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WACV '96 ANNOUNCEMENT AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision
DECEMBER 2-4, 1996 --- SARASOTA, FLORIDA, USA --- HOLIDAY INN ON LIDO BEACH
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and TC-PAMI
******* Advance Registration Deadline: November 4, 1996 (to receive discount)
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For the latest information, access Web site http://www.ee.vt.edu/wacv96
This email message contains the following information:
1) PURPOSE
2) SARASOTA
3) TRANSPORTATION
4) IMPORTANT DATES
5) SPECIAL EVENTS
6) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
7) REGISTRATION FORM
8) HOTEL INFORMATION
9) ADVANCE PROGRAM (abbreviated version)
PURPOSE:
We are pleased to announce the advance program for WACV '96, at which
researchers from around the world will present and discuss the application of
computer vision techniques to diverse problems of practical significance.
In the spirit of the workshop format, we encourage others to participate and
bring related interests of industry, government, and academia to the meeting.
In addition to a panel discussion and demo session, morning and evening
technical sessions have been scheduled around these topics and others:
remote sensing and cartography manufacturing
law enforcement and surveillance industrial inspection
mosaicing medicine
visual navigation teleconferencing
content-based video indexing OCR
target recognition image enhancement
A published proceedings will be available at the Workshop.
SARASOTA:
The workshop hotel is the Holiday Inn on Lido Beach in Sarasota, Florida. One
of the prime attractions is, of course, the beach. In addition, the hotel has
a pool and is a two-block walk from St. Armand's Circle, which provides many
fine shopping and dining possibilities. Outdoor activities in the area include
golf, tennis, and cycling, as well as various water sports, including
wind surfing, deep sea fishing, and boat rentals. Other attractions in the
Sarasota area include the Mote Marine Lab, Myakka River State Park,
Ringling Museum of Art, and Sarasota Jungle Garden. Other major attractions
within driving distance include Disney World, Epcot Center, Sea World,
Universal Studios (all near Orlando), Busch Gardens (in Tampa), and the
Salvador Dali Museum (in St. Petersburg).
TRANSPORTATION:
Several major airlines fly into the Sarasota airport, which is about 7 miles
>from the conference hotel. The hotel provides a complimentary shuttle from/to
the Sarasota airport; just call the hotel upon arrival. Otherwise, a taxi
>from the Sarasota airport to the hotel costs about $12 one way.
The hotel is also approximately a 75-minute drive from the Tampa airport.
IMPORTANT DATES:
November 4 Advance registration deadline (to receive discount)
November 8 Conference hotel reservations deadline
November 18 Deadline for registration by fax or postal mail
December 2-4 Workshop
SPECIAL EVENTS:
o DEMO SESSION
o Presentation of the 1996 TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
of the IEEE Computer Society to Prof. J. K. Aggarwal
o Invited Panel Discussion: WHAT INDUSTRY LIKES/DOES NOT LIKE ABOUT
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN COMPUTER VISION
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General Chair
Lynn Abbott (Virginia Tech)
abbott@vt.edu
Program Co-chairs
Steve Shafer (Microsoft)
stevensh@microsoft.com
Raj Talluri (Texas Instruments)
talluri@ti.com
Local Arrangements
Sudeep Sarkar (U. of South Florida)
sarkar@bigpine.csee.usf.edu
Program Committee
Ruud Bolle (IBM)
Terry Boult (Lehigh U.)
Kim Boyer (Ohio State U.)
Horst Bunke (U. of Bern)
Yuh-Lin Chang (Matsushita)
Tai-Hoon Cho (LG Industrial Systems)
Ed Delp (Purdue U.)
Bruce Flinchbaugh (Texas Instruments)
Yasukito Hara (Hitachi)
Martin Herman (NIST)
Dmitry Goldgof (U. of South Florida)
Alok Gupta (Siemens)
Ramesh Jain (UCSD)
Rakesh Kumar (David Sarnoff Research)
Reinhold Mann (Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab)
Elzbieta Marszalec (U. of Oulu)
Rakesh Mohan (IBM)
Shree Nayar (Columbia U.)
Shozo Nomura (Matsushita)
Wolfgang Polzleitner (Carnegie-Mellon
and Technische Universitat Graz)
Eric Saund (Xerox)
Robin Strickland (U. of Arizona)
Mohan Trivedi (UCSD)
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WACV '96 REGISTRATION FORM
(Use this form, or download the Web version from http://www.ee.vt.edu/wacv96.)
