2nd Workshop on HUMAN MOTION Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 20, 2007 In Conjunction with ICCV 2007 Modeling, tracking and understanding of human motion based on image sequences (such as video) is a field of research of increasing importance, with applications in sports sciences, medicine, biomechanics, animation (avatars), surveillance, and so forth. Progress in human motion analysis depends on research in computer graphics, computer vision and biomechanics. Though these fields of research are often treated separately, human motion analysis requires an interaction of computer graphics with computer vision, which also benefits from an understanding of biomechanic constraints. Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) is known as the pioneer in motion capturing with his famous experiments in 1887 called ``Animal Locomotion'' (Do all feet leave the ground during the gallop of a horse? He used photography to answer the question.) The field of animal or human motion analysis has developed into many directions since then. However, human-like animation and recovery of motion is still far from being satisfactory. Various groups are dealing with different aspects of modeling, estimation and animation of human motions. Motivations differ, and define directions of research. Examples of motivations are the analysis of movements for disease detection (hip dislocations, knee injuries etc.), sports movement optimization (ski or high jumping, golf playing, swimming, etc.), the animation of avatars in movies (e.g. Gollum in Lord of the Rings), or the realistic character animation in computer games. The goal of this workshop is to encourage interaction and to post collaboration between researches in computer vision, animation, and biomechanics. New results and specific research strategies will be discussed at the workshop to approach this highly complex field. The intention is to discuss theoretical fundamentals related to those issues and to specify open problems and major directions of further development in the field of human motion related to computer vision, computer graphics or biomechanics. The workshop encourages interdisciplinary (vision + graphics, biomechanics + vision, etc.) contributions. = DEADLINES: Paper Submission: June 29th, 2007 Notification: July 29th, 2007 Camera-ready copies: August 10th, 2007 contact person: Ahmed Elgammal (elgammal@gmail.com) web site: http://humanmotion.rutgers.edu/