l On November 22, IEEE released its 2018 Fellow List, including two CCF-CV members: Prof. Zhouchen Lin (Peking University) and Prof. Qingming Huang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences).

l On November 19, CCF released the list of scientists selected for 2017-2019 Youth Talent Support Program. CCF-CV member, Dr. Si Liu, associate researcher of Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, was selected.

l On November 3, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China officially announced the list of scientists selected for 2017 National Millions of Talents Project. Two CCF-CV members, Dr. Chenglin Liu, Deputy Director of Institute of Automation, CAS, and Dr. Shiguang Shan, researcher of Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, were selected.

l On November 2, CCF-CV member, Dr. Yan Huang, assistant researcher of Institute of Automation, CAS, received 2017 CAS Special Presidential Prize.

l On November 2, General Secretary of CCF-CV, Dr. Liang Wang, researcher of Institute of Automation, CAS, received 2017 CAS Excellent Supervisor Award.

l On October 29, the team led by CCF-CV member, Dr. Jian Sun, chief scientist of Megvii, won first place in three tracks of COCO and Places Challenge (object detection, person keypoint estimation, and instance segmentation) at ICCV 2017.

l On October 29, the team led by CCF-CV member, Dr. Jing Liu, researcher of Institute of Automation, CAS, won first place in the scene parsing track of Place Challenge at ICCV 2017.

l The 12th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition (CCBR 2017) was held on October 28-29. The First-class Best Student Paper Award went to the paper “Detecting Face with Densely Connected Face Proposal Network”, supervised by CCF-CV member, Dr. Zhen Lei, associate researcher of Institute of Automation, CAS. The paper titled “2D-3D Heterogeneous Face Recognition Based on Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis”, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Di Huang from Beihang University, won the Second-class Best Student Paper Award.

l On October 26, Watrix AI (Founder & CEO: Dr. Yongzhen Huang) was selected in the list of 2017 Venture 50.

l ACM MM'17 was held in California, USA on October 23-27. The team, led by CCF-CV member, Assoc. Prof. Qin Jin from Renmin University of China, won the Best Performance Award in the second Microsoft Research Video to Language Challenge, and the Best Grand Challenge Paper Award for the paper “Knowing yourself: improving video caption via in-depth recap”.

l On October 23, the paper “YOLSE: Egocentric Fingertip Detection from Single RGB Images”, supervised by CCF-CV member, Prof. Lianwen Jin from South China University of Technology, won the Best Paper Award at 3rd International Workshop on Observing and Understanding Hands in Action (HANDS), ICCV 2017.

l The 2017 CCF-CV Award Ceremony was held in Tianjing on October 12. Three CCF-CV members, Prof. Jinfeng Yang from Civil Aviation University of China, Prof. Mingming Cheng from Nankai University and Assoc. Prof. Shiying Li (Deputy Secretary-General) from Hunan University, received CCF-CV Contribution Award.

l On October 12, the winners of CCCV 2017 were announced. The Best Paper Award went to the paper “Structure-aware SLAM with Planes in Man-Made Environment” supervised by Deputy Director of CCF-CV, Prof. Hongbin Zha from Peking University. The Best Student Paper Award was presented to the paper “Person Re-identification on Heterogeneous Camera Network”, supervised by CCF-CV members, Dr. Junyong Zhu, Prof. Jianhuang Lai (Deputy Director of CCF-CV) and Dr. Xiaohua Xie from Sun Yat-sen University. The paper titled “Hyperspectral Image Classication Using Spectral-Spatial LSTMs” was selected as Best Student Paper Award Finalist, supervised by Prof. Qingshan Liu (member of CCF-CV Standing Committee) and Prof. Xiaotong Yuan from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.

l IJCB 2017 was held in Denver, USA on October 1-4. The paper titled “Fingerprint Pose Estimation Based on Faster R-CNN” was selected as Best Student Paper Award Finalist, supervised by CCF-CV members, Assoc. Prof. Jianjiang Feng and Assoc. Prof. Jiwen Lu from Tsinghua University, and Dr. Zhenhua Guo, associate researcher of Tsinghua Shenzhen Graduate School.

l On August 17, CCF-CV member, Prof. Zhiwen Yu from South China University of Technology, and Dr. Yang Cong, researcher of Shenyang Institute of Automation of CAS, received the 2017 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

l On August 4, National Natural Science Foundation of China released the 2017 list of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. CCF-CV member, Prof. Huchuan Lu from Dalian University of Technology was selected.

l On July 28, Director of CCF-CV, Dr. Tieniu Tan, was elected General Chair of CVPR 2021; Deputy Secretary-General of CCF-CV, Prof. Jingyi Yu from ShanghaiTech University, was Program Chair of CVPR 2021.

