VIPS 2013 - 10th VIPS Advanced School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing

10th VIPS Advanced School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Verona (Italy)
23-26 September 2013
http://vips.sci.univr.it/html/VIPS10/index.html
This school follows the series of intensive courses, aimed at PhD students and researchers in the areas of Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Pattern Recognition. It is organized by the VIPS (Vision, Image Processing, and Sound) lab of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Verona, together with the Delft University of Technology.
The course is residential, spanning 4 days, so that attendees can install a more productive interaction with the lecturers.
TITLE & LECTURER
Dissimilarity-based Representation for Pattern Recognition
Prof. Robert Duin -- Delft University of Technology
http://rduin.nl/
CONTENTS
The course will cover the dissimilarity-based paradigm for pattern recognition. It offers an alternative for the traditional feature based approaches. Based on user defined dissimilarity measures between raw object representations like images, time signals and spectra vector representations are defined enabling the use of established tools for dimension reduction and classification.
The dissimilarity representation allows the use of non-Euclidean and asymmetric dissimilarity measures. It is thereby a powerful approach for users to apply different ways to express their domain knowledge than by features or by normalizing and sampling the objects to be recognized. The lectures cover discussions of the principles, explanations of the tools and presentations of some applications.
The course will be composed by theoretical as well practical lessons, using Matlab and the PRTOOLS library (see www.prtools.org and www.37steps.com)
The Preliminary Program is available at the school website:
http://vips.sci.univr.it/html/VIPS10/index.html
COURSE FEES
150 euro for PhD and undergraduate students.
200 euro for post doc, researchers, and other people working directly in a university.
250 euro for everybody else.
REGISTRATION
If you are interested, you must send an email to manuele.bicego-AT-univr.it or umberto.castellani-AT-univr.it in which you ask for participation. Please, state your identity and your status (undergraduate, PhD student, other) and wait for the confirmation email. The ultimate deadline is September 1, 2013. Attached to our confirmation email you will find a registration form to print, compile and send together with a proof of the payment (all the instructions will be in the confirmation email)
ACCOMODATIONS
The accomodation costs are not covered by the Course Fee. A list of hotels will be posted on the school website
NEWS/INFORMATION
For any other information, please send an email to manuele.bicego-AT-univr.it or umberto.castellani-AT-univr.it;
For latest news check the school web page:
http://vips.sci.univr.it/html/VIPS10/index.html