Cordelia Schmid
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INRIA Research Director, Head of the THOTH project-team 655, avenue de l'Europe 38330 Montbonnot, FRANCE Tel: 04 76 61 54 47 E-Mail: Cordelia.Schmid "at" inria.fr Research interests: image and video descripton, object and category recognition, machine learning |
Short Bio
Cordelia Schmid holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the
University of Karlsruhe and a Doctorate, also in Computer Science, from
the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). Her doctoral
thesis on "Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval"
received the best thesis award from INPG in 1996. She received the
Habilitation degree in 2001 for her thesis entitled "From Image
Matching to Learning Visual Models". Dr. Schmid was a
post-doctoral research assistant in the Robotics Research Group of
Oxford University in 1996--1997. Since 1997 she has held a permanent
research position at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, where she is a research
director and directs an INRIA team. Dr. Schmid is the author of over a hundred
technical publications. She has been an Associate Editor for
IEEE PAMI (2001--2005) and for IJCV (2004--2012), editor-in-chief for
IJCV (2013---), a program chair of IEEE CVPR 2005 and ECCV 2012 as
well as a general chair of IEEE CVPR 2015. In 2006, 2014 and 2016, she was
awarded the Longuet-Higgins prize for fundamental contributions in
computer vision that have withstood the test of time. She is a fellow
of IEEE. She was awarded an ERC advanced grant in 2013, the Humbolt
research award in 2015 and the Inria & French Academy of Science
Grand Prix in 2016. She was elected to the German National
Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, in 2017.
In 2018 she received th Koenderink prize for fundamental
contributions in computer vision that have withstood the test of time.
Starting 2018 she holds a joint appointment with Google research.