[Imageworld] POCV 2010: First call for papers

[Philippos Mordohai]

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS:  POCV 2010
The Seventh IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in 
Computer Vision
San Francisco, California, June 13, 2010.  In Conjunction with IEEE CVPR 
2010

URL:  http://cvl.cse.sc.edu/pocv.html

IMPORTANT DATES:
   * Submission deadline: 11:59pm EST, March 12, 2010
   * Author notification: April 5, 2010
   * Camera-ready deadline: April 15, 2010

THEME:
Perceptual Organization is the process of establishing a meaningful 
relational structure over raw visual data so as visual primitives 
arising from the common physical cause are grouped together.  A driving 
motivation behind perceptual organization research in computer vision is 
to deliver compact representations and to reduce the space of hypotheses 
for higher-level visual tasks. Since early demonstrations in the 1980s 
underscored its usefulness in object recognition, the computer vision 
community has seen various applications of PO in artificial vision 
systems such as in figure-ground segmentation, contour completion, 
stereo matching, model indexing, change detection, activity recognition, 
and more.  Recent progress in PO has encouraged more participation from 
experts in related areas such as object recognition, texture and motion 
analysis. Because of its wide applicability, the potential payoff from 
perceptual organization research is enormous.

Among the objectives of POCV is to encourage presentation of new ideas 
and facilitate discussion on the future of PO. To this end, papers 
introducing novel concepts will be considered for acceptance even if 
they lack full experimental validation. The schedule will include longer 
periods for questions and answers after each talk than CVPR to enable 
dialogue and the exchange of ideas.

SCOPE:
Papers are solicited in all areas of perceptual organization, including 
but not limited to:
   * image segmentation
   * interactive image segmentation
   * contour completion
   * spatiotemporal/motion segmentation
   * figure-ground discrimination
   * integration of top-down and bottom-up methods
   * perceptual organization for object or activity detection/recognition
   * unification of segmentation, detection and recognition
   * visual attention models, algorithms and applications
   * learning in perceptual organization
   * graphical methods
   * natural scene statistics
   * evaluation methods.

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Submission is electronic, and must be in PDF format. Papers must not 
exceed 8 double-column pages. Submissions must follow standard IEEE 
2-column format of single-spaced text in 10 point Times Roman, with 12 
point interline space. All submissions must be anonymous. Please use the 
IEEE Computer Society CVPR format kit. Stay tuned for exact details on 
how to submit.

URL for submissions: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/POCV2010/

In submitting a paper to the POCV Workshop, authors acknowledge that no 
paper of substantially similar content has been or will be submitted to 
another conference or workshop during the POCV review period.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
Song Wang
SONGWANG at cec.sc.edu

Philippos Mordohai
Philippos.Mordohai at stevens.edu