Good News

Good News in 2021

l On December 20, the awarding ceremony of PRCV 2021 was held. The paper supervised by Assoc. Prof. Meng Jian and Prof. Lifang Wu at Beijing University of Technology is selected as Best Paper Awards Candidate.

l On December 19, CCF-CV Award Ceremony was held in Zhuhai. Prof. Mingming Cheng at Nankai University, member of CCF-CV Standing Committee, received Influential Paper Award for “Global Contrast based Salient Region Detection”. 6 members of CCF-CV Standing Committee, Prof. Xucheng Yin at University of Science and Technology Beijing, Prof. Haibo Liu at Harbin Engineering University, Assoc. Prof. Zhenbing Zhao, Prof. Jinjia Wang at Yanshan University, Assoc. Prof. Chuanxian Ren at Sun Yat-sen University, and Assoc. Prof. Yan Huang at Institute of Automation, CAS, received Seeta Contribution Award.

l On December 15, Prof. Jingyi Yu at ShanghaiTech University was named as ACM Distinguished Member for outstanding scientific contributions to computing.

l On December 12, the 11th election of members of Beijing Haidian District Committee of CPPCC was held. Prof. Liang Wang at Institute of Automation, CAS, Deputy Director of CCF-CV Committee, was elected as a member of the Standing Committee.

l On December 4, the CSIG announced the selection results of 2021 Shi Qingyun Young Female Scientist Award, including Prof. Shanshan Zhang at Nanjing University of Science & Technology, member of CCF-CV Committee.

l On December 4, the CSIG released its 2022 list of newly elevated fellows, including 5 members of CCF-CV Committee: Prof. Zhouchen Lin and Prof. Yuxin Peng at Peking University, Prof. Huimin Ma at Tsinghua University, Prof. Jianru Xue at Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Prof. Yanning Zhang at Northwestern Polytechnical University.

l On December 3, the CAAI released its supplementary selection list of 2021 CAAI Fellows, including Prof. Liang Wang at Institute of Automation, CAS, Deputy Director of CCF-CV Committee, and Prof. Xinbo Gao at Xidian University, member of CCF-CV Committee.

l On December 3, the CAAI announced the selection results of 2021 Wu Wenjun Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. 4 dissertations supervised by members of CCF-CV Committee, Prof. Shiguang Shan at Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Prof. Liang Lin at Sun Yat-sen University, Prof. Cheng Deng at Xidian University, and Prof. Zhouchen Lin at Peking University, were selected.

l On December 2, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology announced the results of 2021 Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award. 2 projects completed by 6 members of CCF-CV Committee were selected, including Prof. Qingshan Liu and Prof. Xiaotong Yuan at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Prof. Jian Cheng at Institute of Automation, CAS, Prof. Wangmeng Zuo, Prof. Yong Xu at Harbin Institute of Technology, and Assoc. Prof. Guangwei Gao at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

l On November 24, the IEEE released its 2022 list of newly elevated fellows, including 3 members of CCF-CV Committee: Prof. Junwei Han (for contributions to visual saliency detection and image understanding) at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Prof. Shiguang Shan (for contributions to visual signal processing and recognition) at Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, and Dr. Jingdong Wang (for contributions to visual content understanding and retrieval) at Microsoft Research Asia.

l On November 22, Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology announced its list of candidates for the 2021 Shaanxi Provincial Innovative Talents Promotion Plan. Prof. Jinqiu Sun at Northwestern Polytechnical University, member of CCF-CV Committee, was selected as a member of young and middle-aged technological innovation leading talents.

l On November 21, the CSIG announced the selection results of 2021 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. 5 dissertations supervised by members of CCF-CV Committee, Prof. Shiguang Shan at Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Prof. Lianwen Jin at South China University of Technology, Prof. Huimin Ma at University of Science and Technology Beijing, Prof. Weishi Zheng at Sun Yat-sen University, and Prof. Yanning Zhang at Northwestern Polytechnical University, were selected.

l On November 16, 6,602 researchers are named on Clarivate's 2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers, including 6 members of CCF-CV Committee: Prof. Jun Yu at Hangzhou Dianzi University, Prof. Gong Cheng, Prof. Junwei Han, Prof. Feiping Nie, Prof. Qi Wang at Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Prof. Xiaoqiang Lu at Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, CAS.

