30 August 2011
University to host computer vision conference
The University of Dundee will this week play host to around 200 computing experts from around the world when it hosts the British Machine Vision Conference 2011.
Researchers and academics from 25 countries will descend on the University from Tuesday, 30th August until Thursday, 1st September. The conference is being hosted by the University’s School of Computing.
Professor Stephen McKenna and Professor Manuel Trucco of the School’s Computer Vision and Image Processing Group will chair the event, along with Dr Jesse Hoey, a former Dundee academic now based at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Computer vision aims to equip computers and robots with the ability to understand images. Two well-known everyday examples are bar codes and the Kinect video game system, developed by UK computer vision researchers at Microsoft.
Professor McKenna said he was delighted to be welcoming colleagues from around the world to one of the foremost academic conferences on computer vision.
'The British Machine Vision Conference is now in its 22nd year, and has grown into a truly international event,' he said. 'This reflects the success and impact of UK computer vision research and we are delighted to have attracted this conference to Dundee.
'Computer vision means enabling machines to recognise people and actions in videos, identify and measure organs or disease signs in biomedical images, or retrieve images similar to example ones from large repositories. These are all applications researched at the University of Dundee.'
Professor Pete Downes, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, will open the conference, which is taking place at the Dalhousie Building.
Lord Provost John Letford will host a civic reception for delegates at Discovery Point on Tuesday evening. The conference will be followed by a workshop for UK research students on Friday at the Queen Mother Building, chaired by Dr Jianguo Zhang of the School of Computing.
Further information about the conference is available at: www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/bmvc2011/
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