BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//elias-ai - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:elias-ai X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://elias-ai.eu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for elias-ai REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250127T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20250131T170000 DTSTAMP:20260510T190548 CREATED:20240909T085924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T124748Z UID:3297-1737964800-1738342800@elias-ai.eu SUMMARY:ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025 DESCRIPTION:Program Overview\n 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. The program will also include tutorial sessions\, and keynote addresses. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a week-long project\, gaining hands-on experience in model training under the guidance of Dr. Andrea Pilzer from the NVIDIA AI Technology Center\, with access to NVIDIA’s advanced computing infrastructure. Social events will be held in Brunico and nearby areas\, offering interactive networking opportunities with industry partners. \n \n Register Here\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Participant Limit\n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program Schedule\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Click here to download the program in pdf. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rita Cucchiara University of Modena and Reggio Emilia \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lamberto Ballan University of Padova \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Andrea Cavallaro Idiap & EPFL \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alessio Del Bue Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cees Snoek Univeristy of Amsterdam \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bjorn Ommer Ludwig Maximilians Universität München \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jakob Verbeek META \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Justus H. Piater University of Innsbruck \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jiri Matas Czech Technical University \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vladislav Golyanik Max Planck Institute \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Fort META \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sergey Tulyakov Snap Inc. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Andrea Pilzer NVIDIA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Organising Committee\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Prof. Oswald Lanz Free University of Bozen-Bolzano \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Read more\n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Fabio Poiesi Fondazione Bruno Kessler \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Read more\n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Subhankar Roy University of Trento \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Read more\n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Prof. Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez Universität Innsbruck \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Read more\n Prof. Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez is currently an Associate Professor in the Intelligent and Interactive Systems group of the department of Computer Science at the Universität 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 Córdoba (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.\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Prof. Elisa Ricci University of Trento & Fondazione Bruno Kessler \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Read more\n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Prof. Nicu Sebe University of Trento and ELLIS UNIT Trento \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Read more\n 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. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n \n \n Event Location and Experience\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n Event Location\n 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 \n\n \n \n \n \n NOBIS Event Space\n \n \n \n NOI Techpark Brunico\n \n \n\n \n Additional Venues\n 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 \n\n \n \n \n \n LUMEN Museum Exterior\n \n \n \n LUMEN Museum Interior\n \n \n\n \n Experience\n 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. \n\n \n \n \n \n Kronplatz by Night\n \n \n \n Brunico\, South Tyrol\n \n \n\n \n \n Useful Links\n Sudtirol Guest Pass \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lectures\, materials & slides\n Student projects \nThe School will offer students a unique