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Best Paper Awards

• Best Student Poster Runner-up
  • Manifold-manifold distance with application to face recognition based on image set, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao
• Best Student Poster
  • Robust dual motion deblurring, Jia Chen, Lu Yuan, Chi-Keung Tang, Long Quan
• Best Poster Runner-up
  • Viewpoint-independent object class detection using 3d feature maps, Joerg Liebelt, Cordelia Schmid, Klaus Schertler
• Best Poster
  • The Patch Transform and its Applications to Image Editing, Taeg Sang Cho, Moshe Butman, Shai Avidan, William Freeman
• Best Student Paper Runner-up
  • Epitomic Location Recognition, Kai Ni, Anitha Kannan, Antonio Criminisi, John Winn
• Best Student Paper
  • Fast Image Search for Learned Metrics, Prateek Jain, Brian Kulis, Kristen Grauman
• Best Paper
  • Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search, Christoph H. Lampert, Matthew B.Blaschko,Thomas Hofmann
• Best Paper
  • Global STereo Reconstruction under Second Order Smoothness Priors, Oliver Woodford, Ian Reid, Philip Torr, Andrew Fitzgibbon
• Best Demo
  • Real-time Semantic Segmentation with Semantic Texton Forests – Jamie Shotton, Matthew Johnson, Roberto Cipolla, Microsoft Research, Cambridge and University of Cambridge

Longuet-Higgins Prize

• H Schneiderman, T Kanade :
  • Probabilistic modeling of local appearance and spatial relationships for object recognition.
    A significant advance in object recognition through probabilistic modeling and multiple-view training, yielding a state-of-the-art face detection technique.
• C Bregler, J Malik:
  • Tracking people with twists and exponential maps
    An inspired application of kinematic modeling techniques from robotics to the challenge of tracking people in motion from a single camera view, including a memorable model-based analysis of the Muybridge motion study videos

Outstanding Reviewers

Rene Vidal, Bastian Leibe, Stefan Roth, Peter Sturm, Ross Beveridge, Michael Brown, Ahmed Elgammal, Joachim Weickert, Leonid Sigal, Athinodoros Georghiades, Peursum Patrick, Nassir Navab, Douglas Lanman, Marc Pollefeys, Sanjiv Kumar, C.V. Jawahar, Bernt Schiele, Nuno Vasconcelos, Moray Allan, Ghassan Hamarneh, Elli Angelopoulou, Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Moshe Ben-ezra, Ali Shokoufandeh, Ko Nishino, Richard Wildes, Sing Bing Kang, Jean-marc Odobez, David Demirdjian, Sudeep Sarkar, Ales Leonardis, Jan-Olof Eklundh, Rahul Suthankar

Important Dates

Workshop Proposal Deadline:

October 1, 2007

Paper Registration Deadline:

December 3, 2007

Paper Submission Deadline:

December 10, 2007

Review rebuttal period:

February 20 – 25, 2008

Decisions announced:

March 7, 2008

Final papers due:

April 7, 2008

Main Conference:

June 24 – June 26, 2008

Workshops and Tutorials:

June 23, 27 – 28, 2008