WAPCV 2004
2nd International Workshop on
Attention and Performance in Computational Vision
http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2004
May 15, 2004
Prague, Czech Republic
WAPCV 2004 is held in conjunction with ECCV 2004
http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/eccv2004/
WAPCV 2004 is supported by ECVision
http://www.ecvision.info
DATES
Full paper submission: January 31, 2004
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2004
Final paper submission: April 16, 2004
Workshop day: May 15, 2004
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria
John K. Tsotsos, York University, Canada
Erich Rome, Fraunhofer AIS, Germany
Glyn W. Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
Leonardo Chelazzi, University of Verona, Italy
James J. Clark, McGill University, Canada
Bruce A. Draper, Colorado State University, USA
Robert B. Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK
Horst-Michael Gross, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
Fred Hamker, University of Muenster, Germany
John M. Henderson, Michigan State Univ., USA
Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, USA
Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology, USA
Bastian Leibe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel
Baerbel Mertsching, University of Paderborn, Germany
Nikos Paragios, ENPC Paris, France
Sajit Rao, University of Genova, Italy
Antonio Torralba, MIT, USA
Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard University, USA
Hezy Yeshurun, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
SCOPE
Recently, cognitive psychology has discovered attention mechanisms to
play a key role in object recognition and scene interpretation,
resulting in innovative computational attention architectures
modelling human perception. The development of enabling technologies
such as video surveillance systems, miniaturised mobile sensors, and
ambient intelligence systems involves the real-time analysis of
enormous quantities of data. Knowledge has to be applied about what
needs to be attended to, and when, and what to do in a meaningful
sequence, in correspondence with visual feedback. Concurrently, the
fundamental need for cognitive vision methodologies has been broadly
recognised. Methods on attention and control are mandatory to render
computer vision systems more robust.
This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and
communicate methodologies and concepts from computer vision,
cognitive psychology, autonomous systems research and neuroscience
with respect to theory and application of visual attention. We expect
investigations to focus on computational models of attention, to
outline relevant objectives for performance comparison, to document
and to investigate promising application domains, and to discuss it
with reference to other aspects of cognitive vision.
However, contributions to computational models of visual attention -
machine or human perception based - must be the central theme of
successful submissions.
TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to the following:
Methodologies and Concepts:
Computational architectures of attention
Attention and control of vision processes
Attention in object and scene recognition
Cognitive vision
Learning for attention
Information selection and fusion
Engineering of vision based behavior
Perceptual organization
Biologically motivated machine attention
Applications:
Video analysis and surveillance
Robotic systems
Mobile computing
INVITED TALKS
John K. Tsotsos, Director of Center for Vision Research
Department of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
Gustavo Deco, Computational Neuroscience
Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
CONTACT
Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research - Inst of Digital Image Processing
Wastiangasse 6, A-8010 Graz, Austria
Phone : +43 (316) 876-1769 / Fax: +43 (316) 876-91769
Mobile: +43 699 1876 1769
mailto:lucas.paletta@joanneum.at / http://dib.joanneum.ac.at/cape