CVPR 2020 Workshop on Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS & CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN CHALLENGE

# CVPR 2020 Workshop on Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond
 
We are pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the Image Matching
Workshop, co-located with CVPR 2020. Its goal is to encourage and
highlight novel strategies for image matching that deviate from and
advance traditional formulations, with a focus on large-scale,
wide-baseline matching for 3D reconstruction and pose estimation. This
can be achieved by applying new technologies to sparse feature
matching, or doing away with keypoints and descriptors entirely.

Workshop website: https://image-matching-workshop.github.io
Challenge website: https://vision.uvic.ca/image-matching-challenge
CMT website for paper submission: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IMW2020
 
# TOPICS
 
Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
** Reformulating keypoint extraction and matching pipelines with deep networks
** Applying geometric constraints into the training of (sparse or
   dense) deep networks
** Leveraging additional cues such as semantics
** Developing adversarial methods to deal with conditions where
  current methods fail (weather changes, day versus night, etc.)
** Exploring attention mechanisms to match salient image regions
** Integrating differentiable components into 3D reconstruction frameworks
** Matching across different data modalities such as aerial versus ground
 
# CHALLENGE
 
In order to advance research in these areas, we will also hold the 2nd
edition of an open challenge on wide-baseline image matching,
co-located with the workshop. It has been greatly improved from last
year: we have open-sourced the benchmark and released a new evaluation
server. Winners will be awarded prizes by our sponsors, and be invited
to give talks at the workshop, along with selected participants.
 
# SUBMISSION
 
We invite paper submissions in two tracks:
 
** Workshop papers: Up to 8 pages, excluding references and
acknowledgements. They should use the CVPR template and be sent to the
IMW2020 CMT site. Submissions must contain novel work and will be
indexed in IEEE Xplore/CVF. They will receive at least two
double-blind reviews.

** Extended abstracts: We also allow submissions of work that is
published or under review. These papers will not be archived: they
will be presented as posters during the workshop. The goal of this
track is to encourage debate among peers. They can be as short as 2
pages or as long as 8 and may use any template. We welcome relevant
papers from the main conference. They should be sent to
imagematching@uvic.ca directly, as a PDF, by May 15, 2020. They should
not be anonymous.
 
# IMPORTANT DATES
 
** Paper submission deadline: March 31
** Notification to authors: April 10
** Camera-ready deadline: April 15
** Challenge submission deadline: May 7
** Deadline for short descriptions on challenge submissions: May 15
** Extended abstract deadline: May 15
** Workshop date: June 19 (half day: morning)
 
# INVITED SPEAKERS
 
** Prof. Krystian Mikolajczyk, Imperial College London.
** Prof. Dieter Fox, University of Washington.
 
# ORGANIZERS
 
** Vassileios Balntas, Scape Technologies
** Vincent Lepetit, École des Ponts ParisTech
** Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University
** Dmytro Mishkin, Czech Technical University
** Johannes Schönberger, Microsoft
** Eduard Trulls, Google
** Kwang Moo Yi, University of Victoria