<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_8998010396247016503gmail-m_-5768253861665782031gmail-m_6023400865833789543gmail-m_-797051063746359393docs-internal-guid-39d7cc90-7fff-4aa2-0d62-fbbd068225b9" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[apologies for cross-posting]</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">

</span></span></p><span id="gmail-m_8998010396247016503gmail-m_-5768253861665782031gmail-m_6023400865833789543gmail-m_-797051063746359393docs-internal-guid-39d7cc90-7fff-4aa2-0d62-fbbd068225b9" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are seeking applications for the 3rd Computational Vision Summer School (CVSS) from 30.6. to 7.7.2019 in Freudenstadt (Black Forest), Germany.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The summer school, aimed at PhD students and Postdocs, spans the spectrum of vision research from neuroscience and psychophysics to computer vision to foster discussions at the intersection of biological and artificial vision systems. It seeks to bring together people from diverse disciplines who all share a computational view of vision and who, due to the diversity of disciplines involved, do not regularly meet.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CVSS is free of tuition and accomodation is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG: CRC/1233 Robust Vision).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Application deadline: April 15, 2019</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://orga.cvss.cc/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://orga.cvss.cc/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Confirmed speakers:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ted Adelson (MIT, USA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Matthias Bethge (University of Tübingen, Germany)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael Black (MPI-IS Tübingen, Germany)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EJ Chichilnisky (Stanford University, USA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alexei Efros (UC Berkeley, USA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sanja Fidler (University of Toronto / NVIDIA, Canada)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chelsea Finn (UC Berkeley, USA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Roland Fleming (University Giessen, Germany)</span></p><p dir="ltr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