Computer Vision News - June 2018

41 Alejandro Frangi The balance between MIC and CAI was considered last year as being a growing problem. Do you think that things are getting better? I think that the real issue is not MIC and CAI, it is the fact that CAI at the moment is largely about computer vision aspects in CAI. So a lot of the CAI papers are not really medical robotics, which is what you would also consider core CAI, but is essentially image-guided interventions. So the big challenge for our community is to get back the people from medical robotics. This year one of the key things that is also quite exciting is that the main robotics conference IROS is taking place in Madrid about two weeks after ours. This year another thing that is very important is that we have three very very good keynote speakers, two of which are coming from the computer-aided interventions area. We have Paolo Dario from the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa; and Kirsten Grauman from the University of Texas – she’s more from machine learning domain; and Bradley Nelson who is from ETH Zürich and he also will be talking about robotics and intelligence systems. Basically, we are trying to attract this community back to our conference. The numbers of submissions are actually pretty much aligned with the previous years from what we’ve seen. We don’t know what will happen in terms of acceptance but our experience from previous years is that the real problem is not that we are more selective for one or the other track, it’s more that we have different numbers of submissions in the first place so it is clear that we need to attract more submissions. But there’s a limit of what we can do there! Bringing the keynote speakers in from the field is certainly one of the things. Yes, that’s one of the things we can do and have done. Events Computer Vision News At MICCAI 2017 in Quebec with Julia Schnabel , who is Program Chair at MICCAI 2018