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font-family: "Courier New";">V&L Net: The EPSRC
Network on Vision and Language<o:p></o:p></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">PUMP-PRIMING VISION & LANGUAGE
RESEARCH 2011-2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Call for Project Proposal Ideas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">V&L Net<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">The EPSRC Network on Vision and
Language (V&L Net) is a forum for researchers from the
fields of Computer Vision and Language Processing to meet,
exchange ideas, expertise and technology, and form new
partnerships. Our aim is to create a lasting interdisciplinary
research community situated at the language-vision interface,
jointly working towards solutions for some of today's toughest
computational challenges, including image and video search,
description of visual content and text-to-image generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">The Pump-priming Vision &
Language Research Scheme:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">V&L Net provides funding to
members with the aim of pump-priming research collaboration.
We support two different types of activities:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">1. Research collaboration meetings
between network members which have the specific aim of
developing and writing a joint proposal involving researchers
at different institutions (including industrial partners).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">2. Preparing for release data sets
and software resources which will become publicly and freely
available to researchers, and which define research challenges
and/or support interdisciplinary work in vision and language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Details of this Call (2011-2):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">This call for proposals is not
restricted to any particular type of topic or resource
(although subsequent calls may be). However, proposal topics
must either be interdisciplinary, involving researchers from
both language processing and computer vision, or be located in
one discipline, with clear relevance to the other. The
assessment criteria will be:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">1. Potential to achieve progress on
research challenges that involve both language and vision; and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">2. Quality of the plan of work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Submissions will be reviewed by the
V&L Net steering committee. The steering committee
(excluding members involved in a submitted proposal) will
create a ranked list of submitted proposals. The final
decision regarding funding will be made by the network
coordinators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Submission Guidelines:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Please send a 2-page outline of the
project idea in PDF format to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:vl-net@brighton.ac.uk">vl-net@brighton.ac.uk</a>
no later than 05 September 2011. The outline should include
the following information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">1. Project team, including names of
the investigators, their affiliations and brief track record,
and list of other researchers involved;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">2. Case for Support, including
either:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"> a. a high-level synopsis of the
project idea and the funding body to which proposal will be
submitted, or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"> b. a description of the data
set/software resource to be released and its role in setting a
research challenge or supporting interdisciplinary vision and
language research;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">3. Spending plan, detailing the
envisaged costs, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"> a. envisaged number of meetings
and estimated cost of each meeting, or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"> b. estimated cost of releasing
the data or software resource.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Eligibility:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">The proposed principal investigators
and co-investigators must be V&L Net members at the time
of submission, and full V&L Net members when funding
starts (please refer to the V&L Net website for membership
information; for URL see below). At least one investigator
must be employed by a UK institution eligible to apply for
research council funding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Members of the V&L Net Steering
Committee may be involved in a proposal submitted to this
call, but in this case they will not take part in any aspect
of assessing and ranking submitted proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">We envisage providing relatively
small-scale financial support, in the region of 1,000-2,000
Pounds. However, the final amount of funding that will be
provided to the winning proposal will be determined in
negotiations between the proposers and the V&L Net
coordinators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Requirements and details of
financial support for winning proposals:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">We will publicise successful
proposals on the V&L Net website, including a very brief
description of the topic of the proposal idea (as composed by
the investigators).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">We will also ask successful
applicants to provide us with a progress report at the end of
the funding period (to enable us to periodically review the
success of the scheme).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">V&L Net will reimburse costs
incurred in connection with either proposal development
meetings or releasing data and software resources. Eligible
costs are accommodation expenses, UK travel (including the UK
part of international travel), meals and costs directly
incurred in connection with releasing data and software
resources. However, ineligible costs are
academic/researchers' salaries, capital equipment,
institutional overheads, and any costs directly supporting
research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Eligible costs will be reimbursed
upon submission of expense claim forms. All expense claims
will have to be submitted by the end of the funding period (28
February 2012 for this call). The sum total of all expense
claims must not exceed the amount agreed in negotiations with
the coordinators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Deadlines:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Submission of proposals 5
September 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Notification of outcome 26
September 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Funding period 1
October 2011 to 28 February 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">Contacts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">V&L Net email address: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:vl-net@brighton.ac.uk">vl-net@brighton.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Courier New";">V&L Net website: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.vl-net.org.uk">http://www.vl-net.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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