AWARDS & COMPETITIONS
Scientific excellence and impact.
Our work is consistently recognized by the community.
2024
- Multi-HMR winner of the 3D human reconstruction challenge at RHOBIN, CVPR 2024
- Map-free Visual Relocalization, ECCV 2024 Workshop & Challenge: MASt3R ranked #1 in Single frame challenge track
2023
- Distributional Control of Generative Models (DiSCO toolkit), ACL Outstanding Demo Paper award.
- Winner of two low-resource speech translation challenges at IWSLT 2023
2022
- HRI Best Paper award – DESIGN track
2021
- Best Short Paper Award at ECIR 2021
- Participatory research for low-resourced machine translation: a case study in African languages: Wikimedia Research Award, awarded at The Web Conference 2021
2020
- 1st in Biomedical MT, 1st in Chat MT, 2nd in MT Robustness at WMT2020
- EU Horizon IMPACT award for the Transkribus READ project
- Winner of the Koenderink test of time paper award for 'Improving the Fisher Kernel for Large-Scale Image Classification' given at ECCV 2020
- 2nd in Autonomous Vehicles challenge (ECCV2020)
- 1st in Autonomous Vehicles, 2nd in Local Features and 4th in Handheld Devices: Visual Localization challenge (CVPR 2020)
- 11 Outstanding Reviewer Awards for NeurIPS, CVPR, ACL, 3DV & EMNLP
2019
- 1st in all tracks, Document-level Generation and Translation Task, WNGT.
- 2nd, ICCV HANDS Challenge Task 3 ‘RGB-Based Hand Pose Estimation During Object Manipulation’
- 2nd, IPIN 2019 indoor localization and navigation challenge, on smartphone-based positioning (offsite).
- 1st, CVPR international benchmark in visual localization
- 1st, international machine translation challenge, WMT
2018
- 4 Outstanding Reviewer Awards for NAACL, EMNLP, CVPR & NeurIPS
- 4th in Google Landmarks Challenge (Computer Vision)
- Ph.D. student, Theo Trouillon 2nd prize, Best Ph. D. Thesis in Artificial Intelligence from French Association for Artificial Intelligence (AFIA)
- Agnes Sandor, appointed Honorary Associate at University of Technology, Sydney
2017
- 2nd, Visual Domain Adaptation (VisDA2017) Classification challenge
- 1st in MediaEval 2017 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task challenge
- 2nd in Financial Entity Identification and Information Integration Challenge (FEIII) in Data Science
- Best Full Paper at LAK'17 'Reflective Writing Analytics for Actionable Feedback', Gibson, A., Aitken, A., Sándor, Á., Buckingham Shum, S., Tsingos-Lucas, Ch. and Knight, S.
2016
- Best paper award, ECCV TASK-CV workshop Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Regularized Domain Instance Denoising", Gabriela Csurka, Boris Chidlovskii, Stephane Clinchant and Sofia Michel.
- ECCV 2016 Best reviewer award, Diane Larlus.
- Partnership Award: Cerema rewards Xerox for its Xerox Vehicle Passenger Detection system (VPDS).
- SemEval, Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis evaluation challenge - XRCE 1st on Polarity Detection.
- Monica Beltrametti, Xerox Chief Services Research Officer, VP and Director of Xerox Research Centre Europe nominated by Industrie and Technologies magazine as one of the 50 people in France who make innovation happen.
2015
- Best paper award at ICSOFT-PT on 'Semantic Version Management based on Formal Certification' by Jean-Yves Vion-Dury and Nikolaos Lagos
- Air Liquide European Suppliers Challenge. Xerox was recognised for its innovative service technology Print Awareness Tool (ethnography, data analytics).
- Environmental LEADER award for Xerox Print Awareness Tool and Dynamic Pricing for Parking in Merge® (ethnography, data analytics, machine learning, data analytics, transportation).
- ITS Awards Finalists, Best New Innovative Product, Service or Application: Xerox Vehicle Passenger Detection System (computer vision, transportation).
2014
- International Road Federation named Xerox’s Merge dynamic parking pricing as a winner of the 2014 Global Road Achievement Awards (machine learning, mechanism design, data analytics, transportation).
- Fortune, 2014 Big Data all-stars.
- ImageClef Domain Adaptation Challenge: 1st in international benchmarking challenge (machine learning, computer vision).
- International Parking Institute, Award for Excellence for LA Express Park: Xerox Innovation Group, Pricing Engine Developer (machine learning and optimization).
- International Transportation Forum, Promising Transport Innovation Award for Xerox dynamic pricing
- SemEval, Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis evaluation challenge (natural language processing).
- Best Demo award Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference or XIP Dashboard Visual Analytics of Academic Writing
- ECCV Outstanding Reviewer Award, Florent Perronnin.
2013
- International Fine-grained image classification challenge Comp with INRIA (computer vision)
- MIT 50 most disruptive companies - LA parking (machine learning, mechanism design, data analytics, transportation)
- Best paper award at ACM ICTIR'13 'A Theoretical Analysis of Pseudo Relevance Feedback Model' by Stéphane Clinchant and Eric Gaussier
2012
- 2012 European META award for XFST (natural language processing)
2011
- ACM SIGHI 'Best of CSCW' award (paper)
- Premier Innovation award for FactSpotter detecting Hospital Acquired Infections (natural language processing)
- Imagenet benchmarking challenge in image classification - ILSVRC11 (computer vision)
- Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for software - Next Generation Help Desk (ethnography, user experience)
2010
- Winner of TSIA (Technology Services Industry Association) for Maintenance Assistance on the device. (ethnography, natural language processing)
- CategoriX 1st in LegalTREC benchmark (natural language processing, text categorization)
- Hybrid categorizer 1st in image annotation, wikipedia image retrieval & medical image retrieval (computer vision, natural language processing)
- Nomination for best paper award at SIGIR'10 for Information Based Model for ad hoc information retrieval, by Stéphane Clinchant and Eric Gaussier (natural language processing)
2009
- 1st in ImageCLEF Photoretrieval task for the third consecutive year (computer vision, natural language processing)
2008
- Winner of 2 tracks of international ImageCLEF Evaluation (computer vision and natural language processing)
- Winner PASCAL Image Segmentation Competition (computer vision)
2005
- Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation awards Image and Text categorization (computer vision and natural language processing)
- 1st in EASY evaluation of parsing technologies Xerox Incremental Parser (natural language processing)
2004
- Basex excellence award for CategoriX (natural language processing)
- Innovate in France Award
2002
- 1st in TREC filtering and routing track for CategoriX (natural language processing)