Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• I. Laptev will be program co-chair of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• M. Trager is an organizer of “Minisymposium” on “Algebraic Vision” at the SIAM conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry (Atlanta, July 31 – August 4, 2017).

• G. Varol is an organizer of “Women in Computer Vision Workshop” at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.

• G. Varol is an organizer of “Multiview Relationships in 3D Data Workshop” at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017.

Scientific Events Selection

Area chairs

• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 (J. Sivic).

• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017 (J. Sivic).

• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018 (I. Laptev, J. Sivic).

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017 (G. Cheron, I. Laptev, A. Osokin, J. Sivic).

• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 (J.-B. Alayrac, M. Oquab, R. Rezende, I. Rocco, G. Varol).

• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017 (I. Laptev, A. Osokin).

• Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2017 (A. Osokin, J. Sivic).

• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2017 (J. Sivic).

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2017 (A. Osokin).

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 (A. Miech).

Journals

Member of the editorial board

• International Journal of Computer Vision (I. Laptev, J. Ponce, J. Sivic).

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (I. Laptev, J. Sivic).

• Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision (J. Ponce).

• I. Laptev co-edit a special issue on “Deep Learning for Computer Vision” in Computer Vision and Image Understanding.

Reviewer

• International Journal of Computer Vision (G. Cheron, M. Trager, G. Varol).

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (J.-B. Alayrac, G. Cheron, A. Osokin, M. Trager, G. Varol).

• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (G. Varol).

Others

• J. Sivic is senior fellow of the Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception program of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research.

• A. Bursuc obtained the outstanding reviewer award at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017.

Invited Talks

• I. Laptev, Seminar, Inria Rennes, December, 2017.

• I. Laptev, Invited talk, Chalearn Workshop on Action, Gesture, and Emotion Recognition, Venice, October, 2017.

• I. Laptev, Invited talk, The Joint Video and Language Understanding Workshop, Venice, October, 2017.

• I. Laptev, Invited talk, Rentrée ENS, Paris, September, 2017

• I. Laptev, Invited talk, ML Day, Pré-GDR IA, Paris, September 2017.

• I. Laptev, Invited talk, Frontiers of Video Technology workshop, Adobe, July, 2017.

• I. Laptev, Invited talk, Workshop on YouTube-8M Large-Scale Video Understanding, Honolulu, July, 2017.

• I. Laptev, Invited talk, Workshop on Visual Understanding Across Modalities, Honolulu, July, 2017.

• I. Laptev, Plenary talk, Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Faro, June, 2017.

• I. Laptev, Invited talk, Paris ML Meetup Spatio-temporal Series Hackathon, Paris, February, 2017.

• A. Miech, Invited Talk, Facebook AI Research, Paris, September 2017.

• A. Miech, Invited Talk, DGA TIM2017 Seminar, Paris, July 2017.

• A. Miech, Invited Talk, Paris ML Meetup, Paris, June 2017.

• J. Ponce, Keynote speaker, Korean Conference on Computer Vision, Seoul, June 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, BioVision, Lyon, April 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, Dept. of computer science of the University of Central Florida, Orlando, February 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, New York University, Center for Data Science, September 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, Facebook AI Research, New York, October 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, Amazon, Seattle, November 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, AEF conference, Paris, 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, BIOVISION, The World Life Sciences Forum, Lyon, April 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, DGSI, 2017.

• J. Ponce, Invited talk, DRM 20th Anniversary, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Seminar, KTH Stockholm, January, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Invited talk, ParisTech Telecom, January, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Invited talk, University of Amsterdam, March, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Invited talk, ORASIS, journées francophones des jeunes chercheurs en vision par ordinateur, June, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Invited talk, Visual Understanding for Interaction workshop, CVPR 2017, July, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Invited talk, Frontiers of Video Technology workshop, Adobe, July, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Invited talk, Inria Rennes, September, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Seminar, UC Berkeley, December, 2017.

• J. Sivic, Invited talk, the CIFAR workshop, Long Beach, December 2017.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Member of the advisory board for the IBM Watson AI Xprize (J. Ponce).

• Member of the steering committee of France AI (J. Ponce).

• Member, advisory board, Computer Vision Foundation (J. Sivic).

Scientific Expertise

• J. Sivic gave an overview of state-of-the-art in computer vision at the seminar on deep learning at Academie des Technologies, Paris, November 2017.

Research Administration

• Member, Bureau du comité des projets, Inria, Paris (J. Ponce)

• Director, Department of Computer Science, Ecole normale supérieure (J. Ponce)

• Member, Scientific academic council, PSL Research University (J. Ponce)

• Member, Research representative committee, PSL Research University (J. Ponce).

• Member of Inria Commission de developpement technologique (CDT), 2012- (J. Sivic).

• Member of the Hiring Committe for the tenure track position at CentraleSupelec (I. Laptev).

• Member of the Hiring Committee for Professor of Computer Vision at CentraleSupelec (I. Laptev).