First International Workshop on Wearable and Ego-vision Systems for Augmented Experience Call for Papers

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               First International Workshop on 
    Wearable and Ego-vision Systems for Augmented Experience 
                           WEsAX 2015

            http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/WESAX/

                  Turin, Italy - July 3, 2015

                in conjunction with  ICME 2015
						
              Submission Deadline: March 30, 2015

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The rapid progress in the development of systems based on wearable
cameras, multi-sensor wearable devices and embedded computers have
created the conditions to use multimedia and computer vision
technologies to augment human experience in everyday life activities
such as sport, education, social interactions, cultural heritage
visits, etc.

Wearable systems can be exploited for collecting and analyzing in
real-time multimedia data (e.g. video, audio and multi sensor
responses); wearable cameras can be enriched with egocentric vision
(or ego-vision) to automatically understand gestures, actions, social
interactions, object and events regarding the surrounding world. These
systems can enhance our capabilities and augment our perception to
create a high customizable and personal way of seeing the world. We
believe that we are only at the beginning and that these technologies
and their applications can have a great impact in future creative
industries and can improve the quality of life.

The goal of the first International Workshop on Wearable and
Ego-vision Systems for Augmented Experience (WEsAX) is to give an
overview of the recent technologies and system solutions, create a
forum to exchange ideas and address challenges emerging in this field.

Submissions are expected to deal with multimedia and to explore the
human-centric perspective including, but not limited to:
 
- Computer vision techniques from wearable cameras
- Object detection, recognition and tracking from wearable devices
- Action/Activity recognition or monitoring from wearable cameras
- Mobile/Head-mounted eye tracking
- Social understanding from egocentric perspective
- Human visual behaviour modelling
- Multi-sensor wearable devices
- Wearable data processing
- Place recognition using wearable cameras
- Application in healthcare, cultural heritage, edutainment and sport
- Localization, visual SLAM and navigation system
- Visual odometry from wearable cameras
- Scene analysis from RGB and RGB-d wearable cameras
- Life-logging and video summarization
- Benchmarking and quantitative evaluation

Accepted Papers will be published by IEEEXplore.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: March 30, 2015
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2015
Camera ready version: May 15, 2015
Workshop: July 3, 2015


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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Giuseppe Serra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Kris M. Kitani, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Javier Civera, University of Zaragoza, Spain

 
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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Stefano Alletto, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Lamberto Ballan, Stanford University, USA
Luca Benini, University of Bologna, Italy
Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France
Alejandro Betancourt, University of Genova, Italy
Andreas Bulling, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Stefan Carlsson, KTH, Sweden
David J. Crandall Indiana University, USA
Dima Damen, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Alireza Fathi, Apple, USA
Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jochen Huber, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Yong Jae Lee, University of California, DAVIS, USA
Yin Li, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Ana C. Murillo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Shmuel Peleg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Hyun Soo Park, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Elisa Ricci, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Michael S. Ryoo, NASA-JPL, USA
Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Bernt Schiele, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Nicu Sebe, University of Trento, Italy
Lorenzo Seidenari, University of Florence, Italy
Cheston Tan, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

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JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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A special issue on a top journal is going to be organized


For more information: http://imagelab.ing.unimore.it/WESAX/