Section: Dissemination

Inria Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School 2012

http://www.di.ens.fr/willow/events/cvml2012

I. Laptev 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 Inria Grenoble, attracted 181 participants from 34 countries (22% France / 48% Europe / 30% other countries (including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, 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 (6 USA, 1 UK, 1 Austria, 6 Inria / ENS), which included top international experts in the area of visual recognition (D. Forsyth, UIUC, USA; M. Hebert and A. Efros, CMU, USA; D. Ramanan, UC Irvine, USA, A. Torralba and A. Oliva, MIT, USA; A. 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.

The Fourth summer school in this series is currently in preparation for 2013 to be hosted by ENS Ulm and organized jointly by ENS and Inria Paris.