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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">V&L Net Workshop on Vision
and Language (VL'11)
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FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Endorsed by BMVA (the British Machine Vision Association) and EACL
(the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics)
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Date: Thursday, 15 September 2011
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Venue: Huxley Building, University of Brighton
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Invited Speakers:
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Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland
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Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge
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Roy Davies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin
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Programme: see below
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The EPSRC Network on Vision and Language (V&L Net)
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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.
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Workshop Aims
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The Vision and Language Workshop is chiefly intended to be a
networking and community building event for the computer vision
and language processing communities. It will give us an
opportunity to meet and get to know each other. This process will
be supported by an informal approach characterised by diverse
networking activities and a large number of brief oral
presentations combined with poster presentations.
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The Vision and Language Workshop is free for full V&L Net
members. V&L Net will furthermore cover the cost of one
night's accommodation in Brighton and economy-class travel within
the UK for full V&L Net members presenting an accepted poster.
Full details can be found on the workshop page on the V&L Net
website (for contact details see below).
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Call for Participation
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The Vision & Language Workshop organisers invite researchers
with an interest in computer vision and language processing to
register for the workshop by sending an email to <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:vl-net@brighton.ac.uk">vl-net@brighton.ac.uk</a>
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giving name, affiliation and primary research interests.
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Mini-posters for WLTM Notice Board
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Delegates are furthermore encouraged to bring along to the
workshop A3-sized mini-posters for our would-like-to-meet notice
board. The idea is for mini-posters to describe collaborations
sought, profile research groups, advertise publications, and
similar items.
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Programme
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08:30-09:00 Registration and Coffee
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09:00-09:15 Introduction to V&L Net and VL’11
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09:15-10:00 Invited NLP Overview Talk: Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity
College Dublin
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10:00-10:45 Invited CV Overview Talk: Roy Davies, Royal Holloway,
University of London
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10:45-11:15 Coffee
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11:15-12:00 Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland:
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Robots need language: A computational model for the integration of
vision, action and language
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12:00-12:45 Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge:
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Integrating textual information extraction and visual similarity
search for biomedical research papers
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12:45-13:45 Lunch (cold fork buffet)
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13:45-16:00 Poster Presentations:
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Amjad Altadmri and Amr Ahmed:
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Automatic Semantic Video Annotation in Wide Domain Videos Based on
Similarity and Commonsense Knowledge Bases
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Andrew J. Anderson, Elia Bruni, Brian Murphy, Marco Baroni and
Massimo Poesio:
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fMRI Analyses of semantic structure using joint text and image
models
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Mark Andrews and Gabriella Vigliocco:
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Augmenting Distributional Statistics with Experiential Data
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Marco Baroni, Elia Bruni and Giang Binh Tran:
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Multimodal distributional semantics
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Moreno I. Coco, George L. Malcolm and Frank Keller:
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The Interplay of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Mechanisms in Visual
Guidance during Object Naming
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N. T. Crook, S. Pulman, P. Blunsom:
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Automatic generation of natural language descriptions of visual
scenes
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Simon Dobnik:
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From situated descriptions of spatial scenes to situated dialogue
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Jordi Gonzalez, Josep M. Gonfaus, F. Xavier Roca:
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Exploiting Natural-Language Interaction in Video Surveillance
Systems
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Lewis D Griffin, M Husni Wahab and Andrew J Newell:
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Extrapolation of visual appearance on the basis of semantic
relatedness
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Margaret Mitchell:
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From an Image to a Description
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Joanna Isabelle Olszewska:
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Spatio-Temporal Visual Ontology
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Paul Piwek:
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Computational Modelling of Reference in Visually-shared Domains of
Conversation
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Massimo Poesio, Andrew Anderson, Marco Baroni, Sonja Eisenbeiss,
Carol Rennie and Alessandro Lenci:
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BabyExp: From Data Collection to Analysis
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Daniel R. Saunders and Russell L. Woods:
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Development of an Objective, Language-Based Measure of Perceived
Video Quality
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Niels Schuette, John Kelleher, and Brian Mac Namee:
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Using Dialogue to Improve Robot Perception
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Marietta Sionti, Leonardo Claudino, Carolyn Penstein Rose, Stella
Markantonatou and Yiannis Aloimonos:
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Comparing linguistic classifications with sensorimotor data of
English and Greek verbs of motion
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David Windridge: Cross-Modal Bootstrapping of Rule-Salient
Audio-Visual Representations for Sports Video Annotation
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16:00-16:45 Coffee and Poster Session
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16:45-17:30 WLTM Mini Posters and Networking
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17:30-18:00 Discussion and Wrap-up Session
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18:00-19:00 Evening Drinks Reception with Live Jazz Music
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Organisers
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Anja Belz, University of Brighton
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Darren Cosker, University of Bath
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Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh
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Dimitrios Makris, Kingston University
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Contact
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:vl-net@brighton.ac.uk">vl-net@brighton.ac.uk</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VL-Workshop-2011.html">http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VL-Workshop-2011.html</a>
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