Her work is praised for innovation
Ten years ago, KTH researcher Hedvig Kjellström wrote a scientific article together with Michal Black and David Fleet which they then submitted to ECCV, one of three major conferences in computer vision. And now, ten years later, she and her colleagues are being rewarded for the same article as it proved to be very innovative.
“We are receiving the Koenderink Prize in 2010 for our work which has stood the test of time and is still regarded as innovative,” says Hedvig Kjellström, assistant professor of computer science at the School of Computing at KTH.
She adds that in computer science, a subject to which computer vision belongs, the articles used at conferences are just as important as those sent to scientific journals. This is because the subject areas progress so quickly.
The Hedvig Kjellström article “Stochastic Tracking of 3D Human Figures Using 2D Image Motion” that she produced together with her colleagues is the one receiving all the attention.
“It is about the reconstruction of human motion in 3D from a video in 2D. In 2-D video for example, information about depth is lacking, but this and other uncertainties can be replaced with general information about how people move. Such information can be produced, and the work describes how it is possible to guess the most likely movement based on this information,” says Hedvig Kjellström.
For more information, contact Hedvig Kjellström at 08-790 69 06 or hedvig@csc.kth.se.
Peter Larsson