TEXTURE 2005 The 4th International Workshop on Texture Analysis and Synthesis 21 October 2005, Beijing http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/texture2005/ Organised in conjunction with ICCV2005 http://research.microsoft.com/iccv2005/ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/texture2005/Texture2005-Call-1.pdf OBJECTIVE: The primary objective of this workshop is to bring together a diverse range of researchers and developers in a single event to discuss and exchange ideas on the latest advances in texture research and applications. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: 16 May Decisions: 8 August Camera ready deadline: 29 August SUBMISSION FORMAT: Six A4 sides, IEEE double column format TECHNICAL SCOPE: Papers were invited but not limited to the following topics: Techniques: * Surface texture modelling (including BRDF), capture, coding, synthesis, editing, generation, and real-time rendering * Cognitive aspects (perceptual texture dimensions, psychophysical experiments, and perceptually meaningful retrieval functions) * Texture classification, segmentation, defect detection, and image retrieval, classifier & feature design * Illumination and viewpoint effects and invariants * Shape from texture, viewpoint effects and invariants; * Colour, hyper-spectral and multi-band texture features and issues * Volumetric texture features, and visualisation Interesting and new application areas: * Augmented/virtual reality * Interactive entertainment and e-commerce * Film and video post production * Textiles, virtual catalogues, garment design etc. * Medical * Remote sensing * Industrial inspection * Robotics COMMITTEE: * Hans Burkhardt, Freiburg, Germany * Andrew Calway, Bristol, UK * Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft, Cambridge, UK * Dmitry Chetverikov, Budapest, Hungary * Kristin Dana, Rutgers University, USA * Junyu Dong, Ocean University of China, Shandong Province * Ondrej Drbohlav, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Scotland * Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Georgy Gimelfarb, Auckland, New Zealand. * Michal Haindl, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic * Edwin Hancock, York, UK * Jan Koenderink, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht * Yanxi Liu, CMU, USA * Ged McGunnigle, CTR, Austria. * Tom Malzbender, HP Labs, USA * Majid Mirmehdi, Bristol, UK * Maria Petrou, Surrey, UK * Matti Pietikäinen, Oulu, Finland * Sylvia Pont, http://www.phys.uu.nl/~pont/ * Harry Shum, Microsoft Research, China * Luc Van Gool, ETH Zurich, * Ying Nian Wu, UCLA, USA * Yizhou Yu, Illinois, USA * Alexey Zalesny, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Song Chun Zhu, UCLA, USA * Andrew Zisserman, Oxford, UK CHAIR: Mike Chantler, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland Tel: +44 (0)131-451-3352 Email: mjc-at-macs.hw.ac.uk WORKSHOP URL: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/texture2005/