Researcher

Cordelia Schmid

In 1996, Schmid received a thesis award for work on local gray-value invariants for image matching and retrieval. She conducted postdoctoral work at Oxford from 1996 to 1997 and joined Inria as a researcher in 1997. Schmid completed her habilitation, From Image Matching to Learning Visual Models, in 2001. Her research interests include image and video description, object and category recognition, and machine learning. Schmid received the 2021 PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award. Her research addresses visual representations.

Works
943
Citations
113,268
h-index
140

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 1996–1997

    Image matching and research career

    In 1996, Schmid received a thesis award for work on local gray-value invariants for image matching and retrieval. She conducted postdoctoral work at Oxford from 1996 to 1997 and joined Inria as a researcher in 1997.

  2. 2001

    Learning visual models

    Schmid completed her habilitation, From Image Matching to Learning Visual Models, in 2001. Her research interests include image and video description, object and category recognition, and machine learning.

  3. 2021

    Research recognition

    Schmid received the 2021 PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award. Her research addresses visual representations.

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  1. Cordelia Schmid — Inria research biography thoth.inrialpes.fr. Checked 13 October 2026.
  2. Computer Vision Awards – The Computer Vision Foundation thecvf.com. Checked 13 October 2026.