Fixed term research fellowship in computer vision,
full details available here
https://edm.brookes.ac.uk/hr/hr/vacancies.do?id=8144704
Head of department in department with emphasis on computer vision
full detaild available here
https://edm.brookes.ac.uk/hr/hr/vacancies.do?id=8176959
First Call for Papers for:
Special Session on Automatic Photo Albuming (APA)
http://www.imagapp.visigrapp.org/APA.asp
Satellite event of IMAGAPP 2011
5-7 March, 2011 – Algarve, Portugal
The Special Session on Automatic Photo Albuming (APA) addresses the major challenges in automating photo album and derived product creation from large image collections. These collections can be composed by consumer’s personal photos, by images related to social events shared in social networks and they can be enriched with photos of third-party repositories (e.g. flickr, photo.net). Statistics shows that due to the time needed for completing the album editing tasks, about 50% of all photo books started online are never finished: creating a photo-album is still a tedious and sometimes frustrating experience. In fact, despite the recent advances in image understanding and multimedia content creation, many essential image manipulation and document editing tools are not yet integrated in albuming workflow. This is true for several reasons: current tools accuracy is limited; it is difficult to create user friendly applications where such tools are effectively used to assist the users and reducing the time to press. The aim of this special session is to offer an opportunity for researchers, developers and photo service providers, to interact and exchange ideas about methods to assist users in the creation of high quality photo books within minimum efforts and time. Hence authors are solicited (but are not limited) to submit papers on the following topics:
* Automatic image quality assessment and enhancement
* Image clustering and near duplicate detection
* Image set summarization
* Saliency detection and image auto-crop
* Analyzing image aesthetics
* Advanced photo editing tools (image inpainting, color transfer, object removal/object rearrangement, scene carving)
* Automatic layout (images reflow, background color selection, etc)
Organizers:
Luca Marchesotti (Xerox), Joost Van de Weijer (CVC of Barcelona) and Gabriela Csurka (Xerox)
Important dates:
Regular Paper Submission: January 10, 2011 (strict deadline)
Authors Notification: January 25, 2011
Final Paper Submission and Registration: February 3, 2011
All accepted papers will be reviewed by 3 experts from the Imagapp Program Committee (http://www.imagapp.visigrapp.org/program_committee.asp). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support that will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). In addition, we intend to publish extended versions of best papers in a special issue of an international journal.
Should you have any question please don’t hesitate contacting the chairs or the Imagapp secretariat (imagapp.secretariat(at)insticc.org)
First Call for Papers for:
Special Session on Medical Image Repositories Assisting Diagnoses (MIRAD)
http://www.imagapp.visigrapp.org/MIRAD.asp
Satellite event of IMAGAPP 2011
5-7 March, 2011 – Algarve, Portugal
The Special Session on Medical Image Repositories Assisting Diagnoses (MIRAD) aims to address major challenges in assisting physicians to make diagnostic decision using medical image repositories. Traditionally, decision-making involves evidence provided by the patient data coupled with a physician’s a priori experience of a limited number of similar cases. Advances in electronic health record systems facilitate the creation of large numbers of pre-diagnosed patient data sets. These repositories become a key component for the diagnosis of many pathologies, follow-up and treatment. However, it is not straightforward how to efficiently and effectively exploit these repositories. There is a clear need for advanced techniques in medical image analysis and database indexing, multimodal data mining tools to efficiently discover associations between image and non-image (structured or free text) data and enhanced visualization techniques to assist physicians.
The aim of this special session is on the one hand to bring together researchers to discuss new techniques in these fields and their use in clinical decision support. On the other hand, we invite practitioners and healthcare professionals to submit papers clearly describing the major problems and the limitations of existing technologies and raising open issues for which they would need clear solutions.
Organizers:
Henning Müller (HES-SO), Gabriela Csurka (Xerox) and Mario Jarmasz (Xerox)
Important dates:
Regular Paper Submission: January 10, 2011 (strict deadline)
Authors Notification: January 25, 2011
Final Paper Submission and Registration: February 3, 2011
All papers will be reviewed by 3 experts from the Imagapp Program Committee (http://www.imagapp.visigrapp.org/program_committee.asp). Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support that will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). In addition, we intend to publish extended versions of best papers in a special issue of an international journal.
