3D Object Retrieval Workshop (3DOR) 2015 Call for Papers

3D Object Retrieval Workshop (3DOR) 2015
Zurich, Switzerland, May 2-3, 2015
Co-located event with Eurographics 2015
Website:  http://vc.ee.duth.gr/3dor2015/


Do you remember the days when retrieving the data that you needed from the 
internet was a matter of visiting sites your friends knew? The days when you 
would try out alternative search engines to find a single result? Was it a 
coincidence that text retrieval engines flourished with the explosion of 
textual information on the internet that could not be manually explored?

A new wave of information is now underway. Low-cost 3D scanners and 3D 
printers combined with popular applications of Computer Graphics and Vision 
are making 3D object models appeal to an increasing audience. See for example 
repositories such as http://shapes.aimatshape.net/ , 
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/.

As these 3D object collections are growing, the importance of effective 
retrieval, search and exploration is increasing. Because it is easier to 
find something than to create it from scratch and because manual browsing 
quickly becomes intractable as a collection grows.

To this effect it is crucial to develop algorithms for the content-based 
searching of 3D object collections; creating compact and accurate 
descriptors for 3D objects; indexing 3D objects; creating efficient 
storage structures for data bases of 3D objects; investigating 
theoretical aspects of practical importance such as what it means 
for two shapes to be similar; interfaces for content-based 3D object 
search; visualization techniques for 3D search results; real time 
aspects of techniques and algorithms. Many fields of Computer Science 
and beyond can offer their valuable knowledge to this complex but highly
interesting and practical problem.

The aim of the 3DOR Workshop series is to stimulate researchers from 
different fields such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine 
Learning, Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction who work on 
or are interested in 3D object retrieval search and exploration, to 
present state-of-the-art work in the field or learn about it and 
participate in discussions. This will provide a cross-fertilization 
that will stimulate discussions on the next steps in this important 
research area. 3DOR 2015will be the 8th workshop in this series.

3DOR 2015 will be a 2-day event for the first time and will contain 
the following tracks: research papers, posters, 2 keynote speeches 
(NEW!), EU project presentations and networking (NEW!), industrial 
session (NEW!).

 
Call for Papers, Posters and System Demonstrations

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and 
application papers addressing all areas of 3D Object Retrieval. 
Submissions are invited in the form of full papers (up to 8 pages) 
and short papers presented in a poster session (up to 4 pages).


Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- 3D object similarity and matching
- 3D video retrieval 
- 3D mobile media retrieval
- 3D object retrieval and Web3D
- 3D search in large scale data
- Personalized 3D search
- 3D object classification, indexing, and mining
- Similarity of non-rigid shapes
- Feature extraction, decomposition, and segmentation
- Multi-level representations for matching and retrieval
- Partial, part-in-whole, and many-to-many matching
- Matching under uncertainty and noise
- Semantics-driven 3D object retrieval and classification
- Sketch-based retrieval
- Query interfaces and search modalities
- Benchmarking issues
- Relevance feedback methods
- Active learning
- Statistical techniques for 3D shape analysis and retrieval
- Generative/discriminative approaches in 3D object categorization
- Applications in multimedia, CAD, architecture, games, biometrics, 
e-science, e-learning, medicine, biology, and cultural heritage.

This year's workshop will also feature the 10th Shape Retrieval
Evaluation Contest (SHREC'2015). A separate call for participation
will be issued later.

It is planned to have extended versions of selected papers from the
Workshop appearing, after a further review, in a special issue of an
international journal. Selected papers from previous workshops
appeared in special issues of The Visual Computer (TVC) journal.

Workshop Chairs:

* Ioannis PRATIKAKIS, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece ipratika@ee.duth.gr
* Theoharis THEOHARIS, NTNU, Norway theotheo@idi.ntnu.no
 

Programme Chairs:

* Michela SPAGNUOLO, IMATI – CNR, Italy
* Luc Van GOOL, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
* Remco VELTKAMP, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Programme Committee (to be confirmed)

* Ceyhun B. Akgul, (Vistek-ISRA Vision, Turkey)
* Yiannis Aloimonos (UMIACS, USA)
* Halim Benhabiles (ESIGELEC Rouen, France)
* Mohamed Ben Salah (University of Alberta, Canada)
* Stefano Berretti (University of Florence, Italy)
* Silvia Biasotti (IMATI – CNR Genoa, Italy)
* Michael Bronstein (Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
* Benjamin Bustos (University of Chile, Chile)
* Umberto Castellani (University of Verona, Italy)
* Petros Daras (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece)
* Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence, Italy)
* Bianca Falcidieno (IMATI-CNR, Italy)
* Alfredo Ferreira (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
* Daniela Giorgi (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
* Afzal Godil (National Institute of the Standards and Technology, USA)
* Yossi Keller (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
* Ron Kimmel (Technion, Israel)
* Hamid Laga (University of South Australia, Australia)
* Guillaume Lavoue (INSA Lyon, France)
* Niloy Mitra (University College of London, UK)
* Georgios Papaioannou (AUEB, Greece)
* David Picard (ETIS-ENSEA, France)
* William Regli (Drexel University, USA)
* Marcos Rodrigues (University of Sheffield, UK)
* Raif M. Rustamov (Stanford University, USA)
* Dietmar Saupe, (University of Konstanz, Germany)
* Nickolas S. Sapidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece)
* Tobias Schreck (University of Konstanz, Germany)
* Ariel Shamir, Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel
* Hedi Tabia (ETIS-ENSEA, France)
* Oliver van Kaick (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
* Jean-Philippe Vandeborre (Télécom Lille / Institut Mines-Télécom, LIFL, France)
* Hazem Wannous (University Lille1 / LIFL, France)
* Stefanie Wuhrer (Saarland University / Max Planck Institute, Germany)

Important dates

Paper submission :                Jan. 30, 2015

Notification of authors :          Mar. 13, 2015

Camera-ready papers due :    Mar. 30, 2015

Workshop dates :                  May 2-3, 2015