AM-01: Computer vision and image analysis in the study of master drawings and paintings (Part I)

Lecturer: David G. Stork (Rambus Labs, USA)

AM-02: Half-quadratic Optimization for Sparsity Estimation and Robust Learning in Pattern Recognition

Lecturer: Ran He*, Wei-Shi Zheng**, and Wang Liang* (*National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAISA), China, **Sun Yat-sen University, China)

AM-03: The Algebraic Approaches and Techniques in Image Analysis

Lecturer: Igor Gurevich and Vera Yashina (The Federal State Institution of Science Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

AM-04: 3D Shape Analysis and Retrieval – Recent Advances and Trends

Lecturer: Hamid Laga* and Ryutarou Ohbuchi** (*School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Australia, Australia, **Computer Science Department, University of Yamanashi, Japan)

AM-05: Music Information Research: Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Nonparametric Bayes, Interface, Retrieval, Singing, and Crowdsourcing

Lecturer: Masataka Goto and Kazuyoshi Yoshii (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

AM-06: Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Pattern Recognition

Lecturer: Marcus Liwicki (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany)

PM-01: Computer vision and image analysis in the study of master drawings and paintings (Part II)

Lecturer: David G. Stork (Rambus Labs, USA)

PM-02: Penalised likelihood methods for high-dimensional pattern analysis

Lecturer: Jing-Hao Xue (Department of Statistical Science, University College London, U.K.)

PM-03: Connectivity, Connected Filters, and Beyond: Theory and Applications for
Fast Filtering and Object Recognition

Lecturer: Michael H.F. Wilkinson (Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

PM-04: Advanced Nature Exteriors Modelling
Lecturer: Michal Haindl & Jiří Filip (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

PM-05: Visualisation and browsing of large image repositories
Lecturer: Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, U.K.