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<p>Sponsored by the BMVA (The British Machine Vision Association)<br>
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<p>Final Call for Participation</p>
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<p>December 13th and 14th, 2012<br>
The Edge Conference Centre, The Endcliffe Village, University of Sheffield </p>
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<p>Programme (subject to minor changes)<br>
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<p>13 Dec - TUTORIALS (EACH PAIR TO RUN IN PARALLEL)<br>
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13:30-14:40 T1 Parsing and Analysis: Prof Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge<br>
T2 Datasets for Visual Object Recognition: Prof Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh<br>
15:50-16:00 T3 Machine Translation: Dr Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield<br>
T4 Local Feature Extraction: Dr Krystian Mikolajczyk, University of Surrey<br>
16:00-16:20 COFFEE<br>
16:20-17:30 T5 Information Retrieval/Extraction: Prof Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield<br>
T6 Machine Learning Methods for CV: Dr Toby Breckon, Cranfield University<br>
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17:30-18:30 DRINKS IN BAR<br>
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14 Dec - INVITED LECTURES, ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS<br>
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08:45-09:00 Introduction<br>
09:00-10:00 Invited Lecture: Prof David Hogg, University of Leeds<br>
10:00-10:45 Technical papers:<br>
Alan F. Smeaton et al.: A Decade of Work on Semantic Concept Detection from Video: TRECVid’s Contribution<br>
Muhammad U. G. Khan et al.: Natural Language Descriptions for Video Streams<br>
Ted Briscoe and Wenhao Zhu: Integrating Content-based Image Search into Intelligent Information Access from Scientific Papers <br>
10:45-11:15 COFFEE<br>
11:15-12:15 Invited Lecture: Dr Peter Mika, Yahoo Inc., Barcelona<br>
12:15-13:00 Technical papers:<br>
Lucia Specia et al.: Images as Context in Statistical Machine Translation</p>
<p> Andrew Aubrey et al.: A Novel Audio-Visual Natural Conversation Database<br>
Andrew Anderson et al.: Representational Similarity Between Brain Activity Elicited by Concrete Nouns and Image Based Semantic Models<br>
13:00-13:45 LUNCH<br>
13:45-14:45 Invited Lecture: Dr Katerina Pastra, Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Athens<br>
14:45-15:20 Poster Teasers:<br>
Nikolaos Aletras and Mark Stevenson: Nikolaos Aletras and Mark Stevenson<br>
Rui Tang et al.: Global Alignment for Dynamic 3D Morphable Model Construction<br>
Joanna I. Olszewska: A New Approach for Automatic Object Labeling<br>
Katarzyna Klessa: Annotating paralinguistic features in quasi-spontaneous speech. Adding the “vision” component?<br>
Simon Dobnik: Coordinating spatial perspective in discourse<br>
Ye et al.: MANUALLY ANNOTATING MULTI-VIEW VIDEO USING A 3D SKELETON<br>
Amjad Altadmri and Amr Ahmed: VisualNet: Semantic Commonsense Knowledgebase for Visual Applications<br>
Deema AbdalHafeth and Amr Ahmed: Investigating text analysis of user-generated contents for health related applications<br>
15:20-16:50 COFFEE and Poster Session (including Mini-Posters)<br>
16:50-17:20 Discussion Session<br>
17:20-17:30 Closing Remarks</p>
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Mini-posters for WLTM Notice Board:<br>
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<p>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
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Registration:<br>
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<p>Please register by filling in the following form and emailing it to: <a href="mailto:vl-net@brighton.ac.uk" target="_blank">
vl-net@brighton.ac.uk</a></p>
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<p>Name:<br>
Affiliation:<br>
Research Interests (3 keywords):</p>
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Fees:</p>
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V&L Net will cover the cost of workshop fees, one night's accommodation at Sheffield University and UK standard class travel for all presenters of papers who are also full members of V&L Net (see
<a href="http://www.vlnet.org.uk" target="_blank">http://www.vlnet.org.uk</a> for membership details).</p>
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<p>For full members who are not presenting workshop V&L Net will cover the cost of workshop fees (only). For all other delegates, workshop fees are £60 for 2 days (£30 for 1 day).</p>
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Important Dates:<br>
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<p>Submission of Abstracts: 23 Nov 2012<br>
Notification of Acceptance: 01 Dec 2012<br>
Submission of Final Abstracts: 06 Dec 2012<br>
Workshop on Vision and Language: 13-14 Dec 2012</p>
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Organisers:<br>
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<p>Anja Belz, University of Brighton<br>
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield<br>
Darren Cosker, University of Bath<br>
Dimitrios Makris, Kingston University</p>
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Contact:<br>
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<p><a href="mailto:vl-net@brighton.ac.uk" target="_blank">vl-net@brighton.ac.uk</a><br>
<a href="http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VL-Workshop-2012.html" target="_blank">http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VL-Workshop-2012.html</a></p>
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