Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Award-Winning Papers from the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009 (CVPR 2009)
. Kaiming He, Jian Sun, and Xiaoou Tang, “Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior,” winner of the Best Paper Award (sponsored by Microsoft). . Anat Levin, Yair Weiss, Fredo Durand, and Bill Freeman, “Understanding and evaluating blind deconvolution algorithms,” winner of the Best Paper-Honorable Mention Award (sponsored by Honeywell). . Ce Liu, Jenny Yuen, and Antonio Torralba, “Nonparametric Scene Parsing: Label Transfer via Dense Scene Alignment,” winner of the Best Student Paper Award (sponsored by MERL). . Olivier Duchenne, Francis Bach, In So Kweon, and Jean Ponce, “A Tensor-Based Algorithm for HighOrder Graph Matching,” winner of the Best Student Paper-Honorable Mention Award (sponsored by Hewlett-Packard). CVPR 2009 received 1,464 complete submissions by the 20 November 2008 deadline. We worked with 46 Area Chairs, who are well-respected members of the computer vision community, and 749 reviewers to select 61 papers as Orals and 322 papers as Posters. Twenty of these accepted papers were recommended to the Awards Committee for consideration. The Awards Committee consisted of five senior members of the vision community, three of whom were Area Chairs. The committee members had no conflicts with the candidate papers. The four award papers were selected after three phases of reviewing. These award papers were presented in the only singletrack session of the main conference. The authors of the award-winning papers and honorable mentions were invited to submit an extended version of their paper as a journal submission to TPAMI. The papers were reviewed by expert reviewers in the field, following the usual TPAMI procedure. All of the papers were accepted, in most cases after relatively minor revisions. CVPR 2009 also presented the Longuet-Higgins Prize for fundamental contributions in computer vision that have withstood the test of time. The awards committee that selected the CVPR 2009 awards was also asked to assist in the selection of this award. The prize (sponsored by IBM) was awarded to the following two papers that were published in CVPR 1999: