<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">BMVC 2019 Workshop
on Visual Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship (VAIE)</span></b><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">

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of submissions (through <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VAIE2019" style="color:blue" target="_blank">https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VAIE2019</a>):</span></p>

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contributions (maximum 8 pages NOT including references).</span></p>

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or industrial case studies (maximum 4 pages NOT including references).</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Global spending on AI technology is expected to reach $57 billion by
2021. An increase of 4.5 times over the funds invested in 2017, as diverse industries
are investing aggressively in projects that utilize cognitive/AI software
capabilities. Machine vision (visual AI) is expected to account for at least a
quarter of that spending.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The 1st Workshop on Visual AI and Entrepreneurship (VAIE) of BMVC 2019
aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners in the domain of
visual AI (computer vision) and provide a forum to present and discuss research
done with, for and by industry, with preference given to the efforts focused on
startups, SMEs and innovation activities within larger enterprises.</span></p>

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Intelligence research done by startups, SMEs and industry.</span></p>

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studies and position papers focusing on applications of visual AI within
startups, SMEs and industrial systems.</span></p>

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prototypes based on visual artificial intelligence.</span></p>

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machine learning for vision and multimedia processing.</span></p>

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all the topics of interest to the BMVC itself, provided that a clear link
between the research study and a startup, SME or industrial entity can be
demonstrated in the camera-ready paper.</span></p>

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