ICVSS 2012 – MiroLab

This summer was a real special summer for us Phd of MIRo Group Mattia, Nicolò and me. We had we opportunity to participate to the ICVSS 2012, the International Computer Vision Summer School organized by the University of Catania.

We were selected among many candidates, being in the end 3 of the 100 participants.

This school was organized, as the previous editions, in Sicily, in a village near Ragusa, Scicli.

In the images posted here you can see the group of students of this year and the first slide of the course.

The scholl lasted 1 week, during which we attended to different and interesting advanced courses held by the most important professors and researchers involved in fields like 3D reconstrucion, object recognition and classification, advance feature and image processing etc.

LIST OF SPEAKERS
• Lourdes Agapito, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Francis Bach, INRIA, France
• Michael Bronstein, Università della Svizzera Italiana, CH
• Andrew Davison, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy
• Rob Fergus, New York University, USA
• Graham Finlayson, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
• Jan Koenderink, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Jitendra Malik, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• Marcello Pelillo, University of Venice, Italy
• Deva Ramanan, University of California at Irvine, USA
• Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• Julia Schnabel, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Amnon Shashua, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Stefano Soatto, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

SCHOOL DIRECTORS
• Roberto Cipolla, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Sebastiano Battiato, University of Catania, Italy
• Giovanni Maria Farinella, University of Catania, Italy

Here the schedule of the courses:

Monday 16 July 2012

Lecture 1:

“Human Visual Awareness – Space, Time, Shape”, by Jan Koenderink

KU Leuven (Belgium) & Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)

Lecture 2:

“Colour in Computer Vision”, by Graham Finlayson

University of East Anglia, UK

Tuesday 17 July 2012

Lecture 3:

“Object Recognition”, by Jitendra Malik

University of California at Berkeley

Lecture 4:

“Feature Learning Methods for Computer Vision”, by Rob Fergus

New York University, USA

Lecture 5:

“Visual Recognition over Multiple Categories: A Scalable Framework”, by Amnon Shashua

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Wednesday 18 July 2012

Lecture 6:

“SLAM and Real-Time SFM”, by Andrew Davison

Imperial College London, UK

Lecture 7:

“Metric and Diffusion Geometry in Shape Analysis”, by Michael Bronstein

Università della Svizzera Italiana, CH

Advanced Tutorial 1:

“Non-Rigid Structure from Motion”, by Lourdes Agapito

Queen Mary University of London, UK

This lecture was particulary important for our group: during her speech the University of Trento was mentioned!

During the 2011 Francesco Setti worked at the Queen Mary University of London where our Garment was used to test their own algorithms. This session of test was cited and here there is a picture of this moment of proud!