Second International Workshop on Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing Call for Papers
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Second International Workshop on Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing
EPIC@ICCV17
http://www.eyewear-computing.org/EPIC_ICCV17/
Venice, October 29th, 2017
in conjunction with ICCV 2017
Submission Full Papers (Max 6-8 pages): June 15th, 2017 (OR 5th Aug if
not accepted into ICCV)
Submission Extended Abstracts (2-4 pages): September 12th, 2017
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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Egocentric camera devices are becoming increasingly popular, both as research prototypes and off-the-shelf products. They can acquire images, videos and can collect multimodal data such as gaze information, GPS position, IMU data, etc. When connected with head-mounted displays, they can also provide new forms of interaction and visualization. Based on this rapid progress, we believe we are only at the beginning and these technologies and their application can have a great impact on our life.
In fact, these egocentric camera devices will be able to automatically understand what the wearer is doing, acting on, manipulating, and where his or her attention is going. On the scientific side, for example, scientists are already taking advantage of these kinds of wearable cameras by monitoring and analyzing visual experiences of infants' early life. This work has already resulted in important findings on how young children actively explore the world to create experiences and collect visual data to facilitate their development and early learning of words and visual objects
Egocentric perception introduces a series of challenging questions for computer vision since motion, real-time responsiveness and generally uncontrolled interactions in the wild are more frequently required or encountered. Questions such as what to interpret as well as what to ignore, how to efficiently represent egocentric actions, and how captured information can be turned into useful data for guidance or log summaries become central.
This new EPIC@X series of workshops aims to bring together the various communities that are relevant to egocentric perception including Computer Vision, Multimedia, HCI and the Visual Sciences and is planned to be held on the major conferences in these fields. EPIC@ICCV will accept Full Papers for novel work, and Extended Abstracts for ongoing or already published work. Both research and application works related to Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing are encouraged, including those that can be demonstrated or are in the prototype stages.
Submissions are expected to deal with human-centric perception including, but not limited to:
- Eyewear devices for egocentric perception and computation
- Eyewear devices for acquisition and visualization
- Egocentric vision for object/event recognition
- Egocentric vision for summarization
- Egocentric vision for social interaction and human behavior understanding
- Egocentric vision for children and education
- Egocentric vision for health
- Head-mounted eye tracking and gaze estimation
- Computational visual behaviour analysis
- Attention modelling and next fixation prediction
- Eye-based human-computer interaction
- Human and wearable devices interaction
- Symbiotic human-machine vision systems
- Affective computing with respect to wearable devices
- Interactive AR/VR and Egocentric perception
- Augmented human performance
- Interactive AR/VR and Egocentric perception
- (Eye-based) daily life and activity monitoring
- Benchmarking and quantitative evaluation with human subject experiments
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Full Paper Submission*: June 15th, 2017
Submission Extended Abstracts: September 12th, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: August 8th, 2017
Camera-Ready Paper Due: August 25th, 2017
Workshop: October 29th, 2017
* In case of rejection from ICCV, authors can submit their work to EPIC workshop by August 5th, 2017
(authors must also submit as supplementary material the ICCV reviews, rebuttal and meta-reviews)
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin
Ali Borji, University of Central Florida
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Giuseppe Serra, University of Udine, Italy
David Crandall, Indiana University, USA
Dima Damen University of Bristol, UK
Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, University of Bristol, UK
Rita Cucchiara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Andreas Bulling, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Chen Yu, Indiana University, USA
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