BMVA British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition Call for Participation 3D Video: Analysis, Display and Applications http://www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings One Day BMVA symposium, London, UK on 6th February, 2008 Chairs: Dr. David Marshall (Cardiff University), Prof. Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey), Prof. Stephen Richmond (Cardiff University), Prof. Bob Fisher (Edinburgh University) Recent advances in camera technology and computing power have made the acquisition of fast frame rate 3D video feasible : some commercial systems have even been produced. However, subsequent 3D video processing and analysis tools are still fairly embryonic. Whilst it is possible to utilise existing 3D computer vision and image processing tools to perform some tasks, no off-the-shelf processing packages have been developed and indeed it is still an open ended research issue in to how such data may be processed and analysed effectively. However, the potential for 3D video in entertainment, multimedia, security, medical and many other application areas is great. 3D imaging has many advantages over 2D image and the same potential now exists in the video domain. For example, humans readily recognise emotion and even identity in a the dynamics of a human facial motion, modelling the dynamics of how faces age/change over time has huge potential in film, forensics and medical applications and, also, in a medical domain the potential to detect the onset of certain diseases, such as muscle wasting diseases and strokes, in 3D dynamic facial data. Emerging display technologies allow for the direct input of 3D video data, although issues still arise as to how to efficiently utilise more traditional displays. Rendering and visualisation of 3D video has many applications, for example, in rendering a person's dynamic facial appearance before and after corrective surgery. In a more traditional sense, the visualisation of two dimensional video sequences in a 3D video space is a related issue with applications in surveillance and security, for example. The areas of multiview 3D reconstruction and view synthesis for 3D video are also relevant. The aim of this meeting is to provide a forum for the discussion of recent results in 3D video creation, processing/analysis, visualisation and display technologies and applications. Please submit an extended summary of about one A4-sized page (no longer than two pages) in length (PDF preferred). Send contributions by email attachment (1Mb max please!) to Dr David Marshall 9 mailt:dave@cs.cardiff.ac.uk ) by Friday December 14th, 2007.