Section: Dissemination

Leadership within the scientific community

• Conference and workshop organization:

  • Co-organizer, Conference on Learning Theory Workshop on On-line Learning with Limited Feedback, Montreal, Canada, 2009, (J.-Y. Audibert)

  • Co-organizer, Pascal VOC 2009 Workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, 2009 http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/ (A. Zisserman).

  • Co-organizer, International Workshop on Video, Barcelona, Spain, 2009 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/india/events/iwv09/index.html (A. Zisserman).

  • Co-organizer, NIPS 2009 Workshop on “Understanding multiple kernel learning methods”:http://mkl.ucsd.edu/workshop (F. Bach).

• Editorial boards:

  • Journal of Machine Learning Research, Action Editor (F. Bach).

  • International Journal of Computer Vision (J. Ponce, A. Zisserman).

  • Fondations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision (J. Ponce).

  • SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (J. Ponce, F. Bach)

  • Action editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research (F. Bach)

  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (F. Bach)

  • Associate Editor of Image and Vision Computing Journal (I. Laptev)

• Area chairs:

  • Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference, 2009 (J.-Y. Audibert, A. Zisserman)

  • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010 (I. Laptev).

  • International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009 (J. Ponce).

  • International Conference on Machine Learning, 2009 (F. Bach)

  • European Conference on Machine Learning, 2009 (F. Bach)

• Program committees:

  • Conférence francophone sur l'apprentissage automatique (CAP), 2009 (J.-Y. Audibert)

  • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009 (J. Sivic, F. Bach, T. Cour, I. Laptev).

  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009 (J. Sivic, F. Bach, T. Cour, I. Laptev).

  • ACM International Conference on Image and VIdeo Retrieval, 2009 (J. Sivic).

  • Reviewer for the Neural Information and Processing Systems (NIPS), 2009 (J. Sivic, T. Cour, J. Mairal).

  • Reviewer for the ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), 2009 (J. Sivic).

  • British Machine Vision Conference, 2009 (I. Laptev).

• Prizes:

  • The paper Minimax policies for adversarial and stochastic bandits by J.-Y. Audibert and S. Bubeck was awarded the best student paper at the Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2009

  • The paper A tensor-based algorithm for high-order graph matching by O. Duchenne, F. Bach, I. Kweon, and J. Ponce, has been awarded a Best Student Paper award (Honorable Mention).

  • Andrew Zisserman received the BMVA Distinguished Fellow award, 2009.

• Other:

  • J.-Y. Audibert is a member of the PASCAL2 European Network of Excellence (http://www.pascal-network.org ).

  • F. Bach is a member of the PASCAL2 European Network of Excellence (http://www.pascal-network.org ).

  • F. Bach and J.-Y. Audibert co-coordinate the Paris reading group/seminar in machine learning (http://sites.google.com/site/smileinparis/ ).

  • J. Ponce is responsible for teaching and the entrance exam in the department of computer science of Ecole normale supérieure.

  • J. Ponce is a member of the scientific advisory board for the Institut de l'Ecole normale supérieure.

  • J. Ponce serves on the contents commission of Cap Digital.

  • J. Ponce and A. Zisserman, in collaboration with Y. Furukawa (UIUC) are starting an effort aimed at reconstructing vases from the Beazley Collection (http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Pottery/Ashmolean/Script/default.htm .

  • A. Zisserman is a member of the PASCAL2 European Network of Excellence and co-organizes the Pascal VOC challenge (http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2008/ ).