Second Announcement and Call for Contributions 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION SYSTEMS ICVS'03 "Special Theme: Cognitive Vision Systems" 1-3 April 2003 Graz, Austria http://dib.joanneum.at/icvs03 SCOPE Computer Vision is the science of machines that see. In recent years, the domain has sufficiently matured that researchers have begun to build and experiment with systems that observe, model and interact with the world. Experiments with such systems enable researchers to propose and evaluate architectures and design methods. The goal of the International Conference on Computer Vision Systems is to document the emergence of an engineering science of Computer Vision Systems and to discuss the embedding of complete machine vision systems within the real world. ICVS solicits original, unpublished high quality scientific papers on the design, control and evaluation of vision systems. The conference is particularly interested in papers providing methods for the following problems. * Architectural models for computer vision systems. * Design methods for vision systems. * Cognitive Models for interpretation, integration and control. * Methods and metrics for performance evaluation. The special theme for the third ICVS is methods for "Cognitive Vision Systems". Cognitive computer vision is concerned with integration and control of vision systems using explicit but not necessarily symbolic models of context, situation and goal-directed behaviour. Cognitive vision implies functionalities for Knowledge representation, Learning, Reasoning about events and about structures, Recognition and categorization, and goal specification, all of which are concerned with the semantics of the relationship between the visual agent and its environment. Original, high quality, scientific papers of at most 10 pages (Springer LNCS Format) are solicited for inclusion in a single track program. Papers will be reviewed by an international program committee according to the following criteria: - Pertinence: Does the paper describe methods or theories concerning the theme of the conference (vision systems and cognitive vision systems)? - Scientific quality: does the paper clearly identify a scientific problem, document the state of the art and demonstrate an original technique or method that resolves the problem? - Impact: is the method likely to be adopted for the design or evaluation of computer vision systems? - Generality: Can the method be used for a variety of problems? - Innovation: Does the method demonstrate an improvement in the current state of the art? Poster sessions will be reserved for papers that document computer vision applications, as well as classical style computer vision papers dealing with techniques for image processing, recognition, geometric methods or reconstruction. Student researchers are encouraged to present vision systems and evaluation results. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chairman Markus Vincze (ACIN, Vienna Univ. of Techn., Austria Program Co-Chair James L. Crowley (I.N.P. Grenoble, France) Justus Piater (GRAVIR-IMAG, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Franc Local Chair Lucas Paletta (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria) Tutorials/Workshop Chair Hilary Buxton (COGS, University of Sussex, UK) Exhibition Chair Georg Thallinger (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria) Steering Commitee Henrik Christensen (KTH, Sweden) David Vernon (CAPTEC Ltd., Ireland) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Helder Araújo (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan) Dana Ballard (University of Rochester, USA) Csaba Beleznai (Advanced Computer Vision GmbH, Austria) Ross Beveridge (Colorado State University, USA) Bir Bhanu (Univ. California Riverside, USA) Horst Bischof (TU Graz, Austria) Aaron Bobick (Gorgia Tech, USA) Paolo Bottoni (University of Rome, Italy) Kevin Bowyer (Notre Dame, USA) Alberto Broggi (Universita di Pavia, Italy) Chris Brown (University of Rochester, USA) Heinrich Bülthoff (Max-Planck Inst, Germany) Hilary Buxton (COGS, UK) Jorge Cabrera Gámez (ULPGC, Spain) Henrik Christensen (KTH, Sweden) Carlo Colombo (University of Firence, Italy) Peter Corke (CSIRO MST, Austriaustralia) Patrick Courtney (Perkin Elmer Life Science, UK) Alberto Del Bimbo (University Firenze, Italy) Ernst Dickmanns (University BW Munich, Germany) Rudiger Dillmann (University Karlsruhe, Germany) Bruce Draper (Colorado State University, USA) Christof Eberst (Profactor, Austria) Toshiaki Ejima (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Jan-Olof Eklundh (KTH, Sweden) Cornelia Fermüller (University Maryland at College Park, USA) Robert Fisher (University of Edinburgh, UK) Wolfgang Förstner (University of Bonn, Germany) Uwe Franke (DaimlerChrysler, Germany) Martin Fritzsche (DaimlerChrysler, Germany) Catherine Garbay (TIMC-IMAG, France) Luc van Gool (ETHZ, Switzerland) Roderic A. Grupen (University of Massachusetts, USA) Allen Hansen (University of Massachusetts, USA) Martial Hebert (CMU, USA) Václav Hlavác (CTU Prag, Czech Republic) David Hogg (University of Leeds, UK) Katsushi Ikeuchi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Hiroshi Ishiguro (Wakayama University, Japan) Laurent Itti (University of Southern California, LA, USA) Joseph Kittler (University of Surrey, UK) Walter Kropatsch (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria) Ben Kröse (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Yasuo Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Cecilia Laschi (SSSA Pisa, Italy) Ales Leonardis (University Ljubljana, Slovenia) David Lowe (University of British Columbia, Canada) Bärbel Mertsching (University of Hamburg, Germany) Michihiko Minoh (Kyoto University, Japan) Piero Mussio (University of Brescia, Italy) Randal C. Nelson (Rochester, USA) Nick Pears (University of York, UK) Justus Piater (GRAVIR-IMAG, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France) Claudio Pinhanez (IBM Watson, USA) Axel Pinz (TU Graz, Austria) Stefan Posch (University of Halle, Germany) Edward Riseman (University of Massachusetts, USA) Erich Rome (Fraunhofer Institute FHG-AIS, Germany) Deb Roy (MIT Media Lab, USA) Gerhard Sagerer (University of Bielefeld) Giulio Sandini (University Genova, Italy) Jose Santos Victor (IST Lisbon, Portugal) Otmar Scherzer (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Bernt Schiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) David Sinclair (Waimara Ltd, UK) Chris Taylor (University Manchester, UK) Monique Thonnat (INRIA, France) Panos Trahanias (FORTH, Greece) Mohan Trivedi (Univ. California San Diego, USA) John Tsotsos (York University , Canada) David Vernon (CAPTEC Ltd., Ireland) Masahiko Yachida (Osaka University, Japan) INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Prior to the submission deadline, connect to the conference web server to enter the title, author names and adresses, abstract and keyword. The paper will then be assigned a paper identification number. Papers must be submitted electronically for review in the conference format (Springer LNCS, as defined on the conference web server). Papers will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings. Papers not in the conference format will not be reviewed. Please note that each exceeding page of the final camera ready paper will be charged 100 Euro each. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: 15 October 2002 Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2002 Camera ready paper: 15 January 2003 Early Registration: 15 February 2003 Hotel Reservation: 15 February 2003 Conference: 1-3 April 2003 (2 days conf., 1 day workshops/tu IEEE PETS Workshop: 31 March 2003 (Convention Center Graz) ECVision Meeting: 4 April 2003 (Convention Center Graz) SPECIAL ISSUE in Machine Vision and Applications The best papers of the conference will be selected for a reviewed special issue of the Springer International Journal "Machine Vision and Applications". Editor: Mohan Trivedi, Guest editors: Markus Vincze, Lucas Paletta, James L. Crowley. PRIZES The following prizes will be awarded at the conference dinner: * ECVision prize for best application development in cognitive vision systems (http://www.ecvision.info/industrial_liaison/Application_Prize.htm) * Best ICVS'03 conference paper * Best ICVS'03 cognitive vision paper * Best ICVS'03 poster WORKSHOP and TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Please contact Hilary Buxton (hilaryb@cogs.susx.ac.uk) with a proposal summary. Deadline is 15 October 2002. EXHIBITIONS There will be the opportunity to present vision systems next to the conference hall. Interested industries and laboratories please contact Georg Thallinger (georg.thallinger@joanneum.at). Deadline is 15 December 2002. INVITED SPEAKERS Glyn Humphreys (University of Birmingham, UK) Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan) Other invited speakers to be announced SPONSORS * ECVision European Network of Excellence on Cognitive Vision * Joanneum Research Graz * Advanced Computer Vision GmbH * ISPRS Commission III * Springer Publisher * OCG Austrian Comupter Society WEB-PAGE: http://dib.joanneum.at/icvs03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICVS'03 news: * Paper submission has been enabled since 15 September, 2002 * Paper submission deadline is 15 October, 2002 (review of FULL papers) * Submission deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals is 15 October, 2002 * IEEE PETS Workshop will take place before ICVS'03 on 31 March, 2003 (details will be soon announced) * Invitation for submissions for the ECVision prize for best application development in cognitive vision systems (see PRIZES above) * You are invited to join a demonstration tour at several vision labs at Graz, right after the conference