Our Awards and Achievements

September 2022 - MPL receives a new grant from the Science and Technology for Social Development Program of the 'Shanghai Innovation in Science and Technology' Natural Science Foundation.


September 2022 - MPL receives a new grant from NSFC. Prof Kneip wins the International Excellent Young Scientist award.

This grant will promote our research on spatial AI.


February 2022 - MPL receives a new grant from the General Program of the 'Shanghai Innovation in Science and Technology' Natural Science Foundation

This grant will promote our research on event based vision.


January 2022 - Award for research excellence at SIST

The School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) of ShanghaiTech University gives one of their annual awards for research excellence to Professor Kneip.


August 2019 - MPL receives a grant from the International Young Scientist Program from the National Science Foundation of China


May 2019 - MPL receives a grant from the General Program of the 'Shanghai Innovation in Science and Technology' Natural Science Foundation


November 2018 - 1st prize at the IEEE Australia Postgraduate Student Paper Competition.


December 2017 - Marr Prize Honourable Mention

Our ICCV'17 contribution "Globally-Optimal Inlier Set Maximisation for Simultaneous Camera Pose and Feature Correspondence" receives the Marr Prize Honourable Mention! The Marr Prize is the most prestigious best paper award in the computer vision community.


July 2017 - Best Student Paper Award

Our work "On Scale Initialization in Non-Overlapping Multi-Perspective Visual Odometry" receives the best student paper award at ICVS'17. Congratulations to Yifu on this fine achievement!


2015 - Laurent Kneip wins an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council


2013 - Best computer-vision paper award finalist at ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany


2012 - Best video paper finalist at IROS 2012, Vila Moura, Portugal