Connectionists: [visum2015] Call for participation!

[Ricardo Gamelas Sousa]

Call for Participation

3^rd VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence summer school

Porto, Portugal

2-9 July, 2015

http://www.fe.up.pt/visum/

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We invite everyone with interests in computer vision to attend the 3rd 
*VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence summer school, 
*at**ATMOSFERA M in Porto, Portugal. At visum you can find an expert 
multicultural environment, aiming to foster junior researchers’ 
awareness of computer vision topics, as well as to enhance all 
attendees’ knowledge regarding the state of the art, provided by leading 
international experts on the field. Being an area of great potential in 
industrial applications with a strong increase in the number of 
researchers in these last years, *visum* summer school will be an 
incredible opportunity.


    Important Dates

Application Deadline

	

March 1, 2015

Decision

	

March 8, 2015

Early Registration

	

April 10, 2015

Late Registration

	

May 8, 2015

Summer School

	

July 2-9, 2015


    Visum will comprise three main tracks

1.Fundamental subjects

2.Examples of computer vision applications

3.Industrial session

Each one with extensive practical “hands-on” sessions

*Topics***

Machine Learning*

	

Tae-Kyun Kim

	

Imperial College London

	

UK

Local Features Extraction and Description

	

Jiri Matas

	

Czech Technical University

	

CZ

Document Image Analysis

	

Alicia Fornes

	

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

	

ES

Scene Understanding

	

Martial Hebert

	

CMU

	

USA

Automatic Facial Expression Recognition

	

Michel Valstar

	

University of Nottingham

	

UK

RGB-D Cameras

	

Thomas Whelan

	

Imperial College London

	

UK

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    Applications

Point Clouds 3D*

	

João P. Costeira

	

IST

	

PT

** *Tentative titles


    Industry Track

ASAP54

	

Daniel Heesch

Enermeter

	

Manuel João Ferreira

Philips

	

Jacek Kustra


    Location

visum will take place at ATMOSFERA M, Rua Júlio Dinis, nº 158/160, 
Porto, Portugal.


    Venue

visum will take place in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city, European 
Best Destination 2012 and Lonely Planet’s top 10 for 2013. Here, you can 
find famous baroque style monuments, the worldwide known Port Wine 
cellars, always having the World Heritage Douro River as the background 
of this youthful, active and charming city. visum’s program includes 
social activities.


    Accommodation

*Tattva Design Hostel*

Students will have 10% of discount. The prices include: Buffet 
breakfast, Wi-Fi all over the building, 4 computers in Lounge area, free 
linen, free locks, free City Maps, free Luggage Storage, free Portuguese 
Lessons, free Walking Tours, Happy Hour (exclusive prices for TattvaBar 
for guests).

*Hotel da Música*

All accepted participants will have a special price included in visum’s 
fees. Hotel da Música is a luxurious 4-star property set in a prime 
location in the centre of Porto. Local tourist attractions such as 
Rotunda da Boavista, Casa da Musica and Hospital Militar are not far 
from the hotel. Hotel da Música is equipped with free wifi. For more 
details please follow the link: http://www.hoteldamusica.com/and do not 
forget to check the special conditions at http://www.fe.up.pt/visum/

Please visit our webpage for up to date information: 
http://www.fe.up.pt/visum/.

We are looking forward for your participation!

visum organising committee

Tiago Esteves, INEB, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Kelwin Fernandes, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do 
Porto

Eduardo Marques, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Ana Rebelo, INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto

Ricardo Sousa, INEB, Universidade do Porto

Luís Teixeira, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Follow us on:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/visum/402527539813446

Google+: https://plus.google.com/104076275960053201744/posts

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/visumschool

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