This grant supports American students and researchers to participate in the USA-Sino Summer School in Vision, Learning, and Pattern Recognition. The event brings together a high-quality team of leading American and Chinese researchers in computer vision and multimedia to offer a one-week educational and cultural exchange program to students and junior scholars from both US and China. The summer school provides a venue for the participants to explore a variety of aspects and applications on how to address the challenges in large-scale visual data/media acquisition, processing/computing, understanding, and search. The international interactions can foster new understanding and new collaborations in science, education, and culture.
The 2011 US-China VLPR Summer School held in Chengdu, China, focuses the school topic on Large-Scale Visual Data/Media Acquisition, Processing/Computing, Understanding, and Search, or in short topic on Large-scale Media Computing. The summer school addresses important issues in large-scale multimedia analysis, and demonstrates approaches that can scale to sufficiently large multimedia collections (e.g.,hundreds of thousands of images, or hundreds of hours of video or audio content). This distinguishes but complements from the previous topics on Learning (2009) and Perception, Motion and Events (2010). In summary, the theme of 2011 VLPR summer school coherently integrates state-of-the-art Vision and Learning algorithms in massive media applications. The summer school program consists of 6-day tutorials (both full- and half-day) and 1-day social activities. Students were grouped to have hands on experience and in-class discussion. Informal interactions between faculty and students are during daily lunch/dinner meeting, project discussion, and social activities. The summer school provides a venue for the participants to explore a variety of aspects and applications on how advanced multimedia analysis techniques can be leveraged to address the challenges in large-scale data collections. The scientific collaboration leads to new ideas and new discoveries, and the cultural exchange bridges the people in the two countries to better understand each other. This summer school does not only include a scientific program, it also offers the opportunities for the people from the two countries to meet each other.
