USA-Sino Summer School in Vision, Learning, Pattern Recognition, VLPR 2012

该项目支持美国教职员工和研究生参加中美视觉、学习、模式识别暑期班(VLPR2012)。VLPR暑期班已经成为计算机视觉研究人员和来自美国和中国的学生之间互惠互利的年度活动。VLPR暑期班的影响和声誉迅速增长，VLPR 2012延续了这一积极趋势，专注于生物医学图像应用中的计算机视觉：从微观到宏观。本主题是对过去以方法论为中心的VLPR的补充，以应用为导向，以人为中心，关注截然不同规模的生命形式：从人和动物(宏观)到细胞(微观)。VLPR 2012旨在展示最先进的计算机视觉和机器学习方法，拓宽创新和创造力的视野，并解决多模式、高维和海量图像数据(大数据)上的一些基本问题。这次暑期班的主题反映了生物医学图像和智能健康领域日益增长的跨学科研究的国际趋势，并促进了科技、计算机科学和医学/生物学以及美国和中国之间的合作努力。此外，这次暑期班为一群世界级的计算机视觉研究人员提供了一个很好的智力和文化交流的机会，并激励来自两国的学生在为期一周的令人兴奋的、丰富的文化环境中相互交谈和交流。

This project supports US faculty members and graduate students to attend USA - Sino Summer School in Vision, Learning, Pattern Recognition (VLPR2012). The VLPR summer school has become a mutually beneficial annual event for computer vision researchers and students from both US and China. The impact and reputation of VLPR summer school sequence grows rapidly and VLPR 2012 continues this positive trend by focusing on Computer Vision in Biomedical Image Applications: from Micro to Macro. This topic complements the methodology-centered VLPRs in the past with an application-oriented and human-centered focus on life forms in drastically different scales: from human and animals (macro) to cells (micro). VLPR 2012 aims to illustrate a cross-sectional state of the art computer vision and machine learning methodologies, to broaden the horizon for innovations and creativities, and to address some fundamental issues of high throughput computing on multi-modality, high-dimensional, and high volume image data (Big Data). The theme of this summer school reflects the growing international trend of interdisciplinary research in biomedical image and smart health, and facilitates collaborative efforts between science and technology, computer science and medicine/biology, and US and China. In addition, this summer school offers a great opportunity for intellectual and cultural exchanges between a group of world-class computer vision researchers and motivated students from the two countries to converse and mingle with each other in an exciting, culturally rich environment during a week-long period.