3rd Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language: Vision and Language Integration in Cognitive Robotics

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
iV&LSS 2017
Location: 
Cognitive Systems Research Institute (CSRI)
Monday, 4 September 2017 to Wednesday, 6 September 2017
State: 
Country: 
Greece
Contact Email: 
City: 
Athens
Contact: 
Katerina Pastra
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 17 July 2017

3rd Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&LSS 2017): Vision and Language Integration in Cognitive Robotics

04–06 September 2017, Athens, Greece

Organised by ICT COST Action IC1307 The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net) - Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data

About iV&L Net:

The explosive growth of visual and textual data (both on the Internet and held in private repositories by diverse institutions and companies) has led to urgent requirements in terms of search, processing and management of digital content. Solutions for providing access to or mining such data depend on the semantic gap between vision and language being bridged, which in turn calls for expertise from two largely unconnected fields: Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The central goal of the iV&L Net COST Action is to build a European CV/NLP research community, particularly targeting 4 focus themes: (i) Integrated Modelling of Vision and Language for CV and NLP Tasks; (ii) Applications of Integrated Models; (iii) Automatic Generation of Image & Video Descriptions; and (iv) Semantic Image & Video Search. iV&L Net organises and funds annual training schools, workshops, technical meetings, researcher exchange visits, data/task benchmarking, and industry/end-user liaison.

About iV&LSS 2017:

The 2017 Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language is the third in a series of Summer Schools aimed at bringing together Vision and Language researchers and to provide the opportunity for cross-disciplinary teaching and learning. The aim is that each summer school will providing a comprehensive body of information and learning materials about data, methods and applications in Computer Vision, Language Processing and their intersection, focusing particularly on the integration of vision and language processing.

The particular focus of iV&LSS17 will be Vision and Language Integration in Cognitive Robotic Applications. Through lectures and hands-on sessions, the summer school will cover the needs and challenges in this newly emerging topic, as well as the related state of the art, involving both science and technology.

Lecture tutorials and practical sessions by:
* Luciano Fadiga, University of Ferrara and Italian Institute of Technology: Introductory Lecture on "Vision-Language Integration in the Human Brain"
* Raffaele Tavarone, Italian Institute of Technology: Hands on Session on "Visuomotor and linguistic features in Automatic Speech Recognition"
* Yezhou Yang, University of Arizona:  Introductory Lecture on "Vision-language Integration Challenges and Needs in Robotics" & related Hands on Session
* Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland: Advanced Topic Lecture on "Latest developments in combining Cognitive Vision and Natural Language Processing"
* Vadim Tikhanoff, Italian Institute of Technology: Introductory Lecture on "Vision and Language Integration in Cognitive Architectures for Robots" & related Hands on Session
* Katerina Pastra, Cognitive Systems Research Institute: Introductory Lecture on "Vision and Language Integration for Knowledge Representation"
* Dimitris Mavroeidis, Cognitive Systems Research Institute: Hands on Session on "Using the PRAXICON multisensory, referential and recursive Semantic Memory"
  
Workshop-style components:
* Research Presentations   
* Poster Session
* Student Session  

Plus:
* Social programme including tours of Athens and dinner

Participation:

The iV&LSS’17 training school is open to anyone interested in its topics, free of charge. Researchers resident in COST countries (http://www.cost.eu/about_ cost/cost_countries) are eligible to apply for financial support (a 'trainee grant') of up to a maximum of €870 (depending on country of residence and number of days attended) to enable them to attend the training school.

If you are interested in attending, please complete the online registration form here: http://ivl-net.eu/ivl- net-training-school-2017/ 
Registration is on a first come first served basis with an absolute deadline by August 16, 2017.
 
Please note that we recommend the following:
* register as soon as possible, as places are likely to be filled up within days
* we will accept up to 70 registrations, 40 of which can be funded places (through our trainee grant scheme)
* trainee grants work on a flat rate basis, i.e. they don't take into account the actual cost of flights, accommodation, etc.
* once registered, you will get a confirmation email and guidelines regarding booking accommodation and the school logistics
* make sure that you bring your laptop with you for the hands on sessions and that you prepare a 10 minute presentation of your work for the student session!