7th Fall Workshop

      VISION, MODELING, AND VISUALIZATION 2002 (VMV2002)

                November 20-22, 2002
                Erlangen, Germany

           organized by:
     DFG Graduate Research Center SFB 603:
   "Model-based Analysis and Visualization of Complex Scenes and Sensor Data"

     DFG Graduate College GRK-244:
   "3-D Image Analysis and Synthesis"

           in cooperation with:
     IEEE Signal Processing Society
     Gesellschaft fuer Informatik GI

Setting:

 Vision, Modeling and Visualization are complementary disciplines that
 are rapidly converging. Modeling of scene and object geometry, photometry,
 and statistical properties are essential in all three areas, and many
 researchers today believe that we will ultimately have one unified field.
 The declining cost of processors, memory, and sensors continues to expand
 the scope of viable applications. New system solutions are in reach by
 combining state-of-the-art techniques from research areas that were
 traditionally separate. The thorough scientific treatment of the underlying
 principles, for example the limitations of sensors, the reliability,
 accuracy, complexity and storage requirements of image processing and
 rendering algorithms, similarities and differences between digital image
 processing and digital geometry processing, or the fidelity of interactive
 visualization schemes, is the prerequisite for such advanced systems.

 This workshop is the seventh in a series of annual meetings organized by
 the DFG Graduate Research Center SFB 603 "Model-based Analysis and
 Visualization of Complex Scenes and Sensor Data" and the DFG Graduate College
 GRK-244 "3-D Image Analysis and Synthesis" at the University of
 Erlangen-Nuremberg and cooperating Intitutes. After three meetings in Erlangen,
 one in Alpbach, Austria, one at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik in
 Saarbruecken, and the previous one at the University of Stuttgart, the 2002
 workshop will take place again in Erlangen.

 The workshop is organized by DFG Graduate Research Center SFB 603 and the DFG
 Graduate College GRK-244 and its involved intitutes. It will be supported by
 the Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen-Angewandte Elektronik
 IIS A, which will host the meeting at its facilities.

 The program will consist of invited talks by internationally renowned
 speakers, as well as contributed paper and poster presentations.

Topics:

  - 3-D imaging
  - Object localization and recognition
  - Volume data processing and visualization
  - Multi-sensor fusion and 3-D registration
  - 3-D structure from motion and stereo
  - Geometry-based and image-based rendering
  - Geometric modeling
  - Scene modeling and integration
  - Multi-view image processing and coding
  - Virtual Reality
  - Applications (medicine, robotics, fluid mechanics, manufacturing,
    automated inspection, virtual reality, communication, etc.)


Invited Speakers:

 So far, the following invited speakers have accepted to give a talk
 at the VMV 2002:

  - Kostas Daniilidis  (University of Pennsylvania)
  - Chuck Hansen       (University of Utah)
  - Werner Purgathofer (Vienna University of Technology)
  - Joachim Weickert   (Saarland University)

Paper Submission:

 Prospective attendees are invited to submit a paper up to 8 pages
 in final form.  All submissions will be reviewed. Accepted papers will
 appear in the workshop digest as submitted.  Authors should obtain the
 author's kit (including LaTeX style-file) from

               http://www.vmv2002.uni-erlangen.de

 The author's kit provides complete information concerning the
 submission process.  It is the intention of the Committee to conduct
 all communication with authors electronically.  Questions should be
 directed to: vmv2002@uni-erlangen.de.

Authors' Schedule:
 Well ahead of deadline: Obtain author's kit and LaTeX style-file

 - May 31, 2002:    Paper submission
 - July 15, 2002:   Notification of acceptance
 - August 31, 2002: Registration deadline for authors


The General Chairs can be reached at:

 Prof. Dr. G. Greiner
 Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
 Lehrstuhl für Graphische Datenverarbeitung
 Am Weichselgarten 9
 91058 Erlangen, Germany
 phone: +49 (0)9131 85-29919
 fax:   +49 (0)9131 85-29931

 Prof. Dr. H. Niemann
 Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
 Lehrstuhl für Mustererkennung
 Martensstr. 3
 91058 Erlangen, Germany
 phone: +49 (0)9131 85-27775
 fax:   +49 (0)9131 303811


Technical Program Chairs:

 Thomas Ertl, Stuttgart
 Bernd Girod, Stanford
 Hans-Peter Seidel, Saarbrücken


Technical Program Committee:

 Subhasis Chaudhuri    India
 Kostas Daniilidis     USA
 Bruce Draper          USA
 David Ebert           USA
 Eduard Gröller        Autstria
 Stefan Gumhold        Germany
 Wolfgang Heidrich     Canada
 Joachim Hornegger     Germany
 Chris Johnson         USA
 Erwin Keeve           Germany
 Leif Kobbelt          Germany
 Reinhard Koch         Germany
 Murat Kunt            Switzerland
 Roberto Manduchi      USA
 Baerbel Mertsching    Germany
 Heinrich Müller       Germany
 Jörn Ostermann        USA
 Dietrich Paulus       Germany
 Nikola Pavesic        Slovenia
 Axel Pinz             Austria
 Frits Post            Netherlands
 Gerhard Sagerer       Germany
 Dietmar Saupe         Germany
 Bernt Schiele         Switzerland
 Francis Schmitt       France
 Roberto Scopigno      Italy
 Philipp Slusallek     Germany
 Oliver Staadt         Switzerland
 Eckehard Steinbach    USA
 Jochen Triesch        USA
 Luc van Gool          Switzerland
 Rüdiger Westermann    Germany
 Ross Whitaker         USA


Conference Web Site and Contact:
 Web site:  http://vmv2002.uni-erlangen.de
 Email:     vmv2002@uni-erlangen.de

Secretary:
 Maria Baroti
 Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
 Lehrstuhl für Graphische Datenverarbeitung
 Am Weichselgarten 9
 91058 Erlangen
 Germany
 phone: +49 (0)9131 85-29919
 fax:   +49 (0)9131 85-29931