Computer Vision News - October 2016

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the Universidad de Los Andes (Santiago de Chile), jointly with the Chilean Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society , is organizing EVIC, the Latin-American Summer School on Computational Intelligence (December 14-16). Thanks to José Delpiano , we have been able to ask Pablo Zegers, General Chair of the Summer School , to tell us more. CVN: How many students do you expect at the Summer School and what percentage of international students? Pablo Zegers: We expect more than 100 people to attend EVIC (the Spanish acronym for the meeting - Escuela de Verano en Inteligencia Computacional). Most of them will be students, a few attendants coming from industry, and also faculty members. Most of the students are Chilean, both from Santiago and regions; the usual ratio of international students is around 10% . CVN: What is in this program that students will not find anywhere else? Zegers: This event is unique in Latin- America. Every version of the Summer School has attracted world-renowned researchers in the field of computational intelligence as keynote and tutorial speakers. Chile is an appealing travel destination for researchers around the world, as the record-breaking attendance of last International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) showed to the organizers. CVN: This is already the 12th edition of this program: what has changed since the first edition and what has remained the same? Zegers: Since the first edition, the world-class level of keynote and tutorial speakers has remained. We continue to aim at covering current research and applications of neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation . Nevertheless, the selection of relevant topics has changed with the interests of computational intelligence researchers, providing a level of novelty to each edition. This year, the program focus will be on analytics and deep learning . 32 Computer Vision News Upcoming Events Event EVIC - IEEE Latin-American Summer School on Computational Intelligence