Should you have any question please don’t hesitate contacting the chairs or the Imagapp secretariat (imagapp.secretariat(at)insticc.org)
Call for papers
ICCS 2011 workshop on High-dimensional Data Visualization
A workshop in conjunction with the ICCS 2011 conference,
International Conference on Computational Science,
Tsukuba (Japan), June 1-3, 2011
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~verleyse/ICCS%202011
Deadline for submission of papers: January 8, 2011
Short overview (see http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~verleyse/ICCS%202011 for more detailed CFP):
Data visualization plays an important role in data analysis and mining, by helping to find specificities of data (clusters, outliers, densities,…) that in turn determine the choice for analysis tools and algorithms. Recently, there has been an increasing scientific activity in the development of nonlinear algorithms for visualizing data, in the contexts of nonlinear dimensionality reduction and manifold learning. While algorithms are now established, there is still a lack of applicability in real-world situations, on high-dimensional data, and of objective criteria to assess the quality of the visualization. This workshop will concentrate on recent developments, including the applicability to high-dimensional data, the methodology to choose methods, and their objective evaluation.
Workshop organizers:
Michel Verleysen, Université cat. Louvain (Belgium), michel.verleysen(at)uclouvain.be
Fabrice Rossi, Télécom ParisTech (France), fabrice.rossi(at)telecom-paristech.fr
John Lee,Université cat. Louvain (Belgium), john.lee(at)uclouvain.be
Paper submission and format :
See http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~verleyse/ICCS%202011 for detailed instructions.
* 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline extension) *
International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging (PRNI 2011)
Seoul, Korea, May 16-18, 2011
http://brain.korea.ac.kr/prni2011
Pattern recognition and machine learning techniques provide
a new way to analyze complex and huge brain imaging datasets.
Many challenges are also present in other applications of pattern
recognition, such as non-stationary distributions, model regularisation,
high-dimensional time series, or causality modeling.
Following the success of the first Workshop on Brain Decoding
(Istanbul, 2010), this three-day workshop aims at providing an opportunity
for discussing recent advances in methods and applications, while trying to
narrow the gap between imaging modalities. A subfield where discussion is
of special interest is that of real-time methods, as they are at the
confluence of modalities (EEG/fMRI) and at the forefront of machine
learning research (incremental learning, non-i.i.d. data). Interpretability
of classification and regression machines is also critical to increasing
interactions between methods and application-oriented researchers, and is
of particular interest for this workshop.
Several travel scholarships will be available for Ph.D. students and
post-docs, and will be awarded competitively based on reviewer scores
of the papers.
Keynote speakers will include
Stephen Strother (University of Toronto, Canada)
Stephen LaConte (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
SCOPE
The workshop welcomes original contributions using relevant modalities
(e.g. functional/structural MRI, EEG, ECoG, MEG) including the following
areas:
* Data representation
Voxel / channel / feature selection
Linear and non-linear dimensionality reduction
Sparse time-course representations
Interpretability and validation
* High-dimensional learning
Regularisation
Transfer learning
Multimodal / ensemble classification
Incremental / online learning and adaptation
* Applications
Cognitive, affective, and social neurosciences
Man-machine interfaces
Clinical applications
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
Authors should prepare full 4-pages papers (double-column, IEEE style).
Extended abstract are not accepted. The review process will be double-blind.
Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Science Society in
electronic format. They will be permantently available on the IEEExplore
and IEEE CS Digital Library online repositories, and indexed in IEE
INSPEC, EI Compendex (Elsevier), Thomson ISI, and others.
