- ICCV'99 Workshop: Call for Papers -
                Vision Algorithms: Theory and Practice
 
              http://www.inrialpes.fr/movi/people/Triggs/visalgs
 
 Recent years have seen impressive theoretical advances in vision geometry,
 for example mosaics, layers, shape and appearance based models, uncalibrated
 vision, multi-view relations and invariants. These were motivated by
 exciting potential applications like large-scale visual scene modelling,
 flexible tracking and motion analysis, image and video databases, and
 virtual studios, offices and schoolrooms. But in practical terms it is
 unclear which of the new techniques will prove most useful. We still lack
 reliable practical algorithms, even for well-studied basic tasks like scene
 reconstruction. `Details' like model choice and parametrization,
 initialization, numerical stability and efficiency, bias, outliers,
 degeneracies and failure detection can all have a critical effect on overall
 system automation, reliability, accuracy and efficiency.
 Generality/complexity/precision must be carefully balanced against
 simplicity/stability/speed.
 
 The ICCV'99 Vision Algorithms Workshop aims to bring together researchers
 interested in designing well engineered algorithms for any of the basic
 tasks of geometric vision, including but not limited to:
    * Visual reconstruction, scene representation
    * Image synthesis, mosaics, layers
    * Flexible shape models
    * Image & video databases (geometric aspects)
    * Feature extraction & correspondence
    * Tracking, optical flow, motion analysis
    * Segmentation, scene analysis
    * Multi-camera geometry, pose, (auto)calibration
 
 Papers should focus on the interplay between theoretical foundations and
 practical algorithms. In particular, we would like to take stock of the
 recent wave of work on geometric and statistical approaches to vision, and
 to ask what impact this has (or should have) had on practical algorithms for
 real-world vision problems. Concrete (quantitative, comparative...) results
 should be presented. Possible themes include:
    * Problem modelling and parametrization
    * Algorithm design, data structures
    * Numerical accuracy, stability, efficiency
    * Simplified/pragmatic vs. general/optimal models
    * Model selection/estimation, multiple models, mixtures
    * Robustification, bias reduction
    * Self-initialization, local minima
    * Failure detection/recovery, critical motions, degeneracies
    * Large or ill-conditioned problems
    * Image sampling, subpixel, super-resolution
    * Theoretical/empirical performance evaluation/comparison
 
 The workshop is associated with the 7th IEEE International Conference on
 Computer Vision, ICCV'99. It will take place immediately before the main
 conference on Tuesday 21 and the morning of Wednesday 22 September 1999, in
 the main ballroom of the conference hotel -- the Corfu Holiday Palace on the
 beautiful Greek island of Kerkyra (Corfu).
 
 The programme will contain a single track of around 25-30 oral presentations
 of original, high quality research papers, and will end with a short panel
 session and open discussion. The proceedings will be published in Springer
 Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
 
 Timetable
  Submissions:                   7 June 1999
  Notification of acceptance:    10 August 1999
  Abstracts for pre-proceedings: 1 September 1999
  Workshop:                      21-22 September 1999
  Papers for final proceedings:  1 November 1999
 
 The submission deadline is Monday 7 June 1999 -- one week after ICCV
 acceptance decisions come out. Submissions can be anything from extended
 abstracts of 3 or more pages to full papers in Springer LNCS or ICCV
 submission format (15 pages maximum, in single spaced 12 point font). All
 submissions will be anonymously reviewed by 3 reviewers. If an extended
 abstract is submitted, it should describe the scope and contents of the
 final paper very clearly. To speed up the review process, submissions should
 be made electronically if possible. Full instructions will be placed on the
 workshop web site later.
 
 Pre-proceedings: At the workshop we will distribute a booklet containing
 revised extended abstracts of all accepted papers. The deadline for
 contributions to this is Wednesday 1 September 1999.
 
 Final Proceedings: Final versions of full papers for the official
 proceedings should be submitted by Monday 1 November 1999. The proceedings
 will appear in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science in spring, 2000.
 
 Organizers
  Bill Triggs       Bill.Triggs@inrialpes.fr
  Richard Szeliski  szeliski@microsoft.com
  Andrew Zisserman  az@robots.ox.ac.uk
 
 Program Committee
  Michael Black          Shmuel Peleg
  Stefan Carlsson        Jean Ponce
  Olivier Faugeras       Long Quan
  Andrew Fitzgibbon      Ian Reid
  Wolfgang Forstner      Harpreet Sawhney
  Pascal Fua             Amnon Shashua
  Greg Hager             Chris Taylor
  Richard Hartley        Phil Torr
  Michal Irani           Luc Van Gool
  Phil McLauchlan        Thierry Vieville
  Steve Maybank          Zhengyou Zhang
  John Oliensis          Kalle Astrom
 
 Panel
  P. Anandan             Jitendra Malik
  Olivier Faugeras       Joe Mundy
  Richard Hartley
 
 Sponsor
 
 INRIA - The French National Institute for Computer Science and Control