PASCAL – Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning
FP7-IST-NoE
PASCAL stands for Pattern Analysis, Statistical modelling and ComputAtional Learning. It is a Network of Excellence under Framework 6. The official start date was 1st December 2003.
PASCAL is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Union. It has established a distributed institute that brings together researchers and students across Europe, and is now reaching out to new countries all over the world. PASCAL is developing the expertise and scientific results that will help create new technologies such as intelligent interfaces and adaptive cognitive systems. To achieve this, it supports and encourages collaboration between experts in machine learning, statistics and optimisation. It also promotes the use of machine learning in many relevant application domains such as machine vision, speech, haptics, brain-computer interface, user-modelling for computer human interaction, multimodal integration, natural language processing, information retrieval and textual information access.
The objective is to build a Europe-wide Distributed Institute which will pioneer principled methods of pattern analysis, statistical modelling and computational learning as core enabling technologies for multimodal interfaces that are capable of natural and seamless interaction with and among individual human users.
At each stage in the process, machine learning has a crucial role to play. It is proving an increasingly important tool in Machine Vision, Speech, Haptics, Brain Computer Interfaces, Information Extraction and Natural Language Processing; it provides a uniform methodology for multimodal integration; it is an invaluable tool in information extraction; while on-line learning provides the techniques needed for adaptively modelling the requirements of individual users. Though machine learning has such potential to improve the quality of multimodal interfaces, significant advances are needed, in both the fundamental techniques and their tailoring to the various aspects of the applications, before this vision can become a reality.
The institute will foster interaction between groups working on fundamental analysis including statisticians and learning theorists; algorithms groups including members of the non-linear programming community; and groups in machine vision, speech, haptics, brain-computer interfaces, natural language processing, information-retrieval, textual information processing and user modelling for computer human interaction, groups that will act as bridges to the application domains and end-users.
Infrastructure Programme:
The Infrastructure programme has the objective of providing network members with tools for improving the effectiveness of collaboration at all levels. Without the ambition of replacing face-to-face interaction, it aims at recreating as much as possible the benefits that the members would enjoy if they were all located in a same physical place. Tools currently been deployed include:
- equipment for recording, processing, storing and distributing videos of seminars and other events,
- software and hardware supporting “virtual meetings” over the internet,
- a cluster of PCs to be used as a shared computing resource,
- a collaborative development platform to support cross-site projects featuring software development
Thematic Programme:
Thematic Programmes are six monthly groupings of workshops and events around a theme that is of strategic importance to the development and growth of the PASCAL network. Note that each Thematic Programme will lead to a key deliverable of the network summarising the activities and achievements of the series of events held as part of the programme. Each Thematic programme will aim to develop a new series of Challenges and hold a Challenge workshop to report results on earlier challenges.
The first three Thematic Programmes were envisaged in the original proposal and are detailed in the Technical Annex. They are ‘Challenges for Building Multimodal Interfaces’ running from December 2003 till June 2004, ‘Interfacing Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches to Machine Learning’ running between July and December 2004 and ‘Linking Learning and Statistics with Optimisation’ that will run from December 2004 till June 2005.
The programme is responsible for overseeing the development of the Thematic Programmes beyond those already defined in the TA.
Sabbatical/RA Exchange Programme: The Internal Visitor (Long) Programme (IV(L)) assists in the organization and funding of longer-term visits of 1-12 months duration between sites by members of the Network. This funding stream is available to both PASCAL researchers and PASCAL PhD students. It is anticipated that the main use of funds under this programme will be to support travel and subsistence for the visit. The Internal Visitor (Long) Programme was formed in June 2004 by the amalgamation of the Sabbatical and RA Exchange Programme and the visiting component of the PhD programme as specified in the Technical Annex. Visits between 1 week and 1 month in duration are supported by the Internal Visitor (Short) Programme which will have an open call for applications. Applications under the IV(L) programme will be evaluated by two referees in terms of scientific merit, integrative impact and expense of the proposal. The annual budget for this programme is around 23k euros. Normally the maximum allocation for one application will be 5k euros (+20% overheads). It is planned to have two calls per year for the IV(L) programme, spaced 6 months apart. It is emphasized that sites can also fund visits out of their baseline travel/subsistence allocation.
Conference & Workshop Attendance Programme: The Conference Attending Programme considers funding the attendance of members of the Network at International Conferences, Workshops, and Schools. There is an open call mode for receiving applications for events in areas related to the PASCAL research themes. We will also consider special funding calls for particular events when these are organised by PASCAL members or when they are particularly relevant to the PASCAL research agenda. Applications demonstrating inter-site activities will be preferred. Such applications need to demonstrate added value for the Network of Excellence. This could be in the form of a joint research paper authored by researchers at two different sites or linking different themes of the network; or it could be participation in a workshop, special session, or school organized by several PASCAL sites.
Balance & Integration Programme: Balance & Integration (B&I) is a watchdog and advisory programme that monitors the overall activity of the Network and attempts to ensure that :
- the various thematic programmes maintain an appropriate balance of activity between theory, algorithms and application-oriented research, and across different subject areas and input modalities ;
- Network resources are used in a way that will promote the overall goals of integrating theoretical and applied research on machine learning, statistical pattern recognition and multimodal interfaces.
B&I’s main activities are thus consulting with other programmes, monitoring their activities, reflecting on the overall progress of the Network, and if necessary, intervening to correct any imbalances that seem to be arising.
At present, our three main concerns are :
- To strengthen the Network’s multimodal user interface activities, and in particular, the links between these and machine learning and statistical modelling research.
- To provide more tutorial material suitable for introducing outsiders and students to PASCAL techniques.
- To encourage the participation of female researchers in PASCAL-related research areas.
Whenever possible, B&I functions by consultation and advice rather than direct intervention, but it does have a small discretionary budget that can be used to fund corrective actions when necessary. This funding can be allocated via targeted open calls of other thematic programmes as well as by direct B&I calls. Subject to budget being available, specific B&I related requests can also be made at any time.
Theory & Algorithms Programme: This programme should really be called something like “Adapting theory and algorithms to applications”. A key challenge for PASCAL is to learn how to adapt general theory and algorithms to take account of application-specific constraints or simplifications, without restarting from scratch each time or needing months of detailed specialization work. Adaption is crucial both for theoretical correctness and for algorithmic efficiency. For example, over-parametrization leads to both poor generalisation performance and algorithmic slowness. Solving this problem will involve a close and sustained dialog between theoreticians and application developers. Some of this can take place in the thematic programmes associated with individual modalities. The aim of the current programme is to tackle specialization at a somewhat more general level, developing general theoretical and algorithmic toolkits that can be used to specialize emerging methods quickly and easily. A further particularity of the multimodal interface domain is the need to be able to integrate information from more than one modality or source. This introduces particular challenges for machine learning and statistically based approaches, that will be dealt with here.
Machine Vision Programme: The main goal of this programme is to improve our ability to build systems that understand real-world images and videos by incorporating advanced, adaptive, learning based techniques in the process. In particular, solving tasks such as recognising people, objects, motions, gestures & situations will be crucial for building more flexible vision-based user interfaces and intelligent environments.
Speech Programme: The Speech programme is intended to assist any initiative related to research in Speech processing using Machine Learning approaches.
Brain Computer Interfaces Programme: The Brain Computer Interfaces programme is intended to assist any initiative related to research in brain-computer interaction, which includes recognition of motor-related and cognitive mental tasks, detection of errors, and assessment of other cognitive states (such as attention, frustration, or fatigue) using Machine Learning approaches.
