______________________________________________________ Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) ______________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER VISION SUMMER SCHOOL Machine Learning for Computer Vision 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. 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. LOCATION OF ICVSS 2009 ICVSS 2009 will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele in Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Ragusa), Sicily from 6-11 July 2009. Sicily is one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean. The island is very rich in archeological sites from various Ancient Civilizations. The sea, weather, food and the wine are excellent. In particular Punta Sampieri - Scicli (RG) is located in the south east of Sicily in a late Baroque area called Val di Noto. The Val di Noto area is included in the Unesco World Heritage List and includes eight nearby towns: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli. The location of the school rises in the middle of an ample bay delimited on the west from Sampieri and on the east from a cliff, on which is founded an ancient furnace, rare example of industrial archaeology. The Hotel Village “Baia Samuele” stretches in a gentle slant to the beach: 120 thousand square meters delimited from rows of secular cypresses. An ultramodern village with an original architecture, pleasant design and all comforts you can imagine. The frame of plants and flowers, typical of this angle of Sicily, in front of the island of Malta, completes this gilded dream of the Mediterranean. ACCOMMODATION RESERVATION AT HOTEL VILLAGE BAIA SAMUELE ICVSS participants must make reservations for accommodation at Hotel Village Baia Samuele (http://www.baiasamuele.it/) at very special rates. More information about reservation will be announced as soon as possible on the web site. OTHER SUGGESTED ACCOMMODATIONS The following accommodations are located near Sampieri city (1 Km far from School Location): Hotel Le Dune Via Cipro 31, Sampieri, 97018 Scicli (RG) tel. 0932 939248, fax. 0932 939156 info@ledunesampieri.it http://www.ledunesampieri.it Poggio Bella Vista Contrada Trippatore, Sampieri, 97010 Scicli (RG) tel./fax. 0932 939068 poggio.bellavista@tiscali.it http://www.poggio-bellavista.com Residence Marsa Siclà residence@marsasicla.it http://www.marsasicla.it/ Appartamenti Vacanze Unesco http://www.vacanzeunesco.it/sampieri.asp SCHOOL BUS SERVICE The following bus service will be provided by the school (without charge): FROM Catania Airport TO School Location, Sunday 5 July 2009, 12.00 A.M. FROM Catania Airport TO School Location, Sunday 5 July 2009, 18.30 A.M. FROM School Location TO Siracusa, Saturday 11 July 2009, 8.30 A.M. FROM School Location TO Catania Airport, Saturday 11 July 2009, 8.30 A.M. FROM School Location TO Catania, Saturday 11 July 2009, 8.30 A.M. FROM School Location TO Taormina, Saturday 11 July 2009, 8.30 A.M. FROM School Location TO Catania Airport, Sunday 12 July 2009, 8.30 A.M. MORE INFORMATION www.dmi.unict.it/icvss icvss@dmi.unict.it