Marr Prize
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The Marr Prize is a prestigious award in computer vision
given by the committee of the International Conference on Computer Vision
. Named after David Marr, the Marr Prize is considered one of the top honors for a computer vision researcher.
Computer vision
Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...
given by the committee of the International Conference on Computer Vision
International Conference on Computer Vision
ICCV, the International Conference on Computer Vision, is a bi-annual research conference organised by the IEEE. It is considered the top level conference in computer vision, with a 'A+' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences...
. Named after David Marr, the Marr Prize is considered one of the top honors for a computer vision researcher.
1st ICCV, 1987, London, United Kingdom
- Marr Prize Paper: David HeegerDavid HeegerDavid Heeger is a contemporary neuroscientist whose research focuses on biological and artificial vision.He has made a number of influential contributions. These include a model how one can measure motion from optic flow, a nonlinear model of responses in the visual cortex called the "normalization...
, Optical Flow using Spatiotemporal Filters - Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers:
- John Tsotsos, A `Complexity Level' Analysis of Immediate Vision
- Michael Kass, Andrew WitkinAndrew WitkinAndrew P. Witkin was an American computer scientist who made major contributions in computer vision and computer graphics.-Career:...
, and Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active Contour Models - Yiannis Aloimonos and Issac Weiss, Active Vision
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
3rd ICCV, 1990, Osaka, Japan
- Marr Prize Paper: Shree Nayar, Katsushi Ikeuchi, and Takeo KanadeTakeo Kanadeis a Japanese computer scientist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision. He is currently U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor at Carnegie Mellon University...
, Shape from Interreflections
4th ICCV, 1993, Berlin, Germany
- Charles A. Rothwell, David A. Forsyth, Andrew ZissermanAndrew ZissermanAndrew Zisserman is a British computer scientist and a professor at the University of Oxford, and a world-renowned researcher in computer vision. He is the only person to have been awarded the Marr Prize three times.- Publications :...
, and Joseph L. Mundy, Extracting Projective Structure from Single Perspective Views of 3D Point Sets
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
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
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 Texture Modeling and Analysis?
8th ICCV, 2001, Vancouver, Canada
- Marr Prize Papers
- Kentaro ToyamaKentaro ToyamaKentaro Toyama is a computer scientist and development studies researcher, who works on the relationship of technology and international development...
and Andrew BlakeAndrew Blake (scientist)Andrew Blake, FREng, FRS, is a British scientist, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and a leading researcher in computer vision.-Career:...
, Probabilistic Tracking with Exemplars in a Metric Space - Steven Seitz, The Space of All Stereo Images
- Kentaro Toyama
- 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
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
10th ICCV, 2005, Beijing, China
- Marr Prize Paper: "Globally Optimal Estimates for Geometric Reconstruction Problems", Fredrik Kahl, Didier Henrion
- Honorable Mention
- "A Theory of Refractive and Specular Shape by Light-Path Triangulation", Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Eron Steger
- "Detecting Irregularities in Images and in Video", Oren Boiman, Michal Irani
- "On the Spatial Statistics of Optical Flow", Stefan Roth, Michael J. Black
11th ICCV, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Marr Prize Paper: Bradley Davis, P. Thomas Fletcher, Elizabeth Bullitt, Sarang Joshi: Population Shape Regression From Random Design Data
- Honorable Mention:
- 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
12th ICCV, 2009, Kyoto, Japan
- Marr Prize Paper: Chaitanya Desai, Deva Ramanan, Charless Fowlkes. "Discriminative models for multi-class object layout"
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Paper: Ahmed Kirmani, Tyler Hutchison, James Davis, Ramesh Raskar. "Looking Around the corner using Transient Imaging"
13th ICCV, 2011, Barcelona, Spain
- Marr Prize Paper: Devi Parikh, Kristen Grauman: "Relative Attributes"