Connectionists: Vision Summer School in Chendu, China, August 7-14, 2011

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*Call for Participation*

USA-Sino Summer School in Vision, Learning and Pattern Recognition:

Large-scale Media Computing
(VLPR2011<http://www.uestcrobot.net/vlpr2011/organization.htm>
)

Join us and experience a unique opportunity for scientific and cultural
exchange.  The theme of Summer
VLPR2011<http://www.uestcrobot.net/vlpr2011/organization.htm> School
is “Large-scale Media Computing”. This summer school brings together a team
of leading American researchers from Universities and Industrial Corporate
Labs in computer vision, multimedia, machine learning, and pattern
recognition.  In addition, a number of invited talks provide a good glimpse
of the emerging interaction and integration of academic research and
industry practice.

*Location*:  Chengdu, P.R. China;     *Time*: August 7-14, 2011.

*How to Apply*?

We invite all qualified master and Ph.D. students in the fields of computer
vision, multimedia, machine learning and pattern recognition, etc.  *US
Citizenships or Permanent Residency are required to apply*.  The qualified
students will be sponsored the related expenses (the round-trip airfare up
to a cap, hotel, lunch, banquet and reception, and visa fee) to attend VLPR
2011.

To apply, please email your CV and a letter of reference to
qitian at cs.utsa.edu; by June 15, 2011 or as soon as the positions are filled.


Learn more about our speakers and school program at
http://www.uestcrobot.net/vlpr2011

List of Speakers and Invited Talks (in alphabetic order):

·         *Alex Hauptmann*(Senior Systems Scientist, Carnegie Mellon
University)

·         *Ramesh Jain*(Professor, University of California, Invine)

·         *Yanxi Liu* (Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University)

·         *Jiebo Luo*(Senior Principal Scientist, Kodak Research
Laboratories in Rochester, NY )

·         *Silvio Savarese* (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor)

·         *Maburak Shah*(Professor, University of Central Florida),

·         *John Smith*(Senior Manager, IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research
Center, Hawthorne, NY),

·         *Stefano Soatto*(Professor, University of California, Los Angeles)

*VLPR 2011 Organizing Committee*

Yi Ma, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, China (Co-Director)

Qi Tian, Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
(Co-Director)

Shulin Tian, Professor and Dean of School of Automation, University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China  (Co-Director)

Fei-Fei Li, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, USA
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