Considering the existing gap between the most fundamental concepts of computer vision and their application in real world scenarios, the realisation of visum school seeks to bridge these two key domains. By creating an expert multicultural environment, visum school aims to foster junior researchers’ awareness of computer vision topics, as well as to enhance all attendees’ knowledge regarding the state of the art, provided by leading international experts on the field. Being an area of great potential in industrial applications with a strong increase in the number of researchers in these last years, visum school will be an incredible opportunity to be on the edge of knowledge.

visum will comprise three main tracks: fundamental, industrial and application topics, each one with extensive practical `hands-on’ sessions. A poster session will be organized especially dedicated, but not exclusive, to Ph.D. candidates. With this, researchers can discuss their current research works, possibly leading to significant breakthroughs in the development of their theses. In the industrial track, national and international renowned institutions will present their case studies and knowingness to the attendees. visum will have a track dedicated to applications with the aim to bridge the gap between the fundamental and industrial topics, each year with a different subject.

INESC TEC is one of the partners of the event.

Important Dates:

Application Deadline: March 1, 2014
Decision:  March 9, 2014
Early Registration: April 10, 2014
Late Registration: May 10, 2014
Summer School: July 3, 2014

Lectures and Speakers

• Machine Learning on Computer Vision, Jaime S. Cardoso, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Image Segmentation, Cristian Sminchisescu, Lund University, Sweden
• Feature Detectores, tba
• Human computer Interaction, Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK
• RGB-D Cameras, Juergen Sturm, Technische Universität München, Germany
• Biometrics, Hugo Proença, Universidade da Beira Interior
• Applications, André Marçal, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Industrial Session

• Siemens S.A., João Dias
• E-Commerce Sonae MC, Nuno Filipe Almeira
• Albatroz Engineering, Sérgio Copeto

Target Audience

MSc. and Ph.D. candidates;
Post-Doctoral scholars and researchers;
Academic and industrial professionals with (research) interests in computer vision;
And, everyone who wants to have knowledge of topics avant-garde.

Please visit the webpage for up to date information: http://www.fe.up.pt/visum/.