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，将资助来自美国各机构的18名高级和初级研究人员前往乌拉圭参加将于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。乌拉圭的组织者是来自蒙得维的亚的Clemente Estable生物调查研究所的感觉神经生理学家Angel Caputi和共和国大学的图像分析专家Gregory Randall。本次研讨会将汇集应用于人类视觉和计算机视觉的神经科学领域的研究人员，探索这两个领域的最新技术，并寻找尚未探索的联系和合作。研讨会将结合学生的背景课程、主要研究人员的讲座和重点讨论小组，探讨每个领域如何学习和利用其他领域的成果。圆桌讨论产生的新研究方向将得到综合和广泛传播。综合生物学和机器对感知的看法，不仅对研究人员有利，而且对社会也有好处，因为它可能为视力丧失提供新的治疗方法（例如假体）和新的机器视觉技术。本次研讨会将使南美的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进行互动，并应促进与美国高级和初级研究人员的互动，从而可能导致未来的研究合作。该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室的美洲项目以及信息和智能系统部门的强大智能集群支持。

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.