Sunday, July 19

  12:30-17:15  Registration
  17:15-20:30  Opening reception
 

Monday, July 20

  08:30-09:15  Opening talk. Li Fei-Fei, Jianbo Shi, Tieniu Tan, Hongbin
                     Zha
  09:30-11:00  Image Building block: features, detectors, descriptors, and
                     classifiers. Alex Berg [Download slides]
  11:00-11:15  Tea Break
  11:15-12:30  Recognizing Patterns, motions, shapes, and people. Alex
                     Berg
(15' Q&A)
  12:30-13:45  Student/faculty lunch: introducing each other
  13:45-15:45  Dimensionality reduction via subspace learning and
                     clustering. Yi Ma (30' discussions)
  15:45-16:00  Tea Break
  16:00-17:15  Error correction in high-dimensional spaces via convex
                     optimization. Yi Ma (15' Q&A)
  18:00-20:30  Student/faculty dinner: social activities
 

Tuesday, July 21

  08:30-10:30  Ensemble discriminative learning. Zhuowen Tu (30'
                     discussions) [Download slides]
  10:30-10:45  Tea Break
  10:45-12:00  Supervised and weakly-supervised learning with implicit and
                     explicit representations. Zhuowen Tu (15' Q&A) [Download
                     slides]
  12:00-13:45  Student/faculty lunch: academic discussions
  13:15-15:45  Clustering. Tony Jebara (30' discussions)
  15:45-16:00  Tea Break
  16:00-17:15  MAP estimation with perfect graphs. Tony Jebara (15' Q&A)
                     [Download slides]
  18:00-20:30  Student/faculty dinner: social activities
 

Wednesday, July 22

  08:30-10:30  Deep learning. Yann LeCun (30' discussions) [Download
                     slides 1] [Download slides 2]
  10:30-10:45  Tea Break
  10:45-12:00  Learning visual feature hierarchies. Yann LeCun (15' Q&A)
                     [Download slides]
  12:00-13:45  Student/faculty lunch: academic discussions
  13:45-15:45  Object recognition by discriminative methods. Sinisa
                     Todorovic (30' discussions) [Download slides]
  15:45-16:00  Tea Break
  16:00-17:15  From hierarchies of regions to image understanding. Sinisa
                     Todorovic (15' Q&A) [Download slides]
  18:00-20:30  Student/faculty dinner: social activities
 

Thursday, July 23

  08:30-10:00  Graph theory. Jianbo Shi (15' Q&A) [Download slides]
  10:00-11:00  Graphs, geometry and semi-supervised learning. Mikhail
                     Belkin (15' Q&A) [Download slides]
  11:00-11:15  Tea Break
  11:15-12:30  Machine learning for computational regularity and saliency.
                     Yanxi Liu (15' Q&A) [Download slides]
  12:30-17:15  Mini-workshop (lunch included): research in China - industry
                     and universities
  18:00-20:30  Banquet
 

Friday, July 24

  08:30-10:30  Generative models: BayesNet, topic models. Tamara Berg
                     (30' discussions) [Download slides]
  10:30-10:45  Tea Break
  10:45-12:00  Internet vision - words, pictures, and more. Tamara Berg
                     (15' Q&A) [Download slides]
  12:00-13:45  Student/faculty lunch: academic discussions
  13:45-15:45  Generative models: Non-parametric models. Eric Xing (30'
                     discussions) [Download slides]
  15:45-16:00  Tea Break
  16:00-17:15  Learning sparse, discriminative, structured input/output
                     model: models, algorithms, and applications. Eric Xing (15'
                     Q&A) [Download slides]
  18:00-20:30  Student/faculty dinner: social activities
 

Saturday, July 25

  08:30-17:15  All-day trip out of Beijing.
  18:00-20:30  Student/faculty dinner: social activities
 

Sunday, July 26

  08:30-10:30  Learning structures: AND-OR graphs. Song-Chun Zhu (30'
                     discussions) [Download slides]
  10:30-10:45  Tea Break
  10:45-12:00  Top-down/Bottom-up inference in graphs. Song-Chun Zhu
                     (15' Q&A) [Download slides]
  12:00-13:45  Student/faculty lunch: academic discussion
  13:45-15:45  Online learning for tracking. Bob Collins (30' discussion)
                     [Download slides]
  15:45-16:00  Tea Break
  16:00-17:15  Automated video analysis of crowd behavior. Bob Collins
                     (15' Q&A)
  18:00-20:30  Student/faculty dinner: social activities
 

Monday, July 27

  08:30-10:30  Methods for representing and recognizing 3D objects. Silvio
                     Savarese
[Download slides 1] [Download slides 2]
  10:30-10:45  Tea Break
  10:45-12:00  Towards total scene understanding. Li Fei-Fei [Download
                     slides]
  12:00-17:15  Mini-workshop (lunch included): summer school course
                     project presentations
  18:00-20:30  Dinner discussion: reflections