We are pleased to announce the following awards presented at BMVC 2015
Sketch-a-Net that Beats Humans
Qian Yu, Yongxin Yang, Yi-Zhe Song, Tao Xiang and Timothy Hospedales
Queen Mary, University of London
£1000 cash + £300 Wiley Book Vouchers
This prestigious award is to recognise the outstanding scientific quality of the work presented at the BMVC. The work must show outstanding scientific rigour, major novelty, and comprehensive comparative analysis. It is awarded based on Area Chair and reviewer recommendations.
Deep Perceptual Mapping for Thermal to Visible Face Recognition
M. Saquib Sarfraz and Rainer Stiefelhagen
Institute of Anthropomatics & Robotics Karlsruhe institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
£500 cash + Nvidia card (Titan X) + €300 Springer Book Voucher
This prize is awarded to the work with the most demonstrable impact or potential in industrial applications. The work needs to contain major novelty and thorough validation.
Robust Global Motion Compensation in Presence of Predominant Foreground
Seyed Morteza Safdarnejad, Xiaoming Liu and Lalita Udpa
Michigan State University
£300 cash + £200 CRC Book Voucher
The selection of this award is based on scientific quality of the work, poster design, and presentation delivery.
We would like to thank all reviewers for their contributions. In particular, the following researchers are recognised as “Outstanding Reviewers for BMVC2015” for their hard work in providing detailed, insightful and high quality reviews for all the papers assigned to them. They are nominated by at least one BMVC Area Chairs or BMVC 2015 Organisation Chairs.
| Pablo Alcantarilla | Toshiba Research Europe |
| Relja Arandjelovic | INRIA |
| Michael Edwards | Swansea University |
| Michal Havlena | ETH Zurich |
| Piotr Koniusz | Inria LEAR |
| Yonghuai Liu | Aberystwyth University |
| Yasushi Makihara | Osaka University |
| Philippos Mordohai | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Adeline Paiement | University of Bristol |
| Emanuele Rodola | Technische Universität München |
| Enrique Sanchez Lozano | University of Nottingham |
| Xiaomeng Wang | University of Nottingham |