IEEE Workshop on Generic Object Recognition

     June 16, 1997 (just before CVPR '97) -- El San Juan Hotel, Puerto Rico

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                                  Objectives

In contrast to object recognition strategies which assume knowledge of the
exact shape or appearance of an object, generic object recognition endeavors to
recognize objects based on their coarse, prototypical shape. Although a popular
topic in the 1970's, generic object recognition has given up the recognition
spotlight to such schemes as alignment, geometric hashing (and other geometric
invariant-based indexing), and eigenspace methods. Recently, however, interest
in recognition domains where exact object geometry is unknown, e.g.,
content-based image retrieval and non-rigid object recognition, has revived an
interest in generic object recognition. This workshop is a response to that
interest.

The workshop will consist of 10-12 invited talks by prominent researchers
working on generic object modeling and recognition. The talks will be
approximately 25 minutes in duration with an additional panel session in the
morning and one in the afternoon. A full schedule for the workshop will be
added to the workshop website (http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/recognition.html)
by the end of May, 1997.

Any further questions should be addressed to one of the co-chairs.

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                                   Co-Chairs

      Sven J. Dickinson                    Ram Nevatia
      Department of Computer Science and   Department of Computer Science
      Center for Cognitive Science         University of Southern California
      Rutgers University                   nevatia@iris.usc.edu
      sven@cs.rutgers.edu

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                                Invited Speakers
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                        Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute

                        Tom Binford, Stanford University

                   Kevin Bowyer, University of South Florida

                       Sven Dickinson, Rutgers University

                    Chitra Dorai, IBM Watson Research Center

               David Forsyth, University of California, Berkeley

               Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California

              Jean Ponce, Uiversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

                        Stan Sclaroff, Boston University
                        Kaleem Siddiqi, Yale University

              Alan Yuille, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

                      Andrew Zisserman, Oxford University

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                            Registration Information

            IEEE Members $40, Nonmembers $50, Full-time Students $20

    On-line registration available through the CVPR registration web site:

            http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/cvpr97.html

    or the workshop website:

            http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/recognition.html