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Fifth Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA'12)

Call for paper

October 7, 2012, Firenze, Italy
(in conjunction with ECCV 2012)


Website:
http://profs.sci.univr.it/~castella/NORDIA12/index.html

Nonrigid and deformable shapes are ubiquitous in the world surrounding
us, on all levels from micro to macro. The need to study such shapes
and model their behavior arises in a wide spectrum of applications,
ranging from medical imaging and augmented reality to design
engineering and homeland security. In recent years, problems of
nonrigid shape analysis and deformable image alignment have attracted
a growing interest in computer vision and pattern recognition
communities, which has led to rapid development of the field, where
state-of-the-art results from very different sciences - theoretical
and numerical geometry, optimization, linear algebra, graph theory,
machine learning and computer graphics, to mention a few - are applied
to find solutions.

NORDIA'12 follows the success of the previous issues of the workshop
in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. The purpose of the workshop is to bring
together leading researchers dealing with different aspects of
nonrigid shape analysis and deformable image alignment in order to
promote new interdisciplinary collaborations and expose each side to
the most recent results and problems in each field. The purpose is to
identify new problems as well as potential solutions. The unique value
of the workshop is bringing together people from communities
traditionally considered to be working in different areas and rarely
meeting in the same conferences.

Topics

- Deformable models
- Shape similarity and recognition
- Large-scale non-rigid shape retrieval
- Partial shape similarity
- Invariant shape descriptors
- Self-similarity and symmetry of nonrigid shapes
- Geometric and topological noise modeling
- Structural shape similarity and correspondence
- 2D/2D, 2D/3D, and 3D/3D alignment and nonrigid correspondence problems
- Inverse problems involving nonrigid shapes
- Synthesis of nonrigid shapes
- Learning-based methods
- Efficient optimization algorithms
- Merging of detection and alignment
- Multimodal alignment and sensor fusion
- Applications

Date
-  Paper submission: July 1, 2012 
-  Notification of acceptance:  July 23, 2012 
-  Camera Ready:  August 1, 2012
-  Workshop: October 7, 2012


Workshop Chairs,

Stefano Berretti, University of Firenze
Alexander Bronstein, Tel Aviv University
Michael Bronstein, University of Lugano
Umberto Castellani, University of Verona