MOTIVATION AND DESCRIPTION

Computer vision is the science and technology of making machines that see. It is concerned with the theory, design and implementation of algorithms that can automatically process visual data to recognize objects, track and recover their shape and spatial layout.

The fourteenth edition of the International Computer Vision Summer School aims to provide both an objective and clear overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research in Computer Vision. The last decade has seen a revolution in the theory and application of computer vision and machine learning. The next decade will see machine perception in embodied systems which learn representations for and from action and interaction.

The courses will be delivered by world renowned experts in the field, from both academia and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of real Computer Vision problems as well as examples of their successful commercialisation.

The school aims to provide a stimulating opportunity for young researchers and Ph.D. students. The participants will benefit from direct interaction and discussions with world leaders in Computer Vision. Participants will also have the possibility to present the results of their research, and to interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment.

ICVSS was awarded the IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Prize (2017).

LIST OF SPEAKERS

• Zeynep Akata, University of Tübingen, DE
• Tom Cashman, Microsoft Cambridge UK
• Abhishek Gupta, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• David Forsyth, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA
• Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Richard Newcombe, Facebook Reality Labs, USA
• Matthias Niessner, Technical University of Munich, DE
• Laura Leal-Taixe, Technical University of Munich, DE
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University, USA
• Hao Li, University of Southern California, USA
• Silvio Savarese, Stanford University, USA
• Stefano Soatto, Amazon and University of California Los Angeles, USA
• Joshua Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Andrea Vedaldi, Facebook AI Research and University of Oxford, UK
• Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford and DeepMind, UK

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

• Google, US
• Microsoft, US
• PTC - Vuforia, US
• Qualcomm, US
• Rakuten, JP
• STMicroelectronics, IT
• Toshiba Research Europe, UK
• Toyota Europe Motor, BE

More industries are coming soon!

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.

Master Students, Ph. D. students, Post-Docs, young researchers (both academic and industrial), senior researchers (both academic and industrial) or academic/industrial professionals are encouraged to apply (a confirmation email will be sent to you). Each student is strongly encouraged to submit also a reference letter (Reference letter Module) by email (icvss@dmi.unict.it) to the attention of Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella.

The expected school fee will be in the order of €525 for Master and Phd students granted by academia, €750 for other academic positions and €960 for all the others. The fee will include all course materials, coffee breaks, bus service from Catania Airport to School Location and viceversa, WiFi Internet Connection, a guided tour, a social dinner, a party on the beach, a folkloristic exhibition and bus service from School Location to Catania, Siracusa and Taormina at the end of the school.

Applications to attend ICVSS 2020 should be received before TO BE ANNOUNCED. Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Applications can be done through the online module.

POSTER SUBMISSION

Accepted students may submit a poster to present their research activity. The poster should be submitted before TO BE ANNOUNCED. Suitable space will be reserved to students for showing their posters. The electronic version of the posters will also be available from the ICVSS web site.

More information about the submission procedure is available here.