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*Call for Participation
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Seasonal School on "Signal Processing for Interactive and Cognitive Environments" (SP-ICE)
Organized by University of Genova, Italy
Loano2Village, Loano (SV), Italy
1st -- 7th September, 2012
*APPLICATION DEADLINE: 2nd July, 2012*
*WEB*: http://www.icephd.org/sp-ice
*Email*: icephd@dibe.unige.it
The Summer School on Signal Processing for Interactive and Cognitive Environments
(SP-ICE) is the second edition of the Summer Schools series related with the Erasmus
Mundus Joint Doctorate on Interactive and Cognitive Environments (EMJD-ICE
http://www.icephd.org) and can be considered as an ideal prosecution of the first edition
that was organized by the Alpen-Adria Universität in Klagenfurt (AT) and technically
co-sponsored by IEEE via the Seasonal Schools in Signal Processing (S3P) initiative.
The Summer School SP-ICE is focused on providing an updated state of the art over most
advanced signal processing theories and techniques that are relevant for developing
interactive and cognitive environments. Lectures will be focused on novel signal
processing algorithms and technologies for ICE but also on in-depth reviewing of
state-of-the-art ICE related systems and short hands-on tutorial guiding students through
the process of building real ICE applications from scratch. Summer school attendants will
have the opportunity to learn and study innovative algorithms and systems for artificial
interaction and cognition, to apply these concepts for building real working ICE
components and to cooperate with other students for designing ICE related modules.
The main goal of the ICE related research is to study and develop innovative concepts,
algorithms, services to enable multi-user interactions in multi-sensor physical
environments for improving quality of life, supporting human everyday tasks and
fulfilling urgent society needs. The focus on a multiple users perspective can be
achieved through 1) user centered interaction design 2) cognition, emotion, behavior
understanding 3) context awareness.
Main topics of the Summer School activities are machine learning, cryptography,
video-processing including tracking and detection, ambient assisted living, facial
biometrics, emotion recognition, serious gaming, distributed consensus, bio-inspired
systems, human interactions recognition.
The Summer School will propose three different types of lectures: 1) standard lectures
will propose novel signal processing algorithms and techniques as enablers for ICE; 2)
application lectures will present state-of-the-art interactive and cognitive systems,
describing how ICE concepts can be applied in real scenarios; 3) hands-on lectures will
demonstrate how to design and implement simple interactive and cognitive modules from
scratch.
Several activities will be organized for a deep involvement of the students in the Summer
School activities: 1) a full day will be dedicated to the presentation and exhibition of
students research activities; 2) starting from the first day of the School, the
attendants will be divided into groups and asked to carry out a (simple!) ICE related
research activity to be described and discussed during the final Students Panel
discussion; 3) a visit to a nearby Research Center will be organized for Summer School
participants.
Students are encouraged to submit to the organizing committee a short paper describing
current research in Interactive and Cognitive Environment. All the participating students
will have the opportunity to describe their contributions to the Summer School
participants.
*APPLICATION*
The school will be open to graduate students, Ph.D. students, post-docs, young
researchers, senior researchers and practitioners. Both academic and industrial
professionals are encouraged to apply:
http://www.icephd.org/sp-ice
The expected school fee will be:
EUR EUR 1.100 for students (accommodation included)
EUR EUR 1.500 for non-students (accommodation included)
*The fee includes* accommodation for six nights in double room, all lectures (all five
days), materials, lecture notes, light lunch and dinner, morning/afternoon coffee break,
transportations for social events. The deadline to apply is 2nd July, 2012
*ACCOMODATION/VENUE*
Loano2Village is situated about 1.300 m. far from the center of Loano (SV, Italy), about
1.500 m. far from the railway station, about 1.500 m. far from the taxi parking place,
about 2 Km far from the tourist harbor, 3 km from the Motorway (exit: Pietra Ligure), ca.
85 km from Genoa Airport and 125 km from the Nice Airport. Thanks to its location the
resort allows a quiet stay at only 10 minutes far from the seaside.
Loano2Village Resort offers comfortable and wide rooms of different typologies which can
be ideal up to 6 persons. Air conditioning, heating, mini fridge, direct dial telephone,
TV Sat, Safe, bathroom with shower and hair dryer, terrace or balcony. Some of them have
a kitchenette.
Some facilities for the participants include: reception and clients assistance on duty 24
hours, multilingual hotel staff, major credit cards accepted, free shuttle bus service to
and from Loano center, air conditioning, common areas for disabled guests, free Internet
Point, free WI FI at Reception, Bar and Meeting Center, 2 large swimming pools, 1 tennis
court, 2 5-players football courts, 1 bowls court, table-tennis, archery, bicycles at
disposal upon availability, minimarket with newspapers' sale.
*For additional information please visit*
http://www.icephd.org/sp-ice
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*Lucio Marcenaro, PhD*
Assistant Professor
Signal Processing & Telecommunications Group
DITEN
Via all'Opera Pia 11, 16145 Genova (Italy)
Ph. +39 010 3532060
Email: lucio.marcenaro@unige.it <mailto:lucio.marcenaro@unige.it>
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