Workshop Announcement: SCVMA '04

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           First International Workshop on

                 Spatial Coherence for
             Visual Motion Analysis, 2004
                    (SCVMA'04)

to be held in conjunction with ECCV'04
May 15 or 16, 2004 (exact date to be announced mid-December)
Prague, Czech Republic

The workshop website can be found at:
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/scvma04/

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===== SCVMA'04 Call For Papers =====

Submission Deadline: January 30, 2004 (papers may be submitted at the
conference website)
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2004

Motion analysis is a central problem in computer vision, and the past
two decades 
have seen important advances in this field. However, visual motion is
still often 
considered on a pixel-by-pixel basis, even though this ignores the fact
that image 
regions corresponding to a single object usually undergo motion that is
highly 
correlated. Further, it is often of interest to accurately measure the
boundaries 
of moving regions. In the case of articulated motion, especially human
motion, 
discovering motion boundaries is non-trivial but an important task
nonetheless. 
Another related problem is identifying and grouping multiple
disconnected regions 
moving with similar motions, such as a flock of geese. Early approaches
focused on 
measuring motion of either the boundaries or the interior, but seldom
both in unison. 
In the past several years attempts have been made to include spatial
coherence terms 
into algorithms for 2- and 3-D motion recovery, as well as motion
boundary estimation.

This workshop will examine techniques for integrating spatial coherence
constraints 
during motion analysis in image sequences. Topics for submitted papers
include (but 
are not limited to):

    * Bayesian models of spatial coherence
    * Markov random field techniques
    * Recovery of motion boundaries
    * Active contours & boundary tracking
    * Layered motion models
    * Region segmentation & Motion-based grouping
    * Spatial coherence models for transparency
    * Spatial coherence in biological vision
    * Human motion analysis
    * Use of contextual information in applying spatial coherence

Papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published in
the 
workshop proceedings.

===== Program Committee =====

W. James MacLean, University of Toronto (Committee Chair)
P. Anandan, Microsoft Research
Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research
Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA/INRIA Rennes
David Fleet, University of Toronto
Allan Jepson, University of Toronto
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University,
Hans-Hellmut Nagel, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH)
Harpreet S. Sawhney, Sarnoff Corporation
Hai Tao, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yair Weiss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

(This list is preliminary, and may expand as time progresses)

===== Contact Information =====

All inquiries and/or correspondence regarding the workshop should be
directed to:

W. James MacLean, SCVMA'04 Program Committee Chair
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto,
10 King’s College Road,
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5S 3G4
1-416-946-7285
1-416-946-8734 (Fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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