IEEE WORKSHOP on REPRESENTATIONS OF VISUAL SCENES
                       (In Conjunction with ICCV)

Organizers:  P. Anandan, David Sarnoff Research Center, anandan@sarnoff.com
             Harpreet Sawhney, IBM Almaden Res. Ctr., sawhney@almaden.ibm.com
             Amnon Shashua, Hebrew Univ., Israel, samm@cs.huji.ac.il
             Eero Simoncelli, Univ. of Pennsylvania, eero@tarpon.cis.upenn.edu

General Chair: Takeo Kanade, CMU

Program Committee:

Ted Adelson, MIT
Richard Hartley, GE
Steve Maybank, Oxford
John Oliensis, NEC
Roz Picard, MIT
Carlo Tomasi, Stanford 
Thierry Vieville, INRIA
Andrew Zisserman, Oxford


The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers
interested in representation of visual scenes based on a
collection of images (either video or a collection of stills).
In recent years, two clear trends have emerged in the area of
multiple image analysis: image-to-image alignment based on
motion-field models, and recovery of 3D geometry in terms of
affine and projective invariants.  Work in the first area has led
to techniques for panoramic view construction based on
multiple-image alignment and layered representations, whereas
work in the second area has lead to techniques for the
representation of scenes as collection of views and the recovery
of a new view as combinations of a set of given views.

Taken together, the new trends have led to new ways to formulate
the traditional problems of structure-from-motion and 3D scene
reconstruction.  These emerging techniques are also closely
related to work in active/animate vision, especially to methods
that use fixation and tracking.  Their benefits to visualization,
video databases, compression, and handling uncalibrated imaging
situations is already becoming apparent.  However, one of the
major challenges, and a recent topic of lively interest, is to
obtain an adequate generalization of the fundamental structures
associated with two views to multiple-view situations.  Such
generalizations are essential for understanding view-based
representations, visual database indexing, numerical stability of
3D recovery, and navigation.  Several recent results suggest that
some of the accuracy and stability problems that have plagued the
previous generation of techniques can be overcome.  Furthermore,
the issues of sparse versus dense scene representations, and
their usefulness for recognition, navigation and intelligent
video manipulation are areas of active research.

The workshop will be held on 24 June, the day after the end of ICCV95.
Hotel rates for ICCV95 have been extended.  It will include 12-15
contributed presentations and a panel discussion at the end of the
day.  Papers that are submitted will be reviewed by the program
committee. A proceedings will be made available a few months after
the workshop.

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on topics described
above.  Submissions should be 5-10 pages, including figures and
references.  Send four copies of the paper summary and a cover sheet
stating the (1) paper title, (2) Brief 2-3 sentence summary of the
topic and contribution, (3) contact author's name, (4) address, (5)
telephone number, (6) Fax number, and (7) electronic mail address to:

                Dr. P. Anandan
                David Sarnoff Research Center 
                CN 5300 
                Princeton, N.J.  08543

                
Important Dates: 

          Deadline for Submission: 25 March 1995
       Notification of Acceptance: 1 May 1995
   Camera-Ready papers (10pp) due: 1 June 1995