Computer Vision News - August 2022

20 Computer Vision Summer School many big names on board, including Yann LeCun and Serge Belongie , and more than 100 students joining in. ICVSS has run almost every year since. In 2017, it was awarded the IEEE PAMI Mark Everingham Prize in recognition of the benefits it has brought the community. However, likemany other events, it recently suffered a two-year pandemic hiatus. This year, with much excitement and anticipation, ICVSS was back! Over 600 people applied from 40 countries, whittled down to 180 students who just spent a memorable week together in beautiful Sicily learning and talking about science. The participants are primarily first and second-year PhD students, some working Giovanni Maria Farinella is an Associate Professor, and Antonino Furnari is an Assistant Professor at the University of Catania, Italy. They play key roles in the International Computer Vision Summer School, which took place in Sicily last month – Giovanni is a director, and Antonino is the academic assessment chair. They are both here to tell us more about their successful event. The International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) is a collaboration between the University of Catania in Italy and the University of Cambridge in the UK. It was launched 15 years ago in 2007 with ICVSS 2022 INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER VISION SUMMER SCHOOL