European Conference on Computer Vision, Sept 6 to 12, 2014

A shopper is guided through a grocery store straight to her favorite cereal brand; a surgeon in Zurich performs a remote operation on the gall bladder of a patient located somewhere in the world by sensor-controlled hand gestures; and a driver on his way home after a long working day is alerted of a pedestrian unexpectedly crossing the road by means of his automotive warning system. New forms of digital experience hallmark the world of the 21st century ‘homo informaticus’.

All the news of the digital world can be watched on the external pageEuropean Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)call_made every two years. The conference will be hosted for the first time in Switzerland this year. It will be led by the ETH professors Marc Pollefeys and Luc Van Gool. With more than 1’300 national and international experts and participants from science, business and industry, the conference is one of the largest and most groundbreaking of its kind.

Highlights of ECCV:

• Monday afternoon, Sept. 8 until Thursday morning: company exhibitions featuring the latest in computer vision technology from local companies (Inilabs, SCS, Dacuda, etc.) as well as international companies (Amazon, Google, Pelican Imaging, etc.)
• Monday afternoon, Sept. 8 until Thursday morning: each session includes 4-5 demos of the most recent computer vision research results
• Tuesday, Sept. 9, morning session: live demo of Daimler’s pedestrian detection technology in front of the Kongresshaus (Gotthardstrasse 5, 8002 Zurich)
• Tuesday, Sept. 9, whole day: multiple Swiss computer vision start-ups will present their products

(Media release)