The recent decade has witnessed rapid advances in computer vision research, not only in its fundamental studies but also its emerging applications. This Sino-USA summer school in Vision, Learning and Pattern Recognition (VLPR 2010) is held in Xi'an City, China. It brings together a high-quality team of leading American and Chinese researchers in computer vision to offer a one-week educational program to students and junior scholars from both US and China. This education program provides an important opportunity to discuss recent advance in Perception, Motion and Events, and allows technical and culture exchanges between researchers from two countries. Such interactions are important for fostering new understanding and new collaborations in science, education, and culture.
Summer School web site: http://vlpr2010.eecs.northwestern.edu/
Because of the expanding interest in computer vision research in China, this one-week summer school is targeted on academic and cultural exchanges between the USA and China. This theme of this summer school is "Perception, Motion and Events". The participants of this summer school include 12 professors from US universities, 6 researchers from US research labs, 10 graduate students from US universities, and about 100 from Chinese universities. Its major activities include: (a) intensive lectures that cover various topics in computer vision, video analytics and machine learning; (b) proactive discussions that enhance the interaction between lectures and audiences for effective teaching and learning; (c) industrial workshop that introduces the cutting-edge research in industry labs in computer vision and machine learning with a wide spectrum of real-world applications; and (d) colorful social events that the US and Chinese students had daily interactions inside and outside classrooms. This summer school aroused a great interest in the academic and industrial circles in China. It attracts a large number of talented graduate students in Chinese universities. They will be some new blood for the research of computer vision and pattern recognition in the future. This summer school was a good platform for the academic and cultural exchanges for both US and China. The combination of the lectures and the discussions was a quite effective way for the scientific exchange. The grouping and mixing of students of different backgrounds allowed more natural interactions among them. The industrial workshop was a good idea to bring together academic research and industrial activities. It was very beneficial to students by exposing them the real-world challenges and problems. This summer school covers topics in visual perception, motion analysis and video event understanding. Such an integration attempts to provide a coherent view of image/video understanding and visual dynamics. This not only leads to new methods and tools for computer vision, but also has impact on the study of human visual perception, and graphics. The research topics selected in this summer school integrate components in signal processing, data mining, and machine learning. It will have great impact on all these related disciplines. This summer school accommodated a large number of selected graduate students from both China and the US. Its audience also included a number of post-docs and junior researchers. They were selected from a large number of applicants, by considering the diversity in gender and schools, their research interests and experiences, and the diversity in racial and cultural backgrounds. Trained in this summer school, they will be new blood for this research community and for the science and engineering field in general.
