Computer Vision News - June 2018

39 Alejandro Frangi corner from the conference venue! Those are the most relevant aspects. The review process has been largely the same the previous years and it’s the second year that we have moved to CMT and TPMS a paper matching system for assigning papers. We would like to hear any feedback from reviewers and authors about their experience. And speaking of feedback, one other feature that’s new this year and I think has been working very well – and I want to thank the community actually for engaging with it – is that we have created an online suggestion box . So if you go to the webpage of MICCAI you can actually submit comments about pretty much every area of the conference organization, post critiques or suggestions. We got quite of number of them and we have dealt with most of them. So that’s a way people can provide additional comments. I understand that you will give visibility to industry and especially to start-ups. Can you expand on that? One of the things we noticed in a very clear way, that was very marked in the Quebec edition of MICCAI, is we got considerably more companies from the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning beyond the traditional imaging vendors. So that led to a bit of a revision of the sponsoring perspective so we accommodated for the different needs that these different companies have. Given the increase in small companies that are approaching us to sponsor the event - the ones that applied to us were mostly spin-offs but they are already in their third or fourth or fifth year, so they are not that small at this point fortunately - we also realized that there may be a larger number of smaller companies that are particularly keen to recruit good people and at the same time they want to start airing the developments that they are doing. So for them we created an extra level that has a smaller cost – similar to a bronze sponsor but it gives them a bit of wider exposure, which means that Computer Vision News “We got considerably more companies from the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning…” Events