February 2012 - Lisa_seminaires - mailman.iro.umontreal.ca

International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, Sept 17-19, Italy
by Yoshua Bengio 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Begin forwarded message: > =================================================================== > > ANNPR 2012 > Fifth INNS IAPR TC3 GIRPR International Workshop on > Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition > > September 17 - 19, 2012 > Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy > > *** Call for Papers *** > > We are pleased to announce that the 5th INNS IAPR TC3 GIRPR International > Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition will be held > at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy. ANNPR 2012 follows the > success of ANNPR 2003 (Florence), ANNPR 2006 (Ulm), ANNPR 2008 (Paris), > and ANNPR 2010 (Cairo). This 5th ANNPR workshop will act as a major forum > for international researchers and practitioners working in all areas of > neural network- and machine learning-based pattern recognition to present > and discuss the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. > > This year the workshop received the endorsement from the International > Neural Network Society (INNS), from the International Association for > Pattern Recognition (IAPR), from the Technical Committees 3 (TC3) of IAPR > ("Neural Networks & Computational Intelligence"), and from GIRPR (Gruppo > Italiano Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition). > > Papers are solicited dealing with neural networks, machine learning and > pattern recognition which emphasize methodological issues possibly arising > in applications. > > Topics: > > Methodological Issues > - Supervised learning > - Unsupervised learning > - Combination of supervised and unsupervised learning > - Feedforward, recurrent, and competitive neural nets > - Kernel machines > - Hierarchical modular architectures and hybrid systems > - Combination of neural networks and Hidden Markov models > - Multiple classifier systems and ensemble methods > - Probabilistic graphical models > - Kernel methods > - Deep architectures > > Applications in Pattern Recognition > - Image processing and segmentation > - Sensor-fusion and multi-modal processing > - Feature extraction, dimension reduction > - Clustering and vector quantization > - Speech and speaker recognition > - Data, text, and web mining > - Bioinformatics/Cheminformatics > > Paper Submission: > > Potential participants should submit a paper describing their work in one > of the areas > described above. Proceedings will be published as a volume in the Springer > LNAI, maximum paper length is 12 pages in LNCS/LNAI format. Instructions > for authors, LaTeX templates, etc. are available at the Springer LNCS/LNAI > web-site. Submission of a paper constitutes a commitment that, if > accepted, one or more authors will attend the workshop. On-line submission > via EasyChair will be made available on the web-site of the workshop > (http://annpr2012.fbk.eu) timely. > > Special Sessions: > > Fellow scientists wishing to organize a special session are invited to > submit a proposal to the ANNPR 2012 Chairs (or, to annpr2012(a)fbk.eu) > Proposals should include the session title and a list of topics covered by > the session. Three to six papers will be required for a special session to > take place. Once the special session proposal has been approved by the > ANNPR 2012 Chairs, the session organizers are expected to carry out the > review process for the papers submitted to their session. Proposals must > be received by March 8, 2012. > > Important Dates: > > May 6, 2012 - Deadline for electronic paper submission > June 3, 2012 - Notification of paper acceptance > June 17, 2012 - Deadline for final, camera-ready submission > June 17, 2012 - Deadline for Early Registration > > Contacts and Further Info: > > annpr2012(a)fbk.eu > http://annpr2012.fbk.eu/ > > > General Chairs: > > Nadia Mana > Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy > > Friedhelm Schwenker > University of Ulm, Institute of Neural > Information Processing, Germany > > Edmondo Trentin > UniversitÃ di Siena, Dip. di Ingegneria dell' > Informazione, Italy > > Local Organization Chairs: > > Oswald Lanz > Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy > > Stefano Messelodi > Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy > > Program Committee: > > Shigeo Abe, Japan > Amir Atiya, Egypt > Erwin Bakker, The Netherlands > Yoshua Bengio, Canada > Ludovic Denoyer, France > Neamat El Gayar, Canada > Antonino Freno, France > Markus Hagenbuchner, Australia > Barbara Hammer, Germany > Tom Heskes, The Netherlands > Lakhmi Jain, Australia > Nik Kasabov, New Zealand > Hans A. Kestler, Germany > Oswald Lanz, Italy > Marco Loog, The Netherlands > Simone Marinai, Italy > Stefano Messelodi, Italy > Heiko Neumann, Germany > Erkki Oja, Finland > GÃ¼nther Palm, Germany > Lionel Prevost, France > Raul Rojas, Germany > Stefan Scherer, USA > Alessandro Sperduti, Italy > Ah-Chung Tsoi, Macau > Ian Witten, New Zealand

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Fwd: Josh Tenenbaum talk on Friday at 3:30 pm
by Yoshua Bengio 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

A talk you should not miss if possible! Begin forwarded message: > From: Doina Precup <dprecup(a)cs.mcgill.ca> > Subject: Fwd: Josh Tenenbaum talk on Friday at 3:30 pm > Date: 14 février 2012 22:08:43 HNE > To: Bengio Yoshua <bengioy(a)iro.umontreal.ca>, "Prof. Rabbat Michael" <michael.rabbat(a)mcgill.ca> > > Please distribute to anyone interested in your group. > > Best, > Doina > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Michael Langer <langer(a)cim.mcgill.ca> >> Date: February 14, 2012 7:41:57 PM EST >> To: perception-list(a)cim.mcgill.ca >> Subject: Josh Tenenbaum talk on Friday at 3:30 pm >> >> Josh Tenenbaum http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html >> is giving the Hebb Lecture on Friday up in psych@mcgill >> >> It may be of interest to the machine learning / AI folks. >> http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/misc/hebb/hebblectures.html >> >> I assume he'll be covering some of the material from his recent Science paper: >> http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/Papers/tkgg-science11-reprint.pdf >> >> Mike >

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Fwd: IEEE/MITACS Seminar February 9, 2012: John Tsitsiklis, MIT
by Yoshua Bengio 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

John Tsitsiklis is an international star in the area of optimization / decision-taking (with some connections to reinforcement learning). He will give a talk on distributed averaging algorithms which are closely connected to the kinds of algorithms presented by John Langord on distributed machine learning at a recent talk also at McGill. I encourage you to go. -- Yoshua Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Carrie Serban, Ms." <carrie.serban(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:carrie.serban@mcgill.ca>> > Subject: IEEE/MITACS Seminar February 9, 2012: John Tsitsiklis,MIT > Date: 2 February, 2012 11:14:51 AM EST > To: "Carrie Serban, Ms." <carrie.serban(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:carrie.serban@mcgill.ca>> > > Good morning, > > The next MITACS seminar will be held as follows: > > Averaging algorithms and distributed anonymous discrete function computation > Dr. John Tsitsiklis > Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology > > Friday, February 10, 2012 > 11:30 – 1:00 > McGill University, McConnell Engineering building, room 12 > > This seminar is co-sponsored by the IEEE Montreal chapter. > > Kindly forward to any students or colleagues who might be interested. > > Thanks very much. > Best regards, > Carrie > > Carrie Serban > Administrative Coordinator > SYTACom > McGill University > (514) 398-8104 > carrie.serban(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:carrie.serban@mcgill.ca> > >

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