- understanding of natural scenes
- recognition of objects and events
- auditory coding of speech and music
- natural language processing
- semantic indexing
- retrieval of documents and images.
This is a one-day workshop. The program will feature invited talks, poster spotlights, a demo session, and a panel discussion. Submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee on the basis of relevance, significance, technical quality, and clarity. Accepted demos will be invited to give a two-minute spotlight oral presentation. Demos will be in parallel with the poster session.
Demo descriptions should be 1-to-2 pages long, and adhere to ICML format. Please email your submissions to: kyu@sv.nec-labs.com
Important Dates:
- Deadline for Submissions: April 24, 2009
- Notification of Decision: May 08, 2009
- Workshop: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Organizers:
- Kai Yu, NEC Laboratories America, kyu@sv.nec-labs.com
- Ruslan Salakhutdinov, University of Toronto, rsalakhu@cs.toronto.edu
- Yann LeCun, New York University, yann@cs.nyu.edu
- Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto, hinton@cs.toronto.edu
- Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal, bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca