The Fifth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision (held in conjuction with ICCV 2009) October 3rd, 2009 http://www.computervisioncentral.com/content/ecvw09 General Chair: Nikos Bellas, University of Thessaly Program Chair: Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Austrian Research Center GmbH - ARC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: * Paper submission: June 19, 2009 * Notification to the authors: July 24, 2009 * Camera ready copy: August 12, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of computer vision in embedded systems. Applications powered by computer vision range from accurate, performance-centric systems to high volume, cost-centric consumer devices. Computer vision was successfully used, for example, in mission critical systems such as the landing of Rovers on Mars, and in computer-aided surgery. It is used in video gaming devices to detect gestures and body movement. Furthermore, computer vision is used for automated surveillance applications to enhance safety and security. It is also used to assist drivers in automotive safety applications. Embedded vision applications are built upon advances in computer vision algorithms, embedded processing architectures, advanced circuit technologies, and new electronic system design methodologies. They are implemented on embedded processing devices and platforms such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable digital signal processors (DSPs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and various kinds of heterogeneous multiprocessor devices. While there are many opportunities for new computer vision enabled applications, there are, at the same time, resource constraints of processing, memory, power, size, and communication bandwidth that pose significant challenges to attaining required levels of reliability and speed. The Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ECVW) aims to bring together researchers working on computer vision problems that share embedded system characteristics. 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. * Embedded computer vision for robotics * New trends in programmable processors and their computational models. * Applications of embedded computer vision on platforms such as GPUs (embedded and mobile). * Applications of embedded computer vision on reconfigurable platforms such as FPGAs. * Applications of embedded computer vision on programmable platforms DSPs and multicore SoC such as the Cell Processor. * Biologically-inspired vision and embedded systems * Computer vision applications distributed between embedded devices and servers * Social networking computer vision applications * Educational methods for computer vision * User interface designs for computer vision applications * Hardware enhancements (lens, imager, processor) that impact computer vision applications * Software enhancements (OS, middleware, vision libraries, development tools) that impact computer vision application * Methods for standardization The workshop is the fifth in its series. The first four Workshops on Embedded Computer Vision were held in conjunction with CVPR. These events were very successful. Selected papers workshops have been published in a special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems and in a book on Embedded Computer vision.We intend to pursue similar venues for ECVW 2009. For ECVW 2009, we plan to offer two special sessions: * Mobile Computer Vision with focus on computer vision and camera phones. Camera phones are ubiquitous and offer a variety of opportunities to enhance services by coupling mobility, communications, and computer vision. At the same time, they present unique challenges for embedding computer vision algorithms and distributing the processing between phones and servers. * Computer Vision on GPUs with focus on recent developments in GPUs providing powerful processing platforms for mobile robotics systems as well as embedded processing platforms for a variety of other mobile platforms.