l On November 3, the winners of the 2021 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award were announced. The project tilted “New Machine Learning Theory and Method for Polysemous Objects” joined by Prof. Xin Geng at Southeast University, member of CCF-CV Standing Committee, received a second-class award in Natural Science; the project titled “Key Technology and Application of Knowledge-Enhanced Cross-Modal Semantic Understanding” joined by Dr. Errui Ding, member of CCF-CV Committee, Director of Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd. received a second-class award in Technological Invention.

l On October 28, the Department of Education of Shaanxi Province released the 2021 honor list of Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations. 2 dissertations, supervised by Prof. Yanning Zhang at Northwestern Polytechnical University and Prof. Cheng Deng at Xidian University, were selected.

l On October 22, "Video Background Music Generation with Controllable Music Transformer" supervised by Assoc. Prof. Si Liu at Beihang University, member of CCF-CV Committee, received the Best Paper Award of ACM Multimedia 2021.

l On September 25, Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission announced the winners of the 2020 Beijing Science and Technology Award. "Multimodal Environment Perception and Adaptive Interaction Technology and Application" completed by members of CCF-CV Committee, Prof. Shuqiang Jiang from the Institute of Computer Science, CAS, and Prof. Qingming Huang at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and "Key Technology and Application of Flexible Production of Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence Data" by Prof. Shiguang Shan and Assoc. Prof. Meina Kan from the Institute of Computer Science, CAS, were awarded the second prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award.

l On July 27, Prof. Haibo Liu at Harbin Engineering University, member of CCF-CV Committee, was honored with the Outstanding Teaching Award of Heilongjiang Province.

l On July 17, members of CCF-CV Committee, Prof. Junwei Han and Prof. Gong Cheng at Northwestern Polytechnical University, were honored with IEEE GRSS Highest Impact Paper Award for the paper “Learning rotation-invariant convolutional neural networks for object detection in VHR optical remote sensing images”.

l On July 1, Accelerated Optimization for Machine Learning First-Order Algorithms, co-authored by Prof. Zhouchen Lin at Peking University, member of CCF-CV Standing Committee, was ranked first in the new arrivals of Jing Dong books.

l On May 31, the paper “A Unified Metric Learning-Based Framework for Co-saliency Detection”by Prof. Junwei Han and Prof. Gong Cheng at Northwestern Polytechnical University, members of CCF-CV Committee, received the Best Paper Award at IEEE TCSVT 2021.

l On May 10, Guide2Research released the 7th edition of the annual ranking for top scientists in the area of computer science and electronics. 4 members of CCF-CV Committee, Prof. Tieniu Tan, academician of CAS, Prof. Feiping Nie at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Prof. Xilin Chen and Prof. Shiguang Shan at Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, were selected for this ranking.

l On April 22, Elsevier officially released its 2020 list of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers, including 34 members of CCF-CV Committee.

l On April 8, the AMiner team of Tsinghua University released "2021 AI Most Influential Scholar Annual List" ("AI 2000 List" for short). 2 members of CCF-CV Committee, Prof. Feiping Nie at Northwestern Polytechnical University and Prof. Wujun Li at Nanjing University, were selected on the list of the world's most influential scholars in the AAAI/IJCAI fields. 13 other members of CCF-CV Committee were recognized as AI 2000s Most Influential Scholar Nominees.

l On March 19, the People's Government of Guangdong Province released the 2020 honors list of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award. 4 members of CCF-CV Committee, Prof. Shiwei Zheng, Assoc. Prof. Changdong Wang, Prof. Jianhuang Lai, and Prof. Xiaohua Xie at Sun Yat-sen University received the second-class prize of Natural Science Award.

l On January 17, CCF released its 2020 list of Distinguished Speakers, including 3 members of CCF-CV Standing Committee: Prof. Rongrong Ji at Xiamen University, Prof. Zhouchen Lin at Peking University, and Assoc. Prof. Jiwen Lu at Tsinghua University.

l On January 13, 10 CCF Distinguished Members were elected as 2020 CCF Fellows, including CCF-CV member, Prof. Xinbo Gao at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

l On January 10, the selection results of 2020 CCF excellent technical committees were released. CCF-CV was honored as 2020 Excellent Technical Committee of CCF.