Section: Dissemination

Inria/ENS Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School 2013

http://www.di.ens.fr/willow/events/cvml2013

I. Laptev, J. Ponce and J. Sivic (together with C. Schmid, Inria Grenoble) co-organized a one week summer school on Visual Recognition and Machine Learning. The summer school, hosted by ENS, attracted 177 participants from 34 countries (28% France / 32% Europe / 40% other countries (including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey and USA)), and included Master students, PhD students as well as Post-docs and industrial participants. The summer school provided an overview of the state of the art in visual recognition and machine learning. Lectures were given by 14 speakers (5 USA, 1 UK, 1 Austria, 1 Germany, 6 France), which included top international experts in the area of visual recognition (J. Malik, UC Berkeley, USA; M. Hebert, CMU, USA; K. Grauman, UTexas, USA, A. Oliva, MIT, USA; Y. LeCun, NYU, USA; . Zisserman, Oxford, UK / WILLOW). Lectures were complemented by practical sessions to provide participants with hands-on experience with the discussed material. In addition, a poster session was organized for participants to present their current research.