Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision 

One Day BMVA symposium at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol 
Street, London, UK on January 23rd 2002. http://www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings 

Chairperson: Prof Maria Petrou 
10:30 The Mathematics of Multi-view Geometry, John H Gilby, Sira Ltd. 
11:00 On the Numerical Analysis of Linear Methods to Estimate the 
Essential Matrix, Ebroul Izquierdo Queen Mary, University of 
London 
11:30 How I Learned to Love nonlinear Optimization, Andrew Fitzgibbon, University 
of Oxford 
12:00 Hierarchical Adaptive Curve Based Matching for Novel View Synthesis, 
Li-Qun Xu, BTexact Technologies - Research 
12:30 Avoiding Windows and Building Trees: graph methods and morphology 
in vision, Richard Harvey and Andrew Bangham, University of East Anglia 
14:00 Hough Transforms: an adaptable family of noise-resistant algorithms, 
Chris Trayner, Leeds University 
14:30 Support Vector Machines and Human Gait Classification, 
Vijay Laxmi, University of Southampton 
15:30 Local Structure, Spatial Metamerism and Image Norms, 
Lewis Griffin, King's College London 
16:00 Multiresolution Markov Random Field Models for Image Segmentation, 
Roland Wilson, University of Warwick 
16:30 Simulated Annealing and Multiresolution Optimization, 
Maria Petrou, University of Surrey 

REGISTRATION FORM: 23 Jan 2002 Meeting 
Available from mailto:BMVA@roystonparkin.co.uk .