[Corpora-List] Workshop on Vision and Language 2012 (VL'12): Final Call for Participation

Fri Nov 30 15:24:03 UTC 2012

Workshop on Vision and Language 2012 (VL'12): The 2nd Annual Meeting of the EPSRC Network on Vision & Language

============================================================================

Sponsored by the BMVA (The British Machine Vision Association)

Final Call for Participation

December 13th and 14th, 2012
The Edge Conference Centre, The Endcliffe Village, University of Sheffield

Programme (subject to minor changes)
-----------------------------------------------

13 Dec - TUTORIALS (EACH PAIR TO RUN IN PARALLEL)

13:30-14:40     T1 Parsing and Analysis: Prof Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge
                      T2 Datasets for Visual Object Recognition: Prof Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh
15:50-16:00     T3 Machine Translation: Dr Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield
                      T4 Local Feature Extraction: Dr Krystian Mikolajczyk, University of Surrey
16:00-16:20     COFFEE
16:20-17:30     T5 Information Retrieval/Extraction: Prof Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield
                      T6 Machine Learning Methods for CV: Dr Toby Breckon, Cranfield University

17:30-18:30     DRINKS IN BAR

14 Dec - INVITED LECTURES, ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

08:45-09:00     Introduction
09:00-10:00     Invited Lecture: Prof David Hogg, University of Leeds
10:00-10:45     Technical papers:
                      Alan F. Smeaton et al.: A Decade of Work on Semantic Concept Detection from Video: TRECVid’s Contribution
                      Muhammad U. G. Khan et al.: Natural Language Descriptions for Video Streams
                      Ted Briscoe and Wenhao Zhu: Integrating Content-based Image Search into Intelligent Information Access from Scientific Papers
10:45-11:15     COFFEE
11:15-12:15     Invited Lecture: Dr Peter Mika, Yahoo Inc., Barcelona
12:15-13:00     Technical papers:
                      Lucia Specia et al.: Images as Context in Statistical Machine Translation

                      Andrew Aubrey et al.: A Novel Audio-Visual Natural Conversation Database
                      Andrew Anderson et al.: Representational Similarity Between Brain Activity Elicited by Concrete Nouns and Image Based Semantic Models
13:00-13:45     LUNCH
13:45-14:45     Invited Lecture: Dr Katerina Pastra, Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Athens
14:45-15:20     Poster Teasers:
                      Nikolaos Aletras and Mark Stevenson: Nikolaos Aletras and Mark Stevenson
                      Rui Tang et al.: Global Alignment for Dynamic 3D Morphable Model Construction
                      Joanna I. Olszewska: A New Approach for Automatic Object Labeling
                      Katarzyna Klessa: Annotating paralinguistic features in quasi-spontaneous speech. Adding the “vision” component?
                      Simon Dobnik: Coordinating spatial perspective in discourse
                      Ye et al.: MANUALLY ANNOTATING MULTI-VIEW VIDEO USING A 3D SKELETON
                      Amjad Altadmri and Amr Ahmed: VisualNet: Semantic Commonsense Knowledgebase for Visual Applications
                      Deema AbdalHafeth and Amr Ahmed: Investigating text analysis of user-generated contents for health related applications
15:20-16:50     COFFEE and Poster Session (including Mini-Posters)
16:50-17:20     Discussion Session
17:20-17:30     Closing Remarks

Mini-posters for WLTM Notice Board:
------------------------------------------

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.

Registration:
--------------

Please register by filling in the following form and emailing it to: vl-net at brighton.ac.uk<mailto:vl-net at brighton.ac.uk>

Name:
Affiliation:
Research Interests (3 keywords):

Fees:

------

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 http://www.vlnet.org.uk for membership details).

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).

Important Dates:
-------------------

Submission of Abstracts:        23 Nov 2012
Notification of Acceptance:        01 Dec 2012
Submission of Final Abstracts:        06 Dec 2012
Workshop on Vision and Language:    13-14 Dec 2012

Organisers:
--------------

Anja Belz, University of Brighton
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield
Darren Cosker, University of Bath
Dimitrios Makris, Kingston University

Contact:
----------

vl-net at brighton.ac.uk<mailto:vl-net at brighton.ac.uk>
http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VL-Workshop-2012.html

___________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security
System on behalf of the University of Brighton.
For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/
___________________________________________________________
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/corpora/attachments/20121130/e68d5b5e/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora