CVPR Best Paper Award

These awards are picked by committees delegated by the program chairs of the conference. It recognizes the very best work appearing at the conference.

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  • 2022 “Learning to Solve Hard Minimal Problems” P. Hruby, T. Duff, A. Leykin, T. Pajdla

  • 2021 “GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields” M. Niemeyer, A. Geiger

  • 2020 “Unsupervised Learning of Probably Symmetric Deformable 3D Objects from Images in the Wild” S. Wu, C. Rupprecht, A. Vedaldi

  • 2019 “A Theory of Fermat Paths for Non-Line-of-Sight Shape Reconstruction” S. Xin, S. Nousias, K. Kutulakos, A. Sankaranarayanan, S. G. Narasimhan, I. Gkioulekas

  • 2018 “Taskonomy: Disentangling Task Transfer Learning” A. R. Zamir, A. Sax, W. Shen, L. J. Guibas, J. Malik, S. Savarese

  • 2017 “Densely Connected Convolutional Networks” G. Huang, Z. Liu, L. van der Maaten, K. Q. Weinberger

  • 2017 “Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training” A. Shrivastava, T. Pfister, O. Tuzel, J. Susskind, W. Wang, R. Webb

  • 2016 “Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition” K. He, X. Zhang, S. Ren, J. Sun

  • 2015 “DynamicFusion: Reconstruction and Tracking of Non-rigid Scenes in Real-Time” R. A. Newcombe, D. Fox, S. M. Seitz

  • 2014 “What Camera Motion Reveals About Shape with Unknown BRDF” M. K. Chandraker

  • 2013 “Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine” T. Dean, J. Yagnik, M. Ruzon, M. Segal, J. Shlens, S. Vijayanarasimhan

  • 2012 “A Simple Prior-free Method for Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion Factorization” Y. Dai, H. Li, M. He

  • 2011 “Real-time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images” J. Shotton, A. Fitzgibbon, M. Cook, T. Sharp, M. Finocchio, R. Moore, A. Kipman, A. Blake

  • 2010 “Efficient Computation of Robust Low-Rank Matrix Approximations in the Presence of Missing Data using the L1 Norm” A. Eriksson, A. van den Hengel

  • 2009 “Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior” K. He, J. Sun, X. Tang

  • 2008 “Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search” C. H. Lampert, M. B. Blaschko, T. Hofmann

  • 2008 “Global Stereo Reconstruction under Second Order Smoothness Priors” O. Woodford, I. Reid, P. Torr, A. Fitzgibbon

  • 2007 “Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicles” B. Leibe, N. Cornelis, K. Cornelis, L. Van Gool

  • 2006 “Putting Objects in Perspective” D. Hoiem, A. Efros, M. Hebert

  • 2005 “Real-Time Non-Rigid Surface Detection” J. Pilet, V. Lepetit, P. Fua

  • 2004 “Programmable Imaging Using a Digital Micromirror Array” S. K. Nayar, V. Branzoi, T. E. Boult

  • 2003 “Object Class Recognition by Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning” R. Fergus, P. Perona, A. Zisserman

  • 2001 “Morphable 3D Models From Video” M. Brand

  • 2000 “Real-Time Tracking of Non-Rigid Objects using Mean Shift” D. Comaniciu, V. Ramesh, P. Meer

  • 1999 “Robust Hierarchical Algorithm for Constructing a Mosaic from Images of the Curved Human Retina” A. Can, C. V. Stewart, B. Roysam

  • 1998 “Optimal Structure from Motion: Local Ambiguities and Global Estimates” A. Chiuso, R. Brockett, S. Soatto

  • 1997 “What is a Light Source?” M. Langer, S. Zucker

  • 1997 “Learning Bilinear Models for Two-factor Problems in Vision” W. T. Freeman, J. B. Tenenbaum

  • 1996 “What is the Set of Images of an Object Under All Possible Lighting Conditions?” P. Belhumeur, D. Kriegman

  • 1991 “Face Recognition Using Eigenfaces” M. Turk, A. Pentland

  • 1991 “Robust Dynamic Motion Estimation Over Time” M. J. Black, P. Anandan

  • 1991 “Determining 3-D object Pose Using the Complex Extended Gaussian Image” S. B. Kang and K. Ikeuchi

  • 1988 “Large Hierarchical Object Recognition Using Libraries of Parameterized Model Sub-Parts” G. J. Ettinger


CVPR Best Paper Honorable Mention Award


The CVPR best paper honorable mention award is picked by a committee delegated by the program chairs of the conference. It recognizes outstanding work appearing at the conference.

