African Computer Vision Summer School

ACVSS continues in 2025.
Applications will open around February. The website will be updated soon. Stay tuned.

The African Computer Vision Summer School (ACVSS) unites outstanding African students and researchers with leading computer vision and AI experts. Its location varies annually within Africa, and the inaugural edition was in 2024. 

    📆  July 14-24, 2024

    🌍 in Nairobi, Kenya at the Microsoft Research Institute (MARI) 

    🎓  Applications open until March 25th (deadline was extended).
Check page Apply & Attend
                Funded for African students. Open to international students.
    🏫 The program includes lectures and practical sessions (see Program)

The curriculum emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations, geometry and math, deep learning and AI, and on seeding knowledge for multiple generations of students by coaching participants in educational leadership. 

News 16/04: We accepted 26 outstanding students to ACVSS 2024.
 26/03: We received 160 applications which we will review asap.

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Speakers

Sara Beery
(MIT)

Dina Machuve  
(DevData Analytics)

Negar Rostamzadeh
(Google)

Timnit Gebru
(DAIR)

Hazel Doughty
(Leiden University)

Karteek Alahari
(Inria)

Mahmoud Afifi  
(Google)

Ke Li  
(SFU)

Anurag Arnab
(Google)

Abeba Birhane
(Mozilla Fondation)

Alexei A. Efros
(UC Berkeley)

Yuki M. Asano
(Uni. of Amsterdam)

Claire Monteleoni
(Inria & Uni. of Colorado Boulder)

Celia Cintas
(IBM)

Girmaw Abebe Tadesse
(Microsoft)

Helge Rhodin 
(UBC)

Raoul de Charette
(Inria)

Organizers

Raesetje Sefala
(DAIR)
 General & Sponsor Chair

Raoul de Charette
(Inria)
General & Program Chair

Elizabeth Mutua
(Dedan Kimathi University)
Local Chair

Helge Rhodin 
(UBC)
Admission and Publicity Chair

Mennatullah Siam
(Ontario Tech)
Supporting Organizer

Salamata Konate
(CSIRO)
Publicity Chair

Bastian Wandt
(Linköping University)
Practical Chair

Chris Currin
(ISTA)
Mentors Chair

Yannis Kalantadis

(Naver Labs)

Supporting Organizer

Gilles Q. Hacheme 

(Microsoft)

Supporting Local Organizer

Advisors

Kathleen Siminyu
(Mozilla Found.)

Daniela Massiceti
(Microsoft)

Samy Bengio
(Apple)

Girmaw Abebe Tadesse
(Microsoft)

Sponsors

Community

Ro’ya

Deep Learning Indaba

African Institute for
Mathematical Sciences

Masakhane