DATES AND DEADLINES
Full paper submission: December 17th, 2010
Acceptance notification: January 31st, 2011
Travel scholarship notification: February 15th, 2011
Camera-ready paper: March 1st, 2011
Workshop: May 16-18, 2011
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
R. Abugharbieh (U. of British Columbia, CA)
T. Adali (U. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
J. Ashburner (UCL, UK)
B. Blankertz (TU Berlin, DE)
M. Brammer (King’s College London, UK)
V. Calhoun (Yale, USA)
C. Chu (NIH, USA)
T. Ethofer (U. Tübingen, DE)
C. Gaser (U. Jena, DE)
P. Golland (MIT, USA)
L. Grosenick (Stanford, USA)
G. Hamarneh (Simon Fraser U., CA)
D. Hardoon (Inst. for Infocomm Research, SG)
T. Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN)
K. Kryszczuk (IBM Research, CH)
G. Langs (MIT, USA)
F. Lotte (A*STAR, SG)
A. Marquand (UCL, UK)
J. Meynet (Bestofmedia Group, FR)
J. Sato (Federal U. of ABC, BR)
S. Schwartz (U. of Geneva, CH)
N. Schuff (UCSF, USA)
B. Thirion (Neurospin, FR)
P. Vemuri (Mayo Clinic, USA)
P. Vuilleumier (U. of Geneva, CH)
M. Van Hulle (K.U. Leuven, BE)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
General Chairs: S.-W Lee (Korea University, KR), C. Davatzikos (U. of
Pennsylvania, USA), D. Van De Ville (EPFL/U. of Geneva, CH)
Program Chairs: J. Richiardi (EPFL/U. of Geneva, CH), J. Mourão-Miranda
(UCL/King’s College, UK), Y. Kamitani (ATR, JP)
Tutorial Chair: F. Pereira (Princeton U., USA)
Local Arrangements Chair: J.-H. Lee (Korea University, KR)
Publication Chair: C. Wallraven (Korea University, KR)
Finance Chair: J. Kwag (Korea University, KR)
Registration Chair: S.-P. Kim (Korea University, KR)
PASCAL GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2010 (GREAT10)
We announce the launch of the gravitational lensing accuracy testing challenge
GREAT10. The challenge has two aspects, the star challenge and the more
demanding galaxy challenge.
The star challenge is to estimated the convolution kernel in astronomical images.
The kernel is sparsely sampled by stars in the images, which are coarsely pixelated and
contain noise. The challenge is to reconstruct the convolution kernel
at non-star positions.
The galaxy challenge is to measure the correlation function of the
shear effect (an additional 1% ellipticity caused by gravity and present in
every galaxy image) over 52 million simulated galaxy images. The
images are noisy and have been blurred by a known convolution kernel.
We provide the images, 1Tb in total, some development code, training data,
and more information here
http://www.great10challenge.info
The winner of the challenge will receive an iPad (or similar) and an expenses
paid trip to the final challenge workshop at JPL, Pasadena in September 2011.
The key dates associated with this challenge are :
* 6th December 2010 : Challenge Launch
* 26th-28th January 2011 : Challenge Workshop I, eScience Institute, Edinburgh
* 3rd-5th May 2011 : Challenge Workshop II, UCL, London
* 2nd September 2011 : Challenge Closes
* 26th-29th September 2011 : Final Challenge Workshop, JPL NASA, Pasadena
The project team SEQUEL (Sequential Learning) of INRIA Lille, France, https://sequel.lille.inria.fr/ is seeking to appoint one Postdoctoral Fellow. We welcome applicants with a good mathematical background who are interested in theory and applications of reinforcement learning and bandit algorithms.
The research will be conducted under the supervision of Remi Munos, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, and Daniil Ryabko.
The positions are research only and are for one year, with the possibility of being extended.
The starting date is flexible, from Spring 2011 to Fall 2011.
INRIA is France’s leading institution in Computer Science, with over 2800 scientists employed, of which around 250 in Lille. Lille is the capital of the north of France, a metropolis with 1 million inhabitants, with excellent train connection to Brussels (30 min), Paris (1h) and London (1h30).
The Sequel lab is a dynamic lab at INRIA with over 25 researchers (including PhD students) which covers several aspects of machine learning from theory to applications, including statistical learning, reinforcement learning, and sequential learning.
The positions will be funded by the EXPLO-RA project (Exploration-Exploitation for efficient Resource Allocation), a project in collaboration with ENS Ulm (Gilles Stoltz), Ecole des Ponts (Jean Yves Audibert), INRIA team TAO (Olivier Teytaud), Univ. Paris Descartes (Bruno Bouzy), and Univ. Paris Dauphine (Tristan Cazenave).
See: http://sites.google.com/site/anrexplora/ for some of our activities.
Possible topics include reinforcement learning, possibly with sparsity, random projections, bandit algorithms for solving large MDP, POMDPs.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree (by the starting date of the position) in computer science, statistics, or related fields, possibily with background in reinforcement learning, bandits, or optimization.
