Bishop, Nonlinear Bayesian Image Modeling
  - A. Shashua and Lior Wolf, Homography Tensors: On Algebraic Entities That Represent Three Views of Static or Moving Planar Points

ECCV, 1998
- Joint Best papers
  - T.F.Cootes, G.J. Edwards and C.J.Taylor, Active Appearance Models

ECCV, 1996
- Joint Best papers
  - T.J. Cham and R. Cipolla. Geometric saliency of curve correspondences and grouping of symmetric contours

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BMVC Best Paper Awards

BMVC, 2008
- Best Science Paper: Gerald Schweighofer and Axel Pinz, Globally Optimal O(n) Solution to the PnP Problem for General Camera Models.

BMVC, 2007
- Best Science Paper: Donner, Micusik, Langs, and Bischof, Sparse MRF Appearance Models for Fast Anatomical Structure Localisation
- Best Poster: Ruta, Li, and Liu. Towards Real-Time Traffic Sign Recognition by Class-Specific Discriminative Features

BMVC, 2006
- Best Science Paper: D. Cristinacce and T.F.Cootes, Feature Detection and Tracking with Constrained Local Models

BMVC, 2005
- Best Science Paper: S. Obdrzalek and J. Matas, Sub-linear Indexing for Large Scale Object Recognition

BMVC, 2004
- Best Science Paper: Kemp, C. and Drummond, T.W. Multi-modal tracking using texture changes

BMVC, 2003
- Best Science Paper: Philip A. Tresadern and Ian Reid, Synchronising image sequences of non-rigid objects.
- Best Industry Prize: John P. Collomosse, David Rowntree and Peter M. Hall, Video analysis for cartoon-like special effects.
- Model-Based Vision Prize: Craig A. Hack and Chris J. Taylor, Modelling ‘talking head’ behaviour
- Best Poster: J. Andrew Bangham, Stuart E. Gibson and Richard Harvey, The art of scalespace
- Best Demonstration: Nicolas Gehrig, Vincent Lepetit and Pascal Fua, Visual golf club tracking for enhanced swing analysis