The 9th Vision And Learning SEminar (VALSE) was successfully held in Hefei, a famous city in the Great Lakes from April 11th to 14th, 2019. The conference was hosted by the China Artificial Intelligence Society, hosted by Anhui University, co-organized by the China Society of Image and Graphics, Hefei University of Technology, and the University of Science and Technology of China. The chairman of the conference was co-chaired by Professor Tang Jin, Professor Huang Hua, Professor Wang Liang and Professor Wang Meng. The chairman of the conference program committee is chaired by Jia Wei, associate professor, Professor Zhang Guofeng and Professor Zuo Wangmeng.

Opening ceremony, President Guang Likuang on behalf of the organizers, vice mayor of Hefei Wen Songwang also on behalf of hefei government delivered a warm speech, VALSE guidance committee of huazhong university of science and technology, this paper introduces the development course, VALSE Bai Xiang professor VALSE soup into congress President of Anhui University professor introduced 2019 conference preparations.

19 sets of face recognition systems of Zhongke Vision Company realized fast check-in

President Kuang Guangli of Anhui University delivered a speech at the opening ceremony

Vice Mayor Wang Wensong of Hefei delivered a speech at the opening ceremony

Professor Bai Xiang from Huazhong University of Science and Technology introduced the development of VALSE

Professor Tang Jin, President of the General Assembly, introduced the preparations for the VALSE 2019 conference

Conference venue

VALSE 2019 continues the main process of the previous conference. The schedule of the conference is compact and exciting. The relevant reports and presentations cover most of the hot research directions in the fields of computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning. Progress in the field at home and abroad. A total of 10 invited speakers were invited to give a keynote speech. They were: Professor Yang Jian from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Professor Ming Hsuan Yang from the University of California at Merced, Professor Tao Dacheng from the University of Sydney, Adler Professor Shen Chunhua from the University of Germany, researcher Chen Yunqi from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Lu Cewu from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Professor He Xiaofei from Zhejiang University, Professor Roger Bo from the University of Rochester, Professor Meng Deyu from Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Zuo Wangmeng from Harbin Institute of Technology professor.

10 conference theme report guest speakers

The 11 workshops and 2 Tutorials of the VALSE 2019 conference are also very popular. Most of the conference venues are packed. The topics of 11 workshops in this conference include: weak supervision visual understanding; 3D vision and deep learning; visual and language are combined in practice. Application; fine-grained visual analysis; human-centered visual understanding; migration learning and domain adaptation; deep reasoning based on vision and common sense; intelligent analysis of medical images; online visual tracking; deep learning model design; VALSE 2018 outstanding students Paper award. The two Tutorial themes are: Meta-Learning and Weakly Supervised Learning.

Workshop venue

In the “Annual Progress Review (APR)” session, 10 experts from different directions were invited to give an overview of the important progress of the relevant research sub-area in the past year.

10 annual progress review (APR) guest speakers

VALSE 2019 first established the “VALSE Annual Outstanding Student Paper Award” and Workshop. The awards/links are designed to provide Chinese graduate students in relevant fields with an academic arena to showcase their outstanding work, and to provide graduate students with a “learning sample” of excellent research work. The award process includes nominations and recommendations, VALSE AC primaries, and final evaluation of independent committees. The review adopted an extremely strict avoidance mechanism and confidentiality mechanism. The final award-winning papers and their final evaluation experts were announced at the time of awarding. The first paper of the three award-winning papers and six finalists selected by the Independent Final Review Committee was presented in the “VALSE 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award Workshop” on the afternoon of April 12.

