Cordelia Schmid
German computer vision researcher, born 1967
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Cordelia Schmid (born 28 September 1967)[1] is a computer vision researcher, currently head of the THOTH project team at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), Montbonnot, France.[2]
Cordelia Schmid | |
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| Born | 28 September 1967 Mainz, Germany |
| Alma mater | INRIA (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | INRIA |
| Thesis | Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval (1996) |
| Roger Mohr | |
Notable students | Zeynep Akata |
| Website | thoth |
Schmid obtained a degree in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, and her doctorate from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, with a prizewinning thesis on "Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval".[2]
Schmid was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012[3] for contributions to large-scale image retrieval, classification and object detection. She was a co-winner of the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2006, in 2014, and again in 2016.[4] In 2017, she became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[5]
Awards and prizes
- 2006, 2014, 2016 : Longuet-Higgins Prize[6]
- 2020 : Milner Award[7]
- 2023 : Körber European Science Prize[8]
- 2024 : European Inventor Award[9]
