BMVC 2019 Workshop on Visual Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship (VAIE)

Submission
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We use the same formatting template as BMVC 2019 and we seek two kinds of submissions (through https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VAIE2019):
* Full papers of new contributions (maximum 8 pages NOT including references).
* Short position papers or industrial case studies (maximum 4 pages NOT including references).


Scope
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Global spending on AI technology is expected to reach $57 billion by 2021. An increase of 4.5 times over the funds invested in 2017, as diverse industries are investing aggressively in projects that utilize cognitive/AI software capabilities. Machine vision (visual AI) is expected to account for at least a quarter of that spending.

The 1st Workshop on Visual AI and Entrepreneurship (VAIE) of BMVC 2019 aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners in the domain of visual AI (computer vision) and provide a forum to present and discuss research done with, for and by industry, with preference given to the efforts focused on startups, SMEs and innovation activities within larger enterprises.

As such, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Visual Artificial Intelligence research done by startups, SMEs and industry.
* Industrial case studies and position papers focusing on applications of visual AI within startups, SMEs and industrial systems.
* Demos of systems and prototypes based on visual artificial intelligence.
* Statistics and machine learning for vision and multimedia processing.
* Research studies on all the topics of interest to the BMVC itself, provided that a clear link between the research study and a startup, SME or industrial entity can be demonstrated in the camera-ready paper.