CALL FOR PAPERS: IVRCIA'2002 International Workshop on: INTERACTIVE VIDEO BETWEEN RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS July 14-18, 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA IMPORTANT DATES Extended Abstract submission : February 8, 2002 Decision to authors : March 8, 2002 Camera ready papers : April 26, 2002 OBJECTIVE: In the scope of Human Computer Interaction, the interactive dimension has been shown as a successful element to increase and emerge the usage of industrial applications which incorporate digital videos in their context (marketing, education, military, web video databases, etc). The interaction faced in this scope is viewed from its wide angle, and it can take the form of one or a combination of the three following types: 1- Interaction based on keywords or visual items. By using suitable interfaces the user has the facility to express his interest in the video: for example, designing by the mouse a particular object in a shot, or indicating by some keywords of key-frames a specific activity in the video. The system then will respond to the demand of the user by retrieving and browsing all appropriate information found in the database. 2- Interaction based on voice recognition. With such a functionality of the application the size of the market increases and covers different situations of users like disabled persons, or people doing different tasks simultaneously. 3- Interaction based on gaze direction estimation. It is sufficient to estimate the gaze direction of the user to guess intelligently his interest in the video. Such a high level of interaction may require a specific installation of camera systems (e.g. infrared cameras) and may have a specific field of applications. The objective of this workshop therefore, is to bring together researchers of the above fields. Research and application works in progress, related to the mentioned subjects are strongly encouraged to be submitted to this workshop. TECHNICAL SCOPE Papers are invited but not limited to the following topics: + separating foreground objects from the background, + 2D tracking of moving objects, + appropriate features to describe robustly objects under different aspects, + data fusion for object recognition and classification, + robust text extraction and recognition, + robust voice recognition in different languages, + extraction of high level structures including events and video scenes, + robust estimation of the gaze direction, + designing of friendly user interfaces, etc. In particular, but not only, statistical methods (Particle filters, Dynamic Bayesian Networks, Gaussian mixtures, etc) applied in detection and tracking of objects, and data fusion for classification of objects or shots, in the framework of real video sequences will be considered first. CONFERENCE WEB SITE AND CONTACT http://www.inrialpes.fr/movi/people/Mikolajczyk/ivrcia/ http://www.inrialpes.fr/movi/people/Hammoud/ivrcia/ mailto:riad.hammoud@cs.unr.edu (organizer) mailto:Krystian.Mikolajczyk@inrialpes.fr (co-organizer) AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS: The submission is electronic by e-mail at: mailto:Krystian.Mikolajczyk@inrialpes.fr . The submitted abstract must contain the following: + The title of the paper. + The names and institutions of the authors. + A set of keywords. + An extended abstract of up to 2 pages clearly stating the context, originality, importance, preliminary results, related work and references. Concise papers on recent work are requested. Successful papers will be published in the workshop's proceedings. Papers should be submitted in IEEE double column format (10pt text with 13mm left and right margins). The files must be in postscript format.