INESC TEC organises another edition of the VISUM Summer School
VISUM - VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence is the summer school organised by INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) and aims to gather PhD candidates, postdoctoral students and researchers of the academia and industry with an interest in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
The sixth edition of the VISUM Summer School, which was organised under the project NanoStima, took place between 5 and 13 July at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
The initiative was attended by 84 participants from 26 different nationalities, namely, Portugal, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Ukraine, Scotland, Greece, Italy, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Brazil, the United States, Colombia, Morocco, Algeria, Russia, South Korea and Mozambique.
Besides all the work developed throughout the week, the students had the opportunity to get to know and to visit the city of Porto.
Applying computer vision to the reality
Considering the existing gap between the computer vision and its application in real-world scenarios, VISUM intended to create a specialised multicultural environment to draw the attention of researchers to the computer vision topics, as well as to improve the knowledge of all participants in these topics.
VISUM 2018 focused on three different domains: fundamental, industrial and application topics, each one with practical “hands-on” sessions. It was also organised a poster session that was open to all participants.
Promoting competition between the participants
The challenge of developing a project in the areas related to the activity was set to the students that participated in the school. The Scientific Turtles team, composed of Márcia Oliveira, João Portela, José Santos and Cláudio Sá won the first prize, receiving a monetary prize of EUR 1,200.
Due to the quality presented, honourable mentions were attributed to the DNabla (Elmira Hajimani, José Moreira and Pedro Cristóvão) and DEP (Pedro Silva, Eva Costa and David Almeida) teams.
NanoStima project
This edition of VISUM was incorporated in the project led by INESC TEC and entitled NanoSTIMA: Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics.
NanoSTIMA project is organised in five research lines (new sensing technologies, patient data, electronic register of health insurance, data analysis & decision and, lastly, information extraction) and aims to develop scientific skills between its partners in order to face the challenges imposed by the revolution in the future of the health sector.
Project "NanoSTIMA: Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics/NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000016" is financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, and through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The organising team of VISUM 2018 was composed of researchers of CTM, namely Jaime S. Cardoso, Hélder Oliveira, Ana Rebelo, Luís Teixeira, Pedro Ferreira, Sara Oliveira, Ricardo Cruz, Diogo Pernes, Eduardo Meca and Wilson Silva supported by Renata Rodrigues in the secratariat, along with Inês Domingues (IPO).
The researchers mentioned in this news piece are associated with INESC TEC and UP-FEUP.
