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