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           First International Workshop on

                 Spatial Coherence for
             Visual Motion Analysis, 2004
                    (SCVMA'04)

to be held in conjunction with ECCV'04
May 15 or 16, 2004 (exact date to be announced mid-December)
Prague, Czech Republic

The workshop website can be found at: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/scvma04/

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===== SCVMA'04 Call For Papers =====

Submission Deadline: January 30, 2004 (papers may be submitted at the conference
website)
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2004

Motion analysis is a central problem in computer vision, and the past two decades
have seen important advances in this field. However, visual motion is still often
considered on a pixel-by-pixel basis, even though this ignores the fact that image
regions corresponding to a single object usually undergo motion that is highly
correlated. Further, it is often of interest to accurately measure the boundaries
of moving regions. In the case of articulated motion, especially human motion,
discovering motion boundaries is non-trivial but an important task nonetheless.
Another related problem is identifying and grouping multiple disconnected regions
moving with similar motions, such as a flock of geese. Early approaches focused on
measuring motion of either the boundaries or the interior, but seldom both in unison.
In the past several years attempts have been made to include spatial coherence terms
into algorithms for 2- and 3-D motion recovery, as well as motion boundary estimation.

This workshop will examine techniques for integrating spatial coherence constraints
during motion analysis in image sequences. Topics for submitted papers include (but
are not limited to):

    * Bayesian models of spatial coherence
    * Markov random field techniques
    * Recovery of motion boundaries
    * Active contours & boundary tracking
    * Layered motion models
    * Region segmentation & Motion-based grouping
    * Spatial coherence models for transparency
    * Spatial coherence in biological vision
    * Human motion analysis
    * Use of contextual information in applying spatial coherence

Papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published in the
workshop proceedings.

===== Program Committee =====

W. James MacLean, University of Toronto (Committee Chair)
P. Anandan, Microsoft Research
Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research
Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA/INRIA Rennes
David Fleet, University of Toronto
Allan Jepson, University of Toronto
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University,
Hans-Hellmut Nagel, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH)
Harpreet S. Sawhney, Sarnoff Corporation
Hai Tao, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yair Weiss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

(This list is preliminary, and may expand as time progresses)

===== Contact Information =====

All inquiries and/or correspondence regarding the workshop should be directed to:

W. James MacLean, SCVMA'04 Program Committee Chair
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto,
10 King^Rs College Road,
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5S 3G4
1-416-946-7285
1-416-946-8734 (Fax)
maclean@eecg.toronto.edu