Computer Vision News - December 2016

CVN: What will be the next step for the organization? Are you planning anything between now and the next meeting in the spring? Veronika: The way it usually goes is that we just do the two meetings per year. I think it would be nice to organize more things. You’ve inspired me a bit to look at your newsletters. That would be nice. I think that we should try to get other people from the society involved. CVN: What makes these events special in your opinion? Veronika: It’s a very unique combination of groups that wouldn’t typically meet together at a conference . People are working on slightly different problems. We have people doing medical imaging, but also people, for example, classifying plant leaves or something entirely different. This event makes it possible for these people to talk to each other. There were also 10 contributed talks. It’s simpler than a conference because they can print up an open problem that they did before. This is quite good for discussion. Now we even ran out of room for more talks, so I had to ask people to talk at the next meeting instead. CVN: Can you tell us more about the organization or the meeting? Veronika: Maybe you have noticed that we have a very complicated acronym, NVPHBV (this is “ Nederlandse Vereniging voor Patroonherkenning en Beeldverwerking ”, the Dutch translation of " Dutch Society of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing "). A lot of people complain about it that it's difficult to pronounce.... you can't easily say "are you going to NVPHBV?" in the same way as you can say "are you going to MICCAI?“, for example. But at the same time I think it helps people remember the meeting as "the one with that weird acronym". We could change the name to something more popular and include "machine learning", but I think there is also some sentimental or even historical value to it, as it links back to how the field was 30 or 40 years ago - before some of the members were born… 36 Computer Vision News Computer Vision Events Event “ It links back to how the field was 30 or 40 years ago - before some of the members were born… ” Zahra Sedghi from Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Center, presenting her work on segmentation of the aorta and the pulmonary artery