WAPCV 2004 2nd International Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2004 May 15, 2004 Prague, Czech Republic WAPCV 2004 is held in conjunction with ECCV 2004 http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/eccv2004/ WAPCV 2004 is supported by ECVision http://www.ecvision.info DATES Full paper submission: January 31, 2004 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2004 Final paper submission: April 16, 2004 Workshop day: May 15, 2004 ORGANISING COMMITTEE Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria John K. Tsotsos, York University, Canada Erich Rome, Fraunhofer AIS, Germany Glyn W. Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan Leonardo Chelazzi, University of Verona, Italy James J. Clark, McGill University, Canada Bruce A. Draper, Colorado State University, USA Robert B. Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK Horst-Michael Gross, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany Fred Hamker, University of Muenster, Germany John M. Henderson, Michigan State Univ., USA Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, USA Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology, USA Bastian Leibe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel Baerbel Mertsching, University of Paderborn, Germany Nikos Paragios, ENPC Paris, France Sajit Rao, University of Genova, Italy Antonio Torralba, MIT, USA Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard University, USA Hezy Yeshurun, Tel-Aviv University, Israel SCOPE Recently, cognitive psychology has discovered attention mechanisms to play a key role in object recognition and scene interpretation, resulting in innovative computational attention architectures modelling human perception. The development of enabling technologies such as video surveillance systems, miniaturised mobile sensors, and ambient intelligence systems involves the real-time analysis of enormous quantities of data. Knowledge has to be applied about what needs to be attended to, and when, and what to do in a meaningful sequence, in correspondence with visual feedback. Concurrently, the fundamental need for cognitive vision methodologies has been broadly recognised. Methods on attention and control are mandatory to render computer vision systems more robust. This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and communicate methodologies and concepts from computer vision, cognitive psychology, autonomous systems research and neuroscience with respect to theory and application of visual attention. We expect investigations to focus on computational models of attention, to outline relevant objectives for performance comparison, to document and to investigate promising application domains, and to discuss it with reference to other aspects of cognitive vision. However, contributions to computational models of visual attention - machine or human perception based - must be the central theme of successful submissions. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to the following: Methodologies and Concepts: Computational architectures of attention Attention and control of vision processes Attention in object and scene recognition Cognitive vision Learning for attention Information selection and fusion Engineering of vision based behavior Perceptual organization Biologically motivated machine attention Applications: Video analysis and surveillance Robotic systems Mobile computing INVITED TALKS John K. Tsotsos, Director of Center for Vision Research Department of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada Gustavo Deco, Computational Neuroscience Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain CONTACT Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research - Inst of Digital Image Processing Wastiangasse 6, A-8010 Graz, Austria Phone : +43 (316) 876-1769 / Fax: +43 (316) 876-91769 Mobile: +43 699 1876 1769 mailto:lucas.paletta@joanneum.at / http://dib.joanneum.ac.at/cape