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The PAMI Mark Everingham Prize For Contributions to the Computer Vision Community was awarded at ICCV 2025 to "The SMPL body model team (Michael J. Black, Naureen Mahmood, Matthew Loper, Javier Romero, Gerard Pons-Moll) for a family of foundation models that have enabled body pose research."
The PAMI Everingham Prize is given by the computer vision community "to a researcher, or a team of researchers, who have made a selfless contribution of significant benefit to other members of the computer vision community. "
This award recognizes the team behind the SMPL 3D human body model, which has had widespread influence in academia and industry.
While the award is given to the authors of the original SMPL paper, the technology has become widespread through the efforts of many more people. In particular, many members of the Perceiving Systems Department have contributed to software and data that builds upon SMPL. By making this software and data available to the research community, they have made it possible for SMPL to be widely used. Moreover, it is the creative energy of the larger community of users who have embraced SMPL that has driven its success. This prize really should go to the hundreds or thousands of people who have built SMPL into a de facto standard for 3D human modeling.
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