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

该项目支持美国教师和研究生参加中美视觉、学习与模式识别暑期学校（VLPR2012）。VLPR暑期学校已经成为中美两国计算机视觉研究人员和学生互利的年度活动。VLPR暑期学校序列的影响和声誉迅速增长，VLPR 2012通过专注于生物医学图像应用中的计算机视觉延续了这一积极趋势：从微观到宏观。本主题补充了过去以方法为中心的vlpr，以应用为导向和以人为中心的关注生命形式在完全不同的尺度上：从人类和动物（宏观）到细胞（微观）。VLPR 2012旨在说明计算机视觉和机器学习方法的横截面状态，拓宽创新和创造力的视野，并解决多模态，高维和大容量图像数据（大数据）的高吞吐量计算的一些基本问题。本次暑期学校的主题反映了生物医学图像和智能健康领域跨学科研究日益增长的国际趋势，并促进了科学与技术、计算机科学与医学/生物学以及中美之间的合作。此外，这个暑期学校提供了一个很好的机会，让一群世界级的计算机视觉研究人员和来自两国的积极进取的学生在为期一周的时间里，在一个令人兴奋、文化丰富的环境中相互交流和交流。

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.