Awards

Welcome to the awards section of the Visual Computing Research Group, where we proudly present our achievements, including important awards and recognitions for our innovative work in visual computing.

SISAP Indexing Challenge 2024

We participated in the SISAP Indexing Challenge for the first time, competing in Tracks 1 and 3, and won both.

Lifelog Search Challenge 2024

We achieved the Runner-up position and won the Best New Entrant Award at the Life Search Challenge 2024, competing against 21 teams.

Video Browser Showdown 2024

Winner of the 2024 VBS Textual Known Item Search challenge

21st ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Visual Media Production 2024

Runner-up best full paper award at the CVMP 2024

Video Browser Showdown 2023

Consecutive Winner of the 2023 Video Browser Showdown

Video Browser Showdown 2022

Overall winner of the 2022 Video Browser Showdown

Outstanding Associate Editor Award 2021

Sebastian Knorr was awarded as Outstanding Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia 2021

HTW Research Award 2021

The Berlin University of Applied Sciences awards the 2021 Research Award to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai-Uwe Barthel

Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2021

Best paper published at the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference

Digital Avionics Systems Conference 2021

Best of Session & Best of Track Award @ DASC 2021

Outstanding Associate Editor Award 2020

Sebastian Knorr was awarded as Outstanding Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia 2021

ACM Multimedia 2019

Second Place Best Demo Award for our search system wikiview.

Lumiére Award 2018

Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on 3D Immersion / Stereopsia

International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2018

Runner-up full best paper published at the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2018

ACM ICMR 2018

"Best Demonstration" Award at the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2018

Video Browser Showdown 2016

Winner of the 2016 Video Browser Showdown

Multimedia Modelling 2015

MMM 2015 "Best Demonstration" Award

IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting 2012

Scott Held Memorial Award 2012 for the best paper published in the IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting

Germany Land of Ideas 2009

Awarded as “Selected Landmark 2009" by the initiative Germany – Land of Ideas

German Multimedia Business Award 2008

Winner of the German Multimedia Business Award of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in 2008