Connectionists: Summer School on Brain-Inspired Computer Vision - BICV 2015

[BICV2015]

Dear colleagues,

We kindly invite you to join the fifth

*International Summer School on Brain-inspired Computer Vision – BICV 2015*

*27 – 31 July 2015 in Shenyang, China*.

The lectures are given by:

*/prof. Bart ter Haar Romeny/*, ‘double hundred program’ international 
expert professor at Northeastern University in Shenyang, and Eindhoven 
University of Technology, Netherlands
*/dr. George Azzopardi/*, author of the CORF and COSFIRE contextual 
models for V1/V4, University of Malta, and University of Groningen, the 
Netherlands.

See the website:www.bicv2015.org <http://www.bicv2015.org>.

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.

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.

The lectures are combined with interactive computer classes.

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:

·- Anatomy, physiology and hierarchy of visual cortex areas

·- Receptive fields as regularized differential operators

·- Contour detection, robust segmentation, invariant geometric features

·- Feedback mechanisms and edge preserving noise reduction techniques

·- Multi-orientation and COSFIRE/CORF techniques, enabling powerful 
contextual analysis

·- Object recognition

- ·      - Learning and self-organization.

Applications will cover:

·- Computer-aided diagnosis techniques and algorithms

·- Polyp detection in virtual colonoscopy

·- Breast tumor detection

·- Object tracking in traffic analysis

·- Handwritten character recognition

·- Retinal image analysis

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.

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.

The Summer School only charges a low fee for the local expenditures. 
Attendance is limited to 60 participants.Deadline for registration is 15 
July 2015.

For questions, please contact: bicv2015 at gmx.com 
<mailto:bicv2015 at outlook.com>.

We look forward to seeing you in Shenyang in July 2015!

For the organizing committee:

Prof. Yan Kang, PhD, Vice-Dean

  Mr. Gao Han, local organizer

Biomedical Informatics and Engineering School of Northeastern University
Shenyang, China.
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