26th British Machine Vision Conference Registration

26TH BRITISH MACHINE VISION CONFERENCE
7-10 September 2015, Swansea, UK
http://bmvc2015.swan.ac.uk
twitter: @bmvc2015
(Registration Open; Conference Programme Available)

INTRODUCTION
(Early registration by 24/07; Conference programme online; Workshop papers welcome)

The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) is one of the major
international conferences on computer vision and related areas. It is
organised by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA).

The 26th BMVC will be held at Swansea University Singleton Campus,
7th-10th September 2015. The University Singleton Campus is set in a
rolling parkland overlooking the majestic sweep of Swansea Bay, the
start of the famously dramatic Gower coastline comprised of twenty-one
bays and coves.

BMVC 2015 is a high quality single-track conference, comprising oral
presentations and poster sessions (with oral acceptance <10% in the
last 6 years). The conference features two keynote presentations and a
conference tutorial, and has five associated workshops on the last day
of the conference, including a PhD student workshop.

BMVC 2015 attracted 553 valid submissions, a new record for BMVC. A
total of 41 oral papers and 144 poster papers are accepted. The oral
acceptance rate is 7% and the overall acceptance rate is 33%. A lot of
effort was put into ensuring as robust a peer reviewing process as
possible. Each paper was reviewed by 3 or 4 independent reviewers. In
addition, every paper was handled by at least one experienced Area
Chair who made independent assessments based on the reviewers comments
and their own understanding of the manuscript. The reviewer pool has
been significantly expanded prior to the paper submission deadline in
an effort to substantially reduce the average review load. The
conference programme can be found here:
http://bmvc2015.swan.ac.uk/?p=2161

To register to BMVC 2015, please visit:
http://bmvc2015.swan.ac.uk/?services=registration-open


IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration until:
Friday 24 July
Late registration until:
Friday 07 August
Workshop deadlines:
See below for details
Conference tutorial:
Monday 07 September
Main conference:
Tuesday 08 – Thursday 10 September
Conference Workshops:
PM on Thursday 10 September


REGISTRATION
BMVC 2015 offers a number of access options: full access, day access,
tutorial access, and workshop access. The full access option covers
the complete conference programme, including tutorial, workshops, and
social activities (reception and banquet). Both residential and
non-residential registrations are available for the full access
option, with optional pre- and post-conference accommodation (subject
to availability).

Full details and online registration can be found here: 
http://bmvc2015.swan.ac.uk/?services=registration-open

Full Access:
Residential*, early rate:
£505.00
Residential*, late rate:
£565.00
Non-residential, early rate:
£380.00
Non-residential, late rate:
£440.00
Non-residential, on-site:
£500.00

Other Access:
Tutorial only, by 7 August:
£100.00
Tutorial, after 7 August:
£120.00
Workshop only, by 7 August:
£80.00
Workshop, after 7 August:
£100.00
One-day access, by 7 August:
£180.00
One-day, after 7 August:
£200.00

Extra Banquet ticket (subject to availability): £55.00
Extra Reception ticket (subject to availability): £35.00
Extra accommodation for Sunday(06/09/2015), Thursday(10/09/2015) and Friday(11/09/2015): £45.00 per person per night (subject to availability).

*Residential registration includes B&B for Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday.


CONFERENCE TUTORIAL
BMVC 2015 features a half day conference tutorial on the 7th
September. The tutorial is particularly beneficial to research
students and early career researchers who are working in this
field. We are honoured, with Chris Bishop, to have such a prominent
researcher in the field of pattern recognition and machine learning to
deliver the tutorial.

Prof. Christopher Bishop
Chief Research Scientist, Microsoft.

Chris Bishop has a B.A. in Physics with First Class Honours from
Oxford, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of
Edinburgh with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David
Wallace and Peter Higgs. In 1998 he joined the Microsoft Research
Laboratory in Cambridge where he became Deputy Managing Director, and
later the Chief Research Scientist. He is a Partner in Microsoft, and
is head of the Machine Learning and Perception group. In 2010 he was
awarded the accolade of Distinguished Scientist, representing the
highest level of research distinction within Microsoft, and was the
first person in Europe to hold this title. At the same time as he
joined Microsoft Research, he was elected to a Chair of Computer
Science at the University of Edinburgh where he is a member of the
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation in the School of
Informatics. He is also a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. He has
been elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of
the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has been awarded two Honorary
Doctor of Science degrees. His research interests include
probabilistic approaches to machine learning, as well as their
applications in industry, commerce, and healthcare.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
BMVC invites two leading researchers in the field to present their
work at the conference. We are grateful to the following speakers who
have agreed to give keynote lectures at the conference.

