African Computer Vision Summer School

Thrilled to announce the 3rd African Computer Vision Summer School (ACVSS) 👉acvss.ai 🎓Learn computer vision from the best scientists 🌍Google, Accra, Ghana 📆July 19-29, 2026 🎓Apply before March 1st (full grants available) ❤️ Follow us #ACVSS #computervision #ai

📢 ACVSS deadline is extended by 10 days. Don't miss your last chance to join the African Computer Vision Summer School -- we have amazing lecturers and speakers. 👉acvss.ai 🎓Apply by march 25 ❤️Follow us

Oh, and check out our fantastic speakers: @anuragarnab (DeepMind) @sarameghanbeery (MIT) Daniel Cremers (TU Munich) @doughty_hazel (Leiden Uni.) @VickyKalogeiton (Polytechnique) Ciira wa Maina (Dedan Kimathi Uni.) and.. that's only the begining :-) More to come very soon.

Excited to announce the 2nd African Computer Vision Summer School (ACVSS): 👉acvss.ai 🎓Learn computer vision from the best scientists 🌍Kigali, Rwanda 📆July 13-23, 2025 🎓Apply before March 15th (full grants available) ❤️ Follow us #ACVSS #ComputerVision #AI

We look forward to ACVSS 2025 @ACVSS_AI . We started as a community to document inequities in Computer Vision research, github.com/Ro-ya-cv4Afric…. One of our goals was the summer school, and we are also looking forward to the first African wide faculty retreat .

Day 10. To close of the summer school lecture series concluded with an incredible session by our organizers @HelgeRhodin and Raoul de Charette, diving into 3D scene reconstruction and a deep dive into Pose estimation. What an inspiring end to an amazing journey! #ACVSS

Day 10. Alyosha Efros gave an amazing keynote, sharing his lifelong battle on the importance of visual data. His research journey and insights on how, with enough data, simple algorithms can outperform SOTA methods on some tasks were astonishing. #ACVSS

Day 9. Nice keynote from Negar Rostamzadeh (@negar_rz) on how to build towards responsible computer vision. She shared her views on the complex process of creating more transparent and accountable frameworks. #ACVSS

Day 9. Big thanks to Sara Beery (@sarameghanbeery) for her insightful lecture on reducing datasets bias and constructing deployable computer vision that, beyond benchmarks, also contribute to real-life conservation applications. Such an inspiring line of work. #ACVSS

Day 8. Exciting keynote from Girmaw Abebe Tadesse (@girmawAT), principal scientist at Microsoft AI for Good, on their initiatives using AI to transform lives on the continent and the importance for AI makers to listen to people's needs. #ACVSS

Day 8. It was about time to add the temporal dimension. Big thanks to Hazel Doughty (@doughty_hazel) for her exciting lecture on video understanding, covering methods from optical flow to transformers for video. #ACVSS

Day 7. Camera Image Signal Processors (ISPs) are crucial to make image looks natural. We were lucky to welcome @mahmoudnafifi who gave a keynote on how to make learnable ISPs more reliable. #ACVSS

Day 7. "Sunday is fun day", he said. And that's true today; we're thrilled to learn about Vision and Language lectured by Yuki Asano (@y_m_asano). Yuki unraveled the intricacies of VLMs, MLLMs and how to fine-tune large models for novel tasks and datasets. #ACVSS

Day 6. Saturday, we went to the Nairobi National Park for a safari day. It seems like we forgot about computer vision and images for a day, but did we ? Somehow, everyone kept taking pictures. Don't worry, more lectures are coming up very soon😉 #ACVSS

Huge shoutout to the @RoyaCV4Africa community where it all began during the Ro'ya DLI workshop! Thanks @mennatullahSiam and @HelgeRhodin for leading also the mentorship session. The community support from Ro'Ya has been incredible. #ACVSS

Day 5. Yesterday, we had the chance to welcome Celia Cintas (@RTFMCelia), a research scientist at IBM Research Africa. She gave a keynote on adversarial attacks and out-of-distribution detection, a major topic for inclusive AI and CV. #ACVSS

Day 5. There is no modern computer vision without generative AI. We're excited this morning to have Ke Li @KL_Div lecture to demystify generative modeling and shed light on what makes up for the fantastic progress in image generation. #ACVSS

Day 4. Yet another great speaker. Big thanks to Karteek Alahari @inthebrownbag for lecturing on visual representation learning. So much knowledge was packed into a single lecture covering from incremental and multitask learning, all the way to continual learning. #ACVSS

Day 3. What a day🤯 In the afternoon, after a busy (too short) poster session and an exciting chat with @vukosi, students had breakout mentorship sessions, closing the day by kicking off the ACVSS hackathon. Looking forward to Day 10 and discovering all ideas that emerged. #ACVSS

Day 3. Today, we had the privilege of learning from @Abebab about the rise of AI and Computer Vision in surveillance. An exciting lecture with multiple workshops that challenged us to consider our own decisions regarding AI applications. #ACVSS