CVVRHC'98 IEEE and ATR Workshop on Computer Vision for Virtual Reality Based Human Communication Jan.3, 1998 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/events/cvvrhc/ ORGANIZERS: General Co-chairs: Jun OHYA (ATR Media Integration & Comm. Research Labs., Japan) Narendra AHUJA (University of Illinois, USA) Tsutomu MIYASATO (ATR Media Integration & Comm. Research Labs., Japan) REGISTRATION FEE: Advance Registration (Through December 5) Members: US$15.00 Non-members: US$20.00 Students: US$ 5.00 Late/On-site Registration (After December 5) Members: US$20.00 Non-members: US$25.00 Students: US$ 7.00 REGISTRATION: Combined with ICCV registration. This workshop is concerned with rich communication among humans at distant locations. Until recently, the voice channel has been a major means of the communication, but for natural and advanced human communication visual information is important as well. For this purpose, video phones and video conferencing systems are being developed, but practical visual communication systems are limited to document communication via facsimiles and image communication via internet. The significant recent progress in technologies of computer vision, computer graphics and virtual reality could help realize virtual communication environments based on visual information in the near future. In such virtual communication environments, remotely located humans could feel as if they are all physically co-located, allowing them to communicate with each other in a variety of fashions. Applications of the environments involve amusement, art, education, medical care and social care. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss component technologies and their integration methods that are needed for realizing the above-mentioned virtual environments. The component technologies involve scene generation, human image generation and interface between scenes and humans. The specific topics to be addressed include: - Novel view generation in real scenes - Merging real scenes and CG images (mixed reality) - Dynamic 3D scene reconstruction - Human image generation in virtual scenes - 3D display systems - Vision-centered virtual reality technologies - Applications of VR based communication The workshop program consists of opening remarks by ATR MIC Labs' president, two talks from ATR, ten talks from outside ATR, and a panel discussion. PARTIAL LIST OF SPEAKERS: Prof. Narendra Ahuja (U. of Illinois, USA) Dr. Kim Michael Fairchild (National U. of Singapore, Singapore) Dr. Olivier Faugeras (INRIA, France) Prof. Takeo Kanade (CMU, USA) Prof. Kiriakos Kutulakos (U. of Rochester, USA) Dr. Tsutomu Miyasato (ATR MIC Labs, Japan) Dr. P.J. Narayanan (Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, India) Prof. Yuichi Ohta (Tsukuba U., Japan) Dr. Jun Ohya and Dr. Kuntal Sengupta (ATR MIC Labs, Japan) Dr. Steven Seitz (Microsoft, USA) Dr. H. Tamura (MR Systems Lab, Japan) Prof. Masahiko Yachida (Osaka U., Japan) Prof. Yasuyoshi Yokokoji (Kyoto U., Japan) FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact Ms. Nishimura, Secretary of ATR MIC Labs. Email: nisimura@mic.atr.co.jp Phone: +81-774-95-1403 Fax: +81-774-95-1408 Address: 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto-fu, 619-02, Japan