First Announcement and Call for Contributions


         Workshop on Computer Vision System Control Architectures
                               VSCA 2003

                              March 31, 2003
                     Convention Center Graz, Austria

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- In conjunction with ICVS 2003 http://dib.joanneum.at/icvs03
- Sponsored by ECVision http://www.ecvision.info and
        CAVIAR project: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbf/CAVIAR/
- Local organisation by Edinburgh University : http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbf

        *** note that the www.dai.ed.ac.uk domain will be down for a few
        *** more days due to a large fire in Edinburgh

--- SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------------------

Modern high-level vision algorithms must take account of greater options
than in the past:
        alternative algorithms
        alternative hypotheses
        larger datasets
        temporal activity sequences
        coarse and fine grained processes
        real-time interpretation systems
All these lead to vision systems with embedded specialized process controllers.

This workshop will bring together recent research into the issues involving
the control of the system's processing (in contrast to what the system is
processing). This means research that includes:
        model-driven control architectures
        data-driven control architectures
        opportunistic control architectures
        blackboard systems
        reactive and behavior-based systems

The goal of the workshop is to invigorate a research area that has not
had much exposure in the past decade, but which is likely to become
important in the next decade as the research community shifts to problems
in data stream interpretation.

--- DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------

Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2003
Notification of acceptance        March 3, 2003
Deadline for abstract             March 15, 2003
Workshop                          March 31, 2003

--- ORGANISING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------

Bob Fisher            Univ. of Edinburgh (Chair)
James Crowley         INRIA
Jose Santos-Victor    Instituto Tecnico Superior

--- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------

Ulrike Ahlrichs       Univ of Erlangen
Majid Mirmehdi        Univ of Bristol
Paul Rosin            Cardiff Univ
Chandra Shekhar       Univ of Maryland
Monnique Thonnat      INRIA
Toyohide Watanabe     Nagoya Univ

--- LOCATION ---------------------------------------------------------------

- VSCA'03 will be held at the Convention Center Graz
  (http://www.grazercongress.co.at), Austria.
- The workshop is being held in conjunction with ICVS 2003
  (http://dib.joanneum.at/icvs03).
- Graz will be Cultural Capital of Europe in 2003 (http://www.graz03.at).
- Graz old city center (http://www.graztourism.at) has been recently entered
  the UNESCO heritage list.

--- PROGRAMME --------------------------------------------------------------

INVITED TALKS:

  TBD        
        
REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS:

10 approximate 1/2 hour talks

The provisional set of paper titles (with associated abstracts) will be
available (also as PDF file) on March 3, 2003.

--- AUTHOR INFORMATION -----------------------------------------------------

This is intended to be an informal, work-in-progress workshop.
Therefore, we will only require submission of a 2-3 page extended
abstract for review. Those authors selected for presentation at
the workshop will be required to submit a revised abstract for the
final "proceedings", which will be the full set of abstracts.

SUBMISSION:

Please submit your abstract as a PDF email attachment to

        rbf @ inf.ed.ac.uk

The abstract should be anonymous during the review process,
so please remove any indications of name and affiliation.

In the email body, please include the following information:

* Title
* Authors (first and last names)
* Affiliation of authors (institute, address)
* Corresponding author (including his/her address, email, phone, fax)

Abstracts will be considered for review that have also been submitted to the
main ICVS conference. Double submission must be indicated by authors.
 
--- For questions CONTACT --------------------------------------------------

        Dr. Robert B. Fisher
        School of Informatics
        Univ. of Edinburgh
        5 Forrest Hill
        Edinburgh EH1 2QL
        United Kingdom
        +44-(131)-650-3098 (direct line)
        +44-(131)-650-3090 (secretary)
        Fax: +44-(131)-650-6899 
        E-MAIL: r.b.fisher @ ed.ac.uk
        http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Robert_Fisher.html