  • 2021 “Exploring Simple Siamese Representation Learning” X. Chen, K. He

  • 2021 “Learning High Fidelity Depths of Dressed Humans by Watching Social Media Dance Videos” Y. Jafarian, H. S. Park

  • 2021 “Less is More: ClipBERT for Video-and-Language Learning via Sparse Sampling” J. Lei, L. Li, L. Zhou, Z. Gan, T. L. Berg, M. Bansal, J. Liu

  • 2021 “Binary TTC: A Temporal Geofence for Autonomous Navigation” A. Badki, O. Gallo, J. Kautz, P. Sen

  • 2021 “Real-Time High-Resolution Background Matting” S. Lin, A. Ryabtsev, S. Sengupta, B. Curless, S. Seitz, I. Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

  • 2020 “DeepCap: Monocular Human Performance Capture Using Weak Supervision” M. Habermann, W. Xu, M. Zollhöfer, G. Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt

  • 2019 “A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks” T. Karras, S. Laine and T. Aila

  • 2019 “Learning the Depths of Moving People by Watching Frozen People” Z. Li, T. Dekel, F. Cole, R. Tucker, C. Liu, B. Freeman and N. Snavely

  • 2018 “Deep Learning of Graph Matching” A. Zanfir and C. Sminchisescu.

  • 2018 “SPLATNet: Sparse Lattice Networks for Point Cloud Processing” H. Su, V. Jampani, D. Sun, S. Maji, E. Kalogerakis, M.-H. Yang, and J. Kautz

  • 2018 “CodeSLAM — Learning a Compact, Optimisable Representation for Dense Visual SLAM” M. Bloesch, J. Czarnowski, R. Clark, S. Leutenegger, and A. J. Davison

  • 2018 “Efficient Optimization for Rank-Based Loss Functions” P. Mohapatra, M. Rolinek, C.V. Jawahar, V. Kolmogorov, and M. Pawan Kumar

  • 2017 “Annotating Object Instances with a Polygon-RNN” L. Castrejon, K. Kundu, R. Urtasun, S. Fidler

  • 2017 “YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger” J. Redmon, A. Farhadi

  • 2016 “Sublabel-Accurate Relaxation of Nonconvex Energies” T. Mollenhoff, E. Laude, M. Moeller, J. Lellmann, D. Cremers

  • 2015 “Efficient Globally Optimal Consensus Maximisation with Tree Search” T.-J. Chin, P. Purkait, A. Eriksson, D. Suter

  • 2015 “Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation” J. Long, E. Shelhamer, T. Darrell

  • 2015 “Picture: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Scene Perception” T. D. Kulkarni, P. Kohli, J. B. Tenenbaum, V. Mansinghka

  • 2014 “3D Shape and Indirect Appearance by Structured Light Transport” M. O’Toole, J. Mather, K. Kutulakos

  • 2013 “Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization” M. Brubaker, A. Geiger, R. Urtasun

  • 2011 “Discrete-Continuous Optimization for Large-scale Structure from Motion” D. Crandall, A. Owens, N. Snavely, D. Huttenlocher

  • 2009 “Understanding and evaluating blind deconvolution algorithms” A. Levin, Y. Weiss, F. Durand, B. Freeman

  • 2007 “Spectral Matting” A. Levin, A. Rav-Acha, D. Lischinski

  • 2007 “Human Detection via Classification on Riemannian Manifolds” O. Tuzel, F. Porikli, P. Meer

  • 2006 “Incremental learning of object detectors using a visual shape alphabet” A. Opelt, A. Pinz, A. Zisserman

  • 2005 “A Non-Local Algorithm for Image Denoising” A. Buades, B. Coll, J.-M. Morel

  • 2005 “Bi-Layer Segmentation of Binocular Stereo Video” V. Kolmogorov, A. Criminisi, A. Blake, G. Cross, C. Rother

  • 2005 “Video Epitomes” V. Cheung, B. J. Frey, N. Jojic

  • 2003 “Constraint on Five Points in Two Images” T. Werner

  • 2001 “Robust on-line appearance models for visual tracking” A. Jepson, D. Fleet, T. F. El-Maraghi

  • 2000 “In search of illumination invariants” H. Chen, P. Belhumeur, and D. Jacobs


CVPR Best Student Paper Award


The CVPR best student paper award is picked by a committee delegated by the program chairs of the conference. It recognizes the very best work appearing at the conference where the first author was a student at the time of submission.

