Vision and Sports Summer School • 2012

Prague, Czech Republic • 27-31 August 2012

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, Climbing, 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!

This year, the summer school is organized in colaboration with the EU project NIFTi. For more information, please also see the websites of VS3 2009, VS3 2010, and VS3 2011

Schedule

Registration Monday 8:00 - 9:00

Registration 8:00 - 9:00 in front of the lecture hall
Location: Technicka 2, lecture hall 309, third floor; GPS: 50°6'8.808"N, 14°23'32.951"E
Local map with the venue and sport facilities here.
Venue

Schedule

9:00 - 12:00 Lecture
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 16:15 Lecture / Exercise
16:45 - 18:45 Sports

During each lecture there will be two sort breaks with some refreshments.
On Thursday evening, there will be a VS3 dinner / barbecue starting at 20:00.

Lecturers

Confirmed Lecturers

  • Jiri Matas
    Jiri Matas
    Czech Technical University (Prague, Czech Republic)
    Vision: Local features extraction and matching / large scale specific object recognition
    Sports: Tennis, Floorball
  • Patrick Perez
    Patrick Pérez
    Technicolor Research and Innovation, France
    Vision: Visual tracking
    Sports: Badminton
  • Vittorio Ferrari
    Vittorio Ferrari
    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Vision: Weakly supervised learning of visual models
    Sports: Table Tennis
  • Christoph Lampert
    Christoph Lampert
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)
    Vision: Kernel Methods for Computer Vision
    Sports: Floorball / Unihockey
  • Carsten Rother
    Carsten Rother
    Microsoft Research Cambridge
    Vision: MRF/CRF for Computer Vision
    Sports: Ultimate Frisbee
  • Phil Torr
    Phil Torr
    Oxford Brookes University
    Sports: Kung fu
  • Bastian Leibe
    Bastian Leibe
    RWTH Aachen University
    Sports: Basketball and Volleyball
  • 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
  • Single-view and Multi-view object categorization
  • MRF/CRF for Computer Vision
  • Semantic segmentation
  • Weakly supervised learning of visual models
  • Shape representation and matching
  • Kernel methods for computer vision
  • Weakly supervised learning of visual models

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

Kung-Fu

sports activities

Soccer

sports activities

Archery

sports activities

Badminton

sports activities

Registration

Important dates

  • Application deadline: May 15, 2012
  • Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2012
  • Registration deadline for accepted participants: June 29, 2012
  • Summer school: August 27-31, 2012

Application site

Application form.
Information on pricing is available on the application page.

Venue

Czech Technical University, Prague

Location: Technicka 2, lecture hall 309, third floor
Local map with the venue and sport facilities here.

Venue

Accomodation

Information about the accommodation is available here.

NIFTi Robotic Workshop

Robotic workshop after the summer school

Following the 5-day summer school, there will be a robotic workshop robotic workshop organized by the EU project NIFTi The participants will apply vision algorithms on the NIFTi mobile robot(s) and move the robot around using the Ladybug3 camera the robot is equipped with. Attendance to this workshop is optional and limited to a small number of attendees.

Organisers

Contact email

Organisers

Sponsors

         If you are interested in sponsoring VS3 2012, please contact us

Sponsors