Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

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

Member of the organizing committees

• C. Schmid and K. Alahari organized the ALLEGRO Workshop on weakly supervised learning and video recognition, Grenoble, 2015.

• J. Verbeek: Co-organizer Physionomie workshop at European Academy of Forensic Science conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 9

• Z. Harchaoui: Co-organizer of the Optimization and Statistical Learning workshop, Les Houches, France, January 2015.

• Z. Harchaoui and J. Mairal: Co-organizers of the Large-scale Learning summer school, Grenoble, France, Spring 2015.

• Z. Harchaoui: Co-organizer of the Future of Artificial Intelligence Symposium, New York University, January 2016.

• G. Rodez: co-organizer of the IEEE CVPR Workshop on Observing and Understanding hands in action (HANDS 2015)

Scientific events selection

Member of the conference program committees

• C. Schmid: area chair for ICCV'15.

• J. Mairal: area chair for ICML'15, ICCV'15, CVPR'16, ICLR'16, NIPS'16.

• Z. Harchaoui: area chair for ICML'15, ICML'16, NIPS'16.

• J. Verbeek: area chair for CVPR'15. tutorial chair for ECCV'16.

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 boards

• 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: Associate editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), since 2015.

• J. Mairal: Senior associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, since August 2014 (senior editor since Feb. 2015).

• J. Mairal: Associate editor of Journal on Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV), since 2015.

• J. Mairal: Guest editor for the Special Issue on Sparse Coding of the International Journal of Computer Vision. 2015.

• K. Alahari. Guest editor for the Special Issue on “Higher Order Graphical Models in Computer Vision: Modelling, Inference & Learning” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 37, Issue 7, July 2015

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

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).

Invited talks

• C. Schmid: Speaker at the Scenes from Video Workshop, Santa Cruz, Chile, December 2015.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at the Google Deep Video Workshop, Santa Cruz, USA, November 2015.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at the Human Robot Interaction Workshop at UC Berkeley, November 2015.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at workshop on pose recovery, action recognition, and cultural event recognition, in conjunction with CVPR'15, June 2015.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Berkeley University, November 2015.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Stanford University, June 2015.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Google, Mountain View, June 2015.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Facebook AI Research lab, New York, May 2015.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at CMU, Pittsburgh, May 2015.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Oxford University, March 2015.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London, March 2015.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at MPI, Tübingen, February 2015.

• K. Alahari: Keynote talk at 5th Workshop on Algorithmic issues for Inference in Graphical Models (AIGM), Paris, France, September 2015

• K. Alahari: Invited talk at Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, May 2015

• K. Alahari: Invited talk at 36th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2015

• Z. Harchaoui: Seminar at New-York university, March 2015.

• Z. Harchaoui: Invited talk at the Inria at Silicon valley workshop, May 2015.

• Z. Harchaoui: Invited talk at the workshop on “large-scale kernel learning”, ICML, Lille, July 2015.

• J. Verbeek: DGA workshop on Big Data in Multimedia Information Processing, invited speaker, Paris, France, October 22.

• J. Verbeek: Physionomie workshop at European Academy of Forensic Science conference, speaker, Prague, Czech Republic, September 9.

• J. Verbeek: StatLearn workshop, invited speaker, April 13, 2015, Grenoble, France.

• J. Verbeek: Société Francaise de Statistique, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, October 23.

• J. Verbeek: Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, September 8.

• J. Verbeek: Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy, March 16.

• J. Verbeek: Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain, February 13.

• J. Mairal: Invited talk at the BASP frontiers workshop, February 2015.

• J. Mairal: StatLab Seminar at Cambridge University, March 2015.

• J. Mairal: Invited talk at the CIMI workshop, Toulouse, October 2015.

• H. Lin: workshop TITAN, Grenoble, November 2015.

Scientific expertise

• C. Schmid is member of the PAMI-TC awards committee, and the PAMI-TC executive commitee.

• K. Alahari: Reviewer for the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

• J. Mairal: reviewer for grant proposals from ANR and COFECUB.

Research administration

• C. Schmid is member of the “comité d'orientations scientifiques”. Inria Grenoble, 2015.

• J. Mairal participated to the prospecting group from the PROSPER network in 2015.