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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, 2015-2016: Davide Moroni, CNR, Italy

Steering Committee, 2016:

Enis Cetin, Bilkent U., Turkey

Michal Haindl, Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Montse Pardas, U. P. Catalunya, Spain

Cristina Ribeiro, INESC-TEC, Portugal

Emanuele Salerno, CNR, Italy

Sanni Siltanen, VTT, Finland

Behcet Ugur Toreyin, ITU Informatics Institute, Turkey

Maria Trocan, ISEP, France