Information Retrieval & Textual Information Access Programme: A crucial task for an intelligent interface is to retrieve relevant information for the user from a wide variety of digital resources, often with no explicit prompt from the user. Hence, it will require text and web analysis: text classification; relevance filtering; hierarchical document clustering; summarisation and cross-referencing; hidden links discovery (literature based discovery); intelligent search engines; intelligent content management tools; and knowledge management technologies. The programme will build on the already ubiquitous use of adaptive methods in these tasks.
Multimodal Integration Programme: The Multimodal Integration programme is intended to assist any initiative related to research in multi-modal processing, which includes multi-stream training and decoding, joint modality integration, fusion of decisions, etc, using Machine Learning approaches.
Pump Priming Programme: The pump-priming programme provides support for collaborative research on novel topics that are not yet sufficiently mature to attract mainstream funding. In particular, we are interested in innovative or emerging research themes, and at obtaining substantial advances in a core PASCAL research area. Priority will be given to areas that are genuinely interdisciplinary and involve more than one network site.
Challenge Programme: The challenge programme is intended to act as catalyst for both research and application development 1) Application Challenges will be in the form of particular datasets arising from an application area together with an associated task. PASCAL teams will be invited to develop methods appropriate to the task measuring their performance on the dataset and sharing their experiences at an associated Challenge workshop convened at the end of the challenge period. 2) Theoretical Challenges will be in the form of open theoretical questions that for example might highlight the links between different approaches. The associated workshop will in this case invite contributions of work relevant to the question even if not providing a definitive answer. The Challenge Programme will coordinate the development of the challenges and will provide appropriate funds to assist in the preparation of any data or material needed. For example, an applications challenge might require collection or annotation of a data collection as well as the organisation of which parts of the data would be made available and which would be retained for final verification of the submitted systems. The (PASCAL) site undertaking this work would receive the necessary support, both technical and administrative.
Funding Review Programme: The programme oversees the review of the activity of individual sites during each year of the project and based on referee reports proposes adjustments to the basic funding to the Steering Committee for final approval.
Other programmes in PASCAL:
User Modelling for Computer Human Interaction Programme
Special Interest Group Programme
Computational, Information-Theoretic Learning with Statistics Programme
Learning/Statistics & Optimisation Programme
Haptics Programme
Natural Language Processing Programme
External Visitor Programme
Knowledge Dissemination Programme: The programme oversees the maintainance of the web site for the project including the following components:
- Publications database (eprints)
- Workshop web hosting
- Administration web provision for the programmes and their execution
- Administrative provision for the financial management
- Challenges web support
- Dataset and software repository
- Archival of meetings and mailing lists
PhD Programme: Each programme has a coordinator who is responsible for managing the activity through internal calls, proposal assessment, and allocation of the budgeted resources.
Curriculum Development Programme: The Curriculum Development Programme of PASCAL aims at stimulating the creation of reports expressing well-argumented positions in front of the issues of themes and methodologies for university education in the areas covered by the network. One major long term goal will be the design of a carefully crafted, seriously constructed undergrad curriculum. It is crucial that the voice of the researchers in PASCAL influences the curricula development in Europe, lest the motivation and methodology of our research risk getting lost in a coming society where each piece of information competes for its own public. A strength of our network is the presence of a non-academic community, top-level researchers from technology centers who may not have a direct means of influencing academia. We should try and make sure that this research community finds a way of expressing their views on future education itineraries. Indeed, the role of this programme is to stimulate thinking about how to educate new generations of researchers who will, eventually, take on our very positions.
The programme consists of two main directions: a bottom-up direction ready to receive, evaluate, and, if appropriate, promote and advise individual initiatives in the context of the programme; and a top-down initiative as well, whereby specific, precise, hopefully relevant topics are identified and, through the network contacts, attempts are made to get individuals taking them up and developing them. It is foreseen that there will be in general more candidates to such topics than energies to be devoted to them, so that some priorities might be appropriate.
The permanent committee takes decisions usually through email, and will meet approximately twice a year. The tasks falling on the committee are: 1/ to evaluate proposals coming from the bottom-up initiatives, 2/ to contribute topics for the top-down initiatives, 3/ to discuss appropriate arguments that would help to choose prioritary top-down topics
Additionally the coordinator will be responsible of conducting periodic calls for bottom-up initiatives, implementing announcements and actions accorded by the committee, and making sure that the decisions of the committee reach real life, for instance through administrative actions to effectively start approved bottom-up initiatives.
Conference & Workshop Organisation Programme: The Conference and Workshop Organization Programme provides assistance in the organization and hosting of PASCAL-related conferences and workshops. Workshops with a large tutorial component, as well as summer schools, are also considered. The program mainly aims to support organizational costs such as conference room rental, catering, secretarial costs, etc.
IPR Programme: The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) programme is setup in order to assist PASCAL members in any request they may have regarding ways to protect their intellectual rights, such as patenting. There is a limited amount of money devoted to this activity, which could be used for instance by obtaining some legal advices from lawyers regarding particular problems related to IPR. An extract of the contract PASCAL has signed with the EC regarding IPRs can be found in the FAQ section.
Other PASCAL programmes:
Liaison Programme
Summer School Programme
The PASCAL network of excellence is coordinated by John Shawe-Taylor at the University of Southampton, U.K.. There are 13 other core sites plus a further 43 sites involved in the network each associated with one of the core sites.
