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From shopping at the supermarket to finding our destination in an unknown urban space, written text helps us perform many tasks that would otherwise be much more complex.<o:p></o:p></span></h5><h5><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Computer vision systems on the other hand, have been practically illiterate for the first half century of their lifetime. Specific research on reading systems has been going on for decades, but the semantic information that image text conveys was not incorporated to higher-level computer vision tasks until very recently. This is gradually changing, afforded by the great success achieved in the field of scene text recognition in recent years.<o:p></o:p></span></h5><h5 style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Through this short interactive course, doctoral students will have a chance to reconcile with the state of the art in reading systems, especially scene text recognition, and explore how image text enables us to tackle new and exciting computer vision tasks such as fine-grained image classification, cross-modal retrieval, captioning and visual question answering..</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h5><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US>REGISTRATION</span></b><span lang=EN-US>: Free of charge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US>WHEN</span></b><span lang=EN-US>: April 4, 2022 - 17.00-19.00 CET and April 6, 2022 – 17:00 – 19:00 CET<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US>WHERE</span></b><span lang=EN-US>: The course will take place in hybrid mode. Onsite attendance is possible at the Computer Vision Centre, Barcelona (limited availability). For ONLINE participants, a link will be provided by the organisers after registration/enrollment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><b><span lang=EN-US>HOW TO REGISTER and ENROLL: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US>Both AIDA and non-AIDA students are encouraged to participate in this short course. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US>If you are an AIDA Student* already, please: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US>Step (a): Register in the course by filing in the form at the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/course-literatemodelsforvision/registration?authuser=0">Web site of the course</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US>AND <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Step (b): Enroll in the same course in the AIDA course site <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/course/vision-and-language-reading-systems-and-multi-modal-representations/">https://www.i-aida.org/course/vision-and-language-reading-systems-and-multi-modal-representations/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US>using the “Enroll on this Course” button, which you can find there, so that this course enters your AIDA Certificate of Course Attendance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US>If you are not an AIDA Student do only step (a). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in'><span lang=EN-US>*The International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) has 73 members, which are top AI Universities, Research centers and Industries: </span><span style='color:#500050'><a href="https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202202271559430166979&URLID=3&ESV=10.0.15.7233&IV=BB037ED3B12F2777180E2FE00438846D&TT=1645977584923&ESN=%2FwqscGludfJ5ZK96xMM5VPA%2FydclXWMakKctvxs0k%2FE%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaS1haWRhLm9yZy8&HK=26993ACB83D95EAF8317C1C7BF9186A3E3AA1B22217DD0908BCE3AA33B4A2627" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>https://www.i-aida.org/</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AIDA Students should have been registered in the AIDA system already (they are PhD students or PostDocs that belong only to the AIDA Members listed in this page:<span style='color:#500050'> </span></span><span style='color:#500050'><a href="https://es.sonicurlprotection-fra.com/click?PV=2&MSGID=202202271559430166979&URLID=1&ESV=10.0.15.7233&IV=B2A1D7FA8A1918941E8C560177C33C06&TT=1645977584923&ESN=i%2B%2BnSdQCGpTb9fthJLBydzqhw49U25GdbhRwiH%2Fbj%2B0%3D&KV=1536961729280&B64_ENCODED_URL=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaS1haWRhLm9yZy9hYm91dC9tZW1iZXJzLw&HK=96B88288F267D1C8CD7204AD7A248EF36C1112EDC1123E6DC0BCD76D646BE1AA" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>Members</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#500050'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><br><a href="http://www.cvc.uab.cat" target="_blank">Computer Vision Center</a> <br><a href="http://www.cvc.uab.es/?page_id=7475" target="_blank">CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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