To apply please send a CV to remi.munos(at)inria.fr or mohammad.ghavamzadeh(at)nria.fr, or daniil.ryabko(at)inria.fr.
If you are planning to go to NIPS this year, we could set up an appointment there with Mohammad Ghavamzadeh.
CALL FOR PAPERS – 2011 International Conference on Multimodal
Interaction (ICMI2011)
2011 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2011)
November 14-18, 2011
Alicante, Spain
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2011
The International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) and
the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction
(MLMI) are combined to form the new ICMI, which continues to be
the premium international forum where multimodal signal
processing and multimedia human-computer interaction are
presented and discussed. The conference will focus on theoretical
and empirical foundations, varied component technologies, and
combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field
of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system
development. ICMI 2011 will feature a single-track main
conference which includes:
* keynote speakers
* technical full and short papers
(including oral and poster presentations)
* special sessions
* demonstrations
* exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers
The main conference will be held November 14-16, 2011 and
followed by a 2-day workshop.
TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to:
* Multimodal and multimedia interactive processing: multimodal
fusion, multimodal output generation, multimodal interactive
discourse and dialogue modeling, machine learning methods for
multimodal interaction.
* Multimodal input and output interfaces: gaze and vision-based
interfaces, speech and conversational interfaces, pen-based and
haptic interfaces, virtual/augmented reality interfaces,
biometric interfaces, adaptive multimodal interfaces, natural
user interfaces, authoring techniques, architectures.
* Multimodal and interactive applications: Mobile and ubiquitous
interfaces, meeting analysis and meeting spaces, interfaces to
media content and entertainment, human-robot interfaces and
interaction, audio/speech and vision interfaces for gaming,
multimodal interaction issues in telepresence, vehicular
applications and navigational aids, interfaces for intelligent
environments, universal access and assistive computing,
multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization.
* Human interaction analysis and modeling: modeling and analysis
of multimodal human-human communication, audio-visual perception
of human interaction, analysis and modeling of verbal and
nonverbal interaction, cognitive modeling.
* Multimodal and interactive data, evaluation, and standards:
evaluation techniques and methodologies, annotation and browsing
of multimodal and interactive data, standards for multimodal
interactive interfaces.
* Core enabling technologies: pattern recognition, machine
learning, computer vision, speech recognition, gesture
recognition.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Workshops proposal: March 1, 2011
* Paper and demo submission: May 13, 2011
* Author notification: August 5, 2011
* Camera ready deadline: September 02, 2011
* Conference: November 14-16, 2011
* Workshops: November 17-18, 2011
FURTHER INFORMATION:
PDF file of the Call-for-Papers can be found at
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2011/data/ICMI-2011.pdf
For up-to-date information on the technical and social program
for practical arrangements, please visit the conference website
at http://www.acm.org/icmi/2011.
We hope to welcome you in Alicante in November 2011!
———-
General Chairs:
Herve Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute)
Thomas S. Huang (University of Illinois)
Enrique Vidal (Technical University of Valencia)
Program Chairs:
Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap Research Institute)
L.P. Morency (University of Southern California)
Nicu Sebe (University of Trento)
Demo Chairs:
Kazuhiro Otsuka (NTT Communication Science Labs)
Jordi Vitria (UB/CVC, Barcelona)
Workshop Chairs:
Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona)
Fernando de la Torre (Carnegie Mellon University)
Publication Chair:
Jose Oncina (University of Alicante)
Student & Spot. Chair:
Li Deng (Microsoft Research and University of Washington)
Sponsorship Chair:
Nuria Oliver (Telefonica I+D)
Publicity Chair:
Helen Mei-Ling Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Local Org. Chair:
Luisa Mico (University of Alicante)
Treasurer:
Jorge Calera (University of Alicante)
Local organizers:
Xavier Anguera (Telefonica I+D)
Antonio J. Gallego (University of Alicante)
Ida Hui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jose Manuel Inesta (University of Alicante)
Alejandro H. Toselli (Technical University of Valencia)
Call for Papers – 2011 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2011)
2011 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2011)
November 14-18, 2011
Alicante, Spain
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2011
The International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) and the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (MLMI) are combined for form the new ICMI, which continues to be the premium international forum where multimodal signal processing and multimedia human-computer interaction are presented and discussed. The conference will focus on theoretical and empirical foundations, varied component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI 2011 will feature a single-track main conference which includes:
* keynote speakers
* technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations)
* special sessions
* demonstrations
* exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers
The main conference will be held November 14-16, 2011 and followed by a 2-day workshop.
TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to:
* Multimodal and multimedia interactive processing: multimodal fusion, multimodal output generation, multimodal interactive discourse and dialogue modeling, machine learning methods for multimodal interaction.
* Multimodal input and output interfaces: gaze and vision-based interfaces, speech and conversational interfaces, pen-based and haptic interfaces, virtual/augmented reality interfaces, biometric interfaces, adaptive multimodal interfaces, natural user interfaces, authoring techniques, architectures.
* Multimodal and interactive applications: Mobile and ubiquitous interfaces, meeting analysis and meeting spaces, interfaces to media content and entertainment, human-robot interfaces and interaction, audio/speech and vision interfaces for gaming, multimodal interaction issues in telepresence, vehicular applications and navigational aids, interfaces for intelligent environments, universal access and assistive computing, multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization.
* Human interaction analysis and modeling: modeling and analysis of multimodal human-human communication, audio-visual perception of human interaction, analysis and modeling of verbal and nonverbal interaction, cognitive modeling.
* Multimodal and interactive data, evaluation, and standards: evaluation techniques and methodologies, annotation and browsing of multimodal and interactive data, standards for multimodal interactive interfaces.
* Core enabling technologies: pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision, speech recognition, gesture recognition.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Workshops proposal: March 1, 2011
* Paper and demo submission: May 13, 2011
* Author notification: August 5, 2011
* Camera ready deadline: September 02, 2011
* Conference: November 14-16, 2011
* Workshops: November 17-18, 2011
FURTHER INFORMATION:
PDF file of the Call-for-Papers can be found at http://www.acm.org/icmi/2011/data/ICMI-2011.pdf.
For up-to-date information on the technical and social program for practical arrangements, please visit the conference website at http://www.acm.org/icmi/2011.
We hope to welcome you in Alicante in November 2011!
———-
General Chairs:
Herve Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute)
Thomas S. Huang (University of Illinois)
Enrique Vidal (Technical University of Valencia)
Program Chairs:
Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap Research Institute)
L.P. Morency (University of Southern California)
Nicu Sebe (University of Trento)
Demo Chairs:
Kazuhiro Otsuka (NTT Communication Science Labs)
Jordi Vitria (UB/CVC, Barcelona)
Workshop Chairs:
Alejandro Jaimes (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona)
Fernando de la Torre (Carnegie Mellon University)
Publication Chair:
Jose Oncina (University of Alicante)
Student & Spot. Chair:
Li Deng (Microsoft Research and University of Washington)
Sponsorship Chair:
Nuria Oliver (Telefonica I+D)
Publicity Chair:
Helen Mei-Ling Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Local Org. Chair:
Luisa Mico (University of Alicante)
Treasurer:
Jorge Calera (University of Alicante)
Local organizers:
Xavier Anguera (Telefonica I+D)
Antonio J. Gallego (University of Alicante)
Ida Hui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Jose Manuel Inesta (University of Alicante)
Alejandro H. Toselli (Technical University of Valencia)
The Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich
seeks applications for an
Assistant Professorship (tenure-track) in Cognitive Systems and Artificial Intelligence
We seek applications from highly qualified persons in the early stages of their academic careers with a strong research focus in any area of Cognitive Systems and or Artificial Intelligence. Possible research topics include machine learning, automated decision support, probabilistic systems, emergent behavior, non von Neumann computation, computational cognition, and agent-based systems. Involvement in teaching at all levels is expected.
Prerequisites include a Ph.D. degree, excellent scientific qualifications, and teaching experience. The faculty supports innovative research linking Informatics with the faculty’s other disciplines. We explicitly encourage women with the appropriate qualifications to apply. Details about the position and the expected application documents can be found at
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/profhires.
Applications should be submitted by e-mail (with the candidate’s file attached as a single PDF document) to the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and IT, Prof. Dr. Dr. Josef Falkinger, appointment(at)oec.uzh.ch. Primary consideration will be given to applications received by January 3, 2011.
