Cordelia Schmid receives the Humboldt Research Award
Cordelia Schmid, an Inria research director, has received the Humboldt Research Award for her work on computer vision spanning more than 20 years.
She was nominated for this scientific award by Michael Black, the director of the Perceiving Systems department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany. As the director of the LEAR team and then the Thoth team since 1 January 2016, Cordelia Schmid is particularly interested in visual recognition linking invariant image descriptors with learning methods. Her research enables a computer to learn not only to interpret all types of real images and videos, but also to recognize objects, actions and places by learning large image and video bases containing more than 100 million images. Cordelia Schmid figures among the world’s precursors and leaders in the field of modern visual recognition methods; she is also named in the “Highly Cited Researchers 2015” list (source: Thomson Reuters).
The Humboldt Research Award is granted by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and supports scientific personalities whose theoretical work or discoveries have had a considerable and lasting influence upon their field and who are expected to produce outstanding results in the future. Cordelia Schmid is one of the three French scientists honoured with the 2015 Humboldt Research Award.
