ECV 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS
 
3rd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision
 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 23, 2007
(Held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2007)
 
http://monocacy.eng.umd.edu/ecv07
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Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of computer
  vision in embedded systems. Computer vision was successfully used,
  for example, in mission-critical systems such as the landing of the
  recent rovers on Mars, and in computer-aided surgery. Computer
  vision is widely used also in industrial embedded systems, taking
  part in production and inspection processes. Cameras find their way
  into everyday appliances such as cell phones, PDAs, presentation
  appliances, and vehicles. Cameras themselves are becoming "smarter,"
  gaining capabilities for processing the acquired images inside the
  camera.  Furthermore, distributed smart camera systems, which
  integrate computer vision algorithms with embedded processing and
  computer networking techniques, are enabling major advances in areas
  such as surveillance and human identification. Traditionally,
  different embedded computer vision domains, such as computer
  aided-surgery and surveillance were treated separately due to the!
  different nature of the domains. However, these domains share many
  common problems related to their real-time, embedded-system
  characteristics.
 
The Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ECVW) aims to bring together
researchers working on computer vision problems that share embedded
system characteristics.  Particularly, the workshop will address the
following questions:
 
-- What are the current research problems and the applications within
the computer vision domain that are specific to embedded systems ---
for example, algorithms for efficient utilization of embedded
processing architectures for computer vision, and conversely,
architectures and design methods for effectively supporting embedded
computer vision systems?
 
-- What are the specific issues in the embedded systems domain that
are relevant to computer vision (for example, meeting constraints on
real-time performance, power consumption, and memory requirements in
embedded computer vision systems)?
 
Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following
topics:
 
-- Analysis of computer vision problems that are specific to embedded
systems.
 
-- Analysis of embedded systems problems that are specific to computer
vision.
 
-- Verification methods for mission-critical embedded computer vision
systems.
 
-- New trends in programmable digital signal processors and their
   computational models.
 
-- Reconfigurable processors and computer vision.
 
-- Embedded multiprocessor systems and design methods.
 
-- Hybrid / distributed models and architectures for embedded computer
vision.
 
-- Applications of embedded computer vision.
 
-- Development tools for computer vision applications aimed at
embedded systems
 
The proposed workshop is the third in its series. The First and Second
Workshops on Embedded Computer Vision were held in conjunction with
CVPR 2005 and CVPR 2006, respectively. These events were very
successful.  Selected papers from the first workshop are being
published in a special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Embedded
Systems, and we intend to pursue similar special journal issues for
ECVW 2006 and the proposed ECVW 2007.
 
Reviewing will be blind circular. By submitting a paper, each author
agrees to review up to three other submissions. In addition, a member
of the program committee will also review each paper. This procedure
has produced quality, useful reviews in previous workshops. As
reviewers, authors must comply with the reviewing schedule below.
 
IMPORTANT DATES:
 
-- Paper submission: March 9, 2007
-- Notification to the authors: April 13, 2007
-- Receipt of camera ready copy:April 27, 2007
-- Workshop: June 23, 2007
 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
 
GENERAL CHAIRS:
 
     * Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland
     * Branislav Kisacanin, Delphi Corporation
 
Program Chair:
 
     * Sek Chai, Motorola
     
Web Chair
     * Mainak Sen, Cisco Systems

Program Committee:
 
Neal Bambha, U.S. Army Research Laboratory; Nikos Bellas, Motorola; Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland; Terrance Boult, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Sek Chai, Motorola; Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland; Antonio Gentile, University of Palermo, Italy; Branislav Kisacanin, Delphi Corporation; Abelardo Lopez-Lagunas, ITESM-Toluca, Mexico; Larry Matthies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Anurag Mittal, Asst. Prof., Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India; Burak Ozer, Verificon Corporation; Visvanathan Ramesh, Siemens Corporate Research Inc; Mainak Sen, Cisco Systems; Tarek Taha, Clemson University; Salvatore Vitabile, University of Palermo, Italy; Wayne Wolf, Princeton University; Lin Zhong, Rice University.