Computer Vision News - December 2016

Computer Vision News Computer Vision Events 35 working on similar topics to meet and discuss their latest works. The Netherlands are a small country, so it’s easier to travel between cities. It’s great for PhD students because not all of them will end up in academic careers. They can see if they would like to start a business or work at a research institution. I’m also trying to have talks at the meetings about this. Not only scientific talks, but people talking about their career. CVN: What can you tell us about the fall meeting? Veronika: It was great. I think it was one of the most highly attended meetings so far. About 60 people registered. We had three invited speakers, who each gave an hour talk. Joaquin Vanschoren talked about a platform, OpenML , which recently won the Dutch Data Prize for Exact and Technical Sciences . The idea is that of a website where you can share results and algorithms. The website is OpenML.org. The other speaker was Diana Mateus from the University of Munich . She talked about two different applications that she works on in segmentation and registration about interactive machine learning, and how we can interact with experts to get more labels. BTW, she organized the LABELS workshop at MICCAI 2016 . The last speaker was Julian de Wit . He is not somebody that we knew in the society, but I was told that he ranked very high in the Second National Data Science Bowl, a challenge hosted by Kaggle.com . He is a freelance software engineer, and he participated in the challenge by himself, ending up at the third place. He was only beaten by two very large teams. It was very exciting to hear how he did this and for him to reveal his secret. He just went ahead and labelled some of the data himself without knowledge of heart disease. That tied in very nicely with the other talks on interactive machine learning and sharing data in competitions. I really liked the interaction between the talks, and how each of the subjects linked to the other talks. Event Godliver Owomugisha from the University of Groningen, presenting her work on classification of cassava leaves “ It’s a very unique combination of groups that wouldn’t typically meet together at a conference ”