Workshop Announcement:
 2nd IEEE Workshop on Generic Object Recognition 
 
 September 26, 1999
 (site of ICCV 99)
 
 Co-Chairs:
   Sven Dickinson, Department of Computer Science and Center for 
        Cognitive Science Rutgers University
   Gerard Medioni, Department of Computer Science and Institute 
        for Robotics and Intelligent Systems University of 
        Southern California
 
 Theme:
 
 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 over the years to
 such schemes as alignment, geometric hashing (and other geometric
 invariant-based indexing), and more recently, appearance-based
 recognition (e.g., 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. At CVPR '97, in
 Puerto Rico, we (Dickinson and Nevatia) held the 1st IEEE Workshop on
 Generic Object Recognition, which featured 10 invited talks on recent
 results in generic object recognition.  The workshop was well-attended
 (approximately 80 paid registrants) and well-received. It has been two
 years since the last workshop was held, and we believe that the time
 is right to hold the second such workshop.
 
 The workshop will consist of 11 invited talks by prominent researchers
 working on both generic and non-generic object modeling and
 recognition. The talks will be approximately 30 minutes in duration
 with open discussion sessions in both the morning and afternoon. A
 full schedule for the workshop can be found below.
 
 SCHEDULE
 8:00 - 8:25   Registration
 8:25 - 8:30   Opening Remarks (Sven Dickinson, Rutgers University)
 8:30 - 9:00   Opening Discussion
 9:00 - 9:30   Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley
 9:30 - 10:00  Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute
 10:00 - 10:30 coffee break
 10:30 - 11:00 Alex Pentland, MIT
 11:00 - 11:30 Davi Geiger, NYU
 11:30 - 12:00 Alan Yuille, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
 12:00 - 1:30  lunch
 1:30 - 2:00   Irv Biederman, USC
 2:00 - 2:30   David Hogg, Leeds University
 2:30 - 3:00   Song Chun Zhu, The Ohio State University
 3:00 - 3:30   coffee break
 3:30 - 4:00   Daphna Weinshall, Hebrew University
 4:00 - 4:30   Jim Duncan, Yale University 
 4:30 - 5:00   Michael Tarr, Brown University
 5:00 - 6:00   open discussion
 6:00          Closing Remarks (Gerard Medioni, USC)
 
 Registration:
 
 Advance Registration Fees: Member US$45, Nonmember US$55, Full-Time
 Student US$30
 (Late/On-Site Registration Fees: Member US$50, Nonmember US$60,
 Full-time Student US$35)
 On-line registration available at:
 https://secure.computer.org/conf/iccv/register.htm
 
 For Further Information:
 contact one of the co-chairs (sven@cs.rutgers.edu or
 medioni@iris.usc.edu), or visit the web site:
 
 ftp://ftp.cs.rutgers.edu/pub/sven/workshops/recognition.html