The British Machine Vision Association runs an annual Computer Vision Summer School aimed at PhD students, though it will also be beneficial to other researchers at an early stage in their careers as well as professionals working in industry. Despite the title, students from non-UK universities are welcome to attend, as are students and professionals from UK universities and industry. Places are limited, so we encourage early registration.
The 2025 Summer School will take place at the Durham University, Durham, England, UK, between 13th - 17th July 2026. It will consist of an intensive week of lectures and lab sessions covering a wide range of topics in Computer Vision. Lecturers are researchers in the field from some of the most active research groups in the UK and abroad.
In addition to the academic content, the Summer School provides a networking opportunity for students to interact with their peers, and to make contacts among those who will be the active researchers of their own generation.
The school covers the following topics:
- 3D Reconstruction and Understanding
- 4D Machine Perception for Real-World Applications
- From Detection to Use: Unlocking the Potential of Synthetic Images in Computer Vision
- From Pixels to Pursuit: Multi-Sensor Vision for Small Aerial Threats
- Full-Stack Robotics with VLAs: From Data Collection and Training to Edge Deployment
- Human Vision
- Multimodal Computer Vision
- Multimodal Foundation Models
- Multimodal Understanding of Social Interactions
- Self-Supervised Representation Learning
- Statistical Models of Shape and Appearance
- Uncertainty and Evaluation
- Video Understanding
- Vision for Robotics: Manipulation and Decentralised Learning