opportunity to work on a project throughout the week\, gaining hands-on experience in training models under the guidance of Dr. Andrea Pilzer\, Senior Solutions Architect at the NVIDIA AI Technology Center in Italy. Participants will also have exclusive access to cutting-edge computing infrastructure provided directly by NVIDIA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Accommodation\n Ferienregion Bruneck-Kronplatz \n\nHotel Ander**** Bruneck – info@hotelander.com\nHotel Corso am Graben**** Bruneck – info@hotelcorso.com\nHotel Langgenhof**** Bruneck-Stegen – hotel@langgenhof.com\nHotel Mühlgarten**** St. Lorenzen-Stefansdorf – hotel@muehlgarten.com\nHotel Post**** Bruneck – info@hotelpost-bruneck.com\nHotel Rudolf**** Reischach – info@hotel-rudolf.com\nFerien- und Wellnesshotel Windschar**** Gais – info@windschar.com\nHotel Gasthof Jochele**** Pfalzen – info@jochele.it\nHotel Kristall**** Pfalzen – info@hotel-kristall.it\nB&B Boutique Hotel Clara***s Reischach – info@clara-home.com\nHotel B&B Feldmessner***s Reischach – nur Ü/F – info@feldmessner.com\nHotel Amaten***s – Bruneck-Amaten – hotel@amaten.it\nGourmet- und Boutiquehotel Tanzel***s Pfalzen – info@tanzer.it\nHotel Martha*** Reischach – info@hotel-martha.it\nHotel Wochtla Buam*** Bruneck-Stegen – info@wochtla-buam.com\nHotel Enzian*** Gais-Uttenheim – info@enzian.it\nPension Pichlerhof** Bruneck-Luns – info@pichlerhof.info\nResidence Grünbacher*** Pfalzen – info@gruenbacher.it\nGasthof Sonne** St. Lorenzen – info@gasthof-sonne.it\nGarni Hattlerhof B&B** Bruneck-St. Georgen – nur Ü/F – info@hattlerhof.com\nGarni Schorneck** Reischach – info@schorneck.com\n\nFerienregion Kiens \n\nHotel Kronblick**** Kiens – kronblick@kronhotels.com\nBonfanti Design Hotel**** St. Sigmund – info@bonfanti-hotel.com\nTaubers Bio Vitalhotel**** St. Sigmund – info@taubers-vitalhotel.com\nHotel Elisabeth*** Kiens – info@hotel-elisabeth.it\nHotel Sonnenheim*** Hofern – info@sonnenheim.it\nHotel Sigmunderhof*** St. Sigmund – hotel@sigmunderhof.com\nLandgasthof Steger*** St. Sigmund – info@landgasthof-steger.com\nGasthof Obermair** Ehrenburg – info@obermairhof.info\nGasthof Pizzeria Petra** St. Sigmund – info@pizzeriapetra.it\nPension Pichler** St. Sigmund – pension.pichler@gmail.com\nPension Siessl** Kiens – info@pensionsiessl.it\n\nFerienregion Olang \n\nHotel Alte Goste**** Oberolang – booking@alte-goste.com\nHotel Kronplatz***s Niederolang – info@hotel-kronplatz.com\nHotel Alp Cron Moarhof***s Mitterolang – info@alpcronmoarhof.com\nHotel Markushof***s Oberolang – info@markushof.it\nHotel Messnerwirt***s Oberolang – info@messnerwirt.com\nHotel Aichner*** Mitterolang – info@hotel-aichner.com\nHotel Christoph*** Geiselsberg – info@hotelchristoph.it\nHotel Rainegg*** Oberolang – info@hotelrainegg.it\nHotel Scherer*** Mitterolang – info@hotelscherer.com\nPension Pfarrwirt*** Niederolang – info@pfarrwirt.bz\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n How to reach us\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n By car\n Exit A22 at Brennero and follow the indications for Bressanone / Val Pusteria. Take the E66 and keep following the directions for Brunico. WE ARE HERE. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Taxi\n For taxi services: +39 0474 410042. \nTaxi Brunico \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Train\n The main connection is via the Brenner Pass\, linking Innsbruck (Austria) to Bolzano/Fortezza (Italy). \n\nFrom Switzerland: Direct links from Zurich to Innsbruck.\nFrom Vienna: Travel via Salzburg to Innsbruck or take a route through Lienz in East Tirol directly to Brunico.\nFrom the South: Travel via Verona toward Innsbruck.\n\nOnce you arrive at Brunico station\, the venue is just a 5-minute walk away. For train schedules\, visit Trenitalia or Sudtirol Mobility. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Flight\n Nearby airports include: \n\nBolzano (Italy)\nBologna (Italy)\nInnsbruck (Austria)\nMunich (Germany)\n\nEach airport offers train connections to Fortezza\, from where you can easily reach Brunico. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n \n \n Winter School Event Footer\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Dates and Registration\n Start: January 27\, 2025 @ 8:00 \n End: January 31\, 2025 @ 17:00 \n Registration: \n \n - Early-bird (before 22/12/2024): 450 euro \n - Standard (after 23/12/2024): 550 euro \n - Virtual (until 24/01/2025): 150 euro\n \n Click here to register. \n Category: Winter School \n Contact: vismac2025@gmail.com \n \n \n Venue\n NOBIS\, adjacent to the NOI Techpark Brunico \n Via Europa 9 \n 39031 Brunico\, Italy \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n © 2025 Winter School Organisation. 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