Call for Participation - Using GPUs for Vision

One Day BMVA technical meeting in London, UK, on 18th May 2011
Chair: Toby Breckon & Stuart Barnes (Cranfield University)
BMVA - British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
http://www.bmva.org/meetings

The increasing use of Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) processing
approaches for the realization of computer vision algorithms has led to
a recent surge in both real-time capabilities and low-footprint
optimization within the domain in addition to a number of other
important advances. Whilst the use of such specialist hardware appears
to be having a renaissance, the experiences and approaches of many
practitioners differ. To some the use of such specialist hardware may be
seen as a short-cut, whilst to others a pragmatic means to an end.

This development has been driven by the ability of many computer vision
algorithms to use standard computer graphics techniques for algorithmic
benefit, the high performance gains of GPUs in recent years and in
addition their increasing ability to support general purpose computing.

The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers and
practitioners, from both industry and academia, interested in all
aspects of GPU use in computer vision to provide a generalised overview
of both current utilisation and potential within the field. Submissions
are invited for vision approaches using aspects of GPU processing within
in the general following areas:
- 3D stereo approaches or alternative novel sensing
- Person, face and gesture tracking
- Motion, flow and tracking
- Segmentation and feature extraction
- Model-based vision
- Image processing techniques and methods
- Texture, shape and colour
- Video analysis
- Document processing and recognition
- Vision for quality assurance, medical diagnosis, etc.
- Vision for visualization and graphics

Other topics within any area of GPU application to computer vision,
image processing or image analysis will also be considered for
inclusion.

Please submit an extended summary of about one A4-sized page length (no
longer than 2 pages) in length (PDF preferred). Send contributions by
email attachment (1Mb max please) to Toby Breckon
( mailto:toby.breckon@cranfield.ac.uk ) and/or Stuart Barnes
( mailto:s.e.barnes@cranfield.ac.uk ) by 16th March 2010. Event poster
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/~toby.breckon/events/bmva_symp_gpu11.pdf