Juin, 2020: Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean Ponce receive Longuet-Higgins prize:
PAMI Longuet-Higgins prize (Test-of-time award) at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020 for Y. Furukawa and J. Ponce. Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis. In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007.
September, 2016: WILLOW receives GPU servers donation in the Facebook GPU Partnership Program:
WILLOW and the Departement d'Informatique of ENS is one of the 15 research groups that were selected as recipients of high-powered GPU servers through the Facebook GPU Partnership Program.
June, 2016: Svetlana Lazebnik, Cordelia Schmid and Jean Ponce receive Longuet-Higgins Prize:
The Longuet-Higgins Prize is an award given annually by the TCPAMI at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) for fundamental contributions in computer vision. The paper entitled "Beyond Bags of Features: Spatial Pyramid Matching for Recognizing Natural Scene Categories" authored by Svetlana Lazebnik, Cordelia Schmid and Jean Ponce was presetned at CVPR 2006 and was cited more than 5.900 times.
May, 2016: Jean Ponce on France Culture :
Jean Ponce is interviewed on the French radio station France culture on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Listen here
February, 2016: New associate team GAYA in collaboration with INRIA Thoth and CMU:
GAYA is a joint research team bringing together two Inria project-teams (Thoth, Grenoble and WILLOW, Paris) and Carnegie Mellon University, USA. It focuses on two research themes: (i) semantic structured interpretation of videos, and (ii) studying the geometric properties of object shapes to enhance state-of-the-art object recognition approaches.
June, 2012: Ivan Laptev is awarded an ERC grant
Ivan Laptev has been awarded an European Research Council grant for his project Activia.
May, 2012: Jean Ponce becomes a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France :
Jean Ponce becomes a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Julien Mairal has won several awards for his PhD thesis:
Julien Mairal has won several awards for his PhD thesis "Sparse Coding for Machine Learning, Image Processing and Computer Vision": the 2010 AFRIF PhD thesis award, the 2011 EADS award for best PhD thesis in computer science, and an honorable mention for the 2011 Gilles Kahn PhD thesis award.
January, 2011: Sylvain Arlot gave one of the two "Cours Peccot" lectures at College de France :
Sylvain Arlot gave in January 2011 one of the two "Cours Peccot" lectures at College de France, on "Model and estimator selection for statistical learning".
November, 2009: WILLOW featured in La Recherche:
WILLOW is featured in the November 2009 issue of La Recherche, a monthly French language popular science magazine.
October, 2009: WILLOW on France Culture:
Members of the WILLOW team are interviewed on the French radio station France culture. Listen here.
June 23, 2009: Olivier Duchenne earns best student paper honorable mention
At the premier conference for computer vision, Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition, Olivier Duchenne earned the Best
Student Paper - Honorable Mention award for his paper "A Tensor-Based
Algorithm for High-Order Graph Matching." He presented his work in the
awards session, the only single-track session of the conference.
June 7, 2009: Jean Ponce in the New York Times
In an article about YouTube, Jean Ponce's
book Computer Vision: A Modern Approach was described as "a comprehensive
guide to the fascinating subject of how computers see."
June, 2009: Francis Bach and Andrew Zisserman awarded ERC grants
Francis Bach and Andrew Zisserman have been awarded European Research Council
grants. Andrew was awarded a Senior Researcher grant, acknowledging his exceptional leadership in the field of computer
vision over the past decade. Francis was awarded a Starting grant worth 1.4 M euros over 5 years.
The award recognizes both Francis's current success as an independent scientist and the
potential for the future in his research plan. The application process for both grants is
highly competitive, with only 3% of proposals funded.