Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• C. Schmid is a general chair for ECCV 2020, ICCV 2023.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• K. Alahari and J. Mairal co-organized the international summer school PAISS 2019.

• J. Mairal is a member of the organizing committee for the international conference SIAM Imaging Science 2020.

• J. Mairal is a co-organizer of the workshop OSL'19 at Les Houches.

• J. Mairal co-organized a discussion session at the Ellis/Dali workshop, San Sebastian, 2019.

Scientific Events: Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• K. Alahari: area chair for CVPR 2020, ICCV 2019.

• K. Alahari: senior program committee member for AAAI 2020, IJCAI 2019, IJCAI 2020.

• K. Alahari: doctoral consortium chair for ICCV 2023.

• J. Mairal: area chair for NeurIPS 2019, AISTATS 2020 and ECCV 2020.

• J. Mairal: tutorial chair for CVPR 2022.

• C. Schmid: area chair for ICCV 2019.

• C. Schmid: senior area chair for NeurIPS 2019.

• J. Verbeek: area chair for ICCV 2019.

Reviewer

The permanent members, postdocs and senior PhD students of the team reviewed numerous papers for international conferences in artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning, including AAAI, AISTATS, CVPR, ICCV, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS in 2019.

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• K. Alahari: Associate editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision, since 2019.

• K. Alahari: Associate editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding journal, since 2018.

• J. Mairal: Associate editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), since 2019.

• J. Mairal: Associate editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision, since 2015.

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

• J. Mairal: Associate editor of the SIAM Journal of Imaging Science, since 2018.

• J. Verbeek: Associate editor International Journal on Computer Vision, 2014-2019.

• J. Verbeek: Associate editor IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, since 2018.

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

The permanent members, postdocs and senior PhD students of the team reviewed numerous papers for international journals in computer vision (IJCV, PAMI, CVIU), machine learning (JMLR, Machine Learning). Some of them also review for other reputed journals such as PLOS ONE, SIAM Journal on Optimization, SIAM Imaging Science.

Invited Talks

• K. Alahari: Speaker on the Panel on AI and Mathematics, Knowledge Summit, Lyon, France, 2019.

• K. Alahari: Invited talk, LIAMA workshop, Paris, France, 2019.

• A. Bietti: Invited talk, GIPSA Lab, Grenoble, 2019.

• A. Bietti: Invited talk, UC Berkeley, 2019.

• A. Bietti: Seminar, Microsoft Research AI, Redmond, 2019.

• A. Bietti: Seminar, TTI-Chicago, 2019.

• D. Chen: Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB) workshop on recurrent kernel networks, Vancouver, 2019.

• J. Mairal: Invited talk at the YES workshop, Eindhoven, 2019.

• J. Mairal: Talk in mini-symposium, ICCOPT, Berlin, 2019.

• J. Mairal: Invited talk at the Imaging and Machine Learning conference, IHP, Paris, 2019.

• J. Mairal: Seminar. Centrale Lille, 2019.

• R. Klokov: Invited talk at Christmas Colloquium on Computer Vision, Yandex, Moscow, 2019.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at BMVA symposium in Video Understanding, London, September 2019.

• C. Schmid: Keynote speaker at BMVC, Cardiff, UK, September 2019.

• C. Schmid: Keynote speaker at SIGIR, Paris, July 2019.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at Computer Vision after 5 Years, in conjunction with CVPR, June 2019.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at Tutorial on Unifying Human Activity Understanding, in conjunction with CVPR, June 2019.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at Facebook AI Video Summit, June 2019.

• C. Schmid: Keynote speaker at AI Experts Workshop in conjunction with the AI for Good Global Summit, Geneva, May 2019.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at Women in Data Science Conference, Zürich, April 2019.

• C. Schmid: Invited speaker at Collège de France seminar (chair of Stephane Mallat), February 2019.

• C. Schmid: Talk at Google EMEA research days, Zurich, December 2019.

• C. Schmid: Talk at Workshop on AI for Robotics, Naver, Grenoble, November 2019.

• C. Schmid: Talk at Workshop, Robotics: A Challenge for the Artificial Intelligence, Toulouse, October 2019.

• C. Schmid: Presentation at PRAIRIE inauguration, Paris, October 2019.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at DeepMind, London, September 2019.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Intel Network on Intelligent Systems, Munich, September 2019.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Ellis workshop, September 2019.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at MPI Tübingen, July 2019.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at WILLOW/SIERRA retreat, Marseille, June 2019.

• C. Schmid: Dinner speaker at the workshop “Women in Computer Vision”, in conjunction with CVPR'19.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at Google MTV, April 2019.

• C. Schmid: Seminar at ETH Zürich, March 2019.

• J. Verbeek: Invited talk at Breaking the Surface Workshop on maritime robotics and its applications, Biograd na Moru, Croatia, Oct 2019.

• J. Verbeek: Invited talk at Dagstuhl Workshop on Joint Processing of Language and Visual Data for Better Automated Understanding, Germany, Jan 2019.

• D. Wynen: SMILE Reading Group Paris, 2019.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• J. Mairal, J. Verbeek and C. Schmid became Ellis fellows.

• C. Schmid: Participation in a round table on AI, a technology for innovation, forum 5i, Grenoble, May 2019.

• C. Schmid: Animating several mentorship sessions at Women in Data Science Conference, Zürich, April 2019.

• C. Schmid: Mentor at the Doctoral Consortium, in conjunction with ICCV'19, CVPR'19.

• C. Schmid: Mentor for female PhD students at the workshop “Women in Computer Vision", CVPR'19.

Scientific Expertise

• J. Mairal: Judge for the IBM Watson AI Xprize.

• J. Mairal: Expert for ANR.

Research Administration

• K. Alahari: One of the two referents for Human Resources - Excellence in Research (HRS4R) at Inria Grenoble.

• J. Mairal: Jury member for the Inria starting and advanced research positions.

• C. Schmid: Member of Scientific Advisory Committee of the Helmholtz AI Cooperation Unit, 2020—

• C. Schmid: Member of scientific advisory board for the German Competence Centers for AI Research, 2019—

• J. Verbeek: Member steering committee MinaLogic, innovation cluster for digital technologies based in France's Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 2018-2019.

• J. Verbeek: Scientific correspondent national project calls, Inria Grenoble, 2017-2019.

• J. Verbeek: Member Scientific council Advanced Data Mining axis of Persyval Laboratory of Excellence, Grenoble, 2015-2019.

• J. Verbeek: Member Inria Grenoble working group on HPC - Big Data - Machine learning, 2018-2019.

• J. Verbeek: Member of Inria Commission Administrative Paritaire (advises on matters about individual careers: such as promotions, temporary outsourcing, etc.), 2016-2019.