History of Best Paper Awards in AI, NLP, CV, PR, and ML

Conference List: AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, CVPR, ICCV, and ICML

 

AAAI (Artificial Intelligence)2012Document Summarization Based on Data ReconstructionZhanying He, Zhejiang University; et al.Learning SVM Classiiers with Indeinite KernelsSuicheng Gu & Yuhong Guo, Temple University2011Dynamic Resource Allocation in Conservation PlanningDaniel Golovin, California Institute of Technology; et al.Complexity of and Algorithms for Borda ManipulationJessica Davies, University of Toronto; et al.2010How Incomplete Is Your Semantic Web Reasoner? Systematic Analysis of the Completeness of Query Ans...Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University; et al.A Novel Transition Based Encoding Scheme for Planning as SatisfiabilityRuoyun Huang, Washington University in St. Louis; et al.2008How Good is Almost Perfect?Malte Helmert & Gabriele Röger, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgOptimal False-Name-Proof Voting Rules with Costly VotingLiad Wagman & Vincent Conitzer, Duke University2007PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning AgentJames Allen, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition; et al.Thresholded Rewards: Acting Optimally in Timed, Zero-Sum GamesColin McMillen & Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University2006Model Counting: A New Strategy for Obtaining Good BoundsCarla P. Gomes, Cornell University; et al.Towards an Axiom System for Default LogicGerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University2005The Max K- Armed Bandit: A New Model of Exploration Applied to Search Heuristic SelectionVincent A. Cicirello, Drexel University2004Learning and Inferring Transportation RoutinesLin Liao, University of Washington; et al.

 

2002On Computing All Abductive ExplanationsThomas Eiter, Technische Universität Wien2000The Game of Hex: An Automatic Theorem-Proving Approach to Game ProgrammingVadim V. Anshelevich, Vanshel Consulting1999PROVERB: The Probabilistic CruciverbalistGreg A. Keim, Duke University; et al.1998Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization and Boolean SatisfiabilityJustin A. Boyan & Andrew W. Moore, Carnegie Mellon UniversityAcceleration Methods for Numeric CSPsYahia Lebbah & Olivier Lhomme, Ecole des Mines de NantesThe Interactive Museum Tour-Guide RobotWolfram Burgard, University of Bonn; et al.1997Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Word StatisticsEugene Charniak, Brown UniversityA Practical Algorithm for Finding Optimal TriangulationsKrill Shoikhet & Dan Geiger, TechnionFast Context Switching in Real-Time Propositional ReasoningP. Pandurang Nayak & Brian C. Williams, NASA Ames Research CenterBuilding Concept Representations from Reusable ComponentsPeter Clark, Boeing1996Verification of Knowledge Bases Based on Containment CheckingAlon Y. Levy, AT&T LaboratoriesA Novel Application of Theory Refinement to Student ModelingPaul T. Baffes, SciCompPushing the Envelope: Planning, Propositional Logic, and Stochastic SearchHenry Kautz & Bart Selman, AT&T Laboratories

 

 

IJCAI (Artificial Intelligence)2011Unweighted Coalitional Manipulation Under the Borda Rule is NP-HardNadja Betzler, Technische Universität Berlin; et al.Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation for Monte Carlo Tree SearchChristopher D. Rosin, Parity ComputingOn the Decidability of Connectedness Constraints in 2D and 3D Euclidean SpacesRoman Kontchakov, Birkbeck College London; et al.2009Consequence-Driven Reasoning for Horn SHIQ OntologiesYevgeny Kazakov, University of OxfordLearning Conditional Preference Networks with QueriesFrederic Koriche, Université Montpellier II2007Automated Heart Wall Motion Abnormality Detection From Ultrasound Images using Bayesian NetworksMaleeha Qazi, Siemens Medical Solutions; et al.Building Structure into Local Search for SATDuc Nghia Pham, Griffith University; et al.Performance Analysis of Online Anticipatory Algorithms for Large Multistage Stochastic Integer Pro...Luc Mercier & Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University2005Learning Coordination ClassifiersYuhong Guo, University of Alberta; et al.Solving CheckersJonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta; et al.A Probabilistic Model of Redundancy in Information ExtractionDoug Downey, University of Washington; et al.2003Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale PokerDarse Billings, University of Alberta; et al.Thin Junction Tree Filters for Simultaneous Localization and MappingMark A. Paskin, University of California Berkeley2001Complexity Results for Structure-Based CausalityThomas Eiter & Thomas Lukasiewicz, Vienna University of Technology1999Learning in Natural LanguageDan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignA Distributed Case-Based Reasoning Application for Engineering Sales SupportIan Watson, University of Salford1997Object Identification in a Bayesian ContextTimothy Huang & Stuart Russell, University of California BerkeleyTranslingual Information Retrieval: A Comparative EvaluationJaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University; et al.Applications of the Situation Calculus to Formalizing Control and Strategic Information: The Prolo...Fangzhen Lin, The Hongkong University of Science and Technology

 

 

