______________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER VISION SUMMER SCHOOL WEB: http://www.dmi.unict.it/icvss Email: icvss@dmi.unict.it APPLICATION DEADLINE: 21 March 2009 MOTIVATION AND DESCRIPTION Computer vision researchers are increasingly using algorithms from machine learning to help build robust and reusable vision systems. Just as learning is an essential component of biological visual systems, artificial systems that learn and adapt represent an important challenge in modern computer vision research. The third edition of the International Computer Vision Summer School aims to provide an objective, clear and in-depth summary of the state-of-the-art research in the area of Machine Learning for Computer Vision. 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 in exploiting machine learning techniques for real computer vision application problems. The School is especially aimed to provide a stimulating space for young researchers and Ph.D. students. The participants will benefit from direct interaction and discussions with world leaders in computer vision and machine learning. Participants will have also the possibility to present the results of their research on the topic of the school, and to interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (OTHER SPEAKERS ARE COMING SOON) LIST OF SPEAKERS Lectures: Andrew Fitzgibbon Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK David Forsyth University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Zoubin Ghahramani University of Cambridge, UK Dan Huttenlocher Cornell University, USA Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stefano Soatto UCLA, USA Advanced Tutorials: Michael Black Brown University, USA Nello Cristianini University of Bristol, UK Rob Fergus New York University, USA Pushmeet Kohli Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK Tae-Kyun Kim University of Cambridge, UK John Winn Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK Reading Group: Stefano Soatto UCLA, USA Demo Session: to be announced! Directors Roberto Cipolla University of Cambridge, UK Sebastiano Battiato University of Catania, IT Giovanni Maria Farinella University of Catania, IT APPLICATION The school will be open to about 100 qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates. 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: http://svg.dmi.unict.it/icvss2009/application.htm The expected school fee will be in the order of 600,00 € for Phd students, 700 € for others academic position and 800 € for all the others. The fee will include, all courses, handling material, coffee breaks, welcome cocktail, bus service from Catania Airport to School Location and viceversa, WiFi Internet Connession, a guided tour and social dinner to Ragusa Ibla, a folcloristic exhibition of the Herbessus Sicilian Group Dancers, and bus service from School Location to Catania, Siracusa and Taormina at the end of the school. The application at ICVSS 2009 should be done before 21 March 2009. Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by 31 March 2009. POSTER SUBMISSION http://svg.dmi.unict.it/icvss2009/call.htm Accepted students may submit a poster to present their research activity. The poster should b'e submitted before 10 May 2009. 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. BEST PRESENTATION PRIZE A selected subset from the submitted posters will be selected by the school committee for short oral presentation. A best presentation prize of 700 euros (supported by Toshiba Research Europe) will be given to the best presentation selected by the school committee. SCHOLARSHIP A scholarship of 600 euros (grant offered by the GIRPR) 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 GIRPR grant. MORE INFORMATION http://www.dmi.unict.it/icvss