Caffe team wins Everingham Prize at ICCV 2017

The Caffe team researchers (’13 alumnus and current GSR Yangqing Jia, grad student Evan Shelhamer,  ’17 alumnus Jeff Donahue, ’15 alumnus Sergey Karayev, grad student Jonathan Long, former postdocs Ross Girshick and Sergio Guadarrama, and Prof. in Residence Trevor Darrell) have been awarded the Mark Everingham Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017.  Caffe is a deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind,  developed by Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and by community contributors. The Everingham Prize is bestowed by the IEEE technical committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and is given to individuals or groups “who have made a selfless contribution of significant benefit to other members of the computer vision community.”  The Caffe team won “for providing an open-source deep learning framework that enabled the community to use, train and share deep convolutional neural networks. Caffe has had a huge impact, both academic and commercial. “