I'm organising the Amsterdam Computer Vision Meetup (ACVM). This meetup well take place at the 16th of January 2012 from 20:00 till 23:00 and will be hosted at the Waag. The event is sponsored by Waag Society and Appsterdam - participation is free of costs. ACVM is an independent and open meetup where Computer Vision (CV) experts and amateurs can meet.
CV is a fascinating and fast growing field. The last years there have been major improvements in computer speed and therefore the ability to process images and video. Also more and more people are wearing small supercomputers with integrated camera in their pocket. There is a lot of knowledge and curiosity in Amsterdam related to CV, both from a professional and artistic perspective. But since this field is so cutting edge this knowledge is protected and locked away inside companies and universities. The recent popularly and success of social tech meetings around the world learns us that a lot can be gained by opening up, meeting and sharing your experiences and knowledge.
I think this event is the perfect opportunity for
- The curious mind to find out more about CV and techniques used
- The professional who wants to meet fellow specialists and share their pain and love
- The artist or entrepreneur looking for inspiration
- A place for employers and potential employees to meet.
These people will give a presentation:
- Cees Snoek (euvt.eu) - Video searchengines based on visual categories and events
- Jan-Mark Geusebroek (perceptech.eu) - Visual classification of banknotes for re-usage
- matthijs van Henten (ischen.nl) - Video To Sound
- Mark de Greef (VicarVision.nl) - FaceReader
- Jan van Gemert (UvA) - Correlating Photograpic Style with Object Categorization
Please let me know if you are interested and want to come by leaving a comment below. There is only a limited number of seats.