- University of Southampton
- King’s College, London
- LSE, London
- Imperial College
- University College, London
- University of Oxford
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- University of Edinburgh
- Aston University
- University of Glasgow
- University of Sheffield
- University of Warwick
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
- INSEAD, Paris
- Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne
- Université Paris Sud
- University of Rouen
- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
- CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon
- CNRS-Laboratoire I3S, Sophia-Antipolis
- XEROX Research Centre Europe
- UTC Compiègne
- Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik
- Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik
- University of Bayreuth
- University of Bochum
- Università degli Studi di Milano
- University of Genova
- TU Graz
- Universita dell’Insubria, Varese
- University of Leoben
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- UPC Barcelona
- Universitat d’Alicante
- Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive
- ETH Zürich
- University of Geneva
- University of Basel
- University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group
- University of Southern Denmark, Odense
- Helsinki University of Technology
- KTH Stockholm
- Technical University of Denmark
- Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
- IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Bar Ilan University
- Technion, Haifa
- Tel Aviv University
- National ICT, Australia
- EURANDOM, Eindhoven
- Stichting Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica
- Leiden University
- University of Antwerp
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- University of Nijmegen
| Douglas Aberdeen | National ICT, Australia |
| Felix Agakov | University of Edinburgh |
| Ankur Agarwal | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Peter Ahrendt | Technical University of Denmark |
| Navot Akiva | Bar Ilan University |
| Matti Aksela | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Kees Albers | University of Nijmegen |
| Amiran Ambroladze | University of Southampton |
| Massih Amini | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Martin Anthony | LSE, London |
| Bruno Apolloni | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Stefano Arca | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Hagai Aronowitz | Bar Ilan University |
| Thierry Artieres | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Christian Artigues | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Peter Auer | University of Leoben |
| Anne Auger | Université Paris Sud |
| Jaume Baixeries | UPC Barcelona |
| José Balcázar | UPC Barcelona |
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Mark Barnard | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Adrian Barrett | Imperial College |
| Yaroslav Basha | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Nicholas Baskiotis | Université Paris Sud |
| Curzio Basso | University of Basel |
| Herbert Bay | ETH Zürich |
| Fréderic Béchet | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Patrice Bellot | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Wicher Bergsma | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Marc Bernard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Nils Bertschinger | TU Graz |
| Lucien Birgé | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Gilles Blanchard | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Benjamin Blankertz | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Guillaume Bouchard | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Stephane Boucheron | Université Paris Sud |
| Stephane Bounkong | Aston University |
| Hervé Bourlard | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Olivier Bousquet | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Nicholas Bousquet | Université Paris Sud |
| Charles Bouveyron | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Janez Brank | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Janez Brank | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Matthieu Bray | ETH Zürich |
| Nicholas Bredeche | Université Paris Sud |
| Peter Bühlmann | ETH Zürich |
| Joachim Buhmann | ETH Zürich |
| Wray Buntine | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Geert Caenen | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Jorge Calera-Rubio | Universitat d’Alicante |
| Renata Camargo | University of Sheffield |
| Francesco Camastra | University of Genova |
| Nicola Cancedda | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Stéphane Canu | University of Rouen |
| Andrea Caponnetto | University of Genova |
| Barbara Caputo | KTH Stockholm |
| Stefan Carlsson | KTH Stockholm |
| Xavier Carreras | UPC Barcelona |
| Gemma Casas | UPC Barcelona |
| Ismael Castillo | Université Paris Sud |
| Jorge Castro | UPC Barcelona |
| Bruno Cavestro | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Gilles Celeux | Université Paris Sud |
| Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Olivier Chappelle | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Silvia Chiappa | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Rudi Cilibrasi | Stichting Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica |
| Fabio Ciravegna | University of Sheffield |
| Alexander Clark | University of Geneva |
| Ronan Collobert | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Pierre Comon | CNRS-Laboratoire I3S, Sophia-Antipolis |
| Alex Conconi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Ehud Conley | Bar Ilan University |
| Antoine Cornuéjols | Université Paris Sud |
| Nello Cristianini | University of Southampton |
| Lehel Csató | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Walter Daelemans | University of Antwerp |
| Ido Dagan | Bar Ilan University |
| Florence d’Alché-Buc | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Victor Dalmau | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Chris Dance | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Brian Davies | Imperial College |
| A Philip Dawid | University College, London |
| Colin de la Higuera | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Fien de Meulder | University of Antwerp |
| Renato De Mori | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Steven de Rooij | Stichting Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica |
| Bart Decadt | University of Antwerp |
| Ofer Dekel | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| José del R Millán | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Sophie Demassey | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Ludovic Denoyer | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Alessandro Di Bucchianico | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Christos Dimitrakakis | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Steve Djajasaputra | University of Nijmegen |
| Gyorgy Dorko | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Edward Dribble | Imperial College |
| Kurt Driessens | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Marc Dymetman | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Jan Eichhorn | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Marc El Beze | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Ran El-Yaniv | Technion, Haifa |
| Farida Enikeeva | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Yannick Esteve | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Eyal Even-Dar | Tel Aviv University |
| Mark Everingham | University of Oxford |
| Theodoros Evgeniou | INSEAD, Paris |
| Rémi Eyraud | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Beat Fasel | ETH Zürich |
| Dominique Feillet | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Mary Felkin | Université Paris Sud |
| Robert Fergus | University of Oxford |
| Talia Figarella | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Jörg Finger | University of Basel |
| Andrew Fitzgibbon | University of Oxford |
| Patrik Floréen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Blaz Fortuna | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Olivier François | University of Rouen |
| Rik Fransens | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Matthias Franz | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Patrick Gallinari | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Ignazio Gallo | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Aurelien Garivier | Université Paris Sud |
| Elisabeth Gassiat | Université Paris Sud |
| Eric Gaussier | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Ricard Gavaldà | UPC Barcelona |
| Maayan Geffet | Bar Ilan University |
| Claudio Gentile | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Zoubin Ghahramani | University College, London |
| Ran Gilad-Bachrach | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Richard Gill | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Laurent Gillard | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Oren Glickman | Bar Ilan University |
| Nicholas Godzik | Université Paris Sud |
| Jelle Goeman | Leiden University |
| Paul Goldberg | University of Warwick |
| Paula Gomes | Imperial College |
| John-Paul Gosling | University of Sheffield |
| Cyril Goutte | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Yves Grandvalet | UTC Compiègne |
| Miha Grcar | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Arthur Gretton | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Jens Grivolla | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Marko Grobelnik | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Peter Grünwald | Stichting Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica |
| Vincent Guigue | University of Rouen |
| Steve Gunn | University of Southampton |
| Gregory Gutin | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Amaury Habrard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| David Hardoon | University of Southampton |
| Simon Harris | Imperial College |
| Stefan Häusler | TU Graz |
| Matthias Hein | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Katherine Heller | University College, London |
| Mark Herbster | University College, London |
| Hynek Hermansky | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Li Hongyu | University of Sheffield |
| Timo Honkela | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Antti Honkela | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Véronique Hoste | University of Antwerp |
| José Manuel Iñesta | Universitat d’Alicante |
| Peer Israel | Bar Ilan University |
| François Jacquenet | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Jean-Christophe Janodet | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Mitja Jermol | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Matjaz Jokopec | Imperial College |
| Prashant Joshi | TU Graz |
| Pierre Jourlin | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Matti Kääriäinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Boonserm Kaewkamnerdpong | University College, London |
| Jaz Kandola | University College, London |
| Bert Kappen | University of Nijmegen |
| Samuel Kaski | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Noel Keijzers | University of Nijmegen |
| Mikaela Keller | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Frédéric Kerloch | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Joseph Keshet | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Andriy Kharechko | University of Southampton |
| Jyrki Kivinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Arto Klami | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jukka Kohonen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Istvan Kokai | University of Basel |
| Alexey Koloydenko | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Vladimir Koulikov | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Nir Krause | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Reimer Kuehn | King’s College, London |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Malte Kuss | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Thomas Navin Lal | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Michael Lamperth | Imperial College |
| Raffaella Lanzarotti | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Christine Largeron | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Jan Larsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Pavel Laskov | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Steffen Lauritzen | University of Oxford |
| Nada Lavrac | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Neil Lawrence | University of Sheffield |
| Robert Legenstein | TU Graz |
