GCPR VMV | 2018
DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition, Stuttgart

DAGM Awards
German Pattern Recognition Award 2018
The German Pattern Recognition Award 2018 has been awarded to
Angela Yao
NUSingapore (previously University of Bonn)
The German Pattern Recognition Award 2018 was given to Prof. Angela Yao for her outstanding contributions to the area of hand pose estimation and action recognition.
The German Pattern Recognition Award is a yearly award given out by DAGM since 2011 for internationally visible research work of exceptional quality in the areas of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning. It follows the tradition of the Olympus Pattern Recognition Award (1992-2010). The German Pattern Recognition Award is sponsored by Daimler AG and is associated with a price sum of 5'000 EUR.
DAGM MVTec Dissertation Award 2018
Two DAGM MVTec Dissertation Awards 2018 have been awarded to
Mateusz Malinowski
"Towards Holistic Machines:
From Visual Recognition to Question Answering about Real-world Images"
PhD Thesis, Saarland University, 2017
Supervisor: Mario Fritz, MPI for Informatics
Siyu Tang
"People Detection and Tracking in Crowded Scenes"
PhD Thesis, Saarland University, 2017
Supervisor: Bernt Schiele, MPI for Informatics
The DAGM MVTec Dissertation Award is given out by DAGM to honor an outstanding dissertation in the areas of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning, which has been successfully completed in 2017. The award is sponsored by MVTec Software GmbH and is associated with a price sum of 2'500 EUR.
DAGM Best Master Thesis Award 2018
The DAGM Best Master Thesis Award 2018 has been awarded to the paper
"Sublabel-accurate Convex Relaxation with Total Generalized Variation Regularization"
Michael Strecke, Bastian Goldlücke
GCPR Paper Awards
GCPR 2018 Best Paper Award
The GCPR 2018 Best Paper Award has been awarded to the paper
"End-to-end Learning of Deterministic Decision Trees"
Thomas M. Hehn, Fred Hamprecht
GCPR 2018 Honorable Mentions
Two GCPR 2018 Honorable Mentions have been awarded to the papers
"3D Fluid Flow Estimation with Integrated Particle Reconstruction"
Katrin Lasinger, Christoph Vogel, Thomas Pock, Konrad Schindler
"A randomized gradient-free attack to ReLU networks"
Francesco Croce, Matthias Hein
In the tradition of previous GCPRs, the three best papers of the conference have been honored with an award. A list of previous award winners can be found here.