Computer Vision News - February 2023

21 Northern Lights Deep Learning people outside our group and giving them responsibilities, such as session chairs, ” Robert continues. “ Once it became a conference in 2020, we had full paper submissions, so we needed lots of reviewers and program chairs too. ” This year’s sixth edition had attendees from 18 countries and featured a various topics ranging from fish segmentation to representation learning . Most authors, almost a third, were fromNorway, followed by Denmark, Germany, the UK, Sweden, and the rest of the world. A Winter School ran across the week, with tutorials fromprominent researchers on the first and last days. Around 150 early career researchers signed up, the majority from Europe but including some who traveled from as far afield as the United States and Japan. “ We had lectures about using the cluster and putting the code on your server, and it was very hands-on, ” Srishti tells us. “ That’s something missing in many conferences and schools we attend. We don’t have many courses on that subject, so I thought it was important. The people I spoke to were really interested in all of the topics. They went home super happy! ” There was a stellar line-up of keynote speakers, including Polina Golland from MIT, Mihaela van der Schaar from the University of Cambridge, and Christian Igel from the Pioneer Centre for AI at the University of Copenhagen. “ Polina Golland talked about keeping a sharp focus on deep learning for the social good, ” Robert tells us. “ Like technology applicationscomingtogether intosomething new through deep learning that could have a really high impact in the world. Several of the keynote speakers stressed that. ” Other highlights included a dedicated industry event and Diversity in AI, a EEP LEARNING CONFERENCE