Announcement and First Call for Papers:

   INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON OBJECT REPRESENTATION FOR COMPUTER VISION

          April 13-14 1996 - University of Cambridge, England
                          (Preceeding ECCV'96)

Co-Chairs and Organizers:

Jean Ponce               Martial Hebert               Andrew Zisserman
University of Illinois   Carnegie-Mellon University   University of Oxford
(ponce@cs.uiuc.edu)      (Martial.Hebert@cs.cmu.edu)  (az@robots.ox.ac.uk)

Program Committee:

Brady, M., Oxford University, UK 
Cipolla, R., University of Cambridge, UK 
Forsyth, D., U.C. Berkeley, USA 
Huttenlocher, D., Cornell University, USA 
Ikeuchi, K., Carnegie Mellon, USA 
Lowe, D.G., University of British Columbia, Canada 
Mohr, R., LIFIA-INRIA, France 
Mundy, J., General Electric, USA 
Nayar, S., Columbia University, USA 
Rothwell, C., INRIA, France 
Shashua, A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 
Shashua, A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 
Sugihara, K., Tokyo University, Japan 
Taylor, C.J., University of Manchester, UK 
Van Gool, L., Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 
Yuille, A., Harvard University, USA 
Zerroug, M., Adept Technologies, USA 


An international workshop on object representation for computer vision
will be held at the University of Cambridge, England, on April 13-14th,
preceeding ECCV'96 which begins on April 15th.

Technical contributions are sought in all relevant areas of computer
vision, including (but not restricted to) the following:

  o Shape models                o Quasi invariants      
  o Appearance models           o Automatic model acquisition
  o Functional models           o Indexing and recognition
  o Object-class models         o Representational issues 
  o Part decompositions         in applications

Background:

In December of 1994, a workshop co-sponsored by NSF and ARPA was held
in New York City. Its goal was to evaluate current approaches to
object representation and to identify important issues and promising
research directions.

The 1996 Cambridge workshop is a follow-up to the 1994 New York
workshop. Its goals are:

  o to present a state of the art of the research on object representation 
  for object recognition;

  o to assess the progress achieved in key areas identified during the 
  first workshop, e.g., part decomposition and quasi invariants; and,

  o to explore the representational issues involved in applications that 
  go beyond traditional object recognition, e.g., image databases, 
  manufacturing, medical imaging, or virtual reality.


Format:

The workshop will consist of three half-day sessions, each of them
including an invited lecture, presentations of accepted papers, and a
panel. The invited speakers are:

        o Takeo Kanade, Carnegie-Mellon University
        o Jan Koenderink, Utrecht University  
        o Ram Nevatia, University of Southern California  

To facilitate discussions, the attendance to the workshop will be
limited to a hundred participants. Submitted papers will be reviewed
by an international program committee.

The proceedings (including the contributed papers and a summary
of the panel discussions) will be published after the workshop
and sent to all the workshop participants. 

The workshop will be held just prior to ECCV'96 at the University of
Cambridge, and accommodation will be at Jesus College.


Instructions to authors:

Four copies of each submitted paper (no more than 30 pages) should
be received no later than December 1, 1995 by

        o Andrew Zisserman (for European submissions)
          Department of Engineering Science
          University of Oxford
          Parks Road
          Oxford
          OX1 3PJ, UK

        or

        o Martial Hebert (for US and other submissions)
          The Robotics Institute
          Carnegie-Mellon University
          5000 Forbes Avenue
          Pittsburgh, PA 15213
          USA

Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 12, 1996.