Call for Papers: International Workshop on Computer Vision for Accelerated Bioscience (CVAB 2013) At the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) December 2, 2013, Sydney, Australia http://australianbioinformatics.net/cvab-2013 + Background + This workshop aims to combine biological and computer vision research to enhance the scientific understanding of life. Non-destructive visual measurement is a cornerstone of biology, underpinning some of our most basic understandings of form and function. Yet, there have been relatively few efforts to accelerate these processes through the use of Computer Vision techniques. Bottlenecks exists when getting information from the physical to the digital domain (acquisition), assembling the raw digital data into a more meaningful form (analysis), and when adding knowledge to the data to enhance its usefulness (annotation). In each case there are many opportunities to employ Computer Vision research. The impacts of such efforts will be profound. Here are just two examples: * By relating genomic information to quantitative data extracted from images of growing plants, we stand to dramatically accelerate our understanding of gene function during plant development. * Characterising images from insect collections in morphologically meaningful ways would help create globally accessible taxonomic resources with applications in biosecurity, biodiversity and functional genomics. + Topics + This workshop will explore and showcase research efforts that apply novel Computer Vision techniques to better our understanding of natural organisms. Topics will include, but are not limited to: * 3D Reconstruction of Plants, Insects, or Animals * Microscopic Computer Vision * Multi-scale Computer Vision * Structural analysis of organisms * Tracking of animal motion or behaviour * Capturing the growth of individual organisms * Co-registration of optical images with volumetric scans * Capture of reflectance and transparency * New insight from existing scientific image collections and archives * Human-in-the-loop interfaces for classification and annotation * Computational photography of specimens * Computer Vision in harsh/outdoor environments * Case studies, including practical challenges faced by bioscientists + Paper Submission + Authors are invited to submit research, case study or position papers of 4 to 8 pages according to the (two-column) formatting guidelines available on the ICCV 2013 conference website at http://www.iccv2013.org/author_guidelines.php#formatting. Submitted papers will be reviewed in a double blind process. Only electronic submissions will be accepted and the online submission system will be made available via the workshop website. + Insect Soup Challenge + This year's workshop also includes a Computer Vision Challenge, separate to the papers submission. This offers practitioners an additional way to participate. Further information can be found at: http://australianbioinformatics.net/cvab-2103-challenge + Important Dates + Submission of papers due 25 Sep 2013 Insect Soup submissions due 4 Oct 2013 Notification of acceptance 18 Oct 2013 Submission of camera ready papers 29 Oct 2013 Workshop 2 Dec 2013 + Workshop Chairs + David Lovell, CSIRO, Australia Matt Adcock, CSIRO, Australia + Program Chairs + Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research, UK Chuong Nguyen, CSIRO, Australia Hongdong Li, Australian National University, Australia