ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:

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 
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 13-14,
preceeding ECCV'96 which begins on April 15.

For registration information, please consult the ECCV Web site:
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/Research/Vision/ECCV/ECCV.html and
look up the Early Registration info. (Note: early registration
is up to Feb. 29. Registration fee goes up afterwards.)

                            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.

The proceedings (including the contributed papers and a summary of the
panel discussions) will be published after the workshop by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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


                        PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:

SATURDAY APRIL 13 -- AFTERNOON
o Welcome and introduction
o Invited talk: Ram Nevatia, University of Southern California
Break
o Geometric and topological representations I
        1. Sayd, Dhome & Lavest: Using deformable model to recover generalized
        cylinders.
        2. Carlsson: Combinatorial geometry for shape representation and
        indexing.
        3. Rothwell, Mundy & Hoffman: Representing objects using topology.
Break
o Geometric and topological representations II
        1. Angelopoulou, Williams & Wolff: Curvature based signatures for 
        object description and recognition.
        2. Forsyth, Malik, Fleck, Leung, Bregler, Carson & Greenspan:
        Finding objects by grouping.
Break
o Panel 1.

SUNDAY APRIL 14 -- MORNING
o Invited Talk: Jan Koenderink, Utrecht University  
o Appearance-based representations I
        1. Nayar & Murase: Dimensionality of illumination manifolds 
        in eigenspace.
        2. Belhumeur, Yuille & Epstein: Learning and recognising objects using 
        illumination subspaces.
        3. Pope & Lowe: Learning appearance models for object recognition.
Break
o Appearance-based representations II - hybrid approaches
        1. Schmid, Bobet, Lamiroy & Mohr: An image-oriented CAD approach.
        2. Liu, Mundy, Zisserman, Pillow & Rothwell: An experimental
        comparison of appearance models and geometric class models
        represented by invariants.
Break
o Panel 2.

SUNDAY APRIL 14 -- AFTERNOON
o Invited talk: Takeo Kanade, Carnegie-Mellon University
Break
o 3D representations and applications I
        1. Francois & Medioni: Generic shape learning and recognition.
        2. Ayoung-Chee, Dudek & Ferrie: Enhanced 3D representation 
        using multiple models.
        3. Shum, Hebert & Ikeuchi: On 3D shape synthesis.
Break
o 3D representations and applications II
        1. Wright, Fitzgibbon, Giblin & Fisher: Beyond the Hough transform:
        further properties of the R, theta mapping and their applications.
        2. Kutulakos & Vallino: Non-Euclidean object representation for 
        calibration-free video overlay.
Break
o Panel 3.