Since 2011, the DAGM has annually granted the German Pattern Recognition Award for outstanding, internationally visible research in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning. The German Pattern Recognition Award continues the tradition of the Olympus Award for Pattern Recognition (1992-2010).

Its aim is to promote outstanding young scientists in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning. Internationally visible researchers in these fields who have not yet passed the age of 35 in the year of the awards presentation can be proposed. An association of the candidates with the DAGM is desirable. The German Pattern Recognition Award is currently donated by Daimler AG and consists of a financial award of 5000 euros.

Award Winners of the German Pattern Recognition Award  2024

In 2024, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Prof. Dr. Angela Dai for her outstanding scientific contributions in the area of

3D Scene Reconstruction and Semantic Scene Understanding

Pictured left to right: Prof. Dr. Stefan Roth (Vice Chairman of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM), Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele (Chairman of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM, Prof. Dr. Angela Dai, Stefan Gehrig (Mercedes-Benz AG)

The German Pattern Recognition Award was also granted to Prof. Dr. Justus Thies for his outstanding scientific contributions in the area of

Real-Time Face Tracking, Facial Reenactment, AI-driven Rendering as well as Digital Multi-Media Forensics

In 2022, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Dr. Dengxin Dai for his outstanding scientific contributions in the area of

Scalable and Robust Visual Perception across Domains, Weather and Lighting Conditions, and Sensor Modalities

In 2021, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Prof. Dr. Zeynep Akata for her outstanding scientific contributions in the area of

Multimodal Deep Learning, Combing Vision and Language for Low-Shot Learning and for Explainable Machine Learning

In 2020, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Prof. Dr. Matthias Nießner for his pioneering research on

Tracking, Reconstructing and Visualizing Photorealistic 3D Face Models from Video with Machine Learning and AI

In 2019, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll  for his scientific contributions in the area of

Capturing and Modeling People from Images and 3D Scans

In 2018, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Prof. Angela Yao for her outstanding contributions to the areas of

Hand Pose Estimation and Action Recognition

In 2017, the German Pattern  Recognition Award was granted to Dr. Andreas Geiger for research in

Computer Vision for Understanding Traffic Scenes

In 2016, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Dr. Sebastian Nowozin for his fundamental work on

Inference in Structured Probabilistic Models with Applications to Computer Vision

 

Pictured left to right: Dr. Uwe Franke (Daimler AG), Dr. Sebastian Nowozin, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Koch (Chairman of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM)

Sebastian Nowozin's work on structured prediction for computer vision, in particular his work on structured prediction models, has shown that rich expressive models for pattern recognition problems can still be computationally efficient and can advance the state of the art in important statistical imaging applications such as image denoising, deblurring, and demosaicing. His research findings have also had a direct impact on Microsoft products that use computer vision and machine learning.

In 2015, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Prof. Stefanie Jegelka for her fundamental work on

Submodular Functions in Machine Learning and Computer Vision

In 2014, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall for his fundamental work on

Interacting Particle Systems and Random Forests with Applications to Human Pose Estimation, Object Detection, and Action Recognition

In 2013, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Dr. Thomas Pock for his fundamental work on

Variational and Optimization Methods for Image Processing and Computer Vision

Pictured left to right: Prof. Joachim M. Buhmann (Chairman of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM), Dr. Thomas Pock, Dr. Uwe Franke (Daimler AG)

In 2012, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to two outstanding researchers.

Pictured left to right:  Dr. Uwe Franke (Daimler AG), Dr. Christian Theobalt, Prof. Andreas Krause,  Prof. Joachim M. Buhmann (Chairman of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM)

The German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Prof. Dr. Andreas Krause for his fundamental work on

Submodular Optimization in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

The German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Dr. Christian Theobalt for his fundamental work on

3D Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes

In 2011, the German Pattern Recognition Award was granted to Prof. Dr. Matthias Hein for his fundamental work on

Graph-Based Learning Methods, in Particular Manifold Learning and Nonlinear Eigenproblems