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Eligibility for Membership

Membership is open to all research groups and companies in Europe (EU, affiliated states and candidate countries). However, members must be active in the area of cognitive computer vision. Specifically, they must be working in at least one of the following areas:

  • Knowledge representation
  • Learning
  • Reasoning (about events & structures)
  • Recognition and (especially) categorization
  • Goal specification

All partners in existing IST cognitive vision projects are automatically eligible for membership and their applications don’t have to be evaluated by the Executive Committee

Membership and the Membership Agreement

In cases where there is more than one group or laboratory or whatever in the one legal organization (e.g. a university) we require just one membership agreement, signed by that legal organization. This means that a single membership number is assigned to that legal institution. However, if we have more than one member in that organization and they are in different groups, departments, laboratories, or institutes then we treat them individually and allow expenses to be claimed by each group/member. Thus, we can have several members listed under the one membership number and each one is included in the list of members. This is exactly what we have done since the beginning with Leeds University, Oxford University, KTH, INRIA, and the Technical University of Vienna, and now more recently with Joanneum Research.

Application for Membership

Applications for participation in network activities should as a minimum include information corresponding to the EU Membership Agreement and a summary of group activities, i.e.:

  • Name of group and its affiliation
  • Name of group leader
  • Brief (1-page) summary of current activities, addressing:
    1. Knowledge representation
    2. Learning
    3. Reasoning (about events & structures)
    4. Recognition and (especially) categorization
    5. Goal specification
  • Immediate contributions to ECVision
  • Expected benefit from participation in ECVision

Please send all applications to David Vernon, Network Coordinator, at coordinator@ecvision.org. This application will then be evaluated by the Executive Committee and acceptance or rejection will be recommended, as appropriate.


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