[visionlist] Workshop on Vision and Language 2012 (VL'12): 2nd Call for Papers and Participation

[Darren Cosker]

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

Second Call for Papers and 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:

13:30-14:40 T1 Parsing and Analysis: Prof Ted Briscoe, University of  
Cambridge;
                   T2 Data Sets and Research Challenges: T.B.C.
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

17:30-19:00 Drinks Reception

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
10:45-11:15 COFFEE
11:15-12:15 Invited Lecture: Dr Peter Mika, Yahoo Inc., Barcelona
12:15-13:00 Technical papers

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
15:40-17:00 COFFEE and Poster Session
17:00-17:45 Discussion Session
17:45-18:00 Closing Remarks


Submission of Abstracts:
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The Vision & Language Workshop organisers invite the submission of  
abstracts addressing any aspect of research that involves both vision  
and language.

We encourage a wide range of different types of abstracts/posters,  
including but not limited to the following:

* Presentations of existing projects and research programmes
* Outlines of project ideas, in particular from those seeking  
collaborators
* Reports of research in progress
* Reports of research results
* System demos

Specific research topics include, but are by no means limited to:

* Image and video labelling and annotation
* Image and video description
* Computational modelling of human vision and language
* Image and video retrieval
* Multimodal human-computer communication
* Text-to-image generation
* Language-driven animation
* Facial animation for speech
* Assistive methodologies

Accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop in the form of  
brief 'teaser' presentations, followed by a poster presentation during  
the workshop poster session.

In addition, the V&L Net Steering Committee will select six papers to  
be presented as 15 minute oral presentations.  These will be papers  
that would particularly benefit from oral presentation.  It is  
expected that these will be mainly on existing research, but the  
research does not necessarily have to be completed.  Authors of papers  
selected for oral presentation will still have the option of  
additionally presenting their work in poster form.

Submission Guidelines:
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Submitted abstracts should be 1-2 pages in length. PDF format is  
strongly preferred. Please send abstracts no later than 23 November  
2012 to vl-net at brighton.ac.uk.

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: vl-net at brighton.ac.uk

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







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