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ERCIM MUSCLE Working Group

Muscle (formerly IVU, Image and Vision Understanding) is the ERCIM Working Group on multimedia understanding through semantics, computation and learning. It gathers teams from both ERCIM and non-ERCIM institutions whose expertise ranges from machine learning and artificial intelligence to image/video/audio processing and multimedia database management.

Objectives of the Working Group

• To act as a forum to discuss directions and trends in multimedia research

• To support research by international cooperation

• To form a training network for young researchers in all fields relevant to multimedia understanding

Implementation

• Regular meetings to set up challenges, policies and strategies

• Mutual collaborations in research projects

• Scientific workshops, seminars and summer schools for young researchers

• Supervision of fellowship projects (e.g., within the ERCIM Fellowship Programme)

Group Coordinators

Chair: Emanuele Salerno, CNR, Italy

Steering Committee:

Enis Cetin, Bilkent U., Turkey

Rafael Molina, U. Granada, Spain

Montse Pardas, U. P. Catalunya, Spain

Petra Perner, IBAI, Germany

Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle U. Thessaloniki, Greece

Cristina Ribeiro, INESC, Portugal

Sanni Siltanen, VTT, Finland

Simon Wilson, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland