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Directory         1.     Frank Keller , V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language Message 1: V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language Date: 05-Aug-2011 From: Frank Keller <kellerinf.ed.ac.uk> Subject: V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language Short Title: V&L Net Workshop Date: 15-Sep-2011 - 15-Sep-2011 Location: Brighton, United Kingdom Contact Person: Anja Belz Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VL-Workshop-2011.html Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 07-Aug-2011 Meeting Description: The EPSRC Network on Vision and Language (V&L Net) Date: Thursday, 15 September 2011 Venue: Huxley Building, University of Brighton Endorsed by BMVA (the British Machine Vision Association) The EPSRC Network on Vision and Language (V&L Net) is a forum for researchers from the fields of Computer Vision and Language Processing to meet, exchange ideas, expertise and technology, and form new partnerships. Our aim is to create a lasting interdisciplinary research community situated at the language-vision interface, jointly working towards solutions for some of today's toughest computational challenges, including image and video search, description of visual content and text-to-image generation. The Vision and Language Workshop is chiefly intended to be a networking and community building event for the computer vision and language processing communities. It will give us an opportunity to meet and get to know each other. This process will be supported by an informal approach characterised by diverse networking activities and a large number of brief oral presentations combined with poster presentations. The Vision and Language Workshop is free for full V&L Net members. V&L Net will furthermore cover the cost of one night's accommodation in Brighton and economy-class travel within the UK for full V&L Net members presenting an accepted poster. Full details can be found on the workshop page on the V&L Net website. Endorsed by EACL http://www.eacl.org/ (the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) and BMVA http://www.bmva.org (the British Machine Vision Association) Outline Programme: Morning: Introduction and Welcome Computer Vision Invited Talk: Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland Language Processing Invited Talk (speaker t.b.c.) Speed Networking Session Feedback to V&L Net Lunch Break Afternoon: Teaser Presentations for Posters Poster Session Would-like-to-meet Notice Board Evening Drinks Final Call for Papers: 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. Submission Guidelines: Submitted abstracts should be 1-2 pages in length. PDF format is strongly preferred. Please send abstracts no later than 7 August 2011 to vl-netbrighton.ac.uk. Mini-posters for WLTM Notice Board: 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. Important Dates: Submission of Abstracts: 7 August 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 15 August 2011 Workshop on Vision and Language: 15 September 2011 Organisers: Anja Belz, University of Brighton Darren Cosker, University of Bath Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh Dimitrios Makris, Kingston University Contact: vl-netbrighton.ac.uk http://www.vlnet.org.uk/VL-Workshop-2011.html Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 05-Aug-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.