Call for Proposals on Visual Scene Interpretation

Johns Hopkins University again plans to host a 6-week NSF-supported
Summer Research Workshop. This year one of the workshop topics is:

* VISUAL SCENE INTERPRETATION: New strategies are needed to
parse visual scenes or generic (novel) objects, analyzing an
image as a set of spatially related components. Such strategies
may integrate global top-down knowledge of scene structure (e.g.,
generative models) with the kind of rich bottom-up, learned
image features that have recently become popular for object
detection. They will support both learning and efficient search
for the best analysis.

I am writing because I hope that you will seriously consider LEADING a
workshop team in Summer 2010. This is a great opportunity to
collaborate intensively with researchers from other institutions, using
our resources to make YOUR research breakthroughs.

Just send us a 1-page proposal (by Nov. 18) for how your team would
spend 6 weeks. Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to clsp@jhu.edu
by 4PM EST on Wed, November 18, 2009. For details and next steps, see
the CFP below or visith http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws10/CFP/ .

If there are other researchers at your institution whom you would
recommend to us for leading such a research effort, please help us by
urging them to submit a research proposal.

Sincerely,
Rene Vidal, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
http://www.vision.jhu.edu