Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

INRIA International Partners

• NICTA: In 2010 we initiated a collaboration with the Statistical Machine Learning group at NICTA, Canberra, Australia, i.e., Tiberio Caetano visited LEAR for 4 months. This year PhD student Thomas Mensink spent three months at NICTA, March '11 – June '11, and Jakob Verbeek spent 3 weeks at NICTA in May '11. Results of the collaboration were presented in [16] at the NIPS '11 workshop on Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning.

• UC Berkeley: Z. Harchaoui visited UC Berkeley twice in 2011, resp. in January and September 2011. This led to a research collaboration with N. El Karoui on the theoretical analysis of learning algorithms in high-dimensional settings and the influence of the marginal density of the examples on the generalization performance. This collaboration will continue in 2012.

• ETH Zürich: We collaborate with V. Ferrari, junior professor at ETH Zürich since his postdoctoral fellowship with the LEAR team in 2006. V. Ferrari and C. Schmid are currently co-supervising a PhD student (A. Prest) on the subject of automatic learning of objects in images and videos [7] , [26] . A. Prest is bi-localized between ETH Zürich and INRIA Grenoble.

Visits of International Scientists

Internship

• Luca Scarnato, PhD student at Bern University, Switzerland, visited LEAR from July '11 until August '11. He worked on combining color and texture features for image categorization with Jakob Verbeek.

• Bo Geng, PhD student at Peking University, China, is visiting LEAR from November '11 until April '12. He works on attribute-based image retrieval.