CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award
About
The Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) Doctoral Dissertation Award is given annually to the top thesis in the areas covered by the
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) completed at a Canadian institution.
Eligibility
The recipient must have completed a doctoral degree from a Canadian institution in the calendar year for the award. The thesis topic must be relevant to those at the annual CRV conference -- computer vision, robot vision, robotics, medical imaging, image processing or pattern recognition.
Nomination
Nominations should be made by the thesis supervisor. Nominations must include:
- A recommendation letter from the thesis supervisor providing the rationale for the nomination
- A URL linking to the complete thesis
The deadline for nominations for the 2011 award is March 31, 2012. Nominations should be sent to Greg Mori
mori@cs.sfu.ca. Note that the dissertation must be accepted by the institution by December 31, 2011 to be eligible for the 2011 award.
History
2010
- CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award 2010
Dr. Alex Levinshtein
University of Toronto
Thesis: Low and Mid-level Shape Priors For Image Segmentation
- CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award 2010 Honourable Mention
Dr. Kostantinos G. Derpanis
York University
Thesis: On the Role of Representation in the Analysis of Visual Spacetime
