--------  Preliminary Program  -------- 
          IEEE Computer Society Workshop on
   Empirical Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms

 Sunday, June 21
 9:00 - 10:00, Invited Talk.
  > The impact of standard databases, benchmarks, and
    generative models on document image analysis research
    Henry Baird
    Head, Multimedia Messaging Research Dept, Bell Laboratories
 10:00 - 10:30, Coffee Break.
 10:30 - 12:15, Performance evaluation of algorithms.
  > Session chair's overview
    Pat Flynn 
    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University
  > A benchmark for graphics recognition systems
    Atul Chhabra 
    Bell Atlantic Network Systems
    Ihsin Phillips
    Seattle University
  > Performance evaluation of clustering algorithms for scalable image retrieval
    Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Santhana Krishnamachari, and Nicholas Mankovich
    Philips Research
  > Analysis of PCA-based face recognition algorithms
    Hyeonjoon Moon 
    Electrical and Computer Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
    P. Jonathon Phillips 
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch Break
 1:45 - 3:30, Evaluation of Edge Detectors.
  > Session chair's overview
  > Analytical and empirical performance evaluation of subpixel line and
    edge detection
    Carsten Steger
    Technische Universit"at M"unchen, Germany
  > Objective evaluation of edge detectors using a formally defined framework
    Sean Dougherty and Kevin Bowyer 
    Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Florida
  > Evaluation of edge detection algorithms using a structure from motion task
  > Min Shin, Dmitry Goldgof and Kevin Bowyer
    Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Florida
 3:30 - 4:00, Break.
 4:00 - 5:15, Motion.
  > Session chair's overview
    Sandor Der 
    U.S. Army Research Laboratory
  > Shape of motion and the perception of human gaits}
    Jeffrey Boyd
    Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC -- San Diego
  > James Little 
    Computer Science, University of British Columbia
  > Performance assessment by resampling: rigid motion estimators
    Bogdan Matei, Peter Meer and David Tyler 
    Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers University

 Monday, June 22.
 9:00 - 10:00, Invited Talk.
  > A blinded evaluation and comparison of image registration methods
    J. Michael Fitzpatrick 
    Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
 10:00 - 10:30, Coffee Break.
 10:30 - 12:00, Aerial Image Analysis and ATR.
  > Session chair's overview
    Adam Hoover 
    Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC -- San Diego
  > Empirical evaluation of laser radar recognition algorithm using 
     synthetic and real data
    Sandor Der 
    U.S. Army Research Laboratory
    Qinfen Zheng 
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
  > Empirical evaluation of automatically extracted road axes
    Christian Wiedemann, Christian Heipke and Helmut Mayer
    Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technische Universit"at M"unchen
 12:00 - 1:30, Lunch.
 1:30 - 2:45, Modeling Image Formation.
  > Session chair's overview
  > Fingerprint image enhancement: algorithm and performance evaluation
    Lin Hong, Yifei Wan and Anil Jain 
    Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University
  > Sensor errors and the uncertainties in stereo reconstruction
    Gerda Kamberova and Ruzena Bajcsy 
    GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania
 3:15 - 5:00, Editors' Expectations for Empirical Evaluation in Journal Papers.
   Panel Discussion with Jim Duncan (MedIA), Avi Kak (CVIU), 
   Rangachar Kasturi (PAMI), Mohan Trivedi (MV&A)

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