| Tue Lehn-Schiøler | Technical University of Denmark |
| Philippe Leray | University of Rouen |
| Jure Leskovec | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Marie-Jeanne Lesot | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Olivier Liess | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Jussi Lindgren | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Andrea Linhares | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Niko List | University of Bochum |
| Gaëlle Loosli | University of Rouen |
| Jean-Michel Loubes | Université Paris Sud |
| David Lowe | Aston University |
| Gareth Loy | KTH Stockholm |
| Gábor Lugosi | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Axel Luthart | University of Bayreuth |
| Wolfgang Maass | TU Graz |
| Rasmus Elsborg Madsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Dario Malchiodi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Tuomo Malinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Yishay Mansour | Tel Aviv University |
| Avalos Marta | UTC Compiègne |
| Dragan Marušič | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Jeremie Mary | Université Paris Sud |
| Pascal Massart | Université Paris Sud |
| Dominique Massonie | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Clare Anne McGrory | University of Glasgow |
| Klaus Meer | University of Southern Denmark, Odense |
| Ron Meir | Technion, Haifa |
| Anders Meng | Technical University of Denmark |
| Jean-Luc Meunier | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Phillipe Michelon | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Taneli Mielikäinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Sebastian Mika | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Dunja Mladenić | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Leila Mohammadi | Leiden University |
| Klaus-Robert Müller | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Thierry Murgue | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Iain Murray | University College, London |
| Petri Myllymäki | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Ian Nabney | Aston University |
| Christian Näger | TU Graz |
| Annika Nietzio | University of Bochum |
| Mahesan Niranjan | University of Sheffield |
| Hermine Njike-Fotzo | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Blaz Novak | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Jeremy Oakley | University of Sheffield |
| Anthony O’Hagan | University of Sheffield |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Cristian Oliva | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Jose Oncina | Universitat d’Alicante |
| Manfred Opper | University of Southampton |
| Ronald Ortner | University of Leoben |
| Mihai Osian | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Mireille Palpant | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Emilio Parrado-Hernandez | University of Southampton |
| Mudigonda Pawan Kumar | University of Oxford |
| Michael Pedersen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Jaakko Peltonen | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Tonatiuh Pena-Centeno | University of Sheffield |
| Fernando Perez-Cruz | University College, London |
| Carlos Pérez-Sancho | Universitat d’Alicante |
| Sami Perttu | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Lyndsey Pickup | University of Oxford |
| Jean-Sebastien Pierrard | University of Basel |
| Tomaž Pisanski | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Norman Poh | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Massimiliano Pontil | University College, London |
| Ioana Popescu | INSEAD, Paris |
| Alexei Pozdnoukov | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Luc Pronzato | CNRS-Laboratoire I3S, Sophia-Antipolis |
| Adam Prügel-Bennett | University of Southampton |
| Kai Puolamäki | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Arash Rafiey-Hafshejani | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Tapani Raiko | Helsinki University of Technology |
| CVL Raju | LSE, London |
| Alain Rakotomamonjy | University of Rouen |
| Liva Ralaivola | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Carl Edward Rasmussen | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Joel Ratsaby | University College, London |
| Gunnar Rätsch | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Cristian Raymond | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Jean-Michel Renders | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Iead Rezek | University of Oxford |
| Iead Rezek | University of Oxford |
| Jorma Rissanen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Nancy-Lara Robyn | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Yann Rodriguez | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Jeremy Rogers | University of Southampton |
| Sami Romdani | University of Basel |
| Dana Ron | Tel Aviv University |
| Teemu Roos | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Lorenzo Rosasco | University of Genova |
| Volker Roth | ETH Zürich |
| Olga Roudenko | Université Paris Sud |
| Juho Rousu | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Jarkko Salojärvi | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Craig Saunders | University of Southampton |
| Eerika Savia | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Christin Schaefer | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Klaus Schittkowski | University of Bayreuth |
| Cordelia Schmid | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Michael Schmitt | University of Bochum |
| Marc Schoenauer | Université Paris Sud |
| Bernhard Schölkopf | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Anton Schwaighofer | TU Graz |
| Michele Sebag | Université Paris Sud |
| Marc Sebban | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Shai Shalev-Shwartz | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Li Sheng | University of Sheffield |
| Tomi Silander | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Hans Simon | University of Bochum |
| Yoram Singer | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Josef Sivic | University of Oxford |
| Jim Smith | University of Warwick |
| Alex Smola | National ICT, Australia |
| Ed Snelson | University College, London |
| Yosef Solewicz | Bar Ilan University |
| Peter Sollich | King’s College, London |
| Sören Sonnenburg | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Harald Steck | ETH Zürich |
| Amos Storkey | University of Edinburgh |
| Henri-Maxime Suchier | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Suwannaroj Sujimarn | University of Sheffield |
| Josephine Sullivan | KTH Stockholm |
| Sandor Szedmak | University of Southampton |
| Andrej Taranenko | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Bernadetta Tarigan | Leiden University |
| Franck Thollard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Alexander Thomas | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Henry Tirri | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Krisanathamaku Tisanai | University of Sheffield |
| Naftali Tishby | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Michalis Titsias | University of Edinburgh |
| Donald Michael Titterington | University of Glasgow |
| Boremi Toch | Aston University |
| Philip Torr | University of Oxford |
| Juan-Manuel Torres | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| William Triggs | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Oren Tsur | Bar Ilan University |
| Tinne Tuytelaars | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Esko Ukkonen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Nicholas Usunier | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Lluis Valentin | UPC Barcelona |
| Harri Valpola | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Sara van de Geer | Leiden University |
| Peter van de Ven | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Aad van der Vaart | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Luc Van Gool | ETH Zürich |
| Luc Van Gool | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Manik Varma | University of Oxford |
| Ben Veal | LSE, London |
| Jarkko Venna | Helsinki University of Technology |
| José Luis Verdú-Mas | Universitat d’Alicante |
| Alessandro Verri | University of Genova |
| Jean-Philippe Vert | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Regis Vert | Université Paris Sud |
| Thomas Vetter | University of Basel |
| S V N Vishwanathan | National ICT, Australia |
| Paul Vitányi | Stichting Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica |
| Jean-Noel Vittaut | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Ulrike Von Luxburg | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Trang Vu | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Lisa Wainer | University College, London |
| Chris Watkins | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Jaap Wessels | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Hannes Wettig | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Christopher Williams | University of Edinburgh |
| Robert Williamson | National ICT, Australia |
| Kyoung-Jae Won | University of Southampton |
| Henry Wynn | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Aziz Yahiaoui | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Jianqiang Yang | University of Southampton |
| Luca Zaniboni | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Philipp Zehnder | ETH Zürich |
| Janez Žerovnik | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Dengyong Zhou | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Christian Zillober | University of Bayreuth |
| Andrew Zisserman | University of Oxford |
| Alex Zivanovic | Imperial College |
| Onno Zoeter | University of Nijmegen |
| Laurent Zwald | Université Paris Sud |
Computational, Information-Theoretic Learning with Statistics
| Felix Agakov | University of Edinburgh |
| Ankur Agarwal | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Peter Ahrendt | Technical University of Denmark |
| Massih Amini | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Martin Anthony | LSE, London |
| Hagai Aronowitz | Bar Ilan University |
| Peter Auer | University of Leoben |
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Yaroslav Basha | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Lucien Birgé | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Benjamin Blankertz | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Guillaume Bouchard | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Stephane Boucheron | Université Paris Sud |
| Olivier Bousquet | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Peter Bühlmann | ETH Zürich |
| Joachim Buhmann | ETH Zürich |
| Francesco Camastra | University of Genova |
| Nicola Cancedda | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Andrea Caponnetto | University of Genova |
| Gemma Casas | UPC Barcelona |
| Jorge Castro | UPC Barcelona |
| Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Olivier Chappelle | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Pierre Comon | CNRS-Laboratoire I3S, Sophia-Antipolis |
| Alex Conconi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Antoine Cornuéjols | Université Paris Sud |
| Lehel Csató | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Chris Dance | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| A Philip Dawid | University College, London |
| Colin de la Higuera | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Ofer Dekel | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Ludovic Denoyer | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Alessandro Di Bucchianico | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Christos Dimitrakakis | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Gyorgy Dorko | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Jan Eichhorn | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Ran El-Yaniv | Technion, Haifa |
| Farida Enikeeva | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Eyal Even-Dar | Tel Aviv University |
| Patrik Floréen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Olivier François | University of Rouen |
| Matthias Franz | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Ignazio Gallo | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Ricard Gavaldà | UPC Barcelona |
| Claudio Gentile | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Richard Gill | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Paul Goldberg | University of Warwick |
| Yves Grandvalet | UTC Compiègne |
| Arthur Gretton | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Peter Grünwald | Stichting Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica |
