ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025

Join us for a great Winter School setting in the stunning town of Brunico, Italy blending cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technologies for Computer Vision with the opportunity to enjoy one of Europe’s most beautiful alpine regions across the Dolomites. This unique event not only offers a world-class scientific program but also the chance to ski and explore the beautiful surroundings. The event will take place at NOBIS in Brunico on January 27-31, 2025. The registrations are open at https://www.conftool.com/vismac2025/

Website of the school: https://elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-vismac/

Program Overview

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. Approximately 30% of the program will be dedicated to poster presentations by PhD students, along with tutorial sessions. Social events will be held in Brunico and nearby areas, offering interactive networking opportunities with industry partners.

Who can attend

The Winter School is open to PhDs, postdocs, fellows, scholars, members, and industry sponsors, with a maximum of 100 participants. A limited number of seats will be reserved for local PhD students and members of CVPL (Italian Association for Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning).

Venue

ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School will take place in Brunico. The venue will be:

NOBIS,
Via Europa 9
39031 Brunico
South Tyrol, Italy

Keynote speakers

Here is the list of confirmed speakers, with more to be announced:

  • Lamberto Ballan, University of Padua, IT

  • Andrea Cavallaro, EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, CH

  • Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, IT

  • Alessio del Bue, Istituto Italiano di Technologia, IT

  • Laura Leal-Taixè, NVIDIA

  • Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University

  • Bjorn Ommer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, DE

  • Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, NL

  • Jacob Verbeek, META

  • Vladislav Golyanik, Max Planck Institute

  • Sergey Tulyakov, Snap Inc.

Organizing Committee

Prof. Oswald Lanz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Dr. Fabio Poiesi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Dr. Subhankar Roy, University of Trento, Italy
Prof. Elisa Ricci, University of Trento & Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Prof. Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy
Prof. Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, Universität Innsbruck