Song-Chun Zhu, UCLA professor of statistics and computer science, and Alan Yuille, UCLA professor of statistics and co-director of the UCLA Center for Cognition, Vision, and Learning, have won the 2013 PAMI Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award. The award was presented by the IEEE PAMI Technique Committee at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) held in Sydney, Australia, in December 2013.
 
The award is presented to authors of a paper that is frequently cited by other papers in computer vision, judged to have made a powerful impact to the field and must have been published by ICCV more than a decade ago.
 
Zhu and Yuille were honored for their paper entitled, "Region Competition: Unifying Snakes, Region Growing, and Bayes / MDL for Multiband Image Segmentation", which they co-authored in 1996. The paper developed a new algorithm called "Region Competition" which first linked statistical models of images to partial differential equations for image segmentation.
 
To read the winning paper, visit UCLA Statistics.
Photo: Song-Chun Zhu (left) and Alan Yuille.