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Call for Papers - ICV 2007

Interactive Computer Vision (ICV 2007)
In conjunction with ICCV 2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007

IMPORTANT DATES

June    27, 2007 - Paper submission
August   3, 2007 - Notification
August  14, 2007 - Camera-ready paper
October 15, 2007 - Workshop

OVERVIEW

Many computer vision applications still require high-level visual
knowledge and expertise that can currently be provided only by human
input. Indeed, certain task-specific applications, such as image and
video manipulation and editing, will continue to require human
guidance due to the essential role of the user in the creative process
and in identifying which image or video components are of
interest. Consequently, in addition to pursuing fully autonomous
methods, there has also been significant interest in and development
of useful interactive computer vision tools that effectively utilize
user input to accomplish difficult vision tasks.

CALL FOR PAPERS

This workshop seeks to present and highlight current computer vision
techniques that involve human interaction as an integral part of the
vision algorithm. The implication of interactive computer vision is
that the vision process accepts, and often requires, human guidance to
accomplish the task and that the vision algorithm supplies feedback to
user input in a timely (i.e., interactive) manner. Further, this
workshop encourages work where human input is used not only to
initialize (or re-initialize) the vision algorithm, but also to guide
the algorithm while in process and/or to select among several possible
results. This workshop also encourages submissions that evaluate and
compare interactive vision systems. Papers are solicited in all areas
related to interactive (human-assisted) computer vision, including but
not limited to:

  * Image and video editing and manipulation:
      - Object selection, transfer, or cloning
      - Matting
      - Recolorization
      - Relighting
      - Inpainting
      - Recognition-based (or object sensitive) editing or manipulation
      - Exaggeration (motion, object, etc.)
  * Segmentation
  * Geometric (3-D or 2 1/2-D) reconstruction
  * Material editing, manipulation, or transfer
  * Photo and video summarization, understanding, and browsing
      - Recognizing people in large photo/video collections
      - User-friendly organization and browsing of large collections
  * Image retrieval
  * Tracking
      - Surveillance and security
      - Vision assisted driving
  * Medical image/volume segmentation and analysis
  * Qualitative and quantitative comparison and evaluation of interactive systems

PEOPLE

Keynote Address: Harry Shum - Microsoft Research Asia

Workshop Co-chairs:
  Eric Mortensen - Oregon State University
  Carsten Rother - Microsoft Research Cambridge
  Leo Jia - Chinese University of Hong Kong

Committee:
  Richard Szeliski - Microsoft Research
  Andrew Blake - Microsoft Research Cambridge
  Gerard Medioni - Univ. of Southern California
  Chuck Dyer - Univ. of Wisconsin
  Andrew Fitzgibbon - Microsoft Research Cambridge
  Michael Cohen - Microsoft Research
  Aseem Agarwala - Adobe Systems
  Yuri Boykov - Univ. of Western Ontario
  Anat Levin - MIT
  Philip H. S. Torr - Oxford Brookes University
  Aaron Hertzmann - Univ. of Toronto
  James Elder - York Univ.
  Leo Grady - Siemens Corporate Research
  Qiong Yang - Microsoft Research Asia
  Michael S. Brown - Nanyang Technological Univ.
  Dan Goldman - Univ. of Washington
  Noah Snavely - Univ. of Washington

OTHER

Refer to ICV 2007 webpage (http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/wicv2007)
for more information and updates.

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