| Steve Gunn | University of Southampton |
| Amaury Habrard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| David Hardoon | University of Southampton |
| Matthias Hein | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Mark Herbster | University College, London |
| Antti Honkela | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jean-Christophe Janodet | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Prashant Joshi | TU Graz |
| Pierre Jourlin | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Bert Kappen | University of Nijmegen |
| Samuel Kaski | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Joseph Keshet | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Andriy Kharechko | University of Southampton |
| Jyrki Kivinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Arto Klami | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Alexey Koloydenko | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Nir Krause | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Christine Largeron | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Jan Larsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Steffen Lauritzen | University of Oxford |
| Jure Leskovec | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Jussi Lindgren | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Gaëlle Loosli | University of Rouen |
| David Lowe | Aston University |
| Rasmus Elsborg Madsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Dario Malchiodi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Tuomo Malinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Yishay Mansour | Tel Aviv University |
| Ron Meir | Technion, Haifa |
| Anders Meng | Technical University of Denmark |
| Taneli Mielikäinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Sebastian Mika | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Klaus-Robert Müller | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Thierry Murgue | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Iain Murray | University College, London |
| Petri Myllymäki | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Ian Nabney | Aston University |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jose Oncina | Universitat d’Alicante |
| Ronald Ortner | University of Leoben |
| Emilio Parrado-Hernandez | University of Southampton |
| Jaakko Peltonen | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Fernando Perez-Cruz | University College, London |
| Tomaž Pisanski | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Norman Poh | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Massimiliano Pontil | University College, London |
| Adam Prügel-Bennett | University of Southampton |
| Kai Puolamäki | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Tapani Raiko | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Liva Ralaivola | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Carl Edward Rasmussen | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Joel Ratsaby | University College, London |
| Gunnar Rätsch | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Iead Rezek | University of Oxford |
| Yann Rodriguez | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Jeremy Rogers | University of Southampton |
| Dana Ron | Tel Aviv University |
| Teemu Roos | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Lorenzo Rosasco | University of Genova |
| Volker Roth | ETH Zürich |
| Eerika Savia | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Michael Schmitt | University of Bochum |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Hans Simon | University of Bochum |
| Yoram Singer | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Jim Smith | University of Warwick |
| Ed Snelson | University College, London |
| Peter Sollich | King’s College, London |
| Sören Sonnenburg | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Amos Storkey | University of Edinburgh |
| Henri-Maxime Suchier | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Henry Tirri | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Michalis Titsias | University of Edinburgh |
| Philip Torr | University of Oxford |
| William Triggs | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Esko Ukkonen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Sara van de Geer | Leiden University |
| Jean-Philippe Vert | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| S V N Vishwanathan | National ICT, Australia |
| Ulrike Von Luxburg | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Lisa Wainer | University College, London |
| Chris Watkins | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Hannes Wettig | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Christopher Williams | University of Edinburgh |
| Luca Zaniboni | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Janez Žerovnik | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Dengyong Zhou | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Andrew Zisserman | University of Oxford |
Learning/Statistics & Optimisation
| Douglas Aberdeen | National ICT, Australia |
| Felix Agakov | University of Edinburgh |
| Ankur Agarwal | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Navot Akiva | Bar Ilan University |
| Massih Amini | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Martin Anthony | LSE, London |
| Hagai Aronowitz | Bar Ilan University |
| Thierry Artieres | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Peter Auer | University of Leoben |
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Yaroslav Basha | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Lucien Birgé | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Benjamin Blankertz | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Guillaume Bouchard | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Stephane Boucheron | Université Paris Sud |
| Olivier Bousquet | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Charles Bouveyron | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Matthieu Bray | ETH Zürich |
| Peter Bühlmann | ETH Zürich |
| Joachim Buhmann | ETH Zürich |
| Francesco Camastra | University of Genova |
| Nicola Cancedda | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Andrea Caponnetto | University of Genova |
| Xavier Carreras | UPC Barcelona |
| Gemma Casas | UPC Barcelona |
| Olivier Chappelle | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Pierre Comon | CNRS-Laboratoire I3S, Sophia-Antipolis |
| Alex Conconi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Antoine Cornuéjols | Université Paris Sud |
| Lehel Csató | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Walter Daelemans | University of Antwerp |
| Ido Dagan | Bar Ilan University |
| Florence d’Alché-Buc | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Chris Dance | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| A Philip Dawid | University College, London |
| Ofer Dekel | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Ludovic Denoyer | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Christos Dimitrakakis | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Gyorgy Dorko | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Farida Enikeeva | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Eyal Even-Dar | Tel Aviv University |
| Theodoros Evgeniou | INSEAD, Paris |
| Patrik Floréen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Olivier François | University of Rouen |
| Ignazio Gallo | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Ricard Gavaldà | UPC Barcelona |
| Claudio Gentile | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Richard Gill | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Cyril Goutte | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Yves Grandvalet | UTC Compiègne |
| Arthur Gretton | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Marko Grobelnik | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Peter Grünwald | Stichting Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica |
| Steve Gunn | University of Southampton |
| Gregory Gutin | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Amaury Habrard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Matthias Hein | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Mark Herbster | University College, London |
| Antti Honkela | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jean-Christophe Janodet | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Prashant Joshi | TU Graz |
| Pierre Jourlin | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Bert Kappen | University of Nijmegen |
| Samuel Kaski | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Mikaela Keller | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Joseph Keshet | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Andriy Kharechko | University of Southampton |
| Arto Klami | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Nir Krause | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Raffaella Lanzarotti | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Christine Largeron | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Jan Larsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Steffen Lauritzen | University of Oxford |
| Nada Lavrac | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Jure Leskovec | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Marie-Jeanne Lesot | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Jussi Lindgren | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Gaëlle Loosli | University of Rouen |
| David Lowe | Aston University |
| Dario Malchiodi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Tuomo Malinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Yishay Mansour | Tel Aviv University |
| Klaus Meer | University of Southern Denmark, Odense |
| Ron Meir | Technion, Haifa |
| Anders Meng | Technical University of Denmark |
| Taneli Mielikäinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Sebastian Mika | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Dunja Mladenić | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Klaus-Robert Müller | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Thierry Murgue | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Iain Murray | University College, London |
| Petri Myllymäki | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Ian Nabney | Aston University |
| Anthony O’Hagan | University of Sheffield |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jose Oncina | Universitat d’Alicante |
| Emilio Parrado-Hernandez | University of Southampton |
| Mudigonda Pawan Kumar | University of Oxford |
| Jaakko Peltonen | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Fernando Perez-Cruz | University College, London |
| Tomaž Pisanski | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Norman Poh | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Massimiliano Pontil | University College, London |
| Ioana Popescu | INSEAD, Paris |
| Adam Prügel-Bennett | University of Southampton |
| Kai Puolamäki | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Tapani Raiko | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Alain Rakotomamonjy | University of Rouen |
| Liva Ralaivola | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Carl Edward Rasmussen | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Joel Ratsaby | University College, London |
| Gunnar Rätsch | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Iead Rezek | University of Oxford |
| Yann Rodriguez | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Jeremy Rogers | University of Southampton |
| Dana Ron | Tel Aviv University |
| Teemu Roos | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Lorenzo Rosasco | University of Genova |
| Volker Roth | ETH Zürich |
| Olga Roudenko | Université Paris Sud |
| Juho Rousu | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Jarkko Salojärvi | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Eerika Savia | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Klaus Schittkowski | University of Bayreuth |
| Cordelia Schmid | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Michael Schmitt | University of Bochum |
| Marc Schoenauer | Université Paris Sud |
| Anton Schwaighofer | TU Graz |
| Michele Sebag | Université Paris Sud |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Hans Simon | University of Bochum |
| Yoram Singer | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Jim Smith | University of Warwick |
| Ed Snelson | University College, London |
| Peter Sollich | King’s College, London |
| Sören Sonnenburg | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Amos Storkey | University of Edinburgh |
