"Domain Adaptation Transfer Learning by SVM Subject to a Maximum-Mean-Discrepancy-like Constraint" Area: Applications Best Paper Award:Sarah Ahmed and Tayyaba Azim. "Compression Techniques for Deep Fisher Vectors" Best Student Award:Niels Ole Salscheider, Eike Rehder and Martin Lauer. "Analysis of Regionlets for Pedestrian Detection" 2016 Area: Theory and Methods Best Paper Award: Anne C. van Rossum, Hai Xiang Lin, Johan Dubbeldam and H. Jaap van den Herik. "Nonparametric Bayesian Line Detection - Towards Proper Priors for Robotic Computer Vision " Best Student Award: Roghayeh Soleymani, Eric Granger and Giorgio Fumera. "Classifier Ensembles with Trajectory Under-Sampling for Face Re-Identification " Area: Applications Best Paper Award: Jeonghwan Park, Kang Li and Huiyu Zhou. "k-fold Subsampling based Sequential Backward Feature Elimination " Best Student Award: Julia Richter, Christian Wiede, Enes Dayangac, Markus Heß and Gangolf Hirtz. "Activity Recognition based on High-Level Reasoning - An Experimental Study Evaluating Proximity to Objects and Pose Information " 2015 Area: Theory and Methods Best Paper Award: Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, Yolande Belaïd and Abdel Belaïd. "Stream-based Active Learning in the Presence of Label Noise" Best Student Paper: João Costa and Jaime S. Cardoso. "oAdaBoost" Area: Applications Best Paper Award: Wei Quan, Bogdan Matuszewski and Lik-Kwan Shark. "3-D Shape Matching for Face Analysis and Recognition" Best Student Paper: Julia Richter, Christian Wiede and Gangolf Hirtz. "Mobility Assessment of Demented People Using Pose Estimation and Movement Detection" 2014 Area: Theory and Methods Best Paper Award: Jameson Reed, Mohammad Naeem and Pascal Matsakis. "A First Algorithm to Calculate Force Histograms in the Case of 3D Vector Objects" Best Student Paper: Johannes Herwig, Timm Linder and Josef Pauli. "Removing Motion Blur using Natural Image Statistics" Area: Applications Best Paper Award: Sebastian Kurtek, Chafik Samir and Lemlih Ouchchane. "Statistical Shape Model for Simulation of Realistic Endometrial Tissue" Best Student Paper: Florian Baumann, Jie Lao, Arne Ehlers and Bodo Rosenhahn. "Motion Binary Patterns for Action Recognition" 2013 Area: Theory and Methods Best Paper Award: Barbara Hammer, Andrej Gisbrecht and Alexander Schulz. "Applications of Discriminative Dimensionality Reduction" Best Student Paper: Cristina Garcia-Cardona, Arjuna Flenner and Allon G. Percus. "Multiclass Diffuse Interface Models for Semi-supervised Learning on Graphs" Area: Applications Best Paper Award: Yoshito Otake, Carneal Catherine, Blake Lucas, Gaurav Thawait, John Carrino, Brian Corner, Marina Carboni, Barry DeCristofano, Michale Maffeo, Andrew Merkle and Mehran Armand. "Prediction of Organ Geometry from Demographic and Anthropometric Data based on Supervised Learning Approach using Statistical Shape Atlas" Best Student Paper: James Lotspeich