Program

Monday, 24 August

19.30 Welcome Reception

 

Tuesday, 25 August

08.00-09.00 breakfast

09.00-12.00

Prof. Björn Granström, KTH, Sweden

“multi-modal speech for talking interactive agents and their use in spoken dialogue systems”

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 16.30

Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, SUSPI & Un. of Lugano, Switzerland & TU Munich, Germany

“Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes. ”

17.30 – 19.00 Group work

19.30 Dinner at College

 

Wednesday, 26 August

08.00 – 9.00 Breakfast

09.00 – 12.00

Neuroscience demos at K.U.Leuven Gasthuisberg Hospital & Computer Vision demos at K.U.Leuven-ESAT 

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.30 – 18.00 Excursion in Leuven

19.00 Dinner in Leuven

 

Thursday, 27 August

08.00 – 9.00 Breakfast

09.00 – 12.00

Prof. Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany

“Part-Based Object and People Detection”

12.00 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 16.30

Prof. Moshe Bar, Harvard Medical School, USA

“The proactive brain: Predictions in visual cognition”

17.30 – 19.00 Group work 

19.30 Dinner at College

 

Friday, 28 August

08.00 – 9.00 Breakfast

09.00 – 12.00

Prof. Toon Goedemé et al., Ass. K.U.Leuven, Belgium

“Case-study: Fall detection of elderly people” (including discussion)