VALSE Annual Outstanding Student Paper Awards Final Review Committee

The first author, unit and paper information of the three papers that won the "VALSE 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award" are as follows:

 [1]. 张莹（大连理工大学）：Deep Mutual Learning，发表于CVPR 2018

 [2]. 马宁宁（清华大学）： ShuffleNet V2: Practical Guidelines for Efficient CNN Architecture Design，发表于ECCV 2018

[3]. 董胤蓬（清华大学）：Boosting Adversarial Attacks with Momentum，发表于CVPR 2018

At the opening ceremony, Prof. Shan Shiguang and Professor Pan Gang presented the awards and trophies to the three VALSE 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award winners. The award-winning 3 students also received a 10,000 yuan bonus from VALSE.

Shan Shiguang and Pan Gang presented the awards to three VALSE 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award winners

The first author, unit, and paper information for the six papers that won the "VALSE 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Nomination Award" are as follows:

[1]. 陈颖聪（中山大学）： Person Re-Identification by Camera Correlation Aware Feature Augmentation，发表于IEEE T PAMI 2018

[2]. 李崇轩 （清华大学）：Max-Margin Deep Generative Models for (Semi-)Supervised Learning，发表于IEEE T PAMI 2018

[3]. 廖明辉（华中科技大学）： TextBoxes++: A Single-Shot Oriented Scene Text Detector，发表于IEEE T IP 2018

[4]. 谢琦（西安交通大学）： Kronecker-Basis-Representation Based Tensor Sparsity and Its Applications to Tensor Recovery，IEEE T PAMI 2018

[5]. 雍宏巍（香港理工大学）：Robust online matrix factorization for dynamic background subtraction，IEEE T PAMI 2018

[6]. 张士峰（中科院自动化所）： Single-Shot Refinement Neural Network for Object Detection，IEEE CVPR 2018

At the opening ceremony, Prof. Shan Shiguang and Professor Pan Gang presented the awards to the winners of the six VALSE 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award nominations.

The Poster presentation consisting of 171 top journals and conference papers published or accepted in the past two years has also received enthusiastic attention from the majority of participants. In particular, VALSE 2019 has once again launched the Spotlight presentation. The authors of the 37 posters selected by the organizing committee introduced the main contributions of the papers in a concise manner, so that the participants quickly grasped and understood the relevant research results.

At the opening ceremony, Prof. Shan Shiguang and Professor Pan Gang presented the awards to the winners of the six VALSE 2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award nominations.

The Poster presentation consisting of 171 top journals and conference papers published or accepted in the past two years has also received enthusiastic attention from the majority of participants. In particular, VALSE 2019 has once again launched the Spotlight presentation. The authors of the 37 posters selected by the organizing committee introduced the main contributions of the papers in a concise manner, so that the participants quickly grasped and understood the relevant research results.

Poster display area

Guests are warmly discussed at the Poster display area

Booth

VALSE 2019 part of the local organizing committee

Group photo of VALSE 2019 organizing committee

VALSE 2019 Partial volunteers taking a group photo

VALSE was launched in 2011 and is the abbreviation of Vision And Learning SEminar, which means "waltz". It aims to provide an equal and free academic exchange platform for Chinese young scholars in computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, multimedia technology and other related fields. The main motivation for launching VALSE is that we are deeply aware of the lack of a normalized academic exchange platform with Chinese young scholars as the main body in the field of computer vision and machine learning in China.

Up to now, VALSE has been successfully held for 9 sessions, namely VALSE 2011 (Hangzhou), VALSE 2012 (Xi'an), VALSE 2013 (Nanjing), VALSE 2014 (Qingdao), VALSE 2015 (Chengdu), VALSE 2016 (Wuhan), VALSE 2017 (Xiamen), VALSE 2018 (Dalian), VALSE 2019 (Hefei). In addition to the speeches of the conference, the VALSE Annual Conference has continued to innovate, gradually increasing Poster/Spotlight, Demo, Tutorial, annual progress reviews, Workshops and industry technology sharing, and the number of participants has gradually increased to more than 5,000. The VALSE conference attracts more and more companies to participate, and has become an important platform for cooperation in the field of "production-study-research" in the field of computer vision and machine learning.