V&L Net Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'11)
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FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Endorsed by BMVA (the British Machine Vision Association) and EACL (the
European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)

Date: Thursday, 15 September 2011
Venue: Huxley Building, University of Brighton

Invited Speakers:
Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland
Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge
Roy Davies, Royal Holloway, University of London
Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin

Programme: see below


The EPSRC Network on Vision and Language (V&L Net)
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The EPSRC Network on Vision and Language (V&L Net) is a forum for
researchers from the fields of Computer Vision and Language Processing
to meet, exchange ideas, expertise and technology, and form new
partnerships. Our aim is to create a lasting interdisciplinary research
community situated at the language-vision interface, jointly working
towards solutions for some of today's toughest computational challenges,
including image and video search, description of visual content and
text-to-image generation.


Workshop Aims
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The Vision and Language Workshop is chiefly intended to be a networking
and community building event for the computer vision and language
processing communities. It will give us an opportunity to meet and get
to know each other. This process will be supported by an informal
approach characterised by diverse networking activities and a large
number of brief oral presentations combined with poster presentations.

The Vision and Language Workshop is free for full V&L Net members. V&L
Net will furthermore cover the cost of one night's accommodation in
Brighton and economy-class travel within the UK for full V&L Net members
presenting an accepted poster. Full details can be found on the workshop
page on the V&L Net website (for contact details see below).


Call for Participation
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The Vision&  Language Workshop organisers invite researchers with an
interest in computer vision and language processing to register for the
workshop by sending an email [log in to unmask]
giving name, affiliation and primary research interests.


Mini-posters for WLTM Notice Board
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Delegates are furthermore encouraged to bring along to the workshop
A3-sized mini-posters for our would-like-to-meet notice board. The idea
is for mini-posters to describe collaborations sought, profile research
groups, advertise publications, and similar items.


Programme
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08:30-09:00 Registration and Coffee

09:00-09:15 Introduction to V&L Net and VL’11

09:15-10:00 Invited NLP Overview Talk: Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College
Dublin

10:00-10:45 Invited CV Overview Talk: Roy Davies, Royal Holloway,
University of London

10:45-11:15 Coffee

11:15-12:00 Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland:
Robots need language: A computational model for the integration of
vision, action and language

12:00-12:45 Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge:
Integrating textual information extraction and visual similarity search
for biomedical research papers

12:45-13:45 Lunch (cold fork buffet)

13:45-16:00 Poster Presentations:

Amjad Altadmri and Amr Ahmed:
Automatic Semantic Video Annotation in Wide Domain Videos Based on
Similarity and Commonsense Knowledge Bases

Andrew J. Anderson, Elia Bruni, Brian Murphy, Marco Baroni and Massimo
Poesio:
fMRI Analyses of semantic structure using joint text and image models

Mark Andrews and Gabriella Vigliocco:
Augmenting Distributional Statistics with Experiential Data

Marco Baroni, Elia Bruni and Giang Binh Tran:
Multimodal distributional semantics

Moreno I. Coco, George L. Malcolm and Frank Keller:
The Interplay of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Mechanisms in Visual Guidance
during Object Naming

N. T. Crook, S. Pulman, P. Blunsom:
Automatic generation of natural language descriptions of visual scenes

Simon Dobnik:
 From situated descriptions of spatial scenes to situated dialogue

Jordi Gonzalez, Josep M. Gonfaus, F. Xavier Roca:
Exploiting Natural-Language Interaction in Video Surveillance Systems

Lewis D Griffin, M Husni Wahab and Andrew J Newell:
Extrapolation of visual appearance on the basis of semantic relatedness

Margaret Mitchell:
 From an Image to a Description

Joanna Isabelle Olszewska:
Spatio-Temporal Visual Ontology

Paul Piwek:
Computational Modelling of Reference in Visually-shared Domains of
Conversation

Massimo Poesio, Andrew Anderson, Marco Baroni, Sonja Eisenbeiss, Carol
Rennie and Alessandro Lenci:
BabyExp: From Data Collection to Analysis

Daniel R. Saunders and Russell L. Woods:
Development of an Objective, Language-Based Measure of Perceived Video
Quality

Niels Schuette, John Kelleher, and Brian Mac Namee:
Using Dialogue to Improve Robot Perception

Marietta Sionti, Leonardo Claudino, Carolyn Penstein Rose, Stella
Markantonatou and Yiannis Aloimonos:
Comparing linguistic classifications with sensorimotor data of English
and Greek verbs of motion

David Windridge: Cross-Modal Bootstrapping of Rule-Salient Audio-Visual
Representations for Sports Video Annotation

16:00-16:45 Coffee and Poster Session

16:45-17:30 WLTM Mini Posters and Networking

17:30-18:00 Discussion and Wrap-up Session

18:00-19:00 Evening Drinks Reception with Live Jazz Music


Organisers
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Anja Belz, University of Brighton
Darren Cosker, University of Bath
Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh
Dimitrios Makris, Kingston University


Contact
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