Cordelia Schmid

Cordelia Schmid
Alma materINRIA (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsINRIA
ThesisLocal Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval (1996)
Doctoral advisorRoger Mohr
Notable studentsZeynep Akata
Websitethoth.inrialpes.fr/~schmid/

Cordelia Schmid is computer vision researcher, currently Head of the THOTH project team at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), Montbonnot, France.[1]

Schmid obtained a degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, and her doctorate from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, with a prizewinning thesis on "Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval".[1]

Schmid was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012[2] for contributions to large-scale image retrieval, classification and object detection. She was a co-winner of the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2006, in 2014, and again in 2016.[3] In 2017, she became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Cordelia Schmid". THOTH. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. ^ "2012 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Multi award-winning computer scientist, Dr. Cordelia Schmid, to honour women in computing research and share cutting edge insights into the future of artificial intelligence". Womanthology. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  4. ^ Cordelia Schmid, Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, retrieved 5 January 2019