Objectives

Our SIG AI for computer vision aims to bring together experts and research groups in different research organizations in Finland to exchange ideas and collaborate towards a more coordinated and efficient contributions to solving the main challenges in the field for the benefit of the research organizations, the industry and the society at large.

Activities

*Organize some workshops and seminars to support collaboration among research groups and with industry;
*Share information regarding projects, funding, education, positions, etc;
*Researcher exchanges between CV groups
*Activities with Pattern Recognition Society of Finland.

Main challenges

The main challenges encountered in the field of AI for CV include: Energy efficient algorithms; Edge computing solutions; Hardware accelerators; Algorithm–hardware codesign; Learning with less labels; Efficient feature representation for small scale and imbalanced data.

Coordination

Coordinators for organizing SIG-CV activities

Person 1

Moncef Gabbouj

Professor, Tampere University

Person 2

Guoying Zhao

Academy Professor, University of Oulu

Person 3

Juho Kannala

Assistant professor, Aalto University

Collaboration

Our collaborated organizations

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Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society FAIS

Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (FAIS), founded in 1986, represents the field of AI internationally as the official member society of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) in Finland. FAIS supports and promotes the advancement of public knowledge, education, research and applications of AI in Finland.

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Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI

Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI is a community of experts in artificial intelligence in Finland, initiated by Aalto University, University of Helsinki, and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. FCAI is one of the Academy of Finland’s Finnish flagships, hubs of top-level research and impact.