U.S.-Uruguay Workshop: Vision in Brains and Machines, Montevideo, Uruguay, November, 2006

美国-乌拉圭研讨会奖授予布朗大学的迈克尔·J·布莱克，将资助来自美国机构的18名高级和初级研究人员前往2006年11月在乌拉圭蒙得维的亚举行的“大脑和机器的视觉”研讨会。乌拉圭的组织者是安吉尔·卡普蒂(Angel Caputi)和格雷戈里·兰德尔(Gregory Randall)，前者是克莱门特·埃斯特布尔生物研究所的感官神经生理学家，后者是共和国大学的图像分析专家，两人都在蒙得维的亚。研讨会将把神经科学应用于人类视觉和计算机视觉领域的研究人员聚集在一起，探索这两个领域的最新技术，并找到尚未探索的联系和合作。研讨会将结合学生的背景课程、领先研究人员的讲座，以及重点讨论小组，探讨每个领域如何学习和利用其他领域的成果。通过圆桌讨论产生的新的研究方向将被综合并广泛分布。合成关于感知的生物学和机器观点的活动不仅对研究人员有益，而且在潜在的治疗视力丧失的新方法(例如假肢)和新的机器视觉使能技术方面也对社会有益。该研讨会将使南美研究人员和学生能够与国际公认的人类神经科学和机器视觉领域的领导者互动，并应促进与美国高级和初级研究人员的互动，这可能会导致未来的研究合作。该奖项由国际科学和工程办公室的美洲计划以及信息和智能系统司的稳健智能集群提供支持。

This U.S.-Uruguay workshop award to Michael J. Black of Brown University will support the travel of 18 senior and junior researchers from US institutions to a workshop on "Vision in Brains and Machines" to be held in Montevideo Uruguay in November, 2006. Uruguayan organizers are Angel Caputi, a sensory neurophysiologist at the Clemente Estable Institute for Biological Investigations, and Gregory Randall, an expert in image analysis at the University of the Republic, both in Montevideo. The workshop will bring together researchers in the areas of neuroscience applied to human vision and of computer vision to explore the current state of the art in both fields and to find unexplored connections and collaborations. The workshop will combine background courses for students, lectures by leading researchers, and focused discussion groups exploring how each field and can learn from and leverage the other's results. New research directions resulting from roundtable discussions will be synthesized and broadly distributed.The activity of synthesizing biological and machine perspectives on perception has benefits not just for the researchers but also for society in terms of potentially new treatments for vision loss (e.g. prostheses) and new machine-vision-enabled technologies. This workshop will enable South American researchers and students to interact with internationally recognized leaders in human neuroscience and machine vision and should foster interactions with senior and junior US researchers that could result in future research collaborations. This award is supported by the Americas Program of the Office of International Science and Engineering, and the Robust Intelligence Cluster of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems.