ADVANCE PROGRAM IEEE Computer Society Workshop on the Role of Functionality in Object Recognition June 20, 1994 The Westin Hotel Seattle, Washington (just before Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition conference, June 19-23) ========================================================================= Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society TC on PAMI WORKSHOP ON THE ROLE OF FUNCTIONALITY IN OBJECT RECOGNITION The Seattle Westin Hotel Monday, June 20 (just prior to CVPR '94) Program co-chairs: Azriel Rosenfeld and Ehud Rivlin (ar@alv.umd.edu and) General chair: Kevin Bowyer (kwb@csee.usf.edu) 8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remarks 9:00 - 9:45 Functionality-driven recognition of articulated objects Kevin Green, Louise Stark and Kevin Bowyer University of South Florida 9:45 - 10:30 Functional components Sven Dickinson, Ehud Rivlin and Azriel Rosenfeld University of Toronto, Technion and University of Maryland 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 - 11:30 Active Investigation of Functionality Ruzena K. Bajcsy and Luca Bogoni University of Pennsylvania 11:30 - 12:15 On the dynamics of functional wielding Radha Krishnan University of Maryland 12:15 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 2:45 Object appearance characteristics, experience and function: the interpretation of objects in context Jack Hodges San Francisco State University 2:45 - 3:30 Object recognition based on functions, mechanisms and actions Koichi Kise, Hirokazu Hattori, Fumihito Akiyama, Tadahiro Kitahashi and Kunio Fukunaga University of Osaka Prefecture and Osaka University 3:30 - 3:45 Coffee Break 3:45 - 4:15 Perception of Materials by Robotic Probing Eric Krotkov Carnegie-Mellon University 4:15 - 4:45 Conjunction junction, what's your function? Matthew Brand Northwestern University 4:45 - 5:15 `Support' in support of vision Richard Mann and Allan Jepson University of Toronto 5:15 - 6:15 Panel Discussion Moderator: Azriel Rosenfeld Tentative participants: Ehud Rivlin, Ellen Walker, Tom Binford, ... =========================================== CVPR 94 Registration Form - Register Today! =========================================== To register, just send this form to: CVPR 94 Registration, IEEE Computer Society, 1730 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1992; FAX (202)728-0884. 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