VIII Summer School for advanced studies in Multimodal Information Retrieval - [ERMITES]

The ERMITES 2013 Summer School brings together international leading researchers and provides participants the opportunity to gain deeper insight into current research trends in scaled audiovisual information retrieval. It is organized as a series of long talks, during which students are invited to interact. 

The target audience of the school is graduate and PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, and academic or industrial researchers. Any participant (including students), if they wish, can also submit a paper (pdf file up to 6 pages, free template, to ermites@gmail.com by the 17th of May 2013). If accepted, it will be presented during an oral or poster session and included in the proceedings. A Best Student Paper Award is organized.

IMPORTANT DATES :
- Extended deadline for registration = WITH REGISTRATION FEES DUE = 9 september
2013.

ERMITES is supported by TOULON PROVENCE MEDITERRANEE (TPM), USTV, CNRS MASTODONS Project, IUF, INRIA, CNRS, LSIS, ARIA, Fed. for Computer Sciences and Interactions (FRIIAM), and ANRCOGNILEGO.

ERMITES is recognized by the doctoral schools as disciplinary lectures, for a total of 25 hours.

Link to online videos of previous editions and link to ERMITES 2012 online proceedings , and link to previous ERMITES editions.

Access : ERMITES 13 is at IGESA center, in the middle of Porqueroles island, with access from Hyeres TGV station then bus (67), or Toulon International Airport, then boat (15 mn). We may also organize car travels from Hyeres to the boat - More details on trains / boats. 

Social activities : a little walk starting from IGESA to the Cap Grand Langoustier will offer a great breath in this paradise to the attendies, and the opportunity to extend unformal discussions :

Organizing co. : J. Razik (pres), X. Halkias, H. Glotin, Y. Doh, C. Rabouy, M. Bartcus, O. Dufour. 

Program co. : H. Glotin (Pres.), S. Bengio, X. Halkias, S. Paris, J. Razik, T. Artieres, L. Ralaivola, F. Chamroukhi.