1996 Image Understanding Workshop 12 - 15 February Palm Springs, California Tentative Program Monday, 12 February 4:00 Afternoon and Evening Meeting Check-in (to 10:00 pm) TUESDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 7:00 Meeting Check-in 8:30 Opening Remarks Thomas M. Strat, ARPA Information Systems Office IU Program Manager 8:40 Guest Speaker (tentative) Tom Swartz, ARPA Information Systems Office Director Principal Investigator Reports 9:10 Progress in Computer Vision at the University of Massachusetts Edward Riseman and Allen Hanson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 9:30 Image Understanding Research at SRI International Martin A. Fischler, SRI International 9:50 USC Image Understanding Research: 1994-1995 IU Research in Complex Environments Computing 3-D Shape Descriptions of Complex Objects Ram Nevatia, University of Southern California 10:10 Image Understanding Research at CMU: >From Vision Science Through Autonomous Systems Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University 10:30 Meeting Break 11:00 IU Research at the University of Maryland: Video surveillance and tracking; Detection and tracking of moving objects from an autonomous mobile platform Azriel Rosenfeld, Larry S. Davis, Rama Chellappa and Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland, Center for Automation Research 11:20 Technical Survey: The Increasing Influence of Image Acquisition on Modeling and Image Generation Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina Dr. Fuchs is well known for his work in computer graphics, augmented/virtual reality, high speed computers for graphics, and other areas. 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Registration, Selection and Indexing in Eric Grimson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1:50 Visual Sensor Systems: making them smaller, faster, and smarter Terrance Boult, Lehigh University 2:10 Model-Based Recognition of Objects in Complex Scenes Thomas O. Binford, Stanford University Image Retrieval and Robot Vision Research at Stanford Carlo Tomasi, Stanford University 2:30 Image Understanding Research at GE Joseph L. Mundy, General Electric Corporation 2:45 Robust Recognition of Objects in Real-World Scenes Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside 3:00 Meeting Break 3:30 IU at UI: An Overview of Research During 1995-96 Image Analysis, Perception & Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes Narendra Ahuja, University of Illinois 3:45 Physics-Based Vision for Image Understanding Larry Wolff, Johns Hopkins University 4:00 1995 Progress in Vision Research at TI Bruce Flinchbaugh and Kashi Rao, Texas Instruments 4:15 Computer Vision through Learning Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University 4:30 Image Understanding in Outdoor Scenes Ren Luo, North Carolina State University 4:45 IU at the University of Utah: building 3-D models from sensed data William Thompson and Tom Henderson, University of Utah 5:00 Multiple Image Analysis: Motion, Structure, and Recognition Shmuel Peleg, Hebrew University 5:15 Tuesday Session Adjourns 6:00 IUW Reception (open to all attendees) 7:30 Principal Investigator Dinner (by invitation only) WEDNESDAY, 14 FEBRUARY Continuous IUE Demonstration throughout the day RADIUS Technical Session 8:30 RADIUS Consortium Technical Presentation 9:30 Automated Cartography and Simulation David M. McKeown, CMU Digital Mapping Laboratory 9:45 Design and Integration of Vehicle Detection Algorithms in RADIUS Testbed R. Chellappa, C.L. Lin, X. Zhang and P. Burlina, University of Maryland, CFAR 10:00 SRI International Pacal Fua and Aaron Heller 10:15 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Allen Hanson and Edward Riseman 10:30 Meeting Break 11:00 Progress in Change Detection and Site Model Updating Research Ram Nevatia, University of Southern California 11:15 Performance of Vision Algorithms Robert Haralick, University of Washington 11:30 Using Linguistic Context in Vision Rohini Srihari, SUNY at Buffalo 11:45 Application Focus: ARPA High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program (tentative) Chuck Heber, ARPA HAE UAV Program Director 12:15 Lunch 1:30 Application Focus: SAIP and IU challenges Dick Wishner, ARPA Information Systems Office Assistant Director 2:15 Technical Survey: SAR and the IU Community Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland CFAR 3:00 Meeting Break 3:30 Status of the Image Understanding Environment Joseph L. Mundy, General Electric and the IUE Committee 4:15 IUE: Report on Beta Testing Charles Kohl, Amerinex Artificial Intelligence 4:30 Application Focus: Visualization and Simulation George Lukes, ARPA Information Systems Office Program Manager 5:15 Report on the IU Web Contest Yvan Leclerc, SRI International 5:30 Wednesday Session Adjourns 6:30 Technical Demonstrations Demonstrations of ARPA IU-sponsored live video camera applications Image Understanding Program Graduate Student Poster Sessions Thesis work presented by graduate students are frequently among the most visionary in terms of new technologies and capabilities. At this session, the IU doctoral students have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their research in a less formal setting. We encourage you to review their materials and discuss their most recent accomplishments with them. Graduate Students from the following research sites will participate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Universty of Maryland, CFAR CMU Digital Mapping Lab Johns Hopkins University Carnegie Mellon University Lehigh and Columbia Universities University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Southern California University of California, San Diego George Mason University Colorado State UniversitY THURSAY, 15 FEBRUARY 8:30 Guest Speaker (tentative) Duane Adams, ARPA Deputy Director RSTA/UGV Session 9:00 UGV Consortium Presentation Technical Reports presented by RSTA and UGV researchers and user community. 10:00 Spatial and Temporal Mechanisms for Target Cueing Peter Burt, P. Annandan and John Pearson, David Sarnoff Research Center 10:20 Target and Terrain Recognition Research at Colorado State University Ross Beveridge, Colorado State University 10:35 Meeting Break 11:00 Real time recognition and visual control Christopher Brown, University of Rochester 11:15 Model-Based Automatic Target Recognition System for the UGV/RSTA Ladar Dan Dudgeon and Jaques Verly, MIT Lincoln Laboratory 11:30 Overview of a Self-Adaptive ATR System via Context-based Configuration and Control Wing Au and Barry Roberts, Honeywell Technology Center 11:45 Fast Adaptive Target Detection Dave Doria, Hughes Aircraft and Dan Huttenlocher, Cornell University 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Target Identification Using Geometric Hashing and FLIR/Ladar Fusion Andy Akerman III, Nichols Research Center 1:45 Robust Object Matching ATR Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNC Software 2:00 Survey of Image Understanding and ATR Research in IIT and UIC Jezekiel Ben-Arie, University of Illinois at Chicago 2:15 Multi-Agent Cooperative Sensor Planning Diane Cook, University of Texas, Arlington 2:30 A Human-Centered Approach to UGV Navigation Brian Mitchell, Cybernet 2:45 Evaluation Methods and Metrics for IU Processing Theodore R. Yachik, LGA, Inc. 3:00 Meeting Break 3:30 Imagery Datasets Chairpersons: Edward Riseman and Allen Hanson, University of Massachusetts Focus: Availability, location, accessabiltiy, characteristics, ground truth, sensor information, etc. related to the following technical areas: SAR, Leslie Novak, MIT Lincoln Laboratory RADIUS, Doug Climenson Tier 2+, 3-, Clayton Stewart, SAIC Simulation, George Lukes, ARPA ISO Video/Multimedia (TBD) DTED, DFAD, Defense Mapping Agency UGV (TBD) Europe, Japan (TBD) ISFAR, Peter Johnson, USA Topographic Engineering Center RSTA, Ray Rimey, Lockheed Martin 4:30 Closing Comments Tom Strat, ARPA IU Program Manager 4:45 IU Workshop Adjourns (Although this is a tentative program, the topics and general schedule will remain similar. Individual titles of presentations may be more specific in the final program which will be distributed to attendees prior to the workshop.)