[Corpora-List] [V&L Net] Pump-priming Vision & Language Research 2011-2: Call for Proposal Outlines

Wed Jul 6 11:22:31 UTC 2011

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

PUMP-PRIMING VISION & LANGUAGE RESEARCH 2011-2

Call for Project Proposal Ideas

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 aim of pump-priming 
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 (2011-2):

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:

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 05 September 2011.  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 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.

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.

Deadlines:

Submission of proposals        5 September 2011

Notification of outcome        26 September 2011

Funding period                 1 October 2011 to 28 February 2012

Contacts:

V&L Net email address: vl-net at brighton.ac.uk

V&L Net website: http://www.vl-net.org.uk

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