ICCV Helmholtz Prize

The Helmholtz Prize is an award given biyearly by the TCPAMI at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) for fundamental contributions in Computer Vision. The award recognizes ICCV papers from ten years ago with significant impact on computer vision research. The award is named after the 19th century physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.

Winners are decided by a committee appointed by the TCPAMI Awards Committee. Click here for the wikipedia article on this prize.

Recipients

• Awarded at ICCV 2015
  • David Martin, Charles Fowlkes, Doron Tal, and Jitendra Malik, A Database of Human Segmented Natural Images and Its Application to Evaluating Segmentation Algorithms and Measuring Ecological Statistics, ICCV 2001
  • Serge Belongie, Jitendra Malik, and Jan Puzicha, Matching Shapes, ICCV 2001
• Awarded at ICCV 2013
  • Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin and Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active Contour Models, ICCV 1987
  • Michael J. Swain and Dana H. Ballard, Indexing via color histograms, ICCV 1990
  • Bill Freeman and Ted Adelson, Steerable filters for early vision, image analysis, and wavelet decomposition, ICCV 1990
  • Michael Black and P. Anandan, A framework for the robust estimation of optical flow, ICCV 1993
  • Paul Viola and  William M. Wells III, Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information, ICCV 1995
  • Richard Hartley, In Defence of the 8-Point Algorithm, ICCV 1995
  • Carlo Tomasi and Roberto Manduchi, Bilateral Filtering for Gray and Color Images, ICCV 1998
  • Yossi Rubner, Carlo Tomasi and Leonidas J. Guibas, A Metric for Distributions with Applications to Image Databases, ICCV 1998
  • Song Chun Zhu, Tai Sing Lee and Alan Yuille, Region Competition: Unifying Snakes, Region Growing, Energy/Bayes/MDL for Multi-band Image Segmentation, ICCV 1995
  • Zhengyou Zhang, Flexible Camera Calibration by Viewing a Plane from Unknown Orientations, ICCV 1999
  • Alyosha Efros and Thomas K. Leung, Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling, ICCV 1999
• Awarded at ICCV 2011
  • David Lowe, Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant Features, ICCV1999
  • Yuri Boykov, Olga Veksler, and Ramin Zabih, Fast Approximate Energy Minimization via Graph Cuts, ICCV1999
  • Vincent Caselles, Ron Kimmel, and Guillermo Sapiro, Geodesic Active Contours, ICCV1995
• Awarded at ICCV 2009
  • Yehezkel Lamdan and Haim J. Wolfson, Geometric Hashing: A General and Efficient Model-Based Recognition Scheme, ICCV1988

Note: until 2013 this award was called the Test of Time Award.