24.2682, FYI: V&L Net Call for Pump-Priming Proposals

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Subject: 24.2682, FYI: V&L Net Call for Pump-Priming Proposals

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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:46:22
From: Frank Keller [keller at inf.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: V&L Net Call for Pump-Priming Proposals

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V&L Net: The EPSRC Network on Vision and Language

Pump-Priming Vision & Language Research 2013-1
Call for Proposals

V&L Net

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.

The Pump-priming Vision & Language Research Scheme:

V&L Net provides funding to members with the overall aim of stimulating
research collaboration. We support two different types of activities:

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).

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.

Details of this Call (2013-1):

This call for proposals is not restricted to any particular type of topic or
resource.  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:

1. Potential to achieve progress on research challenges that involve both
language and vision; and

2. Quality of the plan of work.

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.

Submission Guidelines:

Please send a 2-page outline of the project idea in PDF format to
vl-net at brighton.ac.uk no later than 19 July 2013.  The outline should include
the following information:

1. Project team, including names of the investigators, their affiliations and
brief track record, and list of other researchers involved;

2. Case for Support, including either:
a. a high-level synopsis of the project idea and the funding body to which
the proposal will be submitted, or
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;

3. Spending plan, detailing the envisaged costs, including:
    a. envisaged number of meetings and estimated cost of each meeting, or
    b. estimated cost of releasing the data or software resource.

Eligibility:

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.

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.

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.

Requirements and details of financial support for winning proposals:

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).

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).

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.

Deadlines:

Submission of proposals        19 July 2013
Notification of outcome        26 July 2013

Contact: A.S.Belz at brighton.ac.uk
V&L Net website: http://www.vl-net.org.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics

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