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Call for Volunteers for BMVC 2024: Deadline 24th July 2023: We are seeking volunteers for both hosting and helping on the organising team for BMVC. Please see the BMVC page for further details and the online form.

Volunteers for BMVC

Call for Volunteers for BMVA Summer School 2024: Deadline 24th July 2023: We are seeking volunteers for both hosting and helping on the organising team for the summer school. Please see the summer school page for further details and the online form.

Volunteers for the BMVA Summer School

Sullivan Thesis Prize Nominations: We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting nominations for the Sullivan Thesis Prize again. These include retrospective nominations from 2019-2023 with a deadline of 15 September 2023. Please see the Sullivan thesis prize page for further details.

Thesis Prize Nominations

BMVC 2023: We are pleased to announce that BMVC will be held from 20th - 24th November 2023 in Aberdeen. The timeline for the conference is now available and the paper submission deadline will be 23:59 GMT Friday, 12 May 2023. Please note, there will be no extension on the paper submission deadline.

BMVC 2023 Website

IAPR Information: The BMVA is a member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition that provides a number of opportunities open to BMVA members including research travel scholarships and a list of internships. Please see the IAPR page for further details.

Aims and Objectives

The BMVA provides a national forum for individuals and organisations involved in machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition in the United Kingdom. Its principal aims are to:

• promote knowledge of machine vision and pattern recognition
• encourage practical applications of the technology
• facilitate the rapid transfer of research results to industry
• represent the UK machine vision community, nationally and internationally

Activities

In pursuit of the above goals, the association’s primary activities are:

• The annual British Machine Vision Conference
• The annual conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis
• A series of one-day technical meetings
• An annual Summer School
• Award of travel bursaries
• Award of the Sullivan thesis prize
• Maintenance of a PhD thesis archive
• Publication of the BMVA News newsletter

If you are interested in joining the BMVA:    Join the BMVA!

We are also active on social media:

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• What is computer vision?
• Careers in vision
• Vision research groups in the UK
• UK companies active in vision research
• Finding out more

Areas of Interest

The association is actively interested in a number of application domains of computer vision research and technology including:

• Medicine and Medical Imaging
• Robotics
• Entertainment
• Quality Control
• Security and Surveillance
• Environmental and Remote Monitoring

Wider Associations

The BMVA is a member organisation of the International Association for Pattern Recognition

The BMVA is a member of the Campaign for Science and Engineering and works with the following organizations:

The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition is a Company limited by guarantee, No.2543446, registered in England and Wales. Registered Office: Department of Computer Science, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK. The Association is a non-profit-making body and is registered as charity No.1002307.