Cordelia Schmid | |
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Born | Mainz, Germany | 28 September 1967
Alma mater | INRIA (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | INRIA |
Thesis | Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Roger Mohr |
Notable students | Zeynep Akata |
Website | thoth |
Cordelia Schmid (born 28 September 1967) [1] is a computer vision researcher, currently head of the THOTH project team at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), Montbonnot, France. [2]
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". [2]
Schmid was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 [3] 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. [4] In 2017, she became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. [5]