CALL FOR PAPERS Advanced 3D Imaging for Safety and Security IEEE Workshop In Conjunction with CVPR 2005 -- June 25, 2005, San Diego, CA httphttp://imaging.utk.edu/files/a3diss05.htm Workshop Chairs Andreas Koschan (http://imaging.utk.edu/people/koschan/koschan.htm ), The University of Tennessee, USA, akoschan@utk.edu Marc Pollefeys ( http://www.cs.unc.edu/~marc/ ), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, marc@cs.unc.edu Mongi Abidi ( http://www.ece.utk.edu/facstaff/faculty/abidi.html ) , The University of Tennessee, USA, abidi@utk.edu Workshop Main Contact: Andreas Koschan, akoschan@utk.edu SUMMARY The past decades have seen significant improvements in 3D imaging where the related techniques and technologies have advanced to a mature state. These exciting developments have sparked increasing interest in industry and academia in the challenges and opportunities afforded by 3D sensing. As a consequence, the emerging area of safety and security related imaging incorporates these important new technologies beyond the limitations of 2D image processing. The goal of the A3DISS 05 workshop is to bring together pioneering academic and industrial researchers in the field of computer vision and image analysis. Special attention will be given to advanced 3D imaging technologies in the context of safety and security applications. Comparative evaluation studies showing advantages of 3D imaging over traditional 2D imaging for a given computer vision or pattern recognition task are encouraged. The workshop explores various related topics, including but not limited to the following: * 3D biometrics and face recognition * 3D surveillance and identification technologies=20 * 3D safety inspection * 3D site modeling and verification of plant design=20 * 3D inspection and facility monitoring * 3D robotic planning for physical security analysis and public safety * 3D imaging for rail, bus, and aircraft safety * 3D imaging for emergency response=20 Keynote Speaker Josef Kittler ( http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/showstaff?Kittler ), University of Surrey, UK, J.Kittler@surrey.ac.uk Important Dates * Manuscript submission: February 25, 2005 * Papers distributed for review: March 4, 2005 * Reviews due: March 21, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2005 * Receipt of camera ready copy: April 18, 2005 SUBMISSION Papers applying 3D Imaging for Safety and Security are welcomed for submission. However, preference will be given to those papers, which clearly indicate in the abstract: a) what is the challenging problem the paper addresses and b) what are the paper's contributions. Papers should not exceed 8 double-column pages. Only original manuscripts will be considered. Dual submission with CVPR is not permitted. However, if a relevant paper on 3D imaging has been submitted to CVPR, a related paper (but one focused on applications for safety and security) can be submitted to the workshop. This policy is intended to encourage participation from authors whose papers are accepted in CVPR, as well as those that are not. Reviewing will be blind circular. By submitting a paper, each author agrees to review at least 2 other submissions. This procedure has produced quality, useful reviews in previous CVPR workshops. As reviewers, authors must comply with the reviewing schedule listed in "Important Dates". In addition, each paper will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Given the exploratory nature of the workshop, reviews will emphasize the novelty of ideas and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop's web site and will appear on the CD-ROM of the main CVPR Conference. An extended version of some selected papers may be published in an edited book after the workshop. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary) Antonis Argyros , ICS-FORTH - Heraklion,Greece, argyros@ics.forth.gr Vijayan Asari , Old Dominion University,USA, vasari@odu.edu Kostas Daniilidis , University of Pennsylvania, USA, kostas@cis.upenn.edu Olaf Hellwich , Technical University Berlin, Germany, hellwich@cs.tu-berlin.de Bahram Javidi , University of Connecticut, USA, bahram@engr.uconn.edu John Kaiser , San Diego State University, USA, jkaiser@typhoon.sdsu.edu Ron Kimmel , Technion, Israel, ron@cs.technion.ac.il Josef Kittler , University of Surrey, UK, J.Kittler@surrey.ac.uk Reinhard Klette , University of Auckland, New Zealand, r.klette@auckland.ac.nz Reinhard Koch , University of Kiel, Germany, rk@mip.informatik.uni-kiel.de Ales Leonardis , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, alesl@fri.uni-lj.si Hanspeter Pfister , Mitsubishi USA, pfister@merl.com Robert Pless , Washington University, USA, pless@cs.wustl.edu Carlo Reggazoni <http://spt.dibe.unige.it/ISIP/Staff/rega.html> , University of Genova, Italy, carlo@dibe.unige.it Robert Sablatnig <http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/~sab/> , Vienna University of Technology, Austria, sab@prip.tuwien.ac.at Mubarak Shah <http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~vision/faculty/shah.html> , University of Central Florida, USA, shah@cs.ucf.edu Vitor Sequeira <http://ipsc.jrc.cec.eu.it/> , European Commission - Joint Research Centre, vitor.sequeira@jrc.it Rene Vidal <http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~rvidal/> , Johns Hopkins University, USA, rvidal@cis.jhu.edu Paul Whelan <http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~whelanp/home.html> , Dublin City University, Ireland, paul.whelan@dcu.ie SPONSORED BY IRIS, The University of Tennessee