The Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) Challenge Series Team awarded the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize

The PAMI Mark Everingham Prize is awarded this year to the Fine Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) Challenge Series team for contributions to the Computer Vision community. This Prize is to commemorate Mark Everingham and to encourage others to follow in his footsteps by acting to further progress in the computer vision community as a whole.
Led by UCPH Professor and Director of the Pioneer Centre for AI, Serge Belongie, and Caltech Professor Pietro Perona, the FGVC team has organized a series of Fine-Grained Visual Categorization workshops, datasets and challenges that built the momentum behind such applications as Merlin Bird ID and iNaturalist.

 The team includes Oisin Mac Aodha (U Edinburgh), Sara Beery (MIT), Christine Kaeser-Chen (Google DeepMind), Ryan Farrell (BYU), Subhransu Maji (U Mass Amherst), Elijah Cole (GenBio AI), Lukás Picek U West Bohemia), Nico Lang (UCPH DIKU), Grant Van Horn (U Mass Amherst), and collaborators.

 The prize follows last year’s Stibitz-Wilson award for Belongie and Perona’s impact in the biodiversity & citizen science community via the Visipedia Project, while the Everingham prize recognizes the impact of the consortium's work in the Computer Vision community. 

Together, the two awards highlight different dimensions of the impact of their long-standing research collaboration. While the Stibitz-Wilson Award recognised the contribution of Visipedia to biodiversity, citizen science and human-centred AI, the Everingham Prize recognises the impact of the wider FGVC consortium’s work within the computer vision research community.

The prize was announced on 10 September 2026 at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in Mälmo.