Call for Participation ______________________________________________________ VISION AND SPORTS SUMMER SCHOOL Zurich, 17-21 August 2009 http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/summerschool2009/ email: vs3@vision.ee.ethz.ch application deadline: 10 May 2009 OVERVIEW Vision and Sports is a special special kind of summer school. In addition to a broad-range of lectures on state-of-the-art Computer Vision techniques, it offers exciting sport activities, such as Kung-Fu, Ultimate Frisbee, and Volleyball. Sports will be organized by the same internationally renowned experts who deliver the lectures. The school offers the best of both worlds to participants: high-quality teaching on Computer Vision, and lots of fun with a variety of attractive sports. This will offer plenty of opportunity for personal contact between students and teachers. The Vision and Sports Summer School will cover a broad range of subjects, reflecting the diversity of Computer Vision. Each lecture will cover both basic aspects and state-of-the-art research. Every day there will two Computer Vision classes and one sports session. The classes will include both lectures and practical exercises. The school is open to about 40 participants, and is targeted mainly to young researchers (Master students and PhD students in particular). CONFIRMED TEACHERS Jiri Matas Czech Technical University Marc Pollefeys ETH Zurich Carsten Rother Microsoft Cambridge Bodo Rosenhahn University of Hannover Christoph Lampert MPI Tuebingen Bastian Leibe TU Aachen Vittorio Ferrari ETH Zurich COMPUTER VISION LECTURES Topics will include: Local feature extraction Multi-view geometry 3D reconstruction Large-scale specific object recognition Appearance-based object categorization Shape representation and matching Contour-based object categorization Kernel Methods for Computer Vision Markov Random Fields and Conditional Random Fields for Computer Vision 3D human pose estimation SPORT ACTIVITIES Tennis, Volleyball, Ultimate Frisbee, Kung-Fu, Unihockey, Table Tennis APPLICATION The school is open to about 40 participants. Please apply online at http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/summerschool2009/ Although priority will be given to young researchers (Master/PhD students in particular), applications from senior researchers and industrial professionals are welcome as well. The registration fee is expected to be around 300 Euro. This fee will include all classes, sports activities, coffee breaks, lunches, and a social dinner. For hotel accommodation, students will get discount rates on hotels affiliated with the Summer School. Applicants should apply before 10 May 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31 May 2009. MORE INFORMATION http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/summerschool2009/