Conference Websites

Award winning papers in the past MVAs

• Most Influential Paper over the Decade (MIPOD) Award (1998-)
• Best Paper Award (2011-)
• Best Practical Paper Award (2011-)
• Best Poster Award (2011-)

Invited talks

MVA1996

• Pertubation Models: A New Approach to Improving Handwriting Recognition

  Thien M. Ha, Horst Bunke and Guido Kaufmann (Univ. of Berne, Switzerland)

• Using Computer Vision in Real Applications: Two Success Stories

  Gérard Medioni (Univ. of Southern California, USA)

• Architectures for the Hough Transform: A Survey

  Marco Ferretti and Maria Grazia Albanesi (Univ. of Pavia, Italy)

MVA1998

• Machine Vision for Intelligent Robots

  Prof. Rainer Bischoff and Volker Graefe (Univ. of Pavia, Italy)

• Recent Trend of Development and Application in Range Imaging

  Prof. Seiji Inokuchi (Osaka University, Japan)

• 3D Model Acquisition from Uncalibrated Images

  Dr. Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge, UK)

MVA2000

• Evolution of Real-Time Image Processing in Practical Applications

  Dr. Masakazu Ejiri (Hitachi, Japan)

• Computer Vision Techniques for Content -Based Image Retrieval from Large Medical Databases

  Prof. Avi Kak (Purdue University, USA)

• Machine Vision for Medicine of 21st Century

  Prof. Nicholas Ayache (INRIA, France)

MVA2002

• Computer Vision for Wearable Computing

  Prof. Bernt Schiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

• Navigation Diagnosis and Augmented Endoscopy - Cooperative Use of Real and Virtual Human Body

  Prof. Jun-ichiro Toriwaki (Nagoya University, Japan)

• Current Machine Vision Research at the NLPR

  Prof. Tieniu Tan (Chinese Academy of Scienc, China)

MVA2005

• CHIL - Computers in the Human Interaction Loop

  Prof. Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Cognitive Development in a Humanoid Robot

  Prof. Giulio Sandini (University of Genova, Italy)

• Towards Flexible and Intelligent Vision Systems: -From Thresholding to CHLAC

  Prof. Nobuyuki Otsu (AIST / University of Tokyo, Japan)

MVA2007

• Computational Cameras

  Prof. Shree K. Nayar (Columbia University, USA)

• Video Mosaicing for Non-Chronological Time Edit- ing

  Prof. Shmuel Peleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

• Development of Laparoscopic Surgery Training System Using VR Technology

  Prof. Yoichi Miyake (Chiba University, Japan)

MVA2009

• Large Scale Image Search

  Dr. Cordelia Schmid (INRIA, France)

• Focal Stack Photography: High-Performance Photography with a Conventional Camera

  Prof. Kyros Kutulakos (University of Toronto, Canada)

• Integration of Earth Observation Data: Challenge of GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)

  Prof. Ryosuke Shibasaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

MVA2011

• Behavior Imaging: Using Computer Vision to Study Autism

  Prof. James M. Rehg (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

• Model Guided Multimodal Imaging and Visualization for Computer Assisted Interventions

  Prof. Nassir Navab (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

• Stereo Vision System on Automobile for Collision Avoidance

  Prof. Keiji Saneyoshi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

MVA2013

• Towards Open-Universe Image Parsing with Broad Coverage

  Prof. Svetlana Lazebnik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• 3D Vision Sensing Technologies in Factory Automation and Robotics

  Dr. Mattias Johannesson (SICK, Germany)

• Development of Ultrahigh-sensitivity HARP Pickup Tube and Its Applications

  Dr. Kenkichi Tanioka (NHK STRL, Japan)

MVA2015

• 3D Reconstruction from Photographs - Principles and Applications

  Prof. Tomas Pajdla (Czech Technical University, Prague)

• Color Image processing from the physical, psychological and biological viewpoints

  Prof. Johji Tajima (Nagoya City University, Japan)

• Research Opportunities in Creating Medical Images

  Professor Ramin Zabih (Cornell University, USA)

MVA2017

• Direct Methods for 3D Reconstruction & Visual SLAM

  Prof. Daniel Cremers (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

• Connecting the Dots: Embodied Visual Perception from First-person Cameras

  Prof. Jianbo Shi (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

• Image Recognition for Driver Assistance in Intelligent Vehicles

  Prof. Hiroshi Murase (Nagoya University, Japan)

MVA2019

• From SLAM to Spatial AI

  Prof. Andrew Davison (Imperial College London, UK)

• AI Embedded in the Real World

  Hideki Asoh (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)

• Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving: The Ingredients for a Safe and Scalable System

  Prof. Amnon Shashua (Mobileye, Intel Corp., and the Hebrew University, Israel)

MVA2021

• Self-supervision for Learning from the Bottom Up

  Prof. Alexei A. Efros (UC Berkeley, USA)

• How Technology Can Help the Visually Impaired Navigate the World

  Dr. Chieko Asakawa (IBM, Japan)

• Leaning to Enhance Images

  Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California at Merced, USA)

MVA2023

• Opportunities in Egocentric Video Understanding

  Prof. Dima Damen (University of Bristol, UK)

• On the 2nd AI Wave: Toward Interpretable, Reliable, and Sustainable AI

  Prof. CC Jay Kuo (University of Southern California, USA)

• How AI Transforms the Medical Field: A Focus on Medical Imaging

  Prof. Kensaku Mori (Nagoya University, Japan)