POCV2001 
The 3rd Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, 
Vancouver, Canada, July 8, 2001 

THE PROGRAM 

1) A Field Model for Contour Organization and Partial Differential 
Equations, by Jonas August and Steven W. Zucker, Yale University, USA. 
2) Conceptualization and Modeling of Visual Patterns, by Song-Chun Zhu 
and Cheng-En Guo, Ohio State University, USA. 
3) A Database of Human Segmented Natural Images and its Application to 
Evaluating Segmentation Algorithms, by David Martin, Charles Fowlkes, 
Doron Tal, and Jitendra Malik, University of California, USA. 
4) Perceptual Organization as Object Recognition Divided by Two, by 
Marc Johannes, Thomas B. Sebastian, Huseyin Tek, and Benjamin 
B. Kimia, Brown University, USA. 


10:40-11:30 INVITED TALK (Prof. Edward Adelson, MIT) 

11:30-12:30 POSTER SESSION 

5) Flowing toward coherence: On the geometry of texture and shading 
flows, by Ohad Ben-Shahar and Steven W. Zucker, Yale University, USA. 
6) Contour Grouping with Strong Prior Models, by James H. Elder and 
Amnon Krupnik, York University, Canada. 
7) Towards Statistical Image Restoration: Perceptual Grouping as 
Regularizing Operators, by Lixin Fan and Kah Kay Sung, National 
University of Singapore. 
8) Perceptual Grouping by Path Based Clustering, by Bernd Fischer, 
Thomas Zoller and Joachim M. Buhmann, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms 
Universitat, Bonn, Germany. 
9) Understanding Gestalt Cues and Ecological Statistics Using A 
Database of Human Segmented Images, by Charles Fowlkes, David Martin, 
Jitendra Malik, University of California, USA. 
10) Grouping Using Regions: A Consistency Study, by Anthony Hoogs, GE 
Corporate Research and Development, NY, USA and Roderic Collins, 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA. 
11) Color Image Segmentation Based on Tensor Voting, by Eun-Young 
"Elaine" Kang and Gerard Medioni, Institute for Robotics and 
Intelligent Systems, and Integrated Media Systems Center, Univ 
of Southern California, USA. 
12) Inference of Segmented Overlapping Surfaces from Binocular and 
Multiple-View Stereo, by Philippos Mordohai, Gerard Medioni, 
University of Southern California, USA and Mi-Suen Lee, Philips 
Research, Philips Electronics North America Corp. NY, USA. 
13) Finding Perceptually Closed Paths in Sketches and Drawings, by 
Eric Saund, Xerox PARC, USA. 
14) Integrated Tensor Voting in Multiple Scales for Shape Description 
in 3D, by Dickson Wai-Shun Tong, Chi-Keung Tang, Hong Kong University 
of Science and Technology; Gerard Medioni, University of Southern 
California, USA. 

14:00-15:00 
15) An Expectation-Maximization Framework for Segmentation and 
Grouping, by Antonio Robles Kelly and Edwin R. Hancock, University of 
York, UK. 
16) Analysis of Min Cut, Average Cut, and Normalized Cut Measures, by 
Padmanabhan Soundararajan and Sudeep Sarkar, University of South 
Florida, USA. 
17) Convex Relaxation for Figure-Ground Discrimination and Perceptual 
Grouping, by J. Keuchel, C. Schellewald, D. Cremers, C. Schnorr, 
University of Mannheim, Germany. 

3:30-4:20 INVITED TALK (Dr. Byron Dom IBM) 

4:20-5:00 
18) Perceptual organization as graph rectification in a 
constraint-based scheme for interpreting sloppy stick figures, by 
James V. Mahoney and Markus P.J. Fromherz, Xerox PARC, USA. 
19) Perceptual Grouping for Image Retrieval and Classification, by 
Qasim Iqbal and J.K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, USA.