Biography:Cordelia Schmid

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Cordelia Schmid
Born(1967-09-28)28 September 1967
Mainz, Germany
Alma materINRIA (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsINRIA
ThesisLocal Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval (1996)
Doctoral advisorRoger Mohr
Notable studentsZeynep Akata
Websitethoth.inrialpes.fr/~schmid/

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]

Awards and prizes

  • 2006, 2014, 2016 : Longuet-Higgins Prize[6]
  • 2020 : Milner Award[7]
  • 2023: Körber European Science Prize[8]
  • 2024 : European Inventor Award[9]

References

  1. "Cordelia Schmid". munzinger.de (in German). Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Cordelia Schmid". http://thoth.inrialpes.fr/~schmid/. 
  3. "2012 elevated fellow". https://www.ieee.org/documents/fellows_class_2012.pdf. 
  4. "Multi award-winning computer scientist, Dr. Cordelia Schmid, to honour women in computing research and share cutting edge insights into the future of artificial intelligence". 15 April 2015. http://www.womanthology.co.uk/multi-award-winning-computer-scientist-dr-cordelia-schmid-to-honour-women-in-computing-research-and-share-cutting-edge-insights-into-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence/. 
  5. Cordelia Schmid, Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, https://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/list-of-members/list-of-members/member/Member/show/cordelia-schmid/, retrieved 5 January 2019 
  6. "Longuet-Higgins Prize - IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence". https://tc.computer.org/tcpami/awards/longuet-higgins-prize/. 
  7. "The Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture | Royal Society". 30 November 2023. https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/milner-award/. 
  8. "All prizewinners" (in en). https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/koerber-european-science-prize/all-prizewinners/. 
  9. "DPMA | European Inventor Award 2024" (in en). https://www.dpma.de/english/our_office/about_us/inventor_and_innovation_awards/eia2024/index.html.