Cordelia Schmid

Cordelia Schmid (born 28 September 1967) is a computer vision researcher, currently head of the THOTH project team at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), Montbonnot, France.

Schmid obtained a degree in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, and her doctorate from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, with a prizewinning thesis on "Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval". for contributions to large-scale image retrieval, classification and object detection. She was a co-winner of the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2006, in 2014, and again in 2016. In 2017, she became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Awards and prizes

2006, 2014, 2016 : Longuet-Higgins Prize 2020 : Milner Award 2023 : Körber European Science Prize 2024 : European Inventor Award