Computer Vision and Human Perception

“Computer Vision and Human Perception - Future Trends”

In Honor of Prof. Shimon Ullman

The Weizmann Institute of Science

Sunday April 15, 2012

9:00 -18:00

09:00	Gathering
09:30	Welcoming words
09:40	Tomaso Poggio, MIT
	The Computational Magic of the Ventral Stream
10:10	Eric Grimson, MIT
	Computer Vision for Surgery and Disease Analysis
10:40	Ronen Basri, Weizmann
	Making Sense of Intensities

11:10	Break

11:40	Daniel Huttenlocher, Cornell
	Object Recognition: From Alignment to Flexible Templates and Beyond
12:10	Yael Moses, IDC
	The power and challenges of many cameras

12:40	Lunch

14:00	Shimon Edelman, Cornell
	On What It Means to See: Towards a Computational Understanding of the Richness of Phenomenal Experience
14:30	Moshe Bar, Bar Ilan & MGH
	The Proactive Brain: Top-Down Contributions in Visual Cognition
15:00	Ellen Hildreth, Wellesley
	Integrating Multiple Cues to Depth Order at Object Boundaries

15:30	Break

16:00	Amnon Shashua, Hebrew University
	Visual Recognition for the Masses: Challenges and Directions Enabling Consumer-Level Computer Vision Systems
16:30	Kobi Richter, Medinol Ltd.
	Commercial applications: Simple application > Significant results
17:15	Shimon Ullman, Weizmann
	From Simple Innate Biases to Complex Visual Concepts

Honorary Chair: Shimon Ullman

Organizers: Ronen Basri, Yael Moses, Amnon Shashua

Sponsors:	Supported in part by the Goldschleger Foundation and
	by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and The Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 4/11)

Entrance is free but registrations is requested.To register please fill the following form.