High Visual Computing 2025
The tenth meeting of the Czech and Slovak image processing, computer graphics and computer vision people in the mountains. The event will take place January 29 - February 1, 2025 at Krkonoše (aka Giant Mountains, Riesengebirge, Karkonosze), Czechia in Tetřeví Boudy https://www.tetreviboudy.com/ (see the map).
The goal of the meeting is to encourage exchange of ideas between researchers and practitioners in the fields of image processing, computer graphics and computer vision from across the Czech and Slovak Republics and beyond. There will be many (optional) outdoor activities possible during the day and fruitful talks, discussions and socializing in the afternoons and evenings.
The prices negotiated with the Hotel Tetrevi Boudy are as follows:
- single occupancy (of a double room) 2280 CZK/person/night/half-board, (i.e. 272 EUR per person for 3 nights, 3x half board)
- non-single occupancy (in double rooms and 3-5 bed rooms) 2030 CZK person/night/half-board, (i.e. 242 EUR per person for 3 nights, 3x half board)
- child (3-12 years) 1600 CZK (i.e. 191 EUR per child for 3 nights, 3x half board)
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: How do I register?
A:
Please fill out the form. While registering, you will be asked to include the title and a short
abstract of your offered 20 minute talk. Sending your abstract does not necessarily mean you will be selected to present, but the title and abstract are still a strict requirement for the registration - intended to keep the standard of the presented material consistently high. Remember: one person registered = one talk title/abstract. Once you fill out the form and pay the deposit to the hotel, take the registration as confirmed.
Q: I am from a company and I do not have anything "sciency" enough to show. May I still come?
A: By all means! We are eager to learn what your company works on and what you work on in the company, what interesting open problems you might have, etc. That said, no shameless corporate advertising, please.
Q: What is the conference fee and how do I pay it?
A: There is no conference fee per se. All you need to do is pay for your food and accommodation on the spot at the hotel. We will *not* be collecting your money.
Q: Do I need to look for accomodation?
A: Yes, please book your room by sending an email to the attention of Mr Simon Gallas at tetreviboudy@email.cz (CC to hacklova@sisal.mff.cuni.cz) with the subject of your email HiVisComp 2025. Please, indicate the dates of your stay, in case of family groups also number of persons (adults and children) and the billing address to which you wish to have your invoice issued. Everyone is staying in the same hotel, which is pre-booked for us. You will pay a 50% deposit in advance directly to the hotel based on a proforma invoice issued according to your requirement in the reservation email and the rest on the spot after you arrive. Should you have any special requirements concerning accommodation or food, please contact Radka Hacklova.
Q: Do I need to take care of my travel arrangements?
A: Yes, travel is up to you. We will send an info email about this to all the registered participants in due time.
When travelling by car, you need to get to this specific parking lot (50.6708397N, 15.6660558E, see the map).
Transportation from this point is provided and organized by the hotel, and one trip to and from the hotel is included in the price. The journey takes approximately 30 minutes depending on current conditions. You can see the route on the map. The hotel can transfer up to 30 persons at a time, therefore all hotel guests receive 1-2 days prior their arrival an offer of transer times available for their arrival day. Guests choose the time they prefer to be picked up from the parking and send their request back to the hotel. The hotel confirms the time you selected so that the transfer runs as smoothly as possible.
Q: Summing it all up, what’s the timeline between now and the conference?
A: Easy. You fill out the registration form, including the offered talk abstract, before the submission deadline. Then you need to book your room and pay a deposit to the hotel by October 31, 2024 at the latest. By the end of November, we will assemble the program from the offered talks and post it online. At the beginning of, December, we will send an email with practical information to all registered participants. You will have almost two months to arrange your travel. You are expected to arrive to the hotel by the afternoon on the first HiVisComp day, where we’ll have dinner at 6pm and the conference program will start at 7pm.
Programme:
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Invited Speakers:
Speaker 1: Marc Alexa, TU Berlin, Germany
Marc Alexa is a Professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and heads the Computer Graphics group. He is interested in the representation, generation, modification, and analysis of shapes. He has been Technical Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions in Graphics, the leading venues in the field. Throughout his career, he received a variety of awards, distinctions, and grants from the European Research Council, Apple Inc., the German Science Foundation, Google, Walt Disney Animation Studios, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and others.
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Speaker 2: Torsten Sattler, CIIRC, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic
Torsten Sattler is a Senior Researcher at CTU. Before, he was a tenured associate professor at Chalmers University of Technology. He received a PhD in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2014. From Dec. 2013 to Dec. 2018, he was a post-doctoral and senior researcher at ETH Zurich. Torsten's research interests include visual localization, local feature extraction and matching, camera geometry estimation, 3D reconstruction, neural scene representations and neural rendering, and semantic scene understanding. Torsten has contributed popular benchmarks on long-term visual localization and multi-view stereo. In general, Torsten is interested in finding suitable scene representations for 3D computer vision tasks. He regularly reviews or is an area chair for the main computer vision conferences (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV). He is also an associate editor for IEEE RA-L and IEEE TPAMI, has been a program chair for DAGM GCPR 2020 and ECCV 2024, and a general chair for 3DV 2022. Torsten is an ELLIS Scholar and a member of the ELLIS PhD and Postdoc Program Committee.
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Speaker 3: Gabriela Csurka, NAVER LABS, France
Gabriela Csurka is a Principal Scientist at NAVER LABS Europe, France. Her main research interests are in computer vision for image and 3D understanding, visual localization, domain adaptation, and visual language models. She has contributed to around 100 scientific communications, made several important contributions to computer vison and pattern recognition field, among which the most influential was the bag-of-visual words (BOV) framework that made a complete change to the field of image categorization and became a standard until the move to end-to end paradigm.
In 2017 she edited a Springer book on Domain Adaptation for Computer Vision Applications and in 2022 she co-authored and leaded the publication of two books one on Visual Domain Adaptation in the Deep Learning Era, published by Morgan&Clayton and one on Semantic Image Segmentation: Two decades of research, published in the Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision series of Now Publisher.
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Important Dates:
- Deadline for talk proposals: October 31, 2024
- Meeting: January 29 - February 1, 2025
Venue:
Tetřeví Boudy, Krkonoše, Czechia, https://www.tetreviboudy.com/ (see the map)Programme and Organization Committee:
Martin Čadík, Daniel Sýkora, Ondřej Chum
Duties: scientific program, selection of beer and everything else.
Sponsoring: