Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• C. Schmid is general chair for IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2015.

Member of the organizing committee

• C. Schmid and K. Alahari organized the ALLEGRO Workshop on weakly supervised learning and video recognition, Grenoble, 2014.

• Z. Harchaoui organized the “Tutorial on Frank-Wolfe and Greedy Optimization for Learning with Big Data” at ICML 2014, June 2014.

• Z. Harchaoui has organized a summer-school “Khronos Days”, focused on “High-Dimensional Learning and Optimization”, as part of the “Khronos” project (LabEx Persyval-Lab) and the “Gargantua” project (CNRS-Mastodons). http://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/harchaoui/projects/khronos/ .

• Z. Harchaoui organized one international workshop. “Optimization and Statistical Learning workshop”, Les Houches, France, January 2015. http://lear.inrialpes.fr/workshop/osl2015/ .

• Z. Harchaoui co-organized one national GDR-ISIS workshop on “Learning representations and signal processing”.

• Z. Harchaoui co-organized NIPS'14 "Optimization for Machine Learning" Workshop in Montreal (Canada).

• J. Mairal organized the session “Optimization and statistics” at “Journées MAS”, Toulouse, France.

• F. Pierucci co-organized the Grenoble Optimization Day workshop.

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committee

• J. Verbeek: area chair for BMVC '14, ECCV '14, CVPR '15.

• Z. Harchaoui: area chair for ICML '15.

• J. Mairal: area chair for ICML '15.

Reviewer

The permanent members of the team reviewed numerous papers for numerous international conferences in computer vision and machine learning: CVPR, ECCV, NIPS, ICML, AISTATS.

Journal

Member of the editorial board

• C. Schmid: Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision, since 2013.

• C. Schmid: Associate editor for Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, since 2005.

• J. Verbeek: Associate editor for Image and Vision Computing Journal, since 2011.

• J. Verbeek: Associate editor for the International Journal on Computer Vision, since 2014.

• J. Mairal: Guest editor for the Special Issue on Sparse Coding of the International Journal of Computer Vision.

• J. Mairal: Associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, since August 2014.

• K. Alahari: Co-guest editor: Special Issue on "Higher Order Graphical Models in Computer Vision: Modelling, Inference & Learning", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2015 (in press)

Reviewer

The permanent members of the team reviewed numerous papers for numerous international journals in computer vision (IJCV, PAMI,CVIU), machine learning (JMLR, Machine Learning). Some of them are also reviewing for journals in optimization (SIAM Journal on Optimization), image processing (SIAM Imaging Science), information theory (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory), statistics (Bernoulli, Annals of Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association).