Summer School on Image and Robotics

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

8th Summer School on Image and Robotics (SSIR'07)
Center for Computing Research  (CIC)
Web Site: http://www.image-and-robotics.org/~ssir2007


The French Mexican Laboratory in Computer Science(LAFMI), the Center
for Computing Research or Centro de Investigación en Computación CIC
and the French National Institut for Research in Computer Science and
Control invite you to apply to take part in the 8th Summer School on
Image and Robotics (SSIR'07) to be held in Mexico city.

Mexico city is located in the center of Mexico, very close to the
volcano
Popocatepetl and very close from the colonial cities of Puebla (120
Km),
Cuernavaca (78km) and Queretaro (219 Km).

SSIR'07 will be a 2 week-long residential summer school. The courses
on this school are primarily aimed at last-year engineering, master
and PhD students in image and robotics related programs abroad.

SSIR'07 will be hosted this year by the Center for Computing Research

This summer school is the eighth in the series organized in the
framework of the very active cooperation between French and Mexican
researchers and institutions developing computer science. An example
of this cooperation has been the creation of the Mixed French-Mexican
Laboratory in Computer Science (LAFMI).

The courses include general and fundamental knowledge for robot
control and perception system design. This includes scene
identification and modeling, robot localization,
pattern recognition, path planning and execution and robot physical
interactions. The formation will be articulated along four principal
subjects:

Perception: image processing and computer vision.
Algorithmics: motion generation, execution and control.
Mobile robotics.
Learning and Bayesian methods.

No prior high knowledge of robotics nor computer vision will be
required. Participants will attend to general lectures and talks on
more specialized research areas, making it possibly to concretely
cover both research and practical subjects. Workshop sessions has been
introduced in the program to allow a higher degree of interaction
between students and instructors. In workshops, students are invited
to present the projects they are working on or they have already
participated. Please check details for workshop proposal in the Summer
School Web site.

The cost of participation in the summer school is 300O Mexican pesos
for
students (about $275 USA) and 3750 Mexican Pesos for non students
(about $340 USA). This cost will cover:
  - tuition,
  - study materials,
  - tourist visit and
  - one meal on school days.

Lodging will be possible in hotels close to the School with
preferencial
costs.

Please note that the maximum Summer School attendance is restricted to
60
participants.  Selection of participants will be carried out by a
Scientific committee.

A limited number of scholarships will be granted to students.
The application form can be found on the Summer
School web site.

               http://www.image-and-robotics.org/~ssir2007

Important dates:
Scholarship application deadline:  May 20th (Non-mexican students)
                                                  May, 27th (Mexican
students)


Scholarship assignment:            May 21th (Non-Mexican students)
                                                May 31th (Mexican
students)

Registration deadline:             June 10th