Computer Vision: What Happens Next?

LIST OF SPEAKERS
• Michael Black, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
• Dhruv Batra, Virginia Tech, USA
• William T. Freeman, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA
• Andrej Karpathy, Stanford University, USA
• Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind, UK
• Yann LeCun, Facebook AI Research & NYU, USA
• Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Google, USA
• Devi Parikh, Virginia Tech, USA
• Pietro Perona, California Institute of Technology, USA
• Ashutosh Saxena, Stanford University and Cornell University, USA
• Shahram Izadi, Microsoft, USA
• Bernt Schiele, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany
• Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
• Stefano Soatto, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Antonio Torralba, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA

Courses details are available here.

SPECIAL SESSION - Industry meets Student

In addition to the academic programme, we are organizing a special session to allow students to meet and learn about the opportunities and activities at the world leading research laboratories and companies which are exploiting computer vision.

Industrial Panel
• Facebook Ai Research, USA
• Google DeepMind, UK
• Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom and USA
• OSRAM Corporate Technology, Germany
• Qualcomm Research, Austria
• Rakuten, Japan
• Toyota Research Europe, Belgium
• Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom
• Xerox Research Centre Europe, France

SCHOOL DIRECTORS
• Roberto Cipolla, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Sebastiano Battiato, University of Catania, Italy
• Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, Italy

SCHOOL APPLICATION
The school will be open to about 100 qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates.

SCHOLARSHIP
A scholarship of 500€ (supported by Toshiba Research Europe) will be awarded to the best PhD student attending the school. The decision will be made by the school committee at the time of the school, taking into account candidates' cv, poster and oral presentation. All PhD students attending the school will be considered for the grant.

BEST PRESENTATION PRIZE
A selected subset from the submitted posters will be selected by the school committee for short oral presentation. One best presentation prize of 500€ will be given to the best presentation selected by the school committee.

READING GROUP (WITH PRIZE!)
During a typical PhD and subsequent research year, students will read probably more than 100 papers. Reading research papers is a skill that can be acquired and that is very different from reading a novel. This session is to introduce students to that skill.

Good ideas have deep roots. Understanding such roots is key to being able to generate new ideas moving forward. The main goal of the Reading Group is to practice ways in which exploration of these roots can be performed. The homework prior to the commencement of the school consists in studying (not just reading) one or more of the references provided by the school commitee, and tracing the ideas as far back as you can.

Detailed instructions will be sent to students after acceptance notification.

ESSAY COMPETITION - The Social Impact of Computer Vision
Deadline for submission is: 15 June 2016

This essay competition reflects the importance of considering the "real world" social impact of technology alongside the fundamental goals of basic R&D. Computer Vision is an area of scientific and technological development that will continue to have a profound impact on society. It will redefine the way in which information technology intersects and interfaces with medicine and other disciplines, it will play a key role in the care of an ageing population and it is already a fundamental aspect of modern security technology.

Participants in the competition may write a piece of original work on the topic reported below. There are no style guidelines, or “correct answers”. You may reference any sources you wish (from any field of thought / endeavor). You may contextualize the discussion to your specific area of investigation and research interest. It is however requested that the discussion be scientific and grounded on current technological and research achievements, e.g. start-ups, patents, publications. There is a strict word limit of 1,500 words, excluding citations and footnotes. Through an entirely subjective, qualitative and irreproducible selection process, one successful essay will have his €525 attendance fees at the ICVSS 2016 reimbursed.