<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="">Dear All,</span></font><br class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></font><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="">We are pleased to announce </span></font><b style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">The Second International Workshop on Computational Models of the Visual Cortex (CMVC)</b><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class=""> as part of the BICT (Bio-inspired Information and Communication Technologies) conference, which will be held in Hoboken, New Jersey, 15-17 March (</span></font><font color="#4787ff" face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class=""><u class=""><a href="http://bionetics.org/2017/show/home" class="">http://bionetics.org/2017/show/home</a></u></span></font><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="">)</span></font><br class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></font><b style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">Background</b><br class=""><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Much has been advanced since the early works of the Nobel prize winners Hubel and Wiesel about the function of neurons in the primary visual cortex of cats’ brains. That work has been the source of inspiration of abundant neurophysiological studies to unveil the functionality of neurons in different areas of visual cortex. These experiments resulted in large amounts of data, which could then be used to design computational models to behave similarly to certain neurons in visual cortex. The contribution of such models is two-fold. They contribute to the better understanding of how visual information is processed in the brain, and they also contribute for the development of more robust algorithms in computer vision applications.</li></ul></div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></font><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="">The </span></font><b style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">aim of this workshop</b><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class=""> is to bring together recent development of computational modelling of the visual cortex of the brain:</span></font><br class=""><ul style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Single cell modeling.</li><li class="">Hierarchy of visual cortex areas</li><li class="">Feedforward, feedback and inhibitory mechanisms.</li><li class="">The appearance of neuronal properties: sparsity and selectivity.</li><li class="">Circuitry: hierarchical representations and connections between layers.</li><li class="">Selecting where to look: saliency and attention.</li><li class="">Object recognition</li><li class="">Contour detection</li><li class="">Stereo</li><li class="">Learning</li></ul><b style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">Important Dates</b><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class=""> </span></font><br class=""><ul style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><li class="">Full papers due: <b class="">January 15, 2017</b></li><li class="">Authors Notified: <b class="">January 31, 2017</b></li><li class="">Camera-ready due: <b class="">February 10, 2017</b></li></ul></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><b class="">Paper submission</b></div><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="line-height: inherit;" class="">We invite you to submit <b class="">regular papers</b> <b class="">(up to 8 pages each), short papers (up to 4 pages each) or poster/demo papers (up to 2 pages each)</b> in ACM's paper template. Up to two extra pages are allowed for each paper with extra page charges. See </span><a href="http://bionetics.org/2017/show/cf-calls" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 63, 159);" class="">http://bionetics.org/2017/show/cf-calls</a><span style="line-height: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="line-height: inherit;" class="">for more details.</span></li><li class=""><span style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><b class="">Only PDF format is acceptable</b>. Papers must be submitted to EasyChair:</span><span style="line-height: inherit;" class=""> </span><a aiotarget="false" aiotitle="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmvc2017" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmvc2017" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 63, 159);">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmvc2017</a><span style="line-height: inherit;" class="">.</span></li></ul></div></div><div class=""><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="">For more information about the CMVC workshop please visit: </span></font><font class=""><font color="#4787ff" face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class=""><u class=""><a href="http://cmvc.bionetics.org/2017/show/home" class="">http://cmvc.bionetics.org/2017/show/home</a></u></span></font><br class=""></font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></font><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="">Sincerely yours,</span></font><br class=""><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></font><a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/antonio/" target="_blank" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez</a><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="">, PhD</span></font><br class=""><a href="http://www.cs.rug.nl/~george/" target="_blank" style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">George Azzopardi</a><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="">, PhD</span></font><br class=""><div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; line-height: 16px;" class="">Co-chairs of CMVC’2017</div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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