CVPR 2019
Silicon Valley
Welcome the Research Community to the Home of Computer Vision Industry!
Team General Chairs Gerard Medioni
Ramin Zabih
Program Chairs Ce Liu
Greg Mori
Kate Saenko
Finance Chairs Octavia Camps
Walter Scheirer
Silvio Savarese
Team Workshop chair: Tal Hassner Tutorial chair: Philippos Mordohai Local arrangements chair: Roberto Manduchi Industrial relations chair: Marshall Tappen Registration chair: Nicole Finn Advisory committee: Bill Freeman, Takeo Kanade, Jitendra Malik, Cordelia Schmid, Andrew Zisserman
Silicon Valley is excited about CVPR Confirmed speakers
Jeff Dean VP, Google Brain
Jen-Hsun Huang CEO, nVidia
Mike Schroepfer CTO, Facebook
Sebastian Thrun Founder, Udacity
Sponsorship Model & Budget ● We will use the 50/50 CVF/IEEE-CS model ● Budget ○ Member early registration fee = $500 ○ Student early registration fee = $300 ○ Conservative assumptions about industrial support
● Best practices from recent CVPR’s ○ ○ ○ ○
Virtual AC meeting to limit costs Traditional program and layout (2 tracks, orals/posters, spotlights) Special issue of best papers in TPAMI New features, such as babysitting service
Coordination with ICML19 Space is on hold for both CVPR19 and ICML19 CVPR would meet June 16-21, followed by ICML June 21-26 We will schedule a half-day overlap featuring stellar speakers involved in both computer vision and machine learning
Venue ● Space on hold at Santa Clara Convention Center ● 302,000 sq foot center, surrounded by 3,800 hotel rooms ○ Adjacent to Levi’s Stadium, home of Super Bowl 50
Santa Clara Convention Center!
Meeting Spaces ● Two ballrooms with capacities 3,200 and 2,500 (theatre layout) ● Exhibit hall with 90,000 square feet, banquet capacity of 4,850 ● Multiple smaller rooms of varying sizes
Main Hotel: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara 501 guest rooms, connected to convention center
Secondary Hotel: Marriott Santa Clara 755 rooms, 1 mile away (shuttles to and from convention ctr)
Cheap housing options Dorm space available at SJSU $40-$70 per night, single or double occupancy Easy access to the meeting venue CVPR19 will run free shuttle busses for students
Industrial support will be highlighted ● High tech, computer vision centric companies at Silicon Valley such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, NVidia can showcase their latest technologies ● A large hallroom for computer vision expo! ○ No longer a peripheral show, but at the center of the conference
● Broad coverage ○ hardware/software, mobile/web/backend, VR
● Potential big announcement from tech titans
Academic Giants in SV Stanford
Academic Giants in SV UC Berkeley
Three Major International Airports
OAK: Oakland International Airport SFO: San Francisco International Airport
SJC: San Jose International Airport
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Attractions: Levi’s Stadium ● Adjacent to convention center ● home of Super Bowl 50
Attractions: Great America
Visit Beautiful San Francisco!
Half Moon Bay
Carmel
Pebble beach
Monterey and its world class aquarium
Santa Cruz (UCSC and beyond!)
California Redwoods
Alcatraz
Napa Valley
Amazing dining opportunities
CVPR 2019 Silicon Valley We appreciate your vote!