ACL (Natural Language Processing)2012String Re-writing KernelFan Bu, Tsinghua University; et al.Bayesian Symbol-Refined Tree Substitution Grammars for Syntactic ParsingHiroyuki Shindo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories; et al.2011Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging with Bilingual Graph-Based ProjectionsDipanjan Das, Carnegie Mellon University2010Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal PredicatesMatthew Gerber & Joyce Y. Chai, Michigan State University2009Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to ActionsS.R.K. Branavan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; et al.K-Best A* ParsingAdam Pauls & Dan Klein, University of California BerkeleyConcise Integer Linear Programming Formulations for Dependency ParsingAndré F.T. Martins, Instituto de Telecomunicações; et al.2008Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local FeaturesLiang Huang, University of PennsylvaniaA New String-to-Dependency Machine Translation Algorithm with a Target Dependency Language ModelLibin Shen, BBN Technologies; et al.2007Learning synchronous grammars for semantic parsing with lambda calculusYuk Wah Wong & Raymond J. Mooney, University of Texas at Austin2006Semantic taxonomy induction from heterogenous evidenceRion Snow, Stanford University; et al.2005A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine TranslationDavid Chiang, University of Maryland2004Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged TextDiana McCarthy, University of Sussex; et al.2003Accurate Unlexicalized ParsingDan Klein & Christopher D. Manning, Stanford UniversityTowards a Model of Face-to-Face GroundingYukiko I. Nakano, RISTEX; et al.2002Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine TranslationFranz Josef Och & Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University2001Immediate-Head Parsing for Language ModelsEugene Charniak, Brown UniversityFast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine TranslationUlrich Germann, University of Southern California; et al.

 

 

CVPR (Computer Vision)2012A Simple Prior-free Method for Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion FactorizationYuchao Dai, Northwestern Polytechnical University; et al.2011Real-time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth ImagesJamie Shotton, Microsoft Research; et al.2010Efficient Computation of Robust Low-Rank Matrix Approximations in the Presence of Missing Data usi...Anders Eriksson & Anton va den Hendel, University of Adelaide2009Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel PriorKaiming He, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; et al.2008Global Stereo Reconstruction under Second Order Smoothness PriorsOliver Woodford, University of Oxford; et al.Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow SearchChistoph H. Lampert, Max Planck Institut; et al.2007Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving VehicleBastian Leibe, ETH Zurich; et al.2006Putting Objects in PerspectiveDerek Hoiem, Carnegie Mellon University; et al.2005Real-Time Non-Rigid Surface DetectionJulien Pilet, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; et al.2004Programmable Imaging using a Digital Micromirror ArrayShree K. Nayar, Columbia University; et al.2003Object Class Recognition by Unsupervised Scale-Invariant LearningRob Fergus, University of Oxford; et al.2001Morphable 3D models from videoMatthew Brand, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories2000Real-Time Tracking of Non-Rigid Objects using Mean ShiftDorin Comaniciu, Siemens Corporate Research; et al.

 

 

ICCV (Computer Vision)2011Relative AttributesDevi Parikh, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago2009Discriminative models for multi-class object layoutChaitanya Desai, University of California Irvine; et al.2007Population Shape Regression From Random Design DataBradley Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; et al.2005Globally Optimal Estimates for Geometric Reconstruction ProblemsFredrik Kahl, Lund University2003Detecting Pedestrians using Patterns of Motion and AppearancePaul Viola, Microsoft Research; et al.Image Parsing: Unifying Segmentation, Detection and RecognitionZhuowen Tu, University of California Los Angeles; et al.Image-based Rendering using Image-based PriorsAndrew Fitzgibbon, University of Oxford; et al.2001Probabilistic Tracking with Exemplars in a Metric SpaceKentaro Toyama & Andrew Blake, Microsoft ResearchThe Space of All Stereo ImagesSteven Seitz, University of Washington1999Euclidean Reconstruction and Reprojection up to SubgroupsYi Ma, University of California Berkeley; et al.A Theory of Shape by Space CarvingKiriakos Kutulakos, University of Rochester 1998Self-Calibration and Metric Reconstruction in spite of Varying and Unknown Internal Camera Paramet...Marc Pollefeys, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; et al.The Problem of Degeneracy in Structure and Motion Recovery from Uncalibrated Image SequencesPhil Torr, Microsoft Research; et al.

 

 

ICML (Machine Learning)2012Bayesian Posterior Sampling via Stochastic Gradient Fisher ScoringSungjin Ahn, University of California Irvine; et al.2011Computational Rationalization: The Inverse Equilibrium ProblemKevin Waugh, Carnegie Mellon University; et al.2010Hilbert Space Embeddings of Hidden Markov ModelsLe Song, Carnegie Mellon University; et al.2009Structure preserving embeddingBlake Shaw & Tony Jebara, Columbia University2008SVM Optimization: Inverse Dependence on Training Set SizeShai Shalev-Shwartz & Nathan Srebro, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago2007Information-theoretic metric learningJason V. Davis, University of Texas at Austin; et al.2006Trading convexity for scalabilityRonan Collobert, NEC Labs America; et al.2005A support vector method for multivariate performance measuresThorsten Joachims, Cornell University1999Least-Squares Temporal Difference LearningJustin A. Boyan, NASA Ames Research Center