IEEE 2008 Winter Vision Meetings

WACV 2008

Submit to WACV

WACV Deadlines:
Abstracts Sept 21 (8pm MDT).
Papers Sept 24 (8pm MDT)
Papers decision Oct 22.
Camera Ready copy Dec. 1

WACV
Web site Co-chairs
George Stockman
Suchi Bhandarkar
Wesley Snyder
WACV Deadlines:
Abstract Submission
Sept 21 (8pm MDT).
Paper Submissoin
Sept 24 (8pm MDT)
Papers decision Oct 22.
Camera Ready copy due
December 1, 2007

Motion
Web site Co-chairs
Visvanathan Ramesh
Qiang Ji

Motion Deadlines:
Paper Submission
Sept 24 (8pm MDT).
Papers decision Oct 26.
Camera Ready copy due
December 1, 2007
Motion Camera-Ready
Submission Site

VISN
Web site Co-chairs
Hii Cheng
Niels Haering Inc
Kamesh Namuduri
VISN Deadlines:
Papers Due Sept 30
Notification Nov 5
Camera Ready Due Dec 1.

Final Schedule: WACV/VISN 2008

Monday, January 7th
3:00-4:00 Session I-1: Scene Representation

Flexible Edge Arrangement Templates for Object Detection, Yan Li, Yanghai Tsin, Yakup Genc, Takeo Kanad
A Novel Thresholding Approach to Background Subtraction, Li-hao Jia, Yi-kun Liu
Channel Segmentation using Confidence and Curvature-Guided Level Sets on Noisy Seismic Images, Benjamin Kadlec

4:00-4:20pm Break

4:20-5:00pm Invited Talk

5:00-6:00pm Session I-3: Cameras

Qualitative Assessment of Video Stablilization and Mosaicking Systems, Chao Zhang, Prakash Chockalingam
Online/Realtime Structure and Motion for General Camera Models, Gerald Schweighofer, Sinisa Segvic, Axel Pinz
Cata-Fisheye Camera for Panoramic Imaging, Gurunandan Krishnan, Shree Nayar

6:00-7:30pm Dinner and Poster 1

A Hierarchical Scheme for Rapid Video Copy Detection, Xiao Wu, Sheng Tang, Tian Xia, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang
Variational Transform Invariant Mixture of Probabilistic PCA, Jilin Tu, Yun Fu, Alexandar Ivanovic, Thomas Huang, Li Fei-Fei
INSPEC2T: Inexpensive SPEctrometer Color Camera Technology, Walter Scheirer, Shane Kirkbride, Terry Boult
Urban building recognition during significant temporal variations, Giang Phuong Nguyen, Hans Jorgen Andersen, Morten Friesgaard Christensen
EAVA: A 3D Emotive Audio-Visual Avatar, Hao Tang, Yun Fu, Jilin Tu, Thomas Huang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Single View Metrology: A Practical Example, Paulo Mendonca, Robert Kaucic
An Innovative Model of Tempo and Its Application in Action Scene Detection for Movie Analysis, Anan Liu, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang, Sheng Tang, Yan Song, Zhaoxuan Yang
Intraoperative Visualization of Anatomical Targets in Retinal Surgery, Ioana Fleming, Sandrine Voros, Balazs Vagvolgyi, Zach Pezzementi, James Handa, M.D., Russell Taylor, Gregory Hager
Distributed Visual Processing for a Home Visual Sensor Network, Kwangsu Kim, Gerard Medioni
Interactive Portrait Art, Ning Ye, Terence Sim
Color Enhancement in Image Fusion, Chao Zhang, Azhar Sufi

7:30-8:30pm Session I-2: Tracking

Tracking Down Under: Following the Satin Bowerbird, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Ryan Farrell, Yuan Cheng Luo, David Jacobs, Ramani Duraiswami, Larry Davis
Tracking and Segmentation of Highway Vehicles in Cluttered and Crowded Scenes, Goo Jun, J. K. Aggarwal, and Muhittin Gokmen
Localization and Segmentation of A 2D High Capacity Color Barcode, Devi Parikh, Gavin Jancke