| Henri-Maxime Suchier | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Michalis Titsias | University of Edinburgh |
| Philip Torr | University of Oxford |
| William Triggs | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Oren Tsur | Bar Ilan University |
| Tinne Tuytelaars | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Esko Ukkonen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Alessandro Verri | University of Genova |
| Regis Vert | Université Paris Sud |
| Jean-Philippe Vert | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Thomas Vetter | University of Basel |
| S V N Vishwanathan | National ICT, Australia |
| Ulrike Von Luxburg | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Lisa Wainer | University College, London |
| Chris Watkins | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Hannes Wettig | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Christopher Williams | University of Edinburgh |
| Jianqiang Yang | University of Southampton |
| Philipp Zehnder | ETH Zürich |
| Janez Žerovnik | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Dengyong Zhou | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Christian Zillober | University of Bayreuth |
| Andrew Zisserman | University of Oxford |
| Onno Zoeter | University of Nijmegen |
Theory & Algorithms
| Felix Agakov | University of Edinburgh |
| Massih Amini | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Martin Anthony | LSE, London |
| Hagai Aronowitz | Bar Ilan University |
| Peter Auer | University of Leoben |
| Jaume Baixeries | UPC Barcelona |
| José Balcázar | UPC Barcelona |
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Benjamin Blankertz | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Guillaume Bouchard | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Stephane Boucheron | Université Paris Sud |
| Hervé Bourlard | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Olivier Bousquet | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Charles Bouveyron | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Matthieu Bray | ETH Zürich |
| Peter Bühlmann | ETH Zürich |
| Joachim Buhmann | ETH Zürich |
| Francesco Camastra | University of Genova |
| Nicola Cancedda | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Andrea Caponnetto | University of Genova |
| Xavier Carreras | UPC Barcelona |
| Gemma Casas | UPC Barcelona |
| Jorge Castro | UPC Barcelona |
| Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Olivier Chappelle | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Alexander Clark | University of Geneva |
| Pierre Comon | CNRS-Laboratoire I3S, Sophia-Antipolis |
| Antoine Cornuéjols | Université Paris Sud |
| Lehel Csató | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Florence d’Alché-Buc | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Chris Dance | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| A Philip Dawid | University College, London |
| Colin de la Higuera | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Ofer Dekel | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| José del R Millán | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Christos Dimitrakakis | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Gyorgy Dorko | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Ran El-Yaniv | Technion, Haifa |
| Eyal Even-Dar | Tel Aviv University |
| Theodoros Evgeniou | INSEAD, Paris |
| Rémi Eyraud | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Patrik Floréen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Patrick Gallinari | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Ricard Gavaldà | UPC Barcelona |
| Claudio Gentile | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Richard Gill | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Paul Goldberg | University of Warwick |
| Cyril Goutte | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Yves Grandvalet | UTC Compiègne |
| Arthur Gretton | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Marko Grobelnik | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Peter Grünwald | Stichting Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica |
| Steve Gunn | University of Southampton |
| Gregory Gutin | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Amaury Habrard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| David Hardoon | University of Southampton |
| Matthias Hein | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Mark Herbster | University College, London |
| Hynek Hermansky | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Antti Honkela | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jean-Christophe Janodet | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Prashant Joshi | TU Graz |
| Bert Kappen | University of Nijmegen |
| Samuel Kaski | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Mikaela Keller | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Joseph Keshet | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Andriy Kharechko | University of Southampton |
| Jyrki Kivinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Arto Klami | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Nir Krause | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jan Larsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Steffen Lauritzen | University of Oxford |
| Nada Lavrac | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Tue Lehn-Schiøler | Technical University of Denmark |
| Marie-Jeanne Lesot | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| David Lowe | Aston University |
| Rasmus Elsborg Madsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Dario Malchiodi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Tuomo Malinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Yishay Mansour | Tel Aviv University |
| Klaus Meer | University of Southern Denmark, Odense |
| Ron Meir | Technion, Haifa |
| Taneli Mielikäinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Sebastian Mika | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Dunja Mladenić | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Klaus-Robert Müller | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Thierry Murgue | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Iain Murray | University College, London |
| Petri Myllymäki | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Ian Nabney | Aston University |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Ronald Ortner | University of Leoben |
| Emilio Parrado-Hernandez | University of Southampton |
| Jaakko Peltonen | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Fernando Perez-Cruz | University College, London |
| Tomaž Pisanski | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Norman Poh | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Massimiliano Pontil | University College, London |
| Adam Prügel-Bennett | University of Southampton |
| Kai Puolamäki | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Tapani Raiko | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Alain Rakotomamonjy | University of Rouen |
| Liva Ralaivola | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Carl Edward Rasmussen | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Gunnar Rätsch | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Iead Rezek | University of Oxford |
| Jeremy Rogers | University of Southampton |
| Dana Ron | Tel Aviv University |
| Teemu Roos | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Lorenzo Rosasco | University of Genova |
| Juho Rousu | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Jarkko Salojärvi | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Eerika Savia | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Klaus Schittkowski | University of Bayreuth |
| Michael Schmitt | University of Bochum |
| Marc Schoenauer | Université Paris Sud |
| Anton Schwaighofer | TU Graz |
| Michele Sebag | Université Paris Sud |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Hans Simon | University of Bochum |
| Jim Smith | University of Warwick |
| Ed Snelson | University College, London |
| Peter Sollich | King’s College, London |
| Sören Sonnenburg | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Amos Storkey | University of Edinburgh |
| Henry Tirri | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Philip Torr | University of Oxford |
| William Triggs | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Oren Tsur | Bar Ilan University |
| Esko Ukkonen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Harri Valpola | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Sara van de Geer | Leiden University |
| Alessandro Verri | University of Genova |
| Jean-Philippe Vert | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Regis Vert | Université Paris Sud |
| Thomas Vetter | University of Basel |
| S V N Vishwanathan | National ICT, Australia |
| Lisa Wainer | University College, London |
| Hannes Wettig | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Christopher Williams | University of Edinburgh |
| Jianqiang Yang | University of Southampton |
| Luca Zaniboni | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Janez Žerovnik | IMFM, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana |
| Christian Zillober | University of Bayreuth |
| Onno Zoeter | University of Nijmegen |
Machine Vision
| Felix Agakov | University of Edinburgh |
| Ankur Agarwal | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Peter Auer | University of Leoben |
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Guillaume Bouchard | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Charles Bouveyron | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Matthieu Bray | ETH Zürich |
| Joachim Buhmann | ETH Zürich |
| Francesco Camastra | University of Genova |
| Andrea Caponnetto | University of Genova |
| Olivier Chappelle | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Antoine Cornuéjols | Université Paris Sud |
| Lehel Csató | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Chris Dance | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Gyorgy Dorko | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Jan Eichhorn | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Matthias Franz | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Ignazio Gallo | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Paul Goldberg | University of Warwick |
| Steve Gunn | University of Southampton |
| Amaury Habrard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| David Hardoon | University of Southampton |
| Prashant Joshi | TU Graz |
| Alexey Koloydenko | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Raffaella Lanzarotti | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Jure Leskovec | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Jussi Lindgren | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| David Lowe | Aston University |
| Ian Nabney | Aston University |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Mudigonda Pawan Kumar | University of Oxford |
| Norman Poh | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Massimiliano Pontil | University College, London |
| Adam Prügel-Bennett | University of Southampton |
| Tapani Raiko | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Alain Rakotomamonjy | University of Rouen |
| Yann Rodriguez | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Lorenzo Rosasco | University of Genova |
| Volker Roth | ETH Zürich |
| Cordelia Schmid | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Amos Storkey | University of Edinburgh |
| Henri-Maxime Suchier | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Michalis Titsias | University of Edinburgh |
| Philip Torr | University of Oxford |
| William Triggs | Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique |
| Tinne Tuytelaars | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Luc Van Gool | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Alessandro Verri | University of Genova |
| Thomas Vetter | University of Basel |
| Christopher Williams | University of Edinburgh |
| Jianqiang Yang | University of Southampton |
| Philipp Zehnder | ETH Zürich |
| Andrew Zisserman | University of Oxford |
Speech
| Felix Agakov | University of Edinburgh |
| Peter Ahrendt | Technical University of Denmark |
| Hagai Aronowitz | Bar Ilan University |
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Hervé Bourlard | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Walter Daelemans | University of Antwerp |
| Colin de la Higuera | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Amaury Habrard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Hynek Hermansky | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Prashant Joshi | TU Graz |
