CALL FOR PAPERS -- IEEE CVPRW OTCBVS'08
http://www.vcipl.okstate.edu/otcbvs/08/
http://www.vcipl.okstate.edu/otcbvs/08/CFPOTCBVS08.pdf

Submission of full manuscripts: March 15, 2008.

5th IEEE InternationalWorkshop on
Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum
Anchorage, Alaska, USA JUNE 27, 2008
in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2008

History speaks for itself, and with four consecutive sell-out years, this
established workshop series, organized in conjunction with IEEE CVPR conference,
certainly has a history of which to be proud. Two special issues of prestigious
IJCV and CVIU Journals on highlighted topics of this workshop series have
been published recently, and a Springer book will appear soon.

Aims and Scope: The scope of Object Tracking and Classication in and Beyond
the Visible Spectrum workshop series (OTCBVS) encompasses many disciplines,
including visible, infrared, far infrared, millimeter wave, microwave,
radar, synthetic aperture radar, and electrooptical sensors as well as the
very dynamic topics of image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition.
It is a fertile area for growth in both research analysis and experimentation
and includes both civilian and military applications. The availability of
ever improving computer resources and continuing improvement in sensor performance
have given great impetus to this eld of research. This technology ”push”
has been balanced by a technology ”pull” resulting from increasing demand
from potential users of this technology including both military and civilian
entities as well as needs arising from the growing eld of homeland security.
This series of OTCBVS workshops creates connections between different communities
in the machine vision world ranging from public research institutes to private,
military, and medical laboratories. It brings together pioneering academic,
industrial and military researchers and engineers in the eld of computer
vision, image analysis, pattern recognition, signal processing, sensors,
and human-computer interaction.

Topics and Submission Guidelines: This fth IEEE Int'l Workshop on OTCBVS
solicits original contributions where nonvisible sensors from various domains
are employed. However, we also encourage the submission of high quality papers
that deal with object tracking and classi cation in the visible spectrum.
Comparative evaluation studies across the non-visible spectrum for a given
computer vision or pattern recognition task are also encouraged. An updated
benchmark/test dataset is available at:
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/otcbvs-bench/

The topics of interest include: Object/Target Detection/Tracking/Recognition/Classi
cation; Threat/Event recognition; Combining visible & non-visible signals;
Information fusion from disparate sensors; Multimodal Facial Recognition;
Night vision; Vision augmentation enabling system concepts and components;
Avionics systems with augmented vision, Automotive, Medical, Security and
Military Applications. The paper submission is due by 5pm March 15, 2008
EST. All papers must be submitted anonymously, throughout the website of
OTCBVS'08, and in-line with the standard IEEE CVPR paper format. More details
at: http://www.vcipl.okstate.edu/otcbvs/08/

Workshop Dates:
Submission of full manuscripts: March 15, 2008.
Noti cation to authors: April 14, 2008
Submission of revised manuscripts: April 28, 2008

Organizing and Program Committee
General Chairs: Riad I. Hammoud, Delphi E&S and LawrenceWolff, Equinox Corporation / Johns Hopkins University
Program Chair: Guoliang Fan, Oklahoma State University
Benchmark Chair: JamesW. Davis, Ohio State University
Program Committee: Besma Abidi, U of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; Gregory Baratoff, SiemensVDO Automotive, Germany;
George Bebis, U of Nevada, Reno, USA; Bir Bhanu, U of California, Riverside, USA ; Patrick Bouthemy, INRIA/IRISA, France ;
Alberto Broggi, U di Parma, Italy ; James W. Davis, Ohio State U, USA ; Larry Davis, U of Maryland, MD, USA ; Guoliang Fan,
Oklahoma State U, USA ; Riad I. Hammoud, Delphi E&S, USA ; Katsushi Ikeuchi, IIS, U of Tokyo, JAPAN ; Robert McMillan,
U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, USA ; Swarup Medasani, HRL Laboratories, CA, USA ; Gerard Medioni, U of S.
California, USA ; Nasser Nasrabadi, Army Research Lab, USA ; Barbara Lynn O'Kane, US Army Night Vision Lab, USA ; J.-M.
Odobez, U of Maine, FRANCE ; Ioannis Pavlidis, U of Houston, USA ; Ali Pezeshki, Princeton U, USA ; Fatih Porikli, Mitsubishi
MERL, USA ; Firooz Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Corp, USA ; Andrea Salgian, The College of New Jersey, USA ; Diego Socolinsky,
Equinox Corporation, USA ; Mubarak Shah, U of Central Florida, USA ; Mohan Trivedi, U of California, San Diego, USA ; Nitin M.
Vaidya, Millivision Technologies, USA ; Lawrence B. Wolff, Johns Hopkins U, USA ; Djemel Ziou, U of Sherbrooke, Canada.
Sponsors: IEEE, Delphi Electronics & Safety, and Equinox Corporation