Good News

Good News in 2016

l On December 30, CCF released its 2016 list of Distinguished Speaks, including four CCF-CV members: Dr. Xilin Chen (Deputy Director), researcher of Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Prof. Qiguang Miao (Member of the Standing Committee) from Xidian University, Dr, Shiguang Shan (Member of the Standing Committee), researcher of Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, and Prof. Yunhong Wang from Beihang University.

l On December 29, CCF released its 2016 list of Distinguished Members, including five CCF-CV members: Prof. Hua Huang (Beijing Institute of Technology), Prof. Qiguang Miao (Xidian University), Prof. Yunhong Wang (Beihang University), Prof. Zhiwen Yu (South China University of Technology) and Prof. Beiji Zou (Central South University).

l On December 10, CCF YOCSEF Academic Committee Conference was held in Beijing. Prof. Qiguang Miao from Xidian University, member of CCF-CV Standing Committee, was elected Vice Chairman (2017-2018) of CCF YOCSEF.

l On December 4, Dr. Xilin Chen (Deputy Director of CCF-CV), researcher of Institute of Computing Technology, CAS and Prof. Zhouchen Lin (Member of CCF-CV Standing Committee) from Peking University, were named IAPR Fellows.

l On November 21, the winners of the 2016 CAA Young Scientist Award were announced, including CCF-CV member, Prof. Jianru Xue from Xi’an Jiaotong University.

l On November 14, the winners of 2016 TRECVID were announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The team, PKU_ICST, led by CCF-CV member, Prof. Yuxin Peng from Peking University, won first place in the Instance Search (INS) Task. The team, BUPT_MCPRL, led by CCF-CV member, Prof. Fei Su from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, won first place in both Surveillance Event Detection (SED) Task and Multimedia Event Detection (MED) Task.

l On November 11, CCF-CV member, Prof. Yugang Jiang from Fudan University was named a 2016 Shanghai Outstanding Young Talent.

l On November 5, the team led by CCF-CV member, Prof. Yugang Jiang from Fudan University, won first place in the video recognition task of the first Public Opinion Analysis Technology Invitational.

l On October 2, the team led by Dr. Lin Mei, CCF-CV member, Director of IoT Center, Third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security of PRC, won second place in the 2016 Common Objects in Context (COCO) Challenge.

l On September 5, the team supervised by CCF-CV member, Dr. Yulan Guo from National University of Defense Technology, won the grand prize in the 11th “Huawei Cup” China Graduate Electronic Design Contest, for “EagleEye”, a automatic tracking drone they developed.

l On August 18, seven CCF-CV members received grants from 2016 National Natural Science Funds for Excellent Young Scholars: Prof. Weisheng Dong (Xidian University), Prof. Xin Geng (Southeast University), Dr. Ran He (Institute of Automation, CAS), Prof. Yugang Jiang (Fudan University), Prof. Liang Lin (Sun Yat-sen University), Prof. Hanli Wang (Tongji University), and Prof. Jun Yu (Hangzhou Dianzi University).

l On August 17, three CCF-CV members received grants from 2016 National Natural Science Foundation of China (Key Program): Prof. Hongbin Zha (Peking University), Dr. Liang Wang (Institute of Automation, CAS), Prof. Jian Yu (Beijing Jiaotong University).

l On August 4, Deputy Director of CCF-CV, Dr. Xilin Chen (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) and CCF-CV member, Dr. Yulan Guo (National University of Defense Technology) received grants from Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Programs.

l On August 4, Prof. Zhouchen Lin from Peking University, member of CCF-CV Standing Committee, received grants from 2016 National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars.

On August 1, Dr. Tieniu Tan, Director of CCF-CV, academician of CAS, was awarded Honorary Doctoral Degree by University of York.

l On July 20, the team led by CCF-CV members, Prof. Lianwen Jin and Assoc. Prof. Xin Zhang from South China University of Technology, won first place in the task of detection and classification of dynamic hand gestures at the Vehicles and Applications (VIVA) Challenge of CVPR 2016.

l On July 14, the team led by Dr. Yu Qiao, CCF-CV member, researcher of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS, won first place in three challenges of CVPR 2016: Large-scale Scene Understanding Challenge (LSUN), ChaLearn Challenge (Track 2: Accessories Classification; Track 3: Gender and Smile Classification), and ActivityNet Challenge.

l On July 3, the team led by CCF-CV member, Prof. Xin Geng from Southeast University, won second place in ChaLearn Challenge Track 1: Apparent Age Estimation at CVPR 2016.

l On June 22, two CCF-CV members, Dr. Liang Wang (Secretary-General), researcher of Institute of Automation, CAS and Prof. Hua Huang from Beijing Institute of Technology, received grants for key projects from National Key Research and Development Program of China.

l On June 3, two CCF-CV members, Dr. Liang Wang (Secretary-General), researcher of Institute of Automation, CAS, and Prof. Hua Huang from Beijing Institute of Technology, received the 14th Science & Technology Award for Chinese Youth.

l On May 18, Dr. Tieniu Tan, Director of CCF-CV, academician of CAS, was elected Corresponding Member of Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

l On January 8, two CCF-CV members, Dr. Xilin Chen (Deputy Director) and Dr. Shiguang Shan (Member of the Standing Committee) from Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, received Second Class Prize of 2015 National Natural Science Award.