***************************************************************** * * * DIFFUSION MEETING 1996 - HP LABS - JUNE 13,14 1996 * * * ***************************************************************** This is the announcement of the next meeting on GEOMETRY DRIVEN DIFFUSION IN COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING which will be held at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, June 13-14 1996. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'96), which is held in San Francisco ("The City"), June 16-20 1996. The workshop is organized by Pietro Perona (Caltech), Bart ter Haar Romeny (Utrecht University), and Guillermo Sapiro (HP Labs). This is the fifth in a series of meetings. Previous meetings were in Berlin (June 1993, ICCV), Cambridge-UK (Dec. 1993, Newton Institute), Stockholm (May 1994, ECCV), and Brown University-RI (June 1995, ICCV). The meetings are motivated by the existence of an ESPRIT/NSF grant for transatlantic collaboration (1993-1996), between European and American universities (Utrecht, Leuven, Las Palmas-Spain, Paris-Dauphine, KTH-Stockholm, ETH-Zurich-Switzerland, Linkoping, Caltech, Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, U. North Carolina, Brown U). The meeting is open, and researchers in the areas below, but not limited to, are encouraged to participate: * scale-space theory * anisotropic diffusion * vector-valued diffusion * non-linear PDE's * axiomatic approaches to computer vision and image processing * energy-based approaches * curve and surface evolution * theory and applications of wavelets * numerical analysis * differential geometry * applications of the theories above The main theme on previous meetings was multiscale analysis, both non-linear and linear, in its many different mathematical and physics based representations. The presentations and discussions focus on fundamental, mathematical, physical and applied aspects of this field. The meeting will have the form of a open forum, where new ideas can be presented and where there is ample time for deep discussion. Previous meetings, which all had this character, were much appreciated for its depth and communication level. There will be no proceedings, freeing the participants from this pressure, but a tutorial style of presentation will be expected. Likely the plans for a second book of the consortium, with contributions of others, will be discussed at this meeting. Four invited speakers will give plenary talks. The rest of the papers will be selected, given the limited time of the meeting, by the organizers, based on a submitted abstract (about 500 words), clearly stating the relevance for this field. Information about the consortium, its members, earlier meetings and a recently jointly published book on "Geometry-Driven Diffusion" can be found at the Diffusion WWW-page: http:\\www.cv.ruu.nl\Collaborations\... This WWW-page will contains updates of the meeting as well. LOCATION ======== The location of the meeting is Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. HP Labs, the research facilities of the Hewlett-Packard Company, are located 30 miles south of San Francisco (CVPR'96), 20 miles south of San Francisco International Airport, and 20 miles north of San Jose International Airport. Transportation from both airports is provided by a number of shuttle companies. HP Labs is 2-3 miles >from Stanford Campus. REGISTRATION ============ If you are interested in participation, or have any question, please contact Guillermo Sapiro at guille@hpl.hp.com. Please provide the following information: 1- If you wish to give a talk. Provide title, abstract (about 500 words) and affiliation by email to: guille@hpl.hp.com. 2- If you just wish to attend. 3- When are you arriving, when are you leaving? How many hotel nights do you need? Are you sharing a room? With whom? 4- If you need any further information (like driving directions, clime, etc.) Hotel accommodation: =================== For the moment, we have reserved the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto-Stanford for the meeting. This hotel is at walking distance from downtown Palo Alto and Stanford University. It is 5-10 minutes from HP Labs, and the hotel provides transportation from/to the meeting (free). Facilities at the Hotel are outstanding. The rates are approx. $92 both for single and double rooms (prices will change for '96, and may increase a couple of dollars). Check out at the Holiday Inn has to be on Friday, last meeting day, for this special price (check in can be any day). In case you want to stay longer (CVPR starts Sunday), please contact G. Sapiro at guille@hpl.hp.com for special arrangements. Reservations should be made directly to the Hotel. Phone: 1-415-328-2800 FAX: 1-415-327-7362 Rooms should be reserved before May 31, 1996. After this day, reservations depend on availability (if rooms are still available, the same price will be provided). When making the reservation please provide the following information: 1) Your name and name of person sharing the room if any. 2) Credit card number to guarantee the reservation. 3) Arrival and departures dates. 4) Mention "Attn. Lori/Monica, Diffusion Workshop at HP Labs." to obtain the special fare. The hotel address is Holiday Inn Palo Alto-Stanford 625 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94301 Catering: ========= Coffee Brakes will be provided by HP Labs. Lunch will be at HP Labs cafeteria, which includes a number of selections for hot-dishes, as well as soups, hot sandwiches, self-serve salad and cold sandwiches, and desserts. A special dinner will be arranged the first day of the meeting. Transport: ========== There are shuttles from both airports (for those going to CVPR'96, is recommended to flight into SF Airport) to Palo Alto. At the airport, pick up a courtesy phone and call any of the shuttle companies. They drop you at any address you ask with no extra charge. More details, as well as maps for those driving, will be provided later or upon request.