IEEE Workshop on Representations of Visual Scenes June 24, 1995 The purpose of this workshop is to gather 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 combination 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, I 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 area areas of active research. Fees The advance registration fees are $80 for members, $100 for non-members, and $40 for students if paid before May 15. After that date that fees are $100 for members, $125 for non-members, and $70 for students. Update: Since our program is not expected to be completely defined before May 15, we are extending the early registration deadline for the IEEE Workshop on Representations of Visual Scenes to June 1. We will announce the program via email around May 15. Please spread the word. Registration fees for the IEEE Workshop on Representations of Visual Scenes: Member NonMember Student Early Fee if paid before June 1 $80 $100 $40 Fee if Paid after June 1 $100 $125 $70 Organizers P. Anandan Harpreet Sawhney David Sarnoff Research Center IBM Almaden Research Center anandan@sarnoff.com sawhney@almaden.ibm.com Amnon Shashua Eero Simoncelli Hebrew University, Israel University of Pennsylvania samm@cs.huji.ac.il eero@tarpon.cis.upenn.edu General Chair Takeo Kanade, CMU