Cardiff PhD student wins poster prize at BMVA Computer Vision Summer School

Magdalena Lazarczyk won first place at the British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition (BMVA) Computer Vision Summer School

Magdalena, who is studying a PhD in Psychology and Computer Science, won first place for her poster, titled ‘Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Study Familiarity Effects on Face Memory.’

For her first place, she was awarded a cash prize of £100, presented at the end of the summer school in front of an audience of her peers.

This year’s event, the 27th BMVA Computer Vision Summer School, was held in Durham University across five days in July.

The event consisted of a week of lectures and lab sessions covering a wide range of topics in Computer Vision, with lecturers from some of the most active research groups in the UK and abroad.

Topics covered at the BMVA Computer Vision Summer School include themes in image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition.

The BMVA Computer Vision Summer School has run since the mid-1990s, and has received financial support from EPSRC from 2009 to 2012.

Speakers at the Summer School are active academic researchers or experienced practitioners from industry.

The 28th BMVA Computer Vision Summer School (CVSS 2025) will be hosted by University of Aberdeen in Scotland.