Program Overview
The scientific program will run from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday, featuring lectures by ELLIS Fellows and prominent researchers from academia and industry. The lectures will cover topics such as large-scale foundation models, self-supervised and multi-modal representation learning, multi-modal learning for robotics, and machine learning for sustainable solutions. Approximately 30% of the program will be dedicated to poster presentations by PhD students, along with tutorial sessions and keynote addresses. Social events will be held in Brunico and nearby areas, offering interactive networking opportunities with industry partners.
Participant Limit
The event is open to PhDs, postdocs, fellows, scholars, members, and industry sponsors, with a cap of 100 participants. A limited number of spots will be reserved for local PhD students and those affiliated with CVPL, the Italian Association for Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning.
Program Schedule
Speakers
Rita Cucchiara
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Lamberto Ballan
University of Padova
Andrea Cavallaro
Idiap & EPFL
Alessio Del Bue
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Cees Snoek
Univeristy of Amsterdam
Bjorn Ommer
Ludwig Maximilians UniversitĂ€t MĂŒnchen
Jiri Matas
Czech Technical University
Vladislav Golyanik
Max Planck Institute
Sergey Tulyakov
Snap Inc.
Organising Committee
Prof. Oswald Lanz
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
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Prof. Oswald Lanz is endowed professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano since 2021, where he is leading the research in computer vision of the Data-driven AI macro-area and oversees the research-oriented developments of industrial research at Covision Lab. Previously, he was head of the Vision technologies unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento. He received an MSc degree in mathematics and a PhD in computer science from the University of Trento. He published more than 80 articles in journals and conferences, was recipient of Amazon Machine Learning Research Award in 2020 and of the ACM Multimedia 2015 best paper.
Dr. Fabio Poiesi
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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Dr. Fabio Poiesi is a Research Scientist at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. He received his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from Queen Mary University of London (UK) in 2014. He served as Guest Editor in ACM TOMM and IMAVIS, and as Area Chair in IEEE ICPR 2020 and 2022. He participated in several European Projects as workpackage leader and as PI in JPI/CH SHIELD. He is author of more than 50 publications in journals and conferences (919 Cit., h-index 16). Fabio is an ELLIS member and is affiliated to the ELLIS Unit Trento.
Dr. Subhankar Roy
University of Trento
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Dr. Subhankar Roy is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Trento and an incoming Assistant Professor at University of Bergamo. The primary focus of his research is to equip deep learning models with better generalization capabilities under data distribution and semantic shifts. In particular, the main research areas include multimodal learning, domain adaptation, continual learning, and novel class discovery. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technology with cum-laude from the University of Trento, where he was advised by Prof. Elisa Ricci and Prof. Nicu Sebe. Prior to the doctoral degree, in 2018 he received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication engineering from the University of Trento.
Prof. Antonio RodrĂguez-SĂĄnchez
UniversitÀt Innsbruck
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Prof. Antonio RodrĂguez-SĂĄnchez is currently an Associate Professor in the Intelligent and Interactive Systems group of the department of Computer Science at the UniversitĂ€t Innsbruck (Austria). He was born in Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña), a beautiful city in the north-west of Spain. He completed his Ph.D. at the Center for Vision Research (York University, Toronto, Canada) on modeling attention and intermediate areas of the visual cortex under the supervision of Prof. John K. Tsotsos (Canada Research Chair) in 2010. He obtained the degree of M.Sc. in Computer Science at the Universidade da Coruña (Spain) in 1998. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science at Universidad de CĂłrdoba (Spain) with Honors. He is an ELLIS member and has published more than 70 publications  (~1350 citations, h-index 17) in international journals and conferences in Machine/Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Medical image analysis, Computational neuroscience and Robotics.
Prof. Elisa Ricci
University of Trento & Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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Prof. Elisa Ricci is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) at the University of Trento and the head of the Deep Visual Learning research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler. She has published over 160 papers on international venues. Her research interests are in the areas of computer vision, robotic perception, and multimedia analysis. At UNITN, she is the Doctoral Program Coordinator in Information Engineering and Computer Science. She is an Associate Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition. She is/was the Program Chair of ECCV 2024, ACM MM 2020 and the Diversity Chair of ACM MM 2022. She received the ACM MM 2015 Best Paper award and ICCV 2021 Honorable mention award. She is an ELLIS Fellow.
Prof. Nicu Sebe
University of Trento and ELLIS UNIT Trento
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Prof. Nicu Sebe is the director of the ELLIS Unit Trento and of the ELLIS program on Multimodal Learning Systems. He received the PhD from Univ. of Leiden, Netherlands in 2001 and has been Full Professor at the University of Trento since 2009. He was the General Co-Chair of the IEEE FG 2008 and ACM Multimedia 2013 & 2022 and a program chair of ACM Multimedia 2011 and 2007, ECCV 2016, ICCV 2017 and ICPR 2020. He has been several times Area Chair of CVPR, ACM MM, ICCV, ECCV, and others. Currently, he is the President of the Italian Association of CV, PR and ML and is a Fellow of IAPR: He has been PI of many EU and National projects and has published more than 500 articles. He is Associate Editor of IEEE TPAMI and the Editor in Chief of Computer Vision and Image Understanding journal. He is the coordinator of the ELIAS project (European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability), one of the ELLIS EU Networks of Excellence.
Event Location and Experience
Event Location
The event will take place at the new convention area NOBIS, adjacent to the NOI Techpark Brunico, featuring conference rooms for 10-526 attendees. Just a 5-minute walk from the city center. NOBIS Website, NOI Techpark Website
NOBIS Event Space
NOI Techpark Brunico
Additional Venues
Some keynotes and discussions will be held at the LUMEN Museum of Mountain Photography, located at the summit of Kronplatz (2250m above sea level). Accessible by cable car from Brunico. LUMEN Museum Website
LUMEN Museum Exterior
LUMEN Museum Interior
Experience
Brunico, nestled in the South Tyrolean mountains and Dolomites, transforms into a winter wonderland and is a top spot for winter sports. Enjoy a special dining event in an alpine hut, followed by a keynote and industry talk amidst breathtaking landscapes.
Kronplatz by Night
Brunico, South Tyrol
Lectures, materials & slides
Coming soon..
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