BMVA Symposium on World Models lands in London Nov 18, with DeepMind and Microsoft speakers
CSProfKGD · x · 2026-09-08
The British Machine Vision Association will host a one-day Symposium on World Models in London on November 18, 2026.
- Invited speakers include Viorica Pătrăucean (Google DeepMind), Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research), Andrea Vedaldi (Oxford), Amir Bar (Imperial/AMI Labs), and Wayve, UCL, Adobe, Sheffield representatives
- Topics span generative and interactive video models, latent predictive architectures, 3D/4D scene representations, model-based RL, and MPC for robots and autonomous driving
- Registration is open; call for presentations closes September 30
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