Vision and Sports Summer School • 2016

Prague, Czech Republic • 22-27 August 2016

Overview

Summer school

small changing images of sports

Vision and Sports is a special special kind of summer school.

In addition to a broad-range of lectures on state-of-the-art Computer Vision techniques, it offers exciting sport activities, such as Floorball, Ultimite Frisbee and Table Tennis.

What is most fun: the sports sessions are given by the same internationally renowned experts who deliver the lectures!

As a student, you get the best of both worlds: high-quality teaching on Computer Vision, and lots of fun with a variety of attractive sports. This offers plenty of opportunity for personal contact between students and teachers. How would you like to beat your teacher in a tennis match ? Or play in the same soccer team ? This, and more, will happen at VS3!

Schedule

Schedule Monday to Friday

9:00 - 12:00 Lecture
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 16:00 Lecture / Exercise
16:30 - 18:30 Sports

During each lecture there will be two sort breaks with some refreshments.
On one evening, there will be a VS3 dinner / barbecue starting at 19:45.

Detailed programme is available here.

Saturday Workshop

On Saturday, the school switches gears: from the basics to state-of-the-art research! The teachers will present their latest research work during a one-day workshop. Students can attend this exciting workshop for free and have the opportunity to see some outstanding research leaders discuss the cutting edge of computer vision research.

Lecturers

List of Confirmed Lecturers

  • Jiri Matas
    Jiri Matas
    Czech Technical University (Prague, Czech Republic)
    Vision: Tracking
    Sports: Tennis, Floorball
  • Andrew Fitzgibbon
    Microsoft Research Cambridge
    Vision: Computer Vision
    Sports:
  • Vittorio Ferrari
    Vittorio Ferrari
    School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh (UK)
    Vision: Weakly supervised learning of visual models
    Sports: Table Tennis
  • Raquel Urtasun
    Raquel Urtasun
    University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
    Vision: Deep structured models
    Sports: Soccer
  • Victor Lempitsky
    Victor Lempitsky
    Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Sokolovo, Russia)
    Vision: Image Generation with Deep Networks
    Sports: Soccer
  • Christoph Lampert
    Christoph Lampert
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)
    Vision: Best practice in machine learning for computer vision
    Sports: Floorball / Unihockey
  • Daniel Cremers
    Daniel Cremers
    TU München (Munich, Germany)
    Vision: Variational Methods and Geometric Reconstruction
    Sports: Climbing
  • Ondrej Chum
    Ondrej Chum
    Czech Technical University (Prague, Czech Republic)
    Vision: Large scale specific object recognition
    Sports: Badminton, Volleyball, Tennis

Lectures

Vision Lectures

  • Local features extraction and matching
  • Large scale specific object recognition
  • Variational Methods and Geometric Reconstruction
  • Object class recognition and detection
  • Best practice in machine learning for computer vision
  • Deep learning / deep structured models
  • Weakly supervised learning of visual models
  • Visual Tracking

Sports Activities

Tennis

sports activities

Volley ball

sports activities

Ultimate Frisbee

sports activities

Basketball

sports activities

Floor ball (Unihockey)

sports activities

Table tennis

sports activities

Soccer

sports activities

Badminton

sports activities

Archery

sports activities

Climbing

sports activities

Registration

Important dates

  • Application deadline: May 2 , 2016
  • Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2016
  • Registration deadline for accepted participants: May 25, 2016
  • Summer school: August 22-27, 2016

The school fees

Group Registration fee
Master/PhD student 370 €
Academic position other than Master/PhD student 450 €
Industry participant 550 €

Registration includes all classes, sports activities, coffee breaks, lunches, and a social dinner.

For hotel accommodation, students will get discount rates on a set of hotels affiliated with the summer school (to be announced).

Application site

Summerschool application form are available here.

Venue

Czech Technical University, Prague

Location: Technicka 2
Local map with the venue and sport facilities here.

Venue

Accomodation

Information about the accommodation is available here.

Organisers

Contact email

Organisers

Sponsors

         If you are interested in sponsoring VS3 2016, please contact us

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