An almost certainly incomplete collation of prize papers from key computer vision conferences.
Please let me know if I've missed any - it's not easy to find details of all of these.
ICCV Best Paper Awards
- 10th ICCV, 2005, Beijing, China
- Marr Prize
- "Globally Optimal Estimates for Geometric Reconstruction Problems",
Fredrik Kahl, Didier Henrion
- Honorable Mention
- "A Theory of Refractive and Specular Shape by Light-Path Triangulation",
Kiriakos N. Kutulakos, Eron Steger
- "Detecting Irregularities in Images and in Video",
Oren Boiman, Michal Irani
- "On the Spatial Statistics of Optical Flow",
Stefan Roth, Michael J. Black
- 9th ICCV, 2003, Nice, France
- Marr Prize Papers
- Andrew Fitzgibbon, Yonatan Wexler, and Andrew Zisserman,
Image-based Rendering using Image-based Priors
- Zhuowen Tu, Xiangrong Chen, Alan L. Yuille, and Song-Chun Zhu,
Image Parsing: Unifying Segmentation, Detection and Recognition
- Paul Viola, Michael J. Jones, and Daniel Snow,
Detecting Pedestrians using Patterns of Motion and Appearance
- 8th ICCV, 2001, Vancouver, Canada
- Marr Prize Papers
- Kentaro Toyama and Andrew Blake, Probabilistic Tracking in a Metric Space
- Steven Seitz, The Space of All Stereo Images
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
- Yaron Caspi and Michal Irani, Alignment of Non-Overlapping Sequences
- Lior Wolf and Amnon Shashua, On Projection Matrices and their Applications
in Computer Vision
- 7th ICCV, 1999, Kerkyra, Greece
- Marr Prize Papers
- Kiriakos Kutulakos and Steven Seitz, A Theory of Shape by Space Carving
- Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, Jana Kosecka, and Shankar Sastry, Euclidean
Reconstruction and Reprojection up to Subgroups
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
- Michael Black and David Fleet, Probabilistic Detection and Tracking of
Motion Discontinuities
- Ying Nian Wu and Song-Chun Zhu, Equivalence of Texture Modeling and Analysis?
- 6th ICCV, 1998, Bombay, India
- Marr Prize Papers
- Marc Pollefeys, Reinhard Koch, and Luc Van Gool, Self-Calibration and
Metric Reconstruction in spite of Varying and Unknown Internal Camera Parameters
- Phil Torr, Andrew Fitzgibbon, and Andrew Zisserman, The Problem of
Degeneracy in Structure and Motion Recovery from Uncalibrated Image Sequences
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Paper
- Richard Szeliski and Polina Golland, Stereo Matching with Transparency
and Matting
- 5th ICCV, 1995, Cambridge, U.S.A.
- Marr Prize Papers
- Michael Oren and Shree Nayar, A Theory of Specular Surface Geometry
- Toshikazu Wada, Hiroyuki Ukida, and Takashi Matsuyama, Shape from Shading
with Interreflections under a Proximal Light Source: Distortion-Free
Copying of an Unfolded Book
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
- Paul Viola and William Wells III, Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information
- Anders Heyden, Reconstruction from Image Sequences by Means of Relative Depths
- Yalin Xiong and Steven Shafer, Hypergeometric Filters for Optical Flow
and Affine Matching
- 4th ICCV, 1993, Berlin, Germany
- Marr Prize Paper
- Charles A. Rothwell, David A. Forsyth, Andrew Zisserman, and Joseph L. Mundy,
Extracting Projective Structure from Single Perspective Views of 3D Point Sets
- 3rd ICCV, 1990, Osaka, Japan
- Marr Prize Paper
- Shree Nayar, Katsushi Ikeuchi, and Takeo Kanade,
Shape from Interreflections
- 2nd ICCV, 1988, Tampa, U.S.A.
- Marr Prize Paper
- Brian Funt and Jian Ho, Color from Black and White
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
- David Lowe, Organization of Smooth Image Curves at Multiple Scales
- Vishvjit Nalwa, Representing Oriented Piecewise C2 Surfaces
- Alan Yuille and Norberto Grzywacz, A Mathematical Analysis of the Motion
Coherence Theory
- 1st ICCV, 1987, London, United Kingdom
- Marr Prize Paper
- David Heeger, Optical Flow using Spatiotemporal Filters
- Marr Prize Honorable Mention Papers
- John Tsotsos, A `Complexity Level' Analysis of Immediate Vision
- Michael Kass, Andrew Witkin, and Demetri Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active
Contour Models
- Yiannis Aloimonos and Issac Weiss, Active Vision
ECCV Best Paper Awards
- ECCV 1998
- Joint Best papers
- "Active Appearance Models", T.F.Cootes, G.J. Edwards and C.J.Taylor
- ECCV 2000
- Joint Best papers
- "Factorization with Uncertainty", M. Irani and P. Anandan
- "Nonlinear Bayesian Image Modeling", J.Winn and C.Bishop
- "Homography Tensors: On Algebraic Entities That Represent Three Views of Static or Moving Planar Points."
A. Shashua and Lior Wolf
- ECCV 2002
- Joint Best Papers
- "Increasing Space-Time Resolution in Video", Eli Shechtman, Yaron Caspi and Michal Irani
- "3D Statistical Shape Models Using Direct Optimisation of Description Length",
Rhodri Davies, Carole Twining, Tim Cootes, John Waterton and Chris Taylor
- "Multi-camera Scene Reconstruction via Graph Cuts" and "What Energy Functions can be Minimized via Graph Cuts?", Vladimir Kolmogorov and Ramin Zabih
- "A variational Approach to Recovering a Manifold from Sample Points",
Jose Gomes and Aleksandra Mojsilovic
- Best paper in Cognitive Vision
- "Object Recognition as Machine Translation: Learning a Lexicon for a Fixed Image Vocabulary"
Pinar Duygulu, Kobus Barnard, Nando de Freitas and David Forsyth
- ECCV 2006
- Honourable Mention
- "Confocal Stereo", Samuel W. Hasinoff and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
CVPR Best Paper Awards
- CVPR 2003
- Best Paper: Rob Fergus, Pietro Perona, and Andrew Zisserman,
Object Class Recognition by Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning
- Best Paper Honorable Mention: Tomas Werner,
Constraint on Five Points in Two Images
- Best Student Paper: David Tschumperle and Rashid Deriche,
Vector-Valued Image Regularization with PDE's: A Common
Framework for Different Applications