DO NOT SEND THIS FORM WITHOUT PAYMENT. Form must be postmarked or faxed by
November 18. You must register on site after November 18.
Mail or fax this form along with payment to
IEEE Computer Society
Attn: WACV '96
1730 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036-1992 USA
phone: 202-371-1013 fax: 202-728-0884
Name: _________________________________________________________________________
(Last, First, Middle, as you would like it to appear on your badge)
Affiliation: __________________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________
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Membership: Check one of the following lines.
Member numbers must be provided to receive member rates.
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student identification card.)
Mailing lists:
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published list of attendees.
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non-society mailing list.
Registration amounts: Includes admission to technical sessions, demo session,
and one copy of the proceedings.
Postmarked or faxed on or before Nov. 4 (advance)
Member: $325
Non-member: $405
Student: $100
Postmarked or faxed after Nov. 4, but by Nov. 18 (late)
Member: $390
Non-member: $485
Student: $120
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All checks must be in U.S. funds drawn on U.S. banks only.
All credit card charges will appear as IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY REGISTRATION on
your statement. Cancellations: Written requests for refunds must be received
at the Computer Society by November 18.
All refunds are subject to a $50 administrative fee.
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HOTEL INFORMATION:
The workshop hotel is the HOLIDAY INN ON LIDO BEACH.
Please make your reservations directly with the hotel.
The WACV conference rates for rooms are $69 (city view) and $89 (ocean view).
These rates are for 1 to 4 people per room per night, and are subject to a
9% tax. A roll-away bed can be provided for a 5th person for
$15 plus tax per night. To obtain the conference rates, make your
reservation by 5 pm EST on Friday, November 8, and mention that you are
attending WACV '96 (group code IEEE). Reservations made after this date will be
accepted by the hotel on a "space available" basis. All major credit cards are
accepted by the hotel. To make your reservation contact the hotel directly
by calling 1-800-892-9174, fax to 1-941-388-4321, or write to:
Holiday Inn - Lido Beach
233 Ben Franklin Drive
Sarasota, Florida 34236 USA
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WACV '96 ADVANCE PROGRAM, December 2-4, 1996
This is an ABBREVIATED VERSION of the Advance Program for WACV '96.
A complete Advance Program can be viewed by accessing Web site
http://www.ee.vt.edu/wacv96, or by contacting Lynn Abbott at the
address given above. Technical sessions are scheduled for
mornings and evenings, leaving the afternoons free for the beach, golf,
sightseeing, meeting informally with colleagues, and special events such as
the Demo Session.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1996
7:30 Registration and coffee
8:00 Welcome
8:15 Invited Keynote Talk: Yeongji Kim, CIA/ORD
VIDEO EXPLOITATION FOR AUTONOMOUS EVENT UNDERSTANDING
9:00 Break
9:20 Session: Remote Sensing, Cartography
10:20 Break
10:40 Session: Surveillance, Law Enforcement
12:00 Afternoon Adjournment
12:00 - 17:00
Special Event: WACV'96 DEMO SESSION
Organized by C. Frankel (U. Chicago) and M. J. Swain (U. Chicago)
17:00 Reception
17:30 Award Presentation:
1996 TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD OF THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY
to Prof. J. K. Aggarwal
18:00 Session: Mosaics, Image Warping, Super Resolution
19:00 Break
19:20 Session: Navigation, Range Image Segmentation
20:40 Break
21:00 Session: Video Indexing, Content-based Image Retrieval
22:00 Evening Adjournment
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1996
7:30 Morning Coffee
8:00 Session: Manufacturing, Industrial Inspection
9:20 Break
9:40 Session: Teleconferencing, Human-Computer Interfaces
10:40 Break
11:00 Session: Visual Navigation
12:00 Afternoon Adjournment
12:00 - 17:00
Free Time (other special events may be scheduled for this time period)
17:00 Reception
17:20 Session: Medicine
18:20 Break
18:40 Session: FLIR Targets, Fingerprints, Moire Patterns, Calibration
20:00 Break
20:20 Invited Panel Discussion:
WHAT INDUSTRY LIKES/DOES NOT LIKE ABOUT UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
IN COMPUTER VISION
Moderators: Dmitry Goldgof (U. South Florida) and Kim Boyer (Ohio State)
22:00 Evening Adjournment
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1996
7:30 Morning Coffee
8:00 Session: Medicine
9:00 Break
9:20 Session: Vegetables, Wood, Motion Estimation
10:40 Break
11:00 Session: OCR
12:00 End of Workshop
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