Cordelia Schmid

Cordelia Schmid is computer vision researcher, currently Head of the THOTH project team at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), Montbonnot, France.

Schmid obtained a degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, and her doctorate from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, with a prizewinning thesis on "Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval".

Schmid was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for contributions to large-scale image retrieval, classification and object detection. She was a co-winner of the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2006, in 2014, and again in 2016. In 2017, she became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She won the 2020 Milner Award.