
About
Welcome to the homepage of the “European Computer Vision Association (ECVA)”, a non-profit organization domiciled in Zurich. The Association’s mission is the furthering of information dissemination concerning research on the theory and practice of computer vision. It will promote the field and its researchers by the organisation of dedicated activities.
Conferences
ECVA will, inter alia, carry out activities to organise the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) series and support the organisers of the ECCV both scientifically and logistically. Below you will find an overview of some past, current and future ECCV conferences for further information.
ECCV | City | General Chairs | Program Chairs | Website | Papers | Web Archive |
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2020 | Glasgow, Scotland | Bob Fisher, Emanuele Trucco, Vittorio Ferrari, Cordelia Schmid | Andrea Vedaldi, Jan Michael Frahm, Thomas Brox, Horst Bischof | http://eccv2020.eu | ||
2018 | Munich, Germany | Horst Bischof, Daniel Cremers, Bernt Schiele, Ramin Zabih | Vittorio Ferrari, Martial Hebert, Cristian Sminchisescu, Yair Weiss | https://eccv2018.org |
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2016 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Theo Gevers, Arnold Smeulders | Jiri Matas, Bastian Leibe, Max Welling, Nicu Sebe | http://www.eccv2016.org | ||
2014 | Zürich, Switzerland | Luc Van Gool, Marc Pollefeys | Tinne Tuytelaars, Bernt Schiele, Tomas Pajdla, David Fleet | http://eccv2014.org | ||
2012 | Firenze, Italy | Roberto Cipolla, Carlo Colombo, Alberto Del Bimbo | Andrew Fitzgibbon, Svetlana Lazebnik, Yoichi Sato, Cordelia Schmid | https://eccv2012.unifi.it | ||
2010 | Crete, Greece | Antonis Argyros, Panos Trahanias, George Tziritas | Kostas Daniilidis, Petros Maragos, Nikos Paragios | https://www.ics.forth.gr/eccv2010 | ||
2008 | Marseille, France | Jean Ponce | David Forsyth, Philip Torr, Andrew Zisserman | http://eccv2008.inrialpes.fr | ||
2006 | Graz, Austria | Axel Pinz | Horst Bischof, Ales Leonardis | http://eccv2006.tugraz.at | ||
2004 | Prague, Czech Republic | Vaclav Hlavac | Tomas Pajdla, Jiri (George) Matas | http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/eccv2004/ |
Awards
ECCV Awards
Below a comprehensive listing of ECCV awards since 2004.
Best Paper Awards
Martin Sundermeyer, Zoltan Marton, Maximilian Durner, Manuel Brucker, Rudolph TriebelImplicit 3D Orientation Learning for 6D Object Detection from RGB Images
Best Paper Awards – Honorable Mention
Yuxin Wu, Kaiming HeGroup Normalization
Albert Pumarola, Antonio Agudo, Aleix M. Martinez, Alberto Sanfeliu, Francesco Moreno-NoguerGANimation: Anatomically-aware Facial Animation from a Single Image
Everingham Prize
Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij, Paul Over, George AwadFor a series of datasets and workshops since 2003 that have driven progress in large scale Video Retrieval.
Changchang WuFor providing a well documented software library for Structure from Motion that has been used effortlessly by so many.
Koenderink Prize
Herve Jegou, Matthijs Douze, Cordelia SchmidHamming Embedding and Weak Geometric Consistency for Large Scale Image Search
Helmut Grabner, Christian Leistner, Horst BischofSemi-supervised On-Line Boosting for Robust Tracking
Best Paper Awards
Hanme Kim, Stefan Leutenegger, and Andrew J. DavisonReal-Time 3D Reconstruction and 6-DoF Tracking with an Event Camera
Best Paper Awards – Honorable Mention
Jonathan Barron and Ben PooleThe Fast Bilateral Solver
Everingham Prize
Alex Berg, Jia Deng, Fei-Fei Li, Wei, Liu, Olga Russakovsky and team – ImageNetFor a series of datasets and challenges since 2010 that have had such impact on the computer vision field. ImageNet built on the Caltech101/256 datasets, increasing the number of images by orders of magnitude and enabling the development of new algorithms.
Ramin ZabihFor extensive, generous, service to the community: As long-term head of the IEEE PAMI Technical Committee he introduced many reforms, including to the awards process and the relationship to the IEEE. And he has been the driving force in creating and running the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF).
Koenderink Prize
Herbert Bay, Tinne Tuytelaars, and Luc Van GoolSurf: Speeded up robust features (ECCV 2006)
Edward Rosten and Tom DrummondMachine learning for high-speed corner detection (ECCV 2006)
Best Student Paper Award
Emma Alexander, Qi Guo, Sanjeev Koppal, Steven Gortler, and Todd ZicklerFocal Flow: Measuring Distance and Velocity with Defocus and Differential Motion
Best Paper Awards
Kevin Matzen and Noah SnavelyScene Chronology
Jia Deng, Nan Ding, Yangqing Jia, Andrea Frome, Kevin Murphy, Samy Bengio, Yuan Li, Hartmut Neven, Hartwig AdamLarge-Scale Object Classification using Label Relation Graphs
Best Paper Awards – Honorable Mention
Matt Zeiler and Rob FergusVisualizing and Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks
PAMI Everingham Prize
Terry and Ginger BoultFor extensive, generous, long-term service to the community in the management of computer vision conferences and workshops.
Koenderink Prize
Thomas Brox, Andrès Bruhn, Nils Papenberg & Joachim Weickert (ECCV 2004)High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping
Timo Ahonen, Abdenour Hadid & Matti Pietikäinen (ECCV 2004)Face Recognition with Local Binary Patterns
Best Paper Award
Daniel Kuettel, Matthieu Guillaumin and Vittorio FerrariSegmentation Propagation in ImageNet
Best Paper Award – Honorable Mention
Kris Kitani, Brian D. Ziebart, James Bagnell and Martial HebertActivity Forecasting
Koenderink Prize
Vladimir Kolmogorov and Ramin ZabihWhat Energy Functions Can Be Minimized via Graph Cuts?
Best Student Paper Award
Jianxiong Xiao and Yasutaka FurukawaReconstructing the World’s Museums
Best Paper Award
L. Laticky, C. Russell, P. Kohli and P.H.S. TorrGraph Cut based Inference with Co-occurrence Statistics
Runner-Up Paper Award
A. Gupta, A. Efros and M. HebertBlocks World Revisited: Image Understanding Using Qualitative Geometry and Mechanics
Koenderink Prize
H. Sidenbladh, M.J. Black and D.J. FleetStochastic Tracking of 3D Human Figures Using 2D Image Motion (ECCV 2000)
M. Weber, M. Welling and P. PeronaFor the ECCV’2000 paper entitled: Unsupervised Learning of Models for Recognition
Best Student Paper Award
T. Pätz and T. PreusserAmbrosio-Tortorelli Segmentation of Stochastic Images
Best Paper Award
Geremy Heitz and Daphne KollerLearning Spatial Context: Using Stuff to Find Things
Koenderink Prize
Michael Isard and Andrew BlakeContour Tracking by Stochastic Propagation of Conditional Density (ECCV 1996)
Olivier Faugeras, Quang-Tuan Luong, and Steve MaybankCamera self-calibration: theory and experiments (ECCV 1992)
Best Student Paper Award
Matthew B. Blaschko and Christoph H. LampertLearning to Localize Objects with Structured Output Regression
Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award
Anat Levin, Yair WeissLearning to Combine Bottom-up and Top-down Segmentation
Best Paper Award – Honorable Mention
Samuel W. Hasinoff, Kiriakos N. KutulakosConfocal Stereo
Omar Ait-Aider, Nicolas Andreff, Jean Marc Lavest, and Philippe MartinetSimultaneous Object Pose and Velocity Computation Using a Single View from a Rolling Shutter Camera
Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award
T. Brox, A. Bruhn, N. Papenberg, and J. WeickertHigh Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping
Best Paper Award – Honorable Mention
René Vidal and Yi MaA Unified Algebraic Approach to 2-D and 3-D Motion Segmentation
Best Paper – Cognitive Vision
Kenji Okuma, Ali Taleghani, Nando de Freitas, James J. Little, and David G. LoweA Boosted Particle Filter: Multitarget Detection and Tracking
ECVA PhD Award
With the ECVA PhD Award, ECVA recognizes and encourages outstanding research achievements during the dissertation phase, in the field of computer vision. Each awardee will receive Euro 2500 prize money. There will be two awards every year, which will be awarded at the next ECCV conference. This year, exceptionally, there will be four awards, two for dissertations of 2020 and two for dissertations of 2021.
Deadline
The deadline for nominating a dissertation for the year 2020 and 2021 is:May 31, 2022 (End of Day, Anywhere on Earth)
Eligibility
Any European dissertation in the area of computer vision that has been defended in 2020 / 2021 can be nominated. A dissertation is considered European if the dissertation has been performed primarily at a European research institution.
Selection Criteria
Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution and potential impact on theory and practice.
How to Nominate
The nomination (self-nominations by the author of the dissertation are not allowed) must include:- A short summary (approx. 2 pages) of the main research achievements of the dissertation
- 2-3 of the most important publications
- A scan of the dissertation certificate (which includes the date of the defense)
- Final version of the dissertation as pdf (or link to pdf)
- The candidate’s CV
- A short laudation (40-80 words)
Please use this template (pdf) (latex) to nominate a candidate and send the nomination (preferably as a single pdf file) to phd-award@ecva.net. If you should have any questions, please send an email to phd-award@ecva.net.
ECVA Young Researcher Award
With the Young Researcher Award, ECVA recognizes and encourages outstanding research achievements of young researchers in Computer Vision. Each awardee will receive Euro 5000 prize money. There will be one award every year, which will be awarded at the next ECCV conference. This year, there will be two awards for the years 2021 and 2022.
Deadline
The deadline for nominating a candidate for the year 2021 and 2022 is:May 31, 2022 (End of Day, Anywhere on Earth)
Eligibility
Young researchers must be based at a European research institution and should not be older than 35. Their main scope of research should be in Computer Vision or be strongly linked to Computer Vision.
Selection Criteria
Nominations will be reviewed by a selection committee for the quality and significance of the research contributions of the young researcher. Emphasis will be on the research after their PhD.
How to Nominate
The nomination (self-nominations are not allowed) must include:- A short summary (approx. 2 pages) of the main research achievements
- 3-5 of the most important publications
- A scan of the dissertation certificate (which includes the date of the defense)
- The candidate’s CV
- A short laudation (40-80 words)
Please use this template (pdf) (latex) to nominate a candidate and send the nomination (preferably as a single pdf file) to yr-award@ecva.net If you should have any questions, please send an email to yr-award@ecva.net.
Board
The Executive Board of the Computer Vision Association
President
Marc Pollefeys
Vice President
Tinne Tuytelaars
Treasurer
Tomas Pajdla