<html><body><p><font size="2">Dear all, </font><br><br><font size="2">we invite everyone, especially PhD students and junior researchers in all areas of action classification and video understanding, to present their work at the poster session of the upcoming BMVA Symposium on Video Understanding in London, 25 Sep 2019. Please find the full text announcement below.</font><br><br><font size="2">Deadline for call for posters: 10 July 2019</font><br><font size="2">Notifications of Acceptance: 30 July 2019</font><br><font size="2">Symposium: Wed 25 Sep 2019</font><br><br><font size="2">-------------------------</font><br><br><font size="2">BMVA Symposium on Video Understanding - London, 25 Sep 2019 - Call for Participation </font><br><a href="https://dimadamen.github.io/bmva_symposium_2019/"><font size="2">https://dimadamen.github.io/bmva_symposium_2019/</font></a><font size="2"> </font><br><br><font size="2">------------------------</font><br><br><font size="2">New models for video understanding remain a bottleneck for research despite the increase in the number of large-scale video datasets. This symposium brings together 18 leading researchers who have contributed significantly to video understanding, collectively participated in the collection of datasets such as: UCF, HMDB, THUMOS, Hollywood, Hollywood2, Kinetics, Charades,ActivityNet, YouTube8M, YouCook, Breakfast, EPIC-Kitchens, DALY and AVA, amongst others! With a star-studded list of speakers, we aim to ask the question, what is missing in video understanding to catch up with the success witnessed in object detection or language translation?</font><br><br><font size="2">Additionally, the symposium will feature a keynote from Jeff Zacks (University of Washington) on the human perception for event recognition.</font><br><br><font size="2">This is a focused one day symposium [9am-6pm], sponsored by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA), to be held in central London at the British Computer Society on Wed 25th of September 2019. </font><br><br><font size="2">The symposium’s objective is to share the latest research, discuss current and future challenges, and plan for collaborations on video understanding beyond the simplified concept of classification of trimmed videos. The event will bring together 150 students, faculty, and research scientists, from both academia and industry, for an opportunity to exchange ideas and connect over a mutual interest in video understanding. </font><br><br><font size="2">List of speakers:</font><br><br><font size="2">Jeff Zacks, Washington University in St. Louis (Keynote)</font><br><br><font size="2">Rahul Sukthankar, Google Research, CMU </font><br><font size="2">Cordelia Schmid, INRIA </font><br><font size="2">Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam</font><br><font size="2">Jason Corso, University of Michigan </font><br><font size="2">Abhinav Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University</font><br><font size="2">Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford</font><br><font size="2">Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida</font><br><font size="2">Jan van Gemert, Delft University of Technology </font><br><font size="2">Lorenzo Torresani, Dartmouth College, Facebook</font><br><font size="2">Ivan Laptev, INRIA</font><br><font size="2">Dima Damen, University of Bristol</font><br><font size="2">Juan Carlos Niebles, Stanford University</font><br><font size="2">Efstratios Gavves, University of Amsterdam</font><br><font size="2">Juergen Gall, University of Bonn</font><br><font size="2">Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Hacettepe University, Ankara</font><br><font size="2">Du Tran, Facebook</font><br><font size="2">Hilde Kuehne, MIT-IBM Watson Lab</font><br><font size="2">Angela Yao, Singapore University</font><br><br><font size="2">You are invited to present a poster about your latest work, alongside the symposium. We encourage PhD students and junior researchers in all areas of action classification and video understanding to present their new, previously, or concurrently published research at the poster session. Please fill the Google Form with all details of your potential poster: </font><a href="https://dimadamen.github.io/bmva_symposium_2019/#cfp"><font size="2">https://dimadamen.github.io/bmva_symposium_2019/#cfp</font></a><br><font size="2">Registration is free for all accepted poster presenters.</font><br><br><font size="2">Important Dates:</font><br><br><font size="2">Deadline for call for posters: 10 July 2019</font><br><br><font size="2">Notifications of Acceptance: 30 July 2019</font><br><br><font size="2">Symposium: Wed 25 Sep 2019</font><br><br><font size="2">Many thanks,</font><br><font size="2">Organizers</font><br><br><font size="2">Hilde Kuehne, MIT-IBM Watson Lab, USA</font><br><font size="2">Dima Damen, University of Bristol, UK</font><br><font size="2">Juergen Gall, University of Bonn, Germany</font><br><font size="2">Ivan Laptev, INRIA Paris, France</font><br><br><font size="2">--</font><br><br><font size="2">Dr. Hilde Kuehne<br>MIT-IBM Watson Lab<br><br>Website: <a href="http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=ibm-kuehne">http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=ibm-kuehne</a><br>Code & papers: <a href="https://hildekuehne.github.io">https://hildekuehne.github.io</a><br><br></font><BR>
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