The Program:

The summer workshop courses will cover the main sensory modalities in cognitive sciences, how they interact and can be fused. The workshop program will span five days with two main tutorials sessions a day. Each session will provide a coffee break in the middle of the session. Leisure time will be foreseen in the afternoon.

Friday 24 august:

20:00 - …

Welcome Reception

 

Saturday 25 august

8:00 – 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 – 12:00

Speech Communication by Humans and by Machine

Lecturer: Hynek Hermansky

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30- 16:30

Visual Object Recognition

Lecturers: Bastian Leibe , Tinne Tuytelaars, Bernt Schiele and Ales Leonardis

16:30 – 18:00

Leisure

18:00 - 19:30

Group discussions or demos

19:30 - …

Dinner

 

Sunday 26 august:

8:00 – 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 – 12:00

Image Matching and Camera Tracking

Lecturer: Tomas Pajdla

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30- 16:30

Spatial Sound Processing

Lecturer: Jörn Anemüller

16:30 – 18:00

Leisure

18:00 - 19:30

Group discussions or demos

19:30 - …

Dinner

 

Monday 27 august

8:00 – 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 – 12:00

Neural Mechanisms of Visual Object Recognition and Categorization

Lecturer: Rufin Vogels

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30- 16:30

Logical Representational and Computational Methods for Markov Decision Processes

Lecturer: Craig Boutilier

16:30 – 18:00

Leisure

18:00 - 19:30

Group discussions or demos

19:30 - …

Dinner

 

Tuesday 28 august

8:00 – 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 – 12:00

Autonomous Robot Learning of Foundational Representations

Lecturer: Benjamin Kuipers

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30- …

Afternoon excursion

19:30 - …

Dinner

 

Wednesday 29 august

8:00 – 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 – 12:00

Cognitive Architectures

Lecturer: Matthias Scheutz

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30- 16:30

Developmental Algorithms

Lecturer: Frederic Kaplan

16:30 – 18:00

Leisure

18:00 - 19:30

Group discussions or demos

19:30 - …

Dinner