Workshop on Vision and Language 2012 (VL'12): The 2nd Annual Meeting of
the EPSRC Network on Vision & Language
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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)
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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:
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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.
Registration:
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Please register by filling in the following form and emailing it to:
[email protected]
Name:
Affiliation:
Research Interests (3 keywords):
Fees:
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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
http://www.vlnet.org.ukfor 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:
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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:
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Anja Belz, University of Brighton
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield
Darren Cosker, University of Bath
Dimitrios Makris, Kingston University
Contact:
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[email protected]
http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VL-Workshop-2012.html
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