Computer Vision News - March 2021

335 BVM Workshop from the German community, but submissions and discussions largely in English. “I really look forward to going to BVM because for me it’s important to connect with the German community ,” Andreas says keenly. “MICCAI is a great international community to connect with, but it can be competitive, and costly to attend if the location is not local to you. You can’t bring your whole group there. With BVM, you see large coverageof theGermangroups.Weeven have an extra track with contributions from the international conferences, so you don’t miss the best papers.” Machine learning and deep learning are obviously a key focus of the event, and this year there will be sessions on U-Net applications ; navigation, guidance, and visualization; data sets and challenges; visible light; As well as a fantastic set of talks and posters, this year’s event will showcase some fascinating keynote speakers, including Marleen de Bruijne from Erasmus MC in the Netherlands and the University of Copenhagen speaking about learning from imperfect data; Alexandre Xavier Falcão from the University of Campinas in Brazil on the interactive design of CNNs for medical image analysis; and Helmut Messmann from University Hospital Augsburg in Germany speaking on AI in endoscopy. But being a virtual event, will anything important be missing? “ What we aremissing is the bratwurst!” Andreas exclaims. “In Regensburg they have really excellent sausages.” “And beer!” Christoph adds enthusiastically. “Yes, being a conference in Germany, beer plays a major role,” Andreas explains. “We had 300 litres of BVM- branded beer for the entire conference. It is really sad. It is even BVM-brewed “He prepared an in- person conference, a hybrid version, and an online version, just to make sure that the event can take place!” Christoph Palm

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