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Computer Vision for Spatial Intelligence PROGRAMME
Sunday 6 July 2025
Afternoon/Night
| Welcome Drink and Registration at the Conference Centre | 17:00 - 23:59 |
| Dinner at the Village Restaurant | 20:00 |
Monday 7 July 2025
Morning
| Registration at the Conference Centre | 07:30 - 08:30 |
| Opening | 08:30 - 09:00 |
| Lecture 1: Andrew Davison - From SLAM to Spatial AI [SLIDES] | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 2: Christoph Feichtenhofer - Demystifying the impact of data for image and video understanding [SLIDES] | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| School Photo | 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:40 |
Afternoon
| Lecture 3: Dima Damen - Video Understanding Out of the Frame - an Egocentric Perspective [SLIDES] | 16:00 - 18:00 |
| Reading Group: Meeting with Mentors | 18:00 - 20:00 |
Night
| Dinner at the Village Restaurant | 20:00 |
| Industry meets Students Corner, Student Poster Session 1, Local Wine Tasting | 21:30 |
Tuesday 8 July 2025
Morning
| Lecture 4: Andrea Vedaldi - Spatial Intelligence: The New Frontier of Computer Vision [SLIDES] | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 5: Leonidas Guibas - Foundation Models for 3D / 4D Scene Understanding and Content Creation [SLIDES] | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:30 |
Afternoon
| Lecture 6: Daniel Cremers - 3D Computer Vision in the Age of Deep Learning [SLIDES] | 15:00 - 17:00 |
Night
| Dinner at the Village Restaurant | 20:00 |
| Student Poster Session 2, Local Wine Tasting | 21:30 |
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Morning
| Lecture 7: Vittorio Ferrari - Generating images and videos with diffusion models [SLIDES] | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 8: Ishan Misra - Foundation models for video generation, editing, and personalization. [SLIDES] | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:30 |
Afternoon
| Guided Tour of Ragusa Ibla | 17:00 - 20:00 |
Night
| Buffet Dinner at Palazzo Arezzo di Donnafugata | 20:00 - 22:00 |
| Free time to explore Ragusa Ibla by Night | 22:00 - 23:00 |
Thursday 10 July 2025
Morning
| Lecture 9: Gerard Pons-Moll - Real Virtual Humans: The Path from Statistical Models to Neural Avatars that Act and Behave [SLIDES] | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 10: Gul Varol - Dynamic Humans: Generating 3D Human Motion with Language [SLIDES] | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:30 |
Afternoon
| Lecture 11: Matthias Niessner - Photo-realistic AI Avatars [SLIDES] | 15:30 - 17:30 |
| Project Aria Presentation and Aperitivo with Meta at the Swimming Pool | 19:00 - 20:00 |
Night
| Social Dinner at the Restaurant on the Beach with Traditional Sicilian Folk Dance | 20:00 |
Friday 11 July 2025
Morning
| Lecture 12: Fatih Porikli - Onboarding Generative AI on the Edge | 09:00 - 11:00 |
| Coffee break | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Lecture 13: Stefano Soatto - Emergence of Reasoning in Language and World Models | 11:30 - 13:30 |
| Lunch at the Village Restaurant | 13:30 |
Afternoon
| Lecture 14: Phillip Isola - Understanding Representational Alignment in Vision and Beyond [SLIDES] | 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Examinations | 17:00 - 18:00 |
| Student Presentations, Best Presentation Prizes | 18:00 - 18:30 |
| Essay Competition Award | 18:30 - 19:00 |
| Closing Ceremony | 19:00 |
Night
| Dinner at the Village Restaurant | 20:00 |
| Disco on the Beach | 22:30 |
Saturday 12 July 2025
| FROM | TO | DEPARTURE - Saturday 12 July 2025 | ARRIVAL - Saturday 12 July 2025 |
| School Location | Siracusa | 09.00 | 10.00 |
| School Location | Catania Airport | 09.00 | 11.00 |
| School Location | Catania | 09.00 | 11.15 |
| School Location | Taormina | 09.00 | 12.00 |