Announced: The 2009 Longuet-Higgins Prize for computer vision research

The Longuet-Higgins Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision for 2009 has been awarded to

• Jinggang Huang and David Mumford for "Statistics of Natural Images and Models," CVPR'99 vol. 1, pp. 1541, and
• Chris Stauffer and W.E.L. Grimson for "Adaptive Background Mixture Models for Real-Time Tracking," CVPR'99 vol. 2, pp. 2246.

The award recognizes CVPR papers from ten years ago which have had fundamental impact on computer vision research. The award was established in 2005, and a list of award winners is available at the CVPR 2009 site.