ECCV 2012 Workshop on
Information Fusion in Computer Vision for Concept Recognition 
October 13, 2012, Firenze, Italy

http://mrim.imag.fr/ifcvcr2012/

Last call for Papers

We invite you to submit articles for consideration on a wide range of topics broadly related to the 2012 International Workshop on Information Fusion in Computer Vision for Concept Recognition (IFCVCR 2012), to be held in conjunction with the 12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2012), on Oct 13, 2012, in Firenze, Italy.

Since the last decade large attention has been paid to the methods of
recognition of visual concepts both in image and video documents.  In
visual scenes, the concept is translated as objects and
actions/activities of the latter and also of the context in which
these activities are performed. Therefore, machine learning approaches
have received increasing importance for the building of object models
and decision schemes in the whole task of recognition.

Furthermore, the recent advances of the community in this field show
that the concept recognition passes through aggregation of multiple
sources of information.  Visual information can benefit from
additional cues extracted from audio or text, involving integration of
speech recognition, user-contributed information (e.g.  tags, tweets),
viewer affective response, social media analysis, but as well as of
information recorded from additional sensors such as geo-taggers or
GPS. Hence the primary problem consists in fusion of multiple
multi-modal information cues.  This problem is of importance in an
actual information context as fusion often means \"dimensionality
reduction\" which is of primarily importance for large scale
information mining.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Feature (early) fusion for visual content description
- Kernel fusion methods
- Classifier (late) fusion methods, stacking
- Bagging and boosting methods
- Multimodal fusion for multimedia tagging
- Feature fusion for object detection, recognition and object tracking
- Geo-tags and other sensor-based social information fusion
- Normalization for fusion
- Fusion and dimensionality reduction, PCA, LDA
- Contextual fusion, metadata
- Hierarchical and community-based fusion
- Social media fusion and mining
- Metric spaces
- Legal, ethical and social concepts fusion

Important dates:
- Paper submission due: July 8th, 2012 (extended)
- Notification of acceptance: July 31st, 2012
- Camera-ready paper due: August 8th, 2012
- Workshop date: October 13th, 2012

Program committee:
- M. Worring (UVA, Netherlands)
- M. Cord (University Paris 6, France)
- A. Prati (University Iuav di Venezia, Italy)
- Y. Avrithis (Univ. of Athens, Grece)
- Y. Kompatsiaris (ITI-CERTH, Grece)
- A. Hanbury (TU Wein, Austria)
- H. Bredin (LIMSI, Paris)
- A. Smeaton (DCU, Ireland)
- F. Précioso (University of Nice, France)
- M. Bertini (University of Florence, Italy)
- B. Mérialdo (EURECOM, France)
- P. Kelm (Universität of Berlin, Germany)
- M. Soleymani (Imperial College London, UK)
- G. Gravier (IRISA, France)
- X. Anguera (Telefonica Labs, Barcelona)
- Q. Zhang (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
- Y. G. Jiang (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
- G. Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- M. Larson (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
- R. Poppe (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
- S. Rudinac (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
- N. Sebe (University of Trento, Italy)
- X. Sevillano (La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona)

Organizers:
- Jenny Benois-Pineau (LABRI, University Bordeaux, France)
  contact person, jenny.benois@labri.fr
- Georges Quénot (LIG CNRS, Grenoble, France), georges.quenot@imag.fr
- Tomas Piatrik (Multimedia and Vision Research Group,
  Queen Mary University of London, UK),tomas.piatrik@eecs.qmul.ac.uk
- Bogdan Ionescu (LAPI, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania),
  bionescu@alpha.imag.pub.ro

For submission process please visit:
http://eccv2012.unifi.it/program/workshops/workshop-paper-submission-guidelines/