ICCV-Workshop BenCOS
"Towards Benchmarking Automated Calibration, Orientation and Surface
 Reconstruction from Images"
Beijing, October 15th 2005.
http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/isprs/wgiii1/ws2005_wg12.html

* Subject Areas: Performance evaluation, surface reconstruction,
  multi-view stereo, camera (self-) calibration, image orientation,
  motion/pose estimation.

* Workshop Chairs

    - Olaf Hellwich, Technische Universit?§t Berlin, Germany
    - Ilkka Niini, Oy Mapvision Ltd., Finland
    - Camillo Ressl, Technische Universit?§t Wien, Austria
    - Daniel Scharstein, Middlebury College, USA
    - Peter Sturm, INRIA, France

* Call for Papers and Motivation

  We invite contributions on automatic methods for surface
  reconstruction from images, multi-view stereo, camera
  (self-) calibration, motion estimation and related topics.
  We encourage submissions of original scientific work in the
  subject areas, especially works dedicated to performance
  evaluation of methods. A non-exhaustive list of topics of
  interest is:

    - Algorithms for Shape-from-X (stereo, motion, silhouettes,
      shading, focus, ...)
    - Markerless sensor orientation methods (motion estimation,
      (self-) calibration, ...)
    - Integration of surface reconstruction and sensor orientation methods
    - Surface representations
    - Dynamic surface models
    - Evaluation of reconstruction and orientation methods and
      surface models:
          o accuracy and reliability
          o efficiency and versatility
          o robustness in automation
          o performance characteristics
    - Applications for various remote sensing and close-range sensors

  One major aim of the new Commission III on Photogrammetric Computer
  Vision and Image Analysis (led by Wolfgang F?^Īrstner and Helmut Mayer)
  is to bring together researchers from the related fields, and to
  benefit from mutual experience. The Working Groups Automatic
  Calibration and Orientation of Optical Cameras and Surface
  Reconstruction are co-chaired by researchers from the Computer Vision
  and Photogrammetry communities (the organizers of this workshop).
  The Automatic Calibration and Orientation of Optical Cameras Working
  Group deals with any research on image orientation, i.e. camera
  calibration, self-calibration, motion estimation, etc. and estimation
  methods for these tasks. A special goal is to promote automated methods
  without requiring markers or signalized points on the object. The
  Surface Reconstruction Working Group considers research on surface
  modeling from image data.

  Besides being a forum for discussing new scientific results, the major
  goal of these Working Groups is to establish true benchmarks for the
  performance evaluation of developed methods. We believe this is a
  highly important aspect of scientific research; it allows an objective
  comparison of different approaches, catalyzes new developments, and
  eases the access of potential commercial users to these research areas
  and communities. The motivations for this workshop are thus threefold:
  (i) communication of new scientific results in the related areas,
  (ii) bringing together researchers from different communities, and
  (iii) work towards the definition of benchmarks.

* Dates:

  Submission deadline:		May 15, 2005
  Notification of acceptance: 	July 1, 2005
  Camera ready:			August 26, 2005
  Workshop date:		October 15, 2005

* Program Committee:

    - Niclas B?^Īrlin, Sweden.
    - Yuri Boykov, Canada.
    - Andrew Fitzgibbon, UK.
    - Wolfgang F?^Īrstner, Germany.
    - Luc van Gool, Belgium/Switzerland.
    - Armin Gr?ēn, Switzerland.
    - Henrik Haggr?Šn, Finland.
    - Richard Hartley, Australia.
    - Janne Heikkil?§, Finland.
    - Christian Heipke, Germany.
    - Karsten Jacobsen, Germany.
    - Olli Jokinen, Finland.
    - Helmut Kager, Austria.
    - Karl Kraus, Austria.
    - Kyros Kutulakos, Canada.
    - Yi Ma, USA.
    - Hans-Gerd Maas, Germany.
    - Helmut Mayer, Germany.
    - David Nist?Šr, USA.
    - Norbert Pfeifer, Netherlands.
    - Marc Pollefeys, USA.
    - Franz Rottensteiner, Australia.
    - Richard Szeliski, USA.
    - Tieniu Tan, China.
    - Bernhard Wrobel, Germany.
    - Ramin Zabih, USA.

* More details on the webpage:
  http://www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at/isprs/wgiii1/ws2005_wg12.html