Honoring Excellence: Wu Wenjun Award for Di Huang—Our Former PhD Student—and our Longtime Collaborators
We are pleased to share that Prof. Huang Di, along with Prof. Yunhong Wang and Ass.Prof. Hongyu Yang, has been awarded the First Prize in Natural Science at the 2024 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Awards—the highest national recognition in intelligent science and technology in China. Their research, "Efficient Representation Learning for Complex Visual Tasks", makes important theoretical and practical contributions by overcoming efficiency bottlenecks in visual representation learning across model design, data usage, and cross-domain transfer. The work has already seen impact across key sectors and has been praised for its simplicity, efficiency, and performance. We are especially proud of this achievement because Prof. Huang Di completed his PhD within the Liris lab at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, and it’s been a joy to see him grow into a leading researcher. We also value the long-standing scientific collaboration we’ve had with the group of Prof. Yunhong Wang and Prof. Di Huang—their continued excellence and dedication to advancing AI is so fruitful in our joint research topics. Congratulations to the entire team! This is a remarkable milestone and a strong step forward for the AI research community.
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Best student paper award at 3DV 2024
Ruochen Chen, a PhD student at Ecole Centrale Lyon in the Imagine team, won the Best Student Paper Award at 3DV 2024 in Davos, Switzerland. The paper "GAPS: self-supervised, geometry-aware, physics-based neural garment draping" was co-supervised by Liming Chen and Shaifali Parashar.
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Dimitri won the best paper award at the Earthvision'2022 workshop in conjunction with CVPR'2022, Nouvelle Orléans, June 19th, 2022
Dimitri Gominski, our former PhD student, won the best paper award at the Earthvision workshop 2022 in conjunction with CVPR'2022, with the paper entitled "Cross-dataset learning for generalizable land use scene classification", a paper describing his thesis work under co-supervision of Dr.Dr.Valérie Gouet-Brunet of l'Institut de Géographie Nationale (IGN).
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Nakano "Best Paper Award" at DAS 2022 for Thibault Douzon
On May 25th 2022, Thibault Douzon, a PhD student in the Imagine team in partnership with Esker, was awarded the Nakano "Best Paper" award for his article entitled "Improving Information Extraction in Business Documents with Specific Pre-Training". His work, carried out under the direction of Stefan Duffner, Christophe Garcia, and Jérémy Espinas, was presented at the 15th edition of the international workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) at La Rochelle.
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