Prizewinner: Aron Sommer, Jörn Ostermann

For his/her work: Analysis of Ship Deformation using the Backprojection Autofocus of Large Ships with Arbitrary Motion for Synthetic Aperture Radar

Award Sponsor: EUSAR 2021

Prizewinner: Difan Deng and Marius Lindauer et al.

AutoML.org & IOHprofiler, featuring the switching squirrel. After fixing a minor bug, our Switching Squirrel achieved a strong 3rd place at the black-box challenge at #NeurIPS2020 (#AutoML and Hyperparameter Optimization). On the warm-start friendly leaderboard, our Squirrel was even ranked 1st and was awarded an extra prize money. Our Squirrel combines ideas from (i) (simple) meta-learning by recognizing known configuration spaces, (ii) a diverse portfolio of acquisition functions, surrogate models and data transformations for Bayesian Optimization and (iii) differential evolution for a greedy final stage. It is the outcome of a joint collaboration between the groups from AutoML.org (tnt@Leibniz University Hannover and University of Freiburg) and IOHProfiler (Leiden University and Sorbonne University). Competition homepage

Prizewinner: Maren Awiszus, Frederik Schubert and Bodo Rosenhahn

For their work: TOAD-GAN: Coherent Style Level Generation from a Single Example

Award Sponsor: AIIDE 2020

Prizewinner: Felix Kuhnke, Lars Rumberg, Jörn Ostermann

In the FG-2020 Competition: Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) researchers from TNT achieved two strong 2nd places (for action unit and valence arousal estimation) and one 1st place for categorical emotion recognition. The goal of this competition was to extract human emotion from "in-the-wild" videos. Our work was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2020, 16-20 November 2020.

Award Sponsor: https://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/fg-2020-competition-affective-behavior-analysis/

Prizewinner: Hendrik Müller

For his poster Entwicklung und Bau der Solarmessbox Hendrik Müller received the best poster award among all "FWJler" from the Leibniz University Hannover. The work was supervised by Marco Munderloh.