Computer Vision News - June 2018

38 100 Days to MICCAI 2018 Computer Vision News Alejandro Frangi Alex, what's new in this edition of MICCAI? I’d like to update on two main fronts: one is about new features we have planned for this edition and the other is a bit of an update on the submissions and statistics, because there is also some news on that front. With respect to the first part, we have a number of features: one is the mentorship program that we have set up. We are still looking for people who might be willing to volunteer to be a mentor but at the moment we have nearly 40 people who have signed up to be mentors so that means that we’ll probably be able to support between 50 and 80 mentees, depending on how many people each of them takes. This is all thanks to the work of Marius Linguraru, who has done a fantastic job. This is really new and a lot of people have been asking for it. We have also made an important improvement on the challenges. This year for the first time we have an online system to submit applications for challenges that walks you through a number of questions that you need to answer, that relate to best practices for a good design of a challenge. So it helps you to sign up, but at the same time it helps you to make sure that you have thought everything you have to think about to design a challenge. So this has gone through and I think it’s in the order of something like 13 challenges that we will be running. Kudos to Lena Maier-Hein! We also have an impressive increase in the number of workshops and tutorials: this year we have about 13 tutorials, while last year we only had four, and this has been a number that has been low for a few years now, so we have tripled that number. Among those there are some tutorials actually organized by industry, including a deep learning tutorial by NVIDIA that is very exciting and people are welcome to sign up for that. The other thing is we have about 46 workshops. Last year we had 26, so that’s also an impressive increase. Fortunately this year we could accommodate most of the requested workshops – we actually had to rent an overflow space in a hotel around the Alejandro Frangi is Professor of Biomedical Image Computing at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Sheffield. He is also General Chair at MICCAI 2018 which will be held on September 16-20 in Granada, Spain. Events