Announcement and Call for papers for: Workshop Performance Characteristics of Vision Algorithms Organizer: Patrick Stelmaszyk, ITMI, Grenoble Programme Chairs: Wolfgang Foerstner, Bonn and Henrik I. Christensen, Aalborg Place: Cambridge, UK Time: 19-20 April 1996. Friday/Saturday (morning) after the ECCV '96 Program Committee: Kevin Bowyer, USF Hans Burkhardt, Hamburg Adrian Clark, Essex. Patrick Courtney, ITMI Al Hanson, UMASS Bob Haralick, UW Josef Kittler, UOS Chris McGlone, CMU Peter Meer, Rutgers Keith Price, USC George Vosselman, Delft The workshop is motivated by the strong belief that the lack of performance characterization of vision algorithms is responsible for the hesitation of industry to use Computer Vision as one of its tools. Reasons for this situation are manifold: the lack of commonly accepted criteria for evaluation, the lack of a methodology for testing, the lack of translating the experience in testing of other engineering areas to Computer Vision and possibly also the non-acceptance of empirical or theoretical comparisons of vision algorithms, including their replication, as original research. The goal of the workshop is to investigate the state of the art in characterizing the performance of vision algorithms in all stages of the development and use, such as the design of algorithms with a pre-specified performance, the testing of algorithms with respect to give specifications and the self-diagnosis of vision algorithms during their use in an automated process. We encourage authors to submit papers on the following topics: * Theory and strategies for performance analysis of vision algorithms * Linking analysis of vision experiments to the theory underlying the algorithms * Characterization of the limitations of vision algorithms and/or the class of image data for which a vision algorithm is suited or not suited * Demonstrations of the usefulness of performance characterization and/or the limitations of statistical testing in Computer Vision * Modularization of vision tasks and the characterization of networks of vision algorithms We will not consider plain comparisons of algorithms without explicit relation to the underlying theory, plain statistical papers without explicit relation to performance characterization or papers on the analysis of the complexity of algorithms without containing a clear cost benefit analysis. We intend to select approx. 4 papers for long (45 min.) and approx. 8 papers for short (30 min.) oral presentations forming the basis for a common discussion. An additional 12 - 16 papers will be selected for poster presentation possibly including software demos. Timetable: ----------- 15. September 1995 Call for papers 1. December 1995 Full papers 15. January 1996 Reviews 1. February 1996 Notification of authors 15. March 1996 Camera ready manuscripts are due 1. April 1996 Distribution of papers to participants (ftp) 19. April 1996 Workshop (1.5 days) 31. May 1996 Distribution of Proceedings to participants Submit Papers before 1. December 1995 to: Dr. Henrik I. Christensen Laboratory of Image Analysis Aalborg University Fr. Bajers Vej 7, Bldg. D1 DK-9220 Aalborg OE, Denmark E-mail: hic@vision.auc.dk