4th VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence summer school

We invite everyone with interests in computer vision to attend the 4th VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence summer school, at ATMOSFERA M in Porto, Portugal.

At visum you can find an expert multicultural environment, aiming to foster junior researchers’ awareness of computer vision topics, as well as to enhance all attendees’ knowledge regarding the state of the art, provided by leading international experts on the field. Being an area of great potential in industrial applications with a strong increase in the number of researchers in these last years, visum summer school will be an incredible opportunity.

Important Dates

Application Deadline- March 6, 2016
Decision - March 13, 2016
Early Registration - April 8, 2016
Late Registration - May 8, 2016
Summer School - July 7-14, 2016

visum will comprise three main tracks

1. Fundamental subjects
2. Examples of computer vision applications
3. Industrial session

Each one with extensive practical “hands-on” sessions.

Topics

Biometrics
Julian Fierrez 
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ES

Structure From Motion
João Paulo Costeira
Instituto Superior Técnico, PT

Document Image Analysis 
Alicia Fornes
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES

Human Activity
Hayley Hung
Technical University of Delft, NL

Deep Learning
Dan Ciresan
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, SW

Modelling and Simulation
Mauricio Reyes
University of Bern, SW

Industry Track
EyeSee
Follow Inspiration
Movvo

Location
visum will take place in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city, European Best Destination 2012 and Lonely Planet’s top 10 for 2013. Here, you can find famous baroque style monuments, the worldwide known Port Wine cellars, always having the World Heritage Douro River as the background of this youthful, active and charming city. visum’s program includes social activities.

We are looking forward to your participation!

visum organising committee

Ana Rebelo, INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto
Eduardo M. Pereira, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Hélder P. Oliveira, INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto
Kelwin Fernandes, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Luís F. Teixeira, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Pedro Ferreira, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Tiago Esteves, INEB, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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