PAVIS 2014 - 5th PAVIS School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing

5th PAVIS School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing:
SCENE UNDERSTANDING AND OBJECT RECOGNITION IN CONTEXT
September 29th ? October 1st, 2014 - Sestri Levante (GE), Italy
www.iit.it/schoolpavis2014.html
The detailed program of the school will be published later on the school website. Please, check it regularly for updated information.
Invited speakers:
Antonio TORRALBA, MIT (USA) and Agata LAPEDRIZA, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain) & MIT (USA)
The goal of this school will be to introduce recent advances in scene recognition, multiclass object detection and object recognition in context. The class will cover global features for scene recognition (gist, deep features, …),
databases for scene understanding (crowdsourcing, image annotation, …), methods for multiclass object detection (short summary of object detection approaches with emphasis on multiclass techniques) and current approaches for object recognition in context and scene understanding.
The theoretical sessions will be complemented with guided experiments in MATLAB.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 1, 2014
Interested applicants are invited to send an expression of interest at pavisschool2014-AT-iit.it asking for participation.
PhD candidates are asked to please attach a Curriculum vitae and a letter from their supervisor in support to the request. Accepted candidates will receive an email containing the instructions for the actual registration and payment.
Notice that, due to the limited number of places, applications are subject to acceptance, and for this reason, early registrations or expressions of interest are encouraged.
The attendees are expected to bring a laptop with a working version of MATLAB since practical experiments will be performed during the school using open source libraries such as VLFeat.
Registration Fees:
150 euro for Ph.D. and undergraduate students
250 euro for post docs, researchers, and other people working in a university or a research institute
300 euro for everybody else
This school, endorsed by GIRPR (Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition), follows a series of intensive courses, targeting PhD students and researchers in the areas of Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Pattern Recognition.
The course is residential, spanning 3 days, so that attendees can install a more productive interaction with the lecturers. It is organized and sponsored by PAVIS (Pattern analysis and Computer Vision) department of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy).
The course will take place in the beautiful Baia del Silenzio in Sestri Levante (http://g.co/maps/xqnyr), located between the city of Genova and the border to Tuscany.
Director: Vittorio Murino
Local Organizers: Matteo Bustreo, Carlos Beltran-Gonzalez, Alessio Del Bue