Prof. Ron Kimmel
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Ron Kimmel is a Professor of Computer Science at the Technion where he
holds the Montreal Chair in Sciences. He held a post-doctoral position
at UC Berkeley and a visiting professorship at Stanford University. He
has worked in various areas of image and shape analysis in computer
vision, image processing, and computer graphics. Kimmel’s interest
in recent years has been non-rigid shape processing and analysis,
medical imaging and computational biometry, numerical optimisation of
problems with a geometric flavour, and applications of metric geometry
and differential geometry. Kimmel is an IEEE Fellow for his
contributions to image processing and non-rigid shape analysis. He is
an author of two books, an editor of one, and an author of numerous
articles. He is the founder of the Geometric Image Processing Lab. and
a founder and advisor of several successful image processing and
analysis companies.

Prof. Kristen Grauman
University of Texas at Austin

Kristen Grauman is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.  Her research
in computer vision and machine learning focuses on visual search and
object recognition.  Before joining UT-Austin in 2007, she received
her Ph.D. in the EECS department at MIT, in the Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.  She is an Alfred P. Sloan
Research Fellow and Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow, a recipient
of NSF CAREER and ONR Young Investigator awards, the Regents'
Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Texas System in
2012, the PAMI Young Researcher Award in 2013, the 2013 Computers and
Thought Award from the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers (PECASE) in 2013.  She and her collaborators were recognised
with the CVPR Best Student Paper Award in 2008 for their work on
hashing algorithms for large-scale image retrieval, and the Marr Best
Paper Prize at ICCV in 2011 for their work on modelling relative
visual attributes.


WORKSHOPS
BMVC 2015 is pleased to announce that the following 5 workshops will
be included in the conference programme. All workshops are scheduled
at PM on Thursday 10 September. Workshops are free for all attendees
registered to the main conference. Workshop authors however must
register to the workshop event (regardless main conference
registration status).

WP-1
MVAB: Machine Vision of Animals and their Behaviour
Chairs:
Telmo Amaral, Newcastle University, UK
Stephen Matthews, Newcastle University, UK
Thomas Plötz, Newcastle University, UK
Stephen McKenna, University of Dundee, UK
Robert Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK

Keynote speakers:
Prof. Ilias Kyriazakis, Newcastle University, UK, Professor of Animal Health
Prof. Robert Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK, Professor of Computer Vision

Submission deadline:
10 July, 2015
Workshop website: http://di.ncl.ac.uk/mvab2015

WP-2
Diff-CV: Differential Geometry in Computer Vision for Analysis of
Shapes, Images and Trajectories
Chairs:
Hassen Drira, Institut Mines- Telecom/TELECOM Lille, France
Sebastian Kurtek, Ohio State University, USA
Pavan Turaga, Arizona State University, USA

Keynote speaker:
Dr. Anuj Srivastava, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of
Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Submission deadline:
11 July, 2015
Workshop website:
http://www-rech.telecom-lille.fr/diff-cv2015/

WP-3
ABI: Advances in Breast Imaging
Chairs:
Harry Strange, Aberystwyth University, UK
Reyer Zwiggelaar, Aberystwyth University, UK
Moi Hoon Yap, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Keynote speakers:
Two invited speakers to be announced.

Submission deadline:
10 July, 2015
Workshop website:
http://users.aber.ac.uk/hgs08/ABI2015/

WP-4
CVPPP: Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping
Chairs:
Sotirios Tsaftaris, IMT Lucca, Italy and Northwestern University, USA
Hanno Scharr, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Tony Pridmore, University of Nottingham, UK

Keynote speaker:
Prof. Tim Cootes (University of Manchester)

Submission deadline:
24 June, 2015
Workshop website:
http://www.plant-phenotyping.org/CVPPP2015

WP-5
BMV: 7th UK Computer Vision Student Workshop
Chair:
Gary KL Tam, Swansea University, UK

Keynote speaker:
Prof. Mark Nixon (University of Southampton)

Submission deadline:
13 July 2015.
Workshop website:
http://bmvc2015.swan.ac.uk/?p=2227


CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Xianghua Xie, Swansea University, UK
Mark Jones, Swansea University, UK
Gary Tam, Swansea University, UK


CONTACT
bmvc2015@swansea.ac.uk