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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p><span
class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">We kindly invite you to join the fifth </span></span><span
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">International Summer School on Brain-inspired
Computer Vision – BICV 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">27 – 31 July 2015 in Shenyang, China</span></b></span><span
class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span>The lectures are given by:<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">prof. Bart ter Haar Romeny</span></i></b><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">, ‘double hundred program’ international expert
professor at Northeastern University in Shenyang, and Eindhoven
University of Technology, Netherlands</span><br>
<b><i><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">dr. George Azzopardi</span></i></b><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">, author of the CORF and COSFIRE contextual models
for V1/V4, University of Malta, and University of Groningen, the
Netherlands. </span><br>
<span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">See the website:</span></span><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"> <a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a
href="http://www.bicv2015.org">www.bicv2015.org</a>. </span><span
class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">The understanding of brain mechanisms is strongly
increasing, through breakthroughs in MRI and optical and
functional imaging techniques. Brain-inspired computer vision
implements these techniques in efficient and robust algorithms
for a wide range of vision applications. They are capable to
deal with context, self-organization and learning, big-data
handling, and robust pattern recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">This will be a tutorial master class, dedicated
to state-of-the-art techniques in brain-inspired computing.
Many applications will be developed in medical image analysis,
robotics, traffic analysis, visual inspection etc. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">The lectures are combined with interactive
computer classes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">The aim of this Summer School is to discuss theory
and in particular applications of recent developments of
computational modelling of the visual cortex of the brain:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Anatomy, physiology and hierarchy of visual
cortex areas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Receptive fields as regularized differential
operators<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Contour detection, robust segmentation, invariant
geometric features<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Feedback mechanisms and edge preserving noise
reduction techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Multi-orientation and COSFIRE/CORF techniques,
enabling powerful contextual analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Object recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">- ·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> - </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">Learning and self-organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">Applications will cover:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Computer-aided diagnosis techniques and
algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Polyp detection in virtual colonoscopy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Breast tumor detection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Object tracking in traffic analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Handwritten character recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">- Retinal image analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p> </o:p><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">Shenyang is a beautiful and historical city in
the Northeast of China. Visits will be organized to the
impressive Neusoft Medical Systems CT manufacturing plant, as
well as to the Ming dynasty Forbidden City in Shenyang.
Shenyang is connected by flight (1.5h) and high-speed train
(4.5h) to Beijing. </span></span><span
class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>This renowned Summer School is an
annual event attended by engineers and scientist from the
fields of computer vision, biomedical engineering, computing
science, electrical engineering, mathematics and automation,
both from academia and industry, as well as vision scientists
and science-oriented MD’s from the Asia-Pacific region, as
well as from other parts of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>The Summer School only charges a low
fee for the local expenditures. </span></span><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">Attendance is limited to 60 participants.<span
class="apple-style-span"> Deadline for registration is 15 July
2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">For questions, please contact: </span></span><a
href="mailto:bicv2015@outlook.com"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">bicv2015@gmx.com</span></a><span
class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>We look forward to seeing you in
Shenyang in July 2015!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>For the organizing committee:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p>Prof. Yan Kang, PhD, Vice-Dean<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"> Mr. Gao Han, local organizer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US">Biomedical Informatics and Engineering School of
Northeastern University</span></span><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""
lang="EN-US"><br>
Shenyang, China.</span></span>
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