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.