Vision and Sports Summer School • 2011

Zurich, Switzerland • 22-26 August 2011

Schedule

Monday

09:00 - 09:30 Registration at the entrance of the ETZ building (cf map below)

09:30 - 10:00 Vittorio Ferrari: Welcome and Information [Slides]

10:00 - 12:30 Jiri Matas: Local features extraction and matching [Slides]

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and transfer to the sports facilities at Fluntern and Irchel

14:00 - 16:00 Sports

16:30 - 17:30 Ondrej Chum: Large-scale specific object recognition [Slides]

17:30 - 19:30 Excercise by Jiri Matas and Ondrej Chum [Exercise, Code, Solution]

Tuesday

09:30 - 12:30 Bodo Rosenhahn - 3D reconstruction [Slides]

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and transfer to the sports facilities

14:00 - 16:00 Sports

16:30 - 19:30 Patrick Pérez - Tracking in videos [Slides]

Wednesday

09:30 - 12:30 Lubor Ladicky - Graph Cut-based Optimisation for Computer Vision [Slides]

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and transfer to the sports facilities

14:00 - 16:00 Sports

16:30 - 17:30 Lubor Ladicky - Graph Cut-based Optimisation for Computer Vision

17:30 - 19:30 Excercise by Lubor Ladicky [Exercise]

20:00 -         Barbecue at Forsthaus Waldegg

Thursday

09:30 - 12:30 Christoph Lampert - Kernel Methods for Computer Vision [Slides]

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and transfer to the sports facilities

14:00 - 16:00 Sports

16:30 - 19:30 Daniel Cremers - Variational Methods and Geometric Reconstruction [Slides]

Friday

09:30 - 12:30 Silvio Savarese - Multi-view object categorization [Slides]

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and transfer to the sports facilities

14:00 - 16:00 Sports

16:30 - 19:30 Cristian Sminchisescu - Structured Prediction for Computer Vision

Locations and Directions

How to come to the summer school?

From the Zurich Main Station (Zürich HB):

  • From tram stop "Bahnhofstrasse/HB", take Tram no. 6 (direction Zoo) to tram stop "ETH/Universitätsspital". Journey time: about 6 minutes
  • or

  • From tram stop "Bahnhofplatz/HB", take Tram no. 10 (direction Flughafen or Bahnhof Oerlikon) to tram stop "ETH/Universitätsspital". Journey time: about 6 minutes

From Zurich airport (Zürich Flughafen):

  • From Tram station Zürich Flughafen Bahnhof, take Tram no. 10 (direction Bahnhofplatz/HB) to tram stop "ETH/Universitätsspital". The tram operates daily from 6 a.m to 11 p.m. with trams departing every 7 to 15 minutes. Journey time: 30 minutes.
  • or

  • S-Bahn and trains leave from the station "Zürich Flughafen" and stop at the main station. Journey time: about 10 minutes. From there, see directions above.

Lectures

Lectures take place in the ETZ building, lecture hall ETZ-E6.

Excercises take place in the computer room ETZ-D96


Sports

Soccer, Tennis, Basketball, Volleyball:

Fluntern (take tram 6 from “ETH/Universitätsspital” in direction of “Zoo” until stop “Zoo” (walk in the direction the tram came until the sports facilities are on the right)

Climbing, Floorball, Tabletennis, Badminton, Judo:

Irchel (take tram 9 or 10 from “ETH Universitätsspital” in the direction of “Bahnhof Oerlikon”, “Flughafen”, or “Hirzenbach” to stop “Universität Irchel” (walk a bit back, then left, then straight until the sports facilities are on the left))