IEEE Workshop on Generic Object Recognition June 16, 1997 (just before CVPR '97) -- El San Juan Hotel, Puerto Rico ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers ---------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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