| Pierre Jourlin | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Joseph Keshet | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Alexey Koloydenko | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jan Larsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| David Lowe | Aston University |
| Dominique Massonie | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Anders Meng | Technical University of Denmark |
| Sebastian Mika | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Dunja Mladenić | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Norman Poh | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Tapani Raiko | Helsinki University of Technology |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Yoram Singer | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Henri-Maxime Suchier | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
Haptics
| Thierry Artieres | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| José del R Millán | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Patrick Gallinari | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Prashant Joshi | TU Graz |
| Klaus-Robert Müller | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Alex Zivanovic | Imperial College |
Brain Computer Interfaces
| Felix Agakov | University of Edinburgh |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Benjamin Blankertz | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Chris Dance | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| José del R Millán | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Ran El-Yaniv | Technion, Haifa |
| Arthur Gretton | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| David Hardoon | University of Southampton |
| Prashant Joshi | TU Graz |
| Bert Kappen | University of Nijmegen |
| Andriy Kharechko | University of Southampton |
| Thomas Navin Lal | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Raffaella Lanzarotti | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Dario Malchiodi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Ron Meir | Technion, Haifa |
| Klaus-Robert Müller | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Alain Rakotomamonjy | University of Rouen |
| Iead Rezek | University of Oxford |
| Anton Schwaighofer | TU Graz |
| Michele Sebag | Université Paris Sud |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
Natural Language Processing
| Navot Akiva | Bar Ilan University |
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Nicola Cancedda | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Andrea Caponnetto | University of Genova |
| Xavier Carreras | UPC Barcelona |
| Jorge Castro | UPC Barcelona |
| Fabio Ciravegna | University of Sheffield |
| Alexander Clark | University of Geneva |
| Walter Daelemans | University of Antwerp |
| Ido Dagan | Bar Ilan University |
| Colin de la Higuera | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Ofer Dekel | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Ludovic Denoyer | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Ran El-Yaniv | Technion, Haifa |
| Rémi Eyraud | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Eric Gaussier | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Claudio Gentile | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Cyril Goutte | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Marko Grobelnik | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Amaury Habrard | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Jean-Christophe Janodet | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Pierre Jourlin | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Samuel Kaski | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Joseph Keshet | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Arto Klami | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Nir Krause | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Christine Largeron | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Jan Larsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Jure Leskovec | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Rasmus Elsborg Madsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Dominique Massonie | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Sebastian Mika | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Dunja Mladenić | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jaakko Peltonen | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Tapani Raiko | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Anton Schwaighofer | TU Graz |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Hans Simon | University of Bochum |
| Yoram Singer | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Sören Sonnenburg | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Oren Tsur | Bar Ilan University |
| Jianqiang Yang | University of Southampton |
Information Retrieval & Textual Information Access
| Douglas Aberdeen | National ICT, Australia |
| Felix Agakov | University of Edinburgh |
| Peter Ahrendt | Technical University of Denmark |
| Navot Akiva | Bar Ilan University |
| Massih Amini | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Peter Auer | University of Leoben |
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Joachim Buhmann | ETH Zürich |
| Francesco Camastra | University of Genova |
| Nicola Cancedda | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Fabio Ciravegna | University of Sheffield |
| Alex Conconi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Walter Daelemans | University of Antwerp |
| Ido Dagan | Bar Ilan University |
| Florence d’Alché-Buc | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Colin de la Higuera | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Ofer Dekel | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Ludovic Denoyer | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Ran El-Yaniv | Technion, Haifa |
| Patrik Floréen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Patrick Gallinari | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Eric Gaussier | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Claudio Gentile | Universita dell’Insubria, Varese |
| Cyril Goutte | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| Marko Grobelnik | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Steve Gunn | University of Southampton |
| David Hardoon | University of Southampton |
| Jean-Christophe Janodet | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Pierre Jourlin | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Samuel Kaski | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Mikaela Keller | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Andriy Kharechko | University of Southampton |
| Arto Klami | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Alexey Koloydenko | EURANDOM, Eindhoven |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Christine Largeron | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Jan Larsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Nada Lavrac | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Jure Leskovec | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Marie-Jeanne Lesot | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| David Lowe | Aston University |
| Rasmus Elsborg Madsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Anders Meng | Technical University of Denmark |
| Taneli Mielikäinen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Dunja Mladenić | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Petri Myllymäki | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Ian Nabney | Aston University |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Emilio Parrado-Hernandez | University of Southampton |
| Jaakko Peltonen | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Kai Puolamäki | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Juho Rousu | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Jarkko Salojärvi | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Eerika Savia | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Anton Schwaighofer | TU Graz |
| Michele Sebag | Université Paris Sud |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Henry Tirri | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Philip Torr | University of Oxford |
| Oren Tsur | Bar Ilan University |
| Esko Ukkonen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Luc Van Gool | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| S V N Vishwanathan | National ICT, Australia |
| Luca Zaniboni | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Dengyong Zhou | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
| Andrew Zisserman | University of Oxford |
Multimodal Integration
| David Barber | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Samy Bengio | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Hervé Bourlard | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Francesco Camastra | University of Genova |
| Alexander Clark | University of Geneva |
| Chris Dance | XEROX Research Centre Europe |
| José del R Millán | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Theodoros Evgeniou | INSEAD, Paris |
| Steve Gunn | University of Southampton |
| Mark Herbster | University College, London |
| Hynek Hermansky | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Pierre Jourlin | CNRS Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon |
| Samuel Kaski | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jan Larsen | Technical University of Denmark |
| Tue Lehn-Schiøler | Technical University of Denmark |
| David Lowe | Aston University |
| Dario Malchiodi | Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Ian Nabney | Aston University |
| Erkki Oja | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Norman Poh | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Massimiliano Pontil | University College, London |
| Kai Puolamäki | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Iead Rezek | University of Oxford |
| Jarkko Salojärvi | Helsinki University of Technology |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Amos Storkey | University of Edinburgh |
| Harri Valpola | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Jianqiang Yang | University of Southampton |
User Modelling for Computer Human Interaction
| Thierry Artieres | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Benjamin Blankertz | Fraunhofer-Institut für Rechnerarchitektur und Softwaretechnik |
| Fabio Ciravegna | University of Sheffield |
| Alexander Clark | University of Geneva |
| Colin de la Higuera | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| José del R Millán | Fondation de l’Institut Dalle Molle d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive |
| Theodoros Evgeniou | INSEAD, Paris |
| Patrik Floréen | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Patrick Gallinari | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| Marko Grobelnik | Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana |
| Steve Gunn | University of Southampton |
| David Hardoon | University of Southampton |
| Samuel Kaski | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Joseph Keshet | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Mikko Kurimo | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Christine Largeron | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Tue Lehn-Schiøler | Technical University of Denmark |
| Gaëlle Loosli | University of Rouen |
| Thierry Murgue | Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne |
| Petri Myllymäki | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Kai Puolamäki | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Alain Rakotomamonjy | University of Rouen |
| Iead Rezek | University of Oxford |
| Jarkko Salojärvi | Helsinki University of Technology |
| Eerika Savia | Helsinki University of Technology |
| John Shawe-Taylor | University of Southampton |
| Jim Smith | University of Warwick |
| Henry Tirri | University of Helsinki, COSCo/HIIT Group |
| Philip Torr | University of Oxford |
| Luc Van Gool | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Dengyong Zhou | Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik |
Challenges for Building Multimodal Interfaces Thematic Programme
1 December 2003 – 30 June 2004
This is PASCAL’s first thematic programme. Its goals are :
- In general, to start an extended dialogue and flow of ideas between the machine learning, statistical modelling and algorithms communities on the one hand, and researchers working on monomodal and multimodal interfaces to various sensing modalities including vision, text & speech, haptics, and brain-computer interfaces on the other.
