Cordelia Schmid

Cordelia Schmid
Born(1967-09-28)28 September 1967
Mainz, Germany
Alma materINRIA (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsINRIA
ThesisLocal Greyvalue Invariants for Image Matching and Retrieval (1996)
Doctoral advisorRoger Mohr
Notable studentsZeynep Akata
Websitethoth.inrialpes.fr/~schmid/

Cordelia Schmid (born 28 September 1967) is a 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.