ACVSS 2024
Microsoft Research, Nairobi, Kenya

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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
Check page Apply & Attend
                Funded for African students. Open to international students.
    🏫 The program includes lectures and practical sessions (see Program section below)

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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2024 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)

2024 Program

2024 Highlights

Get a taste of our amazing inaugural edition in Microsoft Research, Nairobi, Kenya.

2024 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 Kalantidis

(Naver Labs)

Supporting Organizer

Gilles Q. Hacheme 

(Microsoft)

Supporting Local Organizer

2024 Advisors

Kathleen Siminyu
(Mozilla Found.)

Daniela Massiceti
(Microsoft)

Samy Bengio
(Apple)

Girmaw Abebe Tadesse
(Microsoft)

2024 Sponsors

2024 Community

Ro’ya

Deep Learning Indaba

African Institute for
Mathematical Sciences

Masakhane