  • 2021 “Task Programming: Learning Data Efficient Behavior Representations” J. J. Sun, A. Kennedy, E. Zhan, D. J. Anderson, Y. Yue, P. Perona

  • 2020 “BSP-Net: Generating Compact Meshes via Binary Space Partitioning” Z. Chen, A. Tagliasacchi, H. Zhang

  • 2019 “Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Navigation” X. Wang, Q. Huang, A. Celikyilmaz, J. Gao, D. Shen, Y.-F. Wang, W. Y. Wang, L. Zhang

  • 2018 “Total Capture: A 3D Deformation Model for Tracking Faces, Hands, and Bodies” H. Joo, T. Simon, Y. Sheikh

  • 2017 “Computational Imaging on the Electric Grid” M. Sheinin, Y. Y. Schechner, K. N. Kutulakos

  • 2016 “Structural-RNN: Deep Learning on Spatio-Temporal Graphs” A. Jain, A. R. Zamir, S. Savarese, A. Saxena

  • 2015 “Category-Specific Object Reconstruction from a Single Image” A. Kar, S. Tulsiani, J. Carreira, J. Malik

  • 2014 “Partial Optimality by Pruning for MAP-inference with General Graphical Models” P. Swoboda, B. Savchynskyy, J. Kappes, C. Schnorr

  • 2013 “Discriminative Non-blind Deblurring” U. Schmidt, C. Rother, S. Nowozin, J. Jancsary, S. Roth

  • 2012 “Max-Margin Early Event Detectors” M. Hoai, F. De la Torre

  • 2011 “Recognition Using Visual Phrases” A. Farhadi, M. Amin Sadeghi

  • 2011 “Separating Reflective and Fluorescent Components of An Image” (Honorable Mention) C. Zhang, I. Sato

  • 2010 “Visual Event Recognition in Videos by Learning from Web Data” L. Duan, D. Xu, W.-H. Tsang, J. Luo

  • 2010 “Modeling Mutual Context of Object and Human Pose in Human-Object Interaction Activities” (Honorable Mention) B. Yao, L. Fei-Fei

  • 2009 “Nonparametric Scene Parsing: Label Transfer via Dense Scene Alignment” C. Liu, J. Yuen, A. Torralba

  • 2009 “A Tensor-Based Algorithm for High-Order Graph Matching” (Honorable Mention) O. Duchenne, F. Bach, I. S. Kweon, J. Ponce

  • 2008 “Fast Image Search for Learned Metrics” P. Jain, B. Kulis, K. Grauman

  • 2007 “Tracking in Low Frame Rate Video: A Cascade Particle Filter with Discriminative Observers of Different Life Spans” Y. Li, H. Ai, T. Yamashita, S. Lao, M. Kawade

  • 2006 “Fast Image Search for Learned Metrics” P. Jain, B. Kulis, K. Grauman

  • 2003 “Vector-Valued Image Regularization with PDE’s: A Common Framework for Different Applications” D. Tschumperle, R. Deriche

  • 2001 “Tracking and modeling non-rigid objects with rank constraints” L. Torresani, D. Yang, E. Alexander, C. Bregler

  • 2001 “Dense image matching with global and local statistical criteria: a variational approach” (Outstanding Student Paper) G. Hermosillo, O. Faugeras

  • 2001 “JPDAF based HMM for real-time contour tracking” (Outstanding Student Paper) Y. Chen, Y. Rui, T. Huang

  • 2001 “Model-based curve evolution techniques for image segmentation” (Outstanding Student Paper) A. Tsai, A. Yezzi, W. Wells, C. Tempany, D. Tucker, A. Fan, E. Grimson, A. Willsky