l On June 19, Low-Rank Models in Visual Analysis: Theories, Algorithms, and Applications, by CCF-CV member, Prof. Zhouchen Lin from Peking University, was published by Academic Press.

l On July 18, 65 CCF professional members were elevated to Senior Members, including seven CCF-CV members: Dr. Huiguang He and Dr. Zhaoxiang Zhang from Institute of Automation of CAS, Assoc. Prof. Jia Li from Beihang University, Assoc. Prof. Zhanyu Ma from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Prof. Qi Wang from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Prof. Lin Zhang from Tongji University and Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang from Institute of Information Engineering of CAS.

l On June 15, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China released the list of scientists selected for the 2016 Innovative Talent Promotion Program, including five CCF-CV members: Dr. Shiguang Shan, researcher of Institute of Computing Technology of CAS, Prof. Jinhui Tang from Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Prof. Hua Huang from Beijing Institute of Technology, Prof. Hongkai Xiong from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Prof. Jianru Xue from Xi’an Jiaotong University.

l On June 8, the winners of the 12th CAS Outstanding Youth Award were announced, including CCF-CV member, Dr. Kaiqi Huang, researcher of Institute of Automation of CAS.

l On May 10, the winners of ICDAR 2017 Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild were announced. The team led by CCF-CV member, Dr. Chenglin Liu, researcher of Institute of Automation, CAS, won first place in the task of End-to-End Recognition; the team led by CCF-CV member, Prof. Lianwen Jin from South China University of Technology won second place in the same task.

l On May 6, the work by CCF-CV member, Dr. Huiguang He, researcher of Institute of Automation of CAS, and his research team, was reported in the MIT Technology Review as headline news “sharing deep generative representation for perceived image reconstruction from human brain activity“.

l CSIG-BVD was founded on May 5. CCF-CV member, Dr. Liang Wang, researcher of Institute of Automation of CAS, was elected Director of CSIG-BVD; Prof. Jianru Xue from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Prof. Hongkai Xiong from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Prof. Xin Geng from Southeast University, were elected Deputy Directors; Dr. Ran He, researcher of Institute of Automation of CAS, was elected Secretary-General; Prof. Yugang Jiang from Fudan University, Prof. Weishi Zheng from Sun Yat-sen University, and Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang, associate researcher of Institute of Information Engineering of CAS, were elected Deputy Secretary-General.

l On April 1, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China released the 2016 list of Yangtze River Scholars Program. CCF-CV member, Prof. Hongkai Xiong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) was selected as Distinguished Professor; Prof. Weisheng Dong (Xidian University) was selected as Young Scholar of the program.

l In March, the winners of ICME 2017 World’s First 10K Best Paper Award were announced. CCF-CV member, Prof. Liang Lin from Sun Yat-sen University, received Diamond Best Paper for “Knowledge-Guided Recurrent Neural Network Learning for Task-oriented Action Prediction”.

l In March, CCF-CV member, Prof. Jingyi Yu from ShanghaiTech University, was appointed as Area Chair of ICCV’17, CVPR’17 and NIPS’17.

l On March 7, CCF-CV member, Prof. Jun Yu from Hangzhou Dianzi University received 2016 Best Paper Award of IEEE Signal Processing Society, for the paper titled “Click Prediction for Web Image Reranking Using Multimodal Sparse Coding”.

l On February 27, Elsevier officially released its 2016 list of Chinese Most Cited Researchers. 13 CCF-CV members were included: Prof. Songcan Chen and Prof. Xiaoyang Tan from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dr. Tieniu Tan, Dr. Chenglin Liu and Dr. Liang Wang, researchers of Institute of Automation, CAS, Prof. Shengyong Chen from Zhejiang University of Technology, Prof. Xiang Bai from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Prof. Linlin Shen from Shenzhen University, Dr. Zhenhua Guo, associate researcher of Tsinghua University, Prof. Xiangqian Wu and Prof. Yong Xu from Harbin Institute of Technology, Prof. Hanli Wang from Tongji University, and Prof. Mingming Cheng from Nankai University.

l On February 22, the winners of the 2016 Scientific Research Achievement Award of Institution of Higher Education were announced, including 8 CCF-CV members: Prof. Huchuan Lu from Dalian University of Technology, Prof. Songcan Chen and Prof. Xiaoyang Tan from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Prof. Qingshan Liu and Prof. Xiaotong Yuan from Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Dr. Jian Cheng, researcher of Institute of Automation of CAS, Prof. Rongrong Ji from Xiamen University, and Prof. Wenqiang Zhang from Fudan University.

l On January 11, CCF-CV member, Prof. Zechao Li from Nanjing University of Science & Technology, was selected in the list of 2016-2018 Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST.