The paper Continuous Inverse Optimal Control with Locally Optimal Examples was accepted to ICML 2012. Congratulations Sergey!
Four papers were accepted to SIGGRAPH 2012: A Probabilistic Model for Component-Based Shape Synthesis, Optimizing Locomotion Controllers Using Biologically-Based Actuators and Objectives, An Algebraic Model for Parameterized Shape Editing, and Continuous Character Control with Low-Dimensional Embeddings.
Philipp Krähenbühl won the Outstanding Student Paper award at NIPS 2011 for our paper Efficient Inference in Fully Connected CRFs with Gaussian Edge Potentials. This year NIPS received 1,400 submissions, 306 of which were accepted for publication. Three of these were picked for the award. (See the conference book for more details.)