Dear PASCAL researchers:

We are announcing the launch of a new contest in the fields of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. The contest is aimed at all C++ programmers and does not require specific knowledge of either Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence techniques in general.

Prizes: to win are 3 NEXUS 7 Android Tablet (32Gb, 3G) ( + mugs, T-Shirts...)

Site: http://www.mash-project.eu/wiki/index.php/Factory_Contest

End of contest: June 7, 2013

*Deadline extension = Submission deadline extended to May 3, 2013*

Submissions are now possible on the web site.

Call for papers
FIRST WORKSHOP ON SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND AUDIO IN MULTIMEDIA
Organized by
ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia
IEEE SIG on Audio and Speech Processing for Multimedia

as a satellite event of Interspeech 2013

Aug. 22—23, 2013, Marseille, France

http://slam2013.lif.univ-mrs.fr

Can we use machine learning on longitudinal patient records to predict whether someone will have type 2 diabetes? Can we discover what are the causes of diabetes, and can we use the insights obtained from machine learning to suggest new interventions to prevent diabetes onset altogether?

CALL FOR PAPERS
CAIP 2013

15th International Conference on
Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns

27-29 August 2013
York, United Kingdom
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/cvpr/caip2013/

IDA 2013 focusses on complex real-world problems. To celebrate the 12th IDA Symposium (London, UK, 17-19 Oct) we will award the IDA Frontier Prize to the most visionary contribution. The prize consists of a plaque and a cheque for 1000 Euros (sponsored by KNIME).

Applications are invited for a 3-year Ph.D. project hosted in the Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK.

Supervisor: Dr Norman Poh
Co-supervisor: Dr David Windridge

CALL FOR PAPERS
1st IEEE Workshop on Visual Analysis Beyond Semantics

28 June 2013

CVPR2013, Portland, Oregon, USA

https://sites.google.com/site/visualanalysisbeyondsemantics/

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Can we model high-level visual properties such as image quality, memorability and photographic style? Can we leverage large-scale datasets to mitigate the intrinsic uncertainty of these properties? And most importantly, can we successfully employ such models in applications for multimodal classification, retrieval and recommendation?

CAP 2013

CAP is a French conference on Machine Learning.
July 3-5 2013
Lille
http://pfia2013.univ-lille1.fr/doku.php?id=fr:cap

paper submission deadline: April 1st
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cap2013

You can submit in English!

CAP tutorials and lectures will be given by:
- Antoine Bordes
- Radu Patrice Horaud

Accepted papers will be publicly available on open archive (provided that authors consent). CAP is organized within the AI french platform with other conferences (Planning and sequential learning; Agent based systems; knowledge representation;...)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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IbPRIA 2013 - 6th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Madeira, Portugal June 4-7, 2013

http://www.ibpria.org/2013

The Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
(IbPRIA) is an international event co-organised every two years, by the Portuguese and Spanish Associations for Pattern Recognition.

For this edition, the conference venue will be the outstanding Pestana Casino Park Hotel, part of the most emblematic tourist complex of Madeira Island.

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Call for Workshop Proposals

5th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, http://acml2013.conference.nicta.com.au/
Canberra, Australia
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The 5th Asian Conference on Machine Learning invites proposals for workshops to be held on Wed 13 Nov, 2013, at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. The conference aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in machine learning and related fields to share their new results, ideas and discuss emerging topics. Submissions from outside the Asia-Pacific region is also highly encouraged.