Connectionists: CFP: CVPR Workshop on Language and Vision

[Siddharth N]

2nd Call for Papers (CFP)

DEADLINE CORRECTION FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Friday April 26th, 2019 anywhere on earth (AoE).

> Fourth Workshop on Language and Vision @CVPR19
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>  http://languageandvision.com/
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>  June 16, 2019 @ Long Beach, CA
>  in conjunction with CVPR 2019
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> CALL FOR PAPERS:
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> The interaction between language and vision, despite seeing traction
> as of late, is still largely unexplored. This is a particularly
> relevant topic to the vision community because humans routinely
> perform tasks which involve both modalities. We do so largely without
> even noticing. Every time you ask for an object, ask someone to
> imagine a scene, or describe what you're seeing, you're performing a
> task which bridges a linguistic and a visual representation. The
> importance of vision-language interaction can also be seen by the
> numerous approaches that often cross domains, such as the popularity
> of image grammars. More concretely, we've recently seen a renewed
> interest in one-shot learning for object and event models. Humans go
> further than this using our linguistic abilities; we perform zero-shot
> learning without seeing a single example. You can recognize a picture
> of a zebra after hearing the description "horse-like animal with black
> and white stripes" without ever having seen one.
>
> Furthermore, integrating language with vision brings with it the
> possibility of expanding the horizons and tasks of the vision
> community. We have seen significant growth in image and video-to-text
> tasks but many other potential applications of such integration –
> answering questions, dialog systems, and grounded language acquisition
> – remain largely unexplored. Going beyond such novel tasks, language
> can make a deeper contribution to vision: it provides a prism through
> which to understand the world. A major difference between human and
> machine vision is that humans form a coherent and global understanding
> of a scene. This process is facilitated by our ability to affect our
> perception with high-level knowledge which provides resilience in the
> face of errors from low-level perception. It also provides a framework
> through which one can learn about the world: language can be used to
> describe many phenomena succinctly thereby helping filter out
> irrelevant details.
>
> Topics covered (non-exhaustive):
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> - language as a mechanism to structure and reason about visual perception,
> - language as a learning bias to aid vision in both machines and humans,
> - novel tasks which combine language and vision,
> - dialogue as means of sharing knowledge about visual perception,
> - stories as means of abstraction,
> - transfer learning across language and vision,
> - understanding the relationship between language and vision in humans,
> - how computer vision can explain the neural underpinning of language and vision,
> - reasoning visually about language problems, and
> - joint video and language alignment and parsing
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> Call for papers
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>
> We are calling for submissions to be showcased at a poster session, with
> selected papers given spotlights.
> In the spirit of fostering a freer exchange of ideas, we welcome both novel
> and previously-published work. Submissions can hence be:
>  a. 2-4 page extended abstracts (excluding references), or
>  b. relevant full submissions (from current or recent conferences) for
>     which the authors will have the option of providing an arXiv link.
>
> Submissions are *not* archival, and will not be included in the
> Proceedings of CVPR 2019, although links to papers can be provided for
> display on the workshop website.
>
> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31st 2019 anywhere on earth (AoE).
>
> Organized by:
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> N. Siddharth, University of Oxford
> Andrei Barbu, MIT
> Dan Gutfreund, IBM
> Philip Torr, University of Oxford