PATTERN RECOGNITION EVENTS THIS SUMMER, 2006 _______________________ 4TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ISSPR, 2006), 23-28 JULY, UK WWW.PatternRecognitionSchool.com The 4th International Summer School on Pattern Recognition will be organised at the University of Plymouth, UK (23-28 July, 2006). The school programme is listed below. Please pass on this email to your interested colleagues and students. This is a great summer school which I would recommend for everyone to attend. DEADLINE: Register BEFORE 01 MAY, 2006 through the website to get a discount on the fee. More than 100 participants in 2005! Speakers at the Summer School (ISSPR'2006) Dr. Sam Roberts Mathworks, UK (Introduction to Matlab) Prof. Wojtek Krzanowski University of Exeter, UK (Multivariate Statistics: Data Description) Dr. Mike Tipping, Microsoft Research, UK (Bayesian Pattern Recognition: Principles and Practice) Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, UK (Latent Variables, Mixture Models and EM) Dr. Richard Everson, University of Exeter, UK (Dimensionality Reduction) Dr. Peter Tino University of Birmingham, UK (Probabilistic framework for model-based topographic map formation) Prof. Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh, UK (Neural Networks and Kernel Machines) Dr. Colin Campbell, University of Bristol, UK (Support Vector Machines and Kernel Methods: An Introduction and Review) Prof. John Shawe- Taylor, University of Southampton, UK (Kernel Based Methods) Dr. Steve Gunn, University of Southampton, UK (Matlab for Support Vector Machines) Prof. Mahesan Niranjan, University of Sheffield, UK (Classifier Performance Particle Filters for Tracking and Sequential Problems) Dr. Andrew Webb Qinetiq, UK (Decision TreesData Clustering) Prof. Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK (A Gentle Introduction to Evolutionary Computation; ATutorial on Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation) Dr. Richard Deardon, University of Birmingham, UK (Sequential Decision Making; Markov Chains Monte Carlo Methods) Dr. Jeremy Wyatt, University of Birmingham, UK (An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning) Dr. Ludmila Kuncheva, University of Wales, UK (Classifier Combination) Prof. Joseph Kittler, University of Surrey, UK (Feature Selection and Extraction) Prof. Sameer Singh, Loughborough University, UK (Multiresolution Pattern Recognition) Prof. Susan Craw, Robert Gordon University, UK (Case Based Reasoning) SUPPORTED BY: Microsoft, Springer, British Computer Society, and Mathworks. _______________________ IEEE CVPR CONFERENCE www.CVPR.org/2006 17-22 June, 2006 _______________________ 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~icpr06 August 20-24, 2006 ______________________ ICIAR CONFERENCE www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar06 18-20 September, 2006 ______________________ Please see the event websites to get FULL information. Compiled by: Dr. Heather McLelland