Cordelia Schmid

Prof. Cordelia Schmid is a Research Director at INRIA and holds a joint appointment with Google Research since 2018. She has made groundbreaking contributions to computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, focusing on image/video analysis, action recognition, and autonomous systems.

• PhD in Computer Science from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (1996)
• Habilitation from INPG (2001)
• Postdoctoral research at Oxford University (1996–1997)

Research Trends: Her work spans generating weakly annotated/synthetic training data, temporal modeling in videos for human-object interactions, behavior prediction for self-driving cars, and long-horizon robotic manipulation via hierarchical reinforcement learning. Recent publications (not listed here) would reflect these cutting-edge themes.

Scientific Leadership & Honors:

• Editor-in-Chief of IJCV (2013–2018)
• General Chair of CVPR (2015), ECCV (2020), ICCV (2023)
• Triple Longuet-Higgins Prize winner
• ERC Advanced Grant recipient
• Humboldt Research Award and Royal Society Milner Award

Academic Roles: She leads the THOTH project-team at INRIA Rhône-Alpes, contributing to over 100 technical publications. Her affiliations include editorial roles and leadership in major computer vision conferences.