- Specifically, to select the most promising areas for future interdisciplinary research on learning based approaches to multimodal interfaces during PASCAL.
The programme’s activities are focused around four thematic workshops and the preparation of asssociated challenge datasets.
Interfacing Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches Thematic Programme
1 July – 31 December 2004
This is PASCAL’s second thematic programme. This scientific programme will bring together researchers from the two main statistical frameworks underlying machine learning. Its goals are :
- develop greater understanding and interaction between the two approaches.
- Highlight and develop areas in which successful interaction has already develop in for example the two views of the covariance/kernel matrix and PAC-Bayesian analysis.
- Extend the frequentist analysis of Bayesian methods and import the Bayesian viewpoint and approach into statistical learning approaches.
The programme’s activities are focused around four thematic workshops and a summer school.
Linking Learning and Statistics with Optimisation Thematic Programme
1 January – 30 June 2005
This is PASCAL’s third thematic programme. This scientific programme will bring together researchers around the common theme of generating learning goals from statistics and translating these into optimisation problems. Its goals are :
- the use of statistical analyses to understand and motivate learning algorithms.
- The translation of statistical bounds into corresponding constrained optimisation problems.
- The development of optimisation methods that can expedite the solution of problems arising from machine learning tasks.
The programme’s activities are focused around workshops and a summer school.
On-line User Modelling and Reinforcement Learning Thematic Programme
1 July – 31 December 2005
This thematic programme investigates the application of reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to the design of intelligent and adaptive user interfaces. The activities of the programme are focused around workshops and a open house.
Learning with Complex and Structured Outputs Thematic Programme
1 December 2005 – 30 June 2006
This is PASCAL’s fifth thematic programme. This scientific programme will bring together researchers around two themes:
- Firstly, learning tasks where the target is complex (i.e. large number of different predictions) but has structure (sequence, tree, graph) that can be utilized for learning effectively.
- Secondly, multi-task learning, where several dependent learning tasks are to be tackled at once.
The areas of interest of this thematic programme are the following:
- Feature representations for structured and multi-task learning problems that enable effective learning
- Efficient optimization and inference algorithms required to make learning tractable
- Isolation of benchmark learning problems and challenges to fuel research in structured output and multi-task learning
Intelligent Information Access Thematic Programme
1 July – 31 December 2006
Semantic information recognition and extraction is the major enabler for next generation information retrieval and natural language processing. Yet it is currently only successful in small domains of limited scope. We claim that to move beyond this restriction requires one:
- to perform integrated semantic extraction incorporating a probabilistic representation of semantic content, and
- to better employ the broader semantic resources now coming on-line.
This project will explore both fundamental research and large scale applications, using the public domain Wikipedia as a driver and a resource. Research will explore the integration of semantic information into the language processing chain. Applications will employ this in broad spectrum named-entity recognition, and in cross-lingual information retrieval using the rich but incomplete data available fron the Wikipedia. Three PASCAL sites will contribute pre-existing software, theory, and skills to the range of tasks involved.
Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Computer Interfaces Thematic Programme
1 November 2006 – 30 June 2007
This thematic programme is devoted to the topic ‘Computational Neuroscience’ with a focus on macroscopic brain signals and the application field ‘Brain-Computer Interfaces’. Computation Neuroscience and in particular BCI systems gain quickly increasing interest by the Maschine Learning community which is, e.g., reflected by the number labs that were participating in the BCI Competitions I to III increasing from 8 to 20 to 49. Nevertheless it turns out that the application of advanced statistical methods to neuroscientific problems often requires interdisciplinary experience and skills. The improvement of those abilities is the aim of this thematic programme.
Cognitive Learning: Language, Movement and Vision Thematic Programme
1 December 2006 – 30 June 2007
Cognitive Science, the interdisciplinary study of the nature of mind and intelligence is centrally concerned with learning, a defining characteristic of intelligence in general and of humans in particular. The theoretical study of learning, and the practical techniques developed in ML communities represented by PASCAL have now reached the level where many of the learning problems studied in cognitive science can be realistically tackled. PASCAL includes many researchers interested in computational linguistics, grammatical inference, vision and other domains which are potentially closely related to cognitive science. This thematic program will try to market machine learning to an audience in cognitive science, and also identify problems in cognitive science that have not yet been explored by machine learning researchers.
Learning in Computational and Systems Biology Thematic Programme
1 March – 30 September 2007
In this thematic programme we will consider how machine learning can be brought to bear in knowledge driven systems biology models. Our key aim will be to bridge a perceived gap between data driven computational biology models and systems biology models that are inspired by a knowledge of the actual underlying molecular interactions. We are proposing three workshops on parameter estimation in systems biology, probabilistic modelling of cellular networks and pathways and practical approaches to inference in large biological systems. The Thematic Programme will run on this subject between March and September 2007.
Graph Theory Methods in Machine Learning Thematic Programme
1 June – 30 September 2007
The thematic programme is relatively short spanning just four months over the summer of 2007. The programme is initiated by a workshop in Spain looking at graph representations for learning co-organised with centres not directly involved in PASCAL, but very much at the core of one of the main links between machine learning and graph theory. It is in the same vein as the workshop organised this year in Berlin looking at graph theory methods for learning. The second event also in June is a workshop associated with a graph theory conference being organised by the IMFM PASCAL site in Bled, Slovenia. The third event is a workshop to be held in Tuscany on the topic of Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG 2007). The final two events will be a summer school organised in Helsinki focussing on bioinformatics and an open house whose location is yet to be determined.