8:30-8:50pm Coffee Break

8:50pm-9:50pm Session I-4 VISN

Toward Fully Automatic Geo-Location and Geo-Orientation of Static Outdoor Cameras, Nathan Jacobs, Nathaniel Roman, Robert Pless
Self Calibrating Visual Sensor Networks, Khurram Shafique, Asaad Hakeem, Omar Javed, Niels Haering
Recovering Social Networks From Massive Track Datasets, Christopher Connolly, Brian Burns, Hung Bui

Tuesday, January 8th
3:00-4:20pm Session II-1: Biometrics 1

Adaptive Fusion of Gait and Face for Human Identification in Video, Xin Geng, Liang Wang, Ming Li, Qiang Wu, Kate Smith-Miles
Locally Adjusted Robust Regression for Human Age Estimation, Guodong Guo, Yun Fu, Thomas Huang, Charles Dyer
Multi-pose Face Detection with Asymmetric Haar Features, Geovany Ramirez, Olac Fuentes
Iris Extraction Based on Intensity Gradient and Texture Difference, Guodong Guo, Mike Jones

4:20-4:40pm Break

4:40-5:40pm Session II-2: Biometrics 2

Recognition of Human Actions using an Optimal Control Based Motor Model, Sumitra Ganesh, Ruzena Bajcsy
Mosaicfaces: a discrete representation for face recognition, Jania Aghajanian, Simon Prince
Background Subtraction for Temporally Irregular Dynamic Textures, Gerald Dalley, Joshua Migdal, W. Eric L. Grimson

5:40-7:10pm Dinner and Posters 2

A Computer Vision based Whiteboard Capture System, Richard Xu
Object Categorization Based on Kernel Principal Component Analysis of Visual Words, Kazuhiro Hotta
Explanation-Based Object Recognition, Geoffrey Levine, Gerald DeJong
Geometric Blur in Human Pose Estimation, Chen Bo, Nhan Nguyen, Greg Mori
Fast and Fully Automatic Ear Detection Using Cascaded AdaBoost, Syed Islam, Mohammed Bennamoun
Real-time Robust Mapping for an Autonomous Surface Vehicle using an Omnidirectional Camera, Xiaojin Gong, Bin Xu, Caleb Reed, Chris Wyatt, Daniel Stilwell
Learning Optimal Compact Codebook for Efficient Object Categorization, Teng Li
Cascading Trilinear Tensors for Face Authentication, Greg Wagner, Eric Sinzinger
Image Rendering Based on a Spatial Extension of the CIECAM02, Olivier Tulet, Mohamed-Chaker Larabi, Christine Fernandez-Maloigne
Online character recognition using regression techniques, Nirup Reddy, Kandan R, Shashi S, Suresh Sundaram, Ramakrishnan
Event-Driven Visual Sensor Networks: Issues in Reliability, Alexandra Czarlinska, Deepa Kundur

7:10-8:30pm Session II-3, Surveillance

A vision-based system for the automatic detection and extraction of road map information, Charalambos Poullis, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann
A non parametric approach for modeling interferometric SAR imagery and applications, Kuntal Sengupta
An Efficient Active Camera Model for Video Surveillance, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, James W. Davis
Likelihood Map Fusion for Visual Object Tracking, Zhaozheng Yin, Fatih Porikli, Robert Collins

8:30-8:50pm Coffee Break

8:50-9:50pm Session II-4 3-D

Robust 6DOF Motion Estimation for Non-Overlapping Multi-Camera Systems, Brian Clipp, Jan-Michael Frahm, Marc Pollefeys, Jae-Hak Kim, Richard Hartley
Segmentation of Salient Regions in Outdoor Scenes Using Imagery and 3-D Data, Gunhee Kim, Daniel Huber, Martial Hebert
Color Photometric Stereo for Albedo and Shape Reconstruction, Osamu Ikeda

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society , Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) with organizational support provided by Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation, UCCS BI program and Securics