Apologies for cross-posting.

In order to allow candidates to finish their application, we have decided to extend the deadline for visum 2015 applications. More information bellow.

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Call for Participation

3^rd VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence summer school, Porto, Portugal

First Computer Vision Summer School with an industrial track

2-9 July, 2015

http://www.fe.up.pt/visum/ |Facebook: http://goo.gl/FbVNtq

Application Information: http://www.fe.up.pt/visum/visumschool

Important Dates

Application Deadline
March 9, 2015

Decision
March 8, 2015

Early Registration
April 10, 2015

Late Registration
May 8, 2015

Summer School
July 2-9, 2015

Topics

Randomised Decision Forests and Tree-structured Algorithms in Computer Vision
Tae-Kyun Kim, Imperial College London, UK

Local Features Extraction and Description
Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University, CZ

Document Image Analysis
Alicia Fornes, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES

Scene Understanding
Martial Hebert, CMU, USA

Automatic Facial Expression Recognition
Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, UK

RGB-D Cameras
Thomas Whelan, Imperial College London, UK

Applications

Point Clouds 3D*

João P. Costeira, IST, PT

* Tentative titles

Industry Track

http://asap54.com/
Daniel Heesch

www.enermeter.pt/en
Manuel João Ferreira

www.philips.com
Jacek Kustra

Venue

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.

Accommodation

Tattva Design Hostel

Students will have 10% of discount. The prices include: Buffet breakfast, Wi-Fi all over the building, 4 computers in Lounge area, free linen, free locks, free City Maps, free Luggage Storage, free Portuguese Lessons, free Walking Tours, Happy Hour (exclusive prices for TattvaBar for guests).

Hotel da Música

All accepted participants will have a special price included in visum’s fees. Hotel da Música is a luxurious 4-star property set in a prime location in the centre of Porto. Local tourist attractions such as Rotunda da Boavista, Casa da Musica and Hospital Militar are not far from the hotel. Hotel da Música is equipped with free wifi. For more details please follow the link: http://www.hoteldamusica.com/ and do not forget to check the special conditions at http://www.fe.up.pt/visum/

Please visit our webpage for up to date information: http://www.fe.up.pt/visum/.

We are looking forward for your participation!

visum organising committee

Tiago Esteves, INEB, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Kelwin Fernandes, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Eduardo Marques, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Ana Rebelo, INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto

Ricardo Sousa, INEB, Universidade do Porto

Luís Teixeira, INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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