CVPR-WAPCV 2005 3rd International Workshop on ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE IN COMPUTATIONAL VISION http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2005 June 25, 2005 San Diego, USA WAPCV 2005 is held in conjunction with CVPR 2005 supported by EU-IST Cognitive Systems DATES FULL PAPER SUBMISSION: February 25, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2005 Final paper submission: April 20, 2005 Workshop day: June 25, 2005 NEWS Invited Talk : Christof Koch Paper submission : Open ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, USA 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 Hilary Buxton, Univ. Bristol, UK James J. Clark, McGill Univ., Canada Gustavo Deco, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain Bruce A. Draper, Colorado State Univ., USA Jan-O. Eklundh, KTH, Sweden Bob Fisher, Univ. Edinburgh, UK Horst-M. Gross, Ilmenau Technical Univ. Fred Hamker, Univ. Muenster, Germany Mary M. Hayhoe, Univ. Rochester, USA Christof Koch, CalTech, USA Eileen Kowler, Rutgers Univ., USA Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel Baerbel Mertsching, Univ. Paderborn, Germany Aude Oliva, MIT, USA Ronald A. Rensink, Univ. British Columbia, Canada Hezy Yeshurun, Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS WAPCV 2003 Graz, Austria - http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2003 WAPCV 2004 Prague, Czech Republic - http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2004 SCOPE Recently, key advances in our psychological, physiological and computational understanding of the primate visual attention system have fostered innovative computational architectures for visual scene understanding. Especially in emerging technological domains that include video surveillance, miniaturised mobile sensors, and ambient intelligence systems, attentive processing has proven an efficient strategy for the real-time analysis of enormous amounts of data. Attentive processing allows natural and artificial systems to cope with information overload, by focusing higher-level analysis resources onto a rapidly and coarsely identified subset of sensory inputs that are most relevant. Attentional selection is intimately dependent upon being able to use knowledge about where, when and towards what resources should be directed, orchestrating the synergy between perception, cognition, and action towards achieving behavioral goals. This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and communicate methodologies and concepts from computer vision, cognitive psychology, robotics, autonomous systems and neuroscience with respect to theory and applications of visual attention. We expect investigations to focus on computational models and other artificial embodiments of attention, to outline relevant objectives for performance comparison, to document and to investigate promising application domains, and to discuss the new work in relation to other aspects of cognitive vision. Contributions wich include an experimental component, for example testing with human or animal subjects, are encouraged - however, advancing computational understanding of visual attention, for machine or human perception, should be the central theme of successful submissions. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to the following: Computational architectures of attention Attention and control of vision processes Attention in object recognition and detection Attention and cognitive vision Learning for attention Information selection and fusion Engineering of vision based behaviour Perceptual organization Biologically motivated visual attention Applications: Video analysis and surveillance Robotic systems Mobile computing Industrial inspection Remote sensing INVITED TALKS 1. Christof Koch, CalTech, USA 2. TBA AUTHOR GUIDELINES Electronic paper submission is open now! Dual submission policy: Papers will be considered for review that have also been submitted to the main CVPR conference. Double submission must be indicated by authors, and the workshop organizer must be given a copy of the CVPR reviews. The format of the final paper is IEEE two-column, and we will perform double-blind reviews. Detailed instructions about the preparation of the paper are available on the homepage. Contributions to WAPCV 2005 are expected to count not more than 8 pages in IEEE two-column (letter) format. POSTER SESSION We consider the organization of a poster session to inform about all related ongoing activities in this field (in case we receive a reasonable number of high quality contributions). PROCEEDINGS Accepted contributions will be provided as hand-outs and published on IEEE DVD, and will be distributed at the workshop site. LINKS * CVPR 2005 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition http://www.cs.duke.edu/cvpr2005/ * 'Neurobiology of Attention' Editors: Laurent Itti, John Tsotsos, Geraint Rees http://ilab.usc.edu/publications/doc/NeurobiologyOfAttention/ * WAPCV 2004 revised selected papers in Springer-Verlag Editors: Lucas Paletta, John Tsotsos, Erich Rome, Glyn Humphreys http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-149-22-39273571-0,00.html * Itti Lab, Univ. of Southern California, USA http://ilab.usc.edu/ * EU-IST Cognitive Systems http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_e/cognition/index.htm CONTACT Lucas Paletta, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH Institute of Digital Image Processing, Wastiangasse 6, A-8010 Graz, Austria Phone : +43 (316) 876-1769 / Fax: +43 (316) 876-91769 lucas.paletta@joanneum.at / http://dib.joanneum.ac.at/cape