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EMMCVPR'97
International Workshop on
ENERGY MINIMIZATION METHODS IN
COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
Ca' Dolfin, Venice, Italy, May 21-23, 1997
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY (May 21)
9:00 Opening and welcome addresses
9:30 Keynote lecture:
Object Recognition Using Stochastic Optimization
S. Ullman
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Characterizing the Distribution of Completion Shapes with
Corners Using a Mixture of Random Processes
K. K. Thornber and L. R. Williams
NEC Research Institute, USA
11:30 Adaptive Parametrically Deformable Contours
M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. M. N. Leitao, and A. K. Jain
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
12:00 Kona: A Multi-Junction Detector using Minimum Description Length
Principle
L. Parida, D. Geiger, and R. Hummel
New York University, USA
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Invited lecture:
Reliable Computation and Related Games
S. W. Zucker
Yale University, USA
15:00 Genetic Algorithms for Ambiguous Labelling Problems
R. Myers and E. R. Hancock
University of York, UK
15:30 Toward Global Solution to MAP Image Estimation:
Using Common Structure of Local Minima
S. Z. Li
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Image Segmentation Via Energy Minimization on Partitions
with Connected Components
J.-P. Wang
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
17:00 Integration of Confidence Information by Markov Random Fields
for Reconstruction of Underwater 3D Acoustic Images
V. Murino
Universita' di Udine, Italy
17:30 Restoration of Severely Blurred High Range Images Using Stochastic
and Deterministic Relaxation Algorithms in Compound Gauss
Markov Random Fields
R. Molina, A. K. Katsaggelos, J. Mateos, and A. Hermoso
Universidad de Granada, Spain
THURSDAY (May 22)
8:30 Invited lecture:
Probabilistic Relaxation: Potential, Relationships and Open Problems
J. Kittler
University of Surrey, UK
9:30 An Expectation-Maximisation Approach to Graph Matching
A. M. Finch, R. C. Wilson, and E. R. Hancock
University of York, UK
10:00 A Region-Level Motion-Based Graph Representation and Labeling for
Tracking a Spatial Image Partition
M. Gelgon and P. Bouthemy
IRISA/INRIA, France
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Deterministic Annealing for Unsupervised Texture Segmentation
T. Hofmann, J. Puzicha, and J. Buhmann
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, Germany
11:30 Self-Annealing: Unifying Deterministic Annealing and Relaxation Labeling
A. Rangarajan
Yale University, USA
12:00 Multidimensional Scaling by Deterministic Annealing
H.-J. Klock and J. M. Buhmann
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, Germany
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Invited lecture:
Search Strategies for Detecting Deformable Templates
A. L. Yuille
Harvard University, USA
15:00 Poster session
P1 Unsupervised Segmentation Applied on Sonar Images
C. Collet, M. Mignotte, P. Perez, and P. Bouthemy
Ecole Navale, Brest-Naval, France
P2 Adaptive Anisotropic Parameter Estimation in the Weak Membrane Model
T. Kubota and T. Huntsberger
University of South Carolina, USA
P3 Figure-Ground Separation: A Case Study in Energy Minimization via
Evolutionary Computing
S. M. Bhanarkar and X. Zeng
The University of Georgia, USA
P4 SAR Image Registration and Segmentation Using an Estimated DEM
C. A. Glasbey
Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland
P5 Restoration of SAR Images Using Recovery of Discontinuities and
Non-linear Optimization
F. Tupin, M. Sigelle, A. Chkeif, and J.-P. Veran
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France
P6 Optimization Problems in Statistical Object Recognition
J. Hornegger and H. Niemann
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Germany
P7 An Energy Minimization Method for Matching and Comparing Structured
Object Representations
R. Azencott and L. Younes
CMLA, ENS Cachan, France
P8 Deformable Templates for Tracking and Analysis of Intravascular
Ultrasound Sequences
F. Escolano, M. Cazorla, D. Gallardo, and R. Rizo
Universidad de Alicante, Spain
P9 Deterministic Search Strategies for Relational Graph Matching
M. L. Williams, R. C. Wilson, and E. R. Hancock
Defence Research Agency, UK
P10 Geometrically Deformable Templates for Shape-based Segmentation and
Tracking in Cardiac MR Images
D. Rueckert and P. Burger
Imperial College, London, UK
P11 Motion Correspondence through Energy Minimization
A. Branca, E. Stella, and A. Distante
IESI/CNR, Italy
FRIDAY (May 23)
8:30 Invited lecture:
Object Localization Using Color, Shape and Texture
A. K. Jain
Michigan State University, USA
9:30 Consistent Modeling of Terrain and Drainage Using Deformable Models
P. Fua
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
10:00 Visual Deconstruction: Recognizing Articulated Objects
T.-L. Liu and D. Geiger
New York University, USA
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Markovian Prior Parameters Using
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
X. Descombes, R. Morris, J. Zerubia, and M. Berthod
INRIA, France
11:30 Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using Markov Random Field Models
S. A. Barker and P. J. W. Rayner
University of Cambridge, UK
12:00 Noniterative Manipulation of Discrete Energy-Based Models for
Image Analysis
P. Perez and J.-M. Laferte'
IRISA/INRIA, France
12:30 Closing remarks
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EMMCVPR'97 REGISTRATION FORM
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