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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We kindly invite you to join the fourth </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">International Summer School on Brain-inspired Computer
Vision</span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">21–25 July 2014 in Shenyang, China</span></b></span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. </span></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This will be a tutorial master class, dedicated to state-of-the-art
techniques in multi-scale and multi-orientation computer vision, with many
applications in medical image analysis, robotics, traffic analysis, visual
inspection etc. The lectures are combined with computer classes.</span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The lectures are given by prof. Bart ter Haar Romenij,
‘double hundred program’ international expert professor at Northeastern
University in Shenyang, and Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. Prof.
Romenij is an award-winning educator, very knowledgeable and senior in his
field, and renowned for his excellent teaching capabilities. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">See the website:</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://tiny.cc/ISS2014"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">tiny.cc/ISS2014</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">  </span></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Shenyang is a beautiful and historical city in the Northeast of China. Visits
will be organized to the impressive Neusoft Medical Systems CT manufacturing
plant, as well as to the Ming dynasty Forbidden City in Shenyang. Shenyang is
connected by flight (1.5h) and high-speed train (4.5h) to Beijing. </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This renowned Summer School is an annual event attended by engineers and
scientist from the fields of computer vision, biomedical engineering, computing
science, electrical engineering, mathematics and automation, both from academia
and industry, as well as vision scientists and science-oriented MD’s from the
Asia-Pacific region, as well as from other parts of the world.</span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Summer School only charges a low fee for the local expenditures. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Attendance is limited to 60 participants.<span class=""> Deadline
for registration is 15 July 2014.</span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We look forward to seeing you in Shenyang soon!</span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For the organizing committee:</span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prof. Yan Kang, PhD, Dean</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mr. Gao Han, local organiser</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Biomedical Informatics and Engineering School of Northeastern University</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>

Shenyang, China.</span></span></p>

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