[Imageworld] CFP: CVPR 09 Workshop on Egocentric Vision - Deadline Extended

[Ren, Xiaofeng]

CALL FOR PAPERS

FIRST WORKSHOP on EGOCENTRIC VISION

June 20, 2009, Miami Beach, Florida
in conjunction with CVPR 2009

--Deadlines Extended!!--

Due to many requests we have extended the submission deadline of the workshop
to Monday, March 23, 2009, at 11:59pm PDT. Please note that this is a hard
deadline and no further extension would be possible. We appreciate the efforts
of the authors for making their submissions ready for review.


--Workshop Website--

http://www.seattle.intel-research.net/egovision09/

--Motivation--

Advances in camera miniaturization and mobile computing have made it feasible
to capture and process photos and video from cameras worn on a person's body
and "looking out" at the world. Such an egocentric perspective of visual
computing naturally ties into everyday life and provides a level of detail and
ubiquity that may well exceed what is possible from environmental cameras. For
instance, a lapel or shoulder-mounted camera is particularly well-suited to
monitor and track daily ego-activities by recognizing objects being handled,
gestures performed via hand motion and social interactions with other people.
Robust and inexpensive solutions to egocentric vision would have immediate and
high-impact applications in healthcare, education, entertainment and
human-resource management.

The egocentric perspective casts many classical vision problems under a new
light. For instance, objects do not appear in isolated, well positioned photos.
They are embedded in a dynamic, everyday environment and constantly interact
with one another and with the wearer. Human activities are not recognized from
a passive observer at a distance, but from an active participant. Motion
analysis and tracking would be essential for egocentric video but camera
movements and viewpoints differ substantially from those in surveillance or in
movies.

The egocentric perspective provides many constraints that may help simplify
vision problems. For instance, key parts of the body, such as hands and arms,
are observed at consistent scales and orientations. Objects of interest are
typically well-positioned in the view and often handled by the wearer.
Meanwhile, the egocentric perspective also introduces a variety of challenges.
For instance, visual signals from a wearable camera are poor in quality and
limited in both resolution and field-of-view. Large and uncontrolled camera
movements, along with motion blur, need to be accommodated. Systematic
occlusions by hands and arms may also occur often. Performance requests may be
challenging: mobile computing demands interactive processing speeds and low
power consumption.

--Call for Papers--

The goal of this workshop is to call for a converged effort to understand the
opportunities and challenges emerging in egocentric vision, to identify key
tasks and evaluate the state of the art, and to discuss future directions. We
invite submissions in all fields of vision that explore the egocentric
perspective, including, but not limited to:

 * Egocentric object detection, recognition and categorization
 * Feature detection, tracking and matching in egocentric video
 * Motion analysis, object tracking and scene segmentation with moving cameras
 * Human motion, gesture and event recognition
 * Localization and visual SLAM in everyday environments
 * Machine learning techniques in egocentric vision
 * Online learning and modeling of objects and scenes
 * Data collection, benchmarking and performance evaluation
 * Integration of egocentric vision with other sensors
 * Applications of egocentric vision in daily life

Paper submissions will be electronic and in PDF, compliant with standard CVPR
format with a maximum of eight (8) pages. The submission site is at

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EGOV09


--Important Dates--

Full paper submission:          March 23, 2009
Notification of acceptance:     April 6, 2009
Camera-ready due:               April 14, 2009

--Keynote Speakers--

Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University

--Workshop Organizers--

Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University
Matthai Philipose, Intel Research Seattle
Xiaofeng Ren, Intel Research Seattle

--Program Committee--

Serge Belongie 	   University of California, San Diego
Trevor Darrell 	   University of California, Berkeley
Larry Davis 	   University of Maryland
Andrew Davison 	   Imperial College London
Alyosha Efros 	   Carnegie Mellon University
Dieter Fox 	   University of Washington
Martial Hebert 	   Carnegie Mellon University
Erik Learned-Miller	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jim Little 	   University of British Columbia
Walterio Mayol-Cuevas	University of Bristol
Gerard Medioni 	   University of Southern California
Greg Mori 	   Simon Fraser University
Matthai Philipose  Intel Research Seattle
James Rehg 	   Georgia Institute of Technology
Xiaofeng Ren 	   Intel Research Seattle
Bernt Schiele 	   T.U. Darmstadt
Rahul Sukthankar   Intel Research Pittsburgh

--Contact--

Xiaofeng Ren
Intel Research Seattle
1100 NE 45th Street, 6th Floor
Seattle, WA 98105
U.S.A.

Phone: 1-206-545-2523
Fax:   1-206-633-6504
Email: xiaofeng.ren at intel.com