CVPR-WAPCV 2005
          3rd International Workshop on
   ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE IN COMPUTATIONAL VISION
 
         http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2005
 
                 June 25, 2005
                San Diego, USA
 
   WAPCV 2005 is held in conjunction with CVPR 2005
       supported by EU-IST Cognitive Systems
 
 DATES
   FULL PAPER SUBMISSION:         February 25, 2005
   Notification of acceptance:      March  25, 2005
   Final paper submission:          April  20, 2005
   Workshop day:                     June  25, 2005 
 
 NEWS
   Invited Talk     : Christof Koch
   Paper submission : Open
 
 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
   Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, USA
   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
 
 Hilary Buxton, Univ. Bristol, UK
 James J. Clark, McGill Univ., Canada
 Gustavo Deco, Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain
 Bruce A. Draper, Colorado State Univ., USA
 Jan-O. Eklundh, KTH, Sweden
 Bob Fisher, Univ. Edinburgh, UK
 Horst-M. Gross, Ilmenau Technical Univ.
 Fred Hamker, Univ. Muenster, Germany
 Mary M. Hayhoe, Univ. Rochester, USA
 Christof Koch, CalTech, USA
 Eileen Kowler, Rutgers Univ., USA
 Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel
 Baerbel Mertsching, Univ. Paderborn, Germany
 Aude Oliva, MIT, USA
 Ronald A. Rensink, Univ. British Columbia, Canada
 Hezy Yeshurun, Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel
 
 PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
 
 WAPCV 2003 Graz, Austria - http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2003
 WAPCV 2004 Prague, Czech Republic - http://dib.joanneum.at/wapcv2004
 
 SCOPE
 
 Recently, key advances in our psychological, physiological and
 computational understanding of the primate visual attention system have
 fostered innovative computational architectures for visual scene
 understanding. Especially in emerging technological domains that include
 video surveillance, miniaturised mobile sensors, and ambient
 intelligence systems, attentive processing has proven an efficient
 strategy for the real-time analysis of enormous amounts of data.
 Attentive processing allows natural and artificial systems to cope with
 information overload, by focusing higher-level analysis resources onto a
 rapidly and coarsely identified subset of sensory inputs that are most
 relevant. Attentional selection is intimately dependent upon being able
 to use knowledge about where, when and towards what resources should be
 directed, orchestrating the synergy between perception, cognition, and
 action towards achieving behavioral goals. 
 
 This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum to present and
 communicate methodologies and concepts from computer vision, cognitive
 psychology, robotics, autonomous systems and neuroscience with respect
 to theory and applications of visual attention. We expect investigations
 to focus on computational models and other artificial embodiments of
 attention, to outline relevant objectives for performance comparison, to
 document and to investigate promising application domains, and to
 discuss the new work in relation to other aspects of cognitive vision.
 Contributions wich include an experimental component, for example
 testing with human or animal subjects, are encouraged - however,
 advancing computational understanding of visual attention, for machine
 or human perception, should be the central theme of successful
 submissions.
 
 TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to the following:
     Computational architectures of attention
     Attention and control of vision processes
     Attention in object recognition and detection
     Attention and cognitive vision
     Learning for attention
     Information selection and fusion
     Engineering of vision based behaviour
     Perceptual organization
     Biologically motivated visual attention
 Applications:
     Video analysis and surveillance
     Robotic systems
     Mobile computing
     Industrial inspection
     Remote sensing
 
 INVITED TALKS
   1.  Christof Koch, CalTech, USA
   2.  TBA
 
 AUTHOR GUIDELINES
   Electronic paper submission is open now!
   Dual submission policy: Papers will be considered for review that have
   also been submitted to the main CVPR conference. Double submission
   must be indicated by authors, and the workshop organizer must be given
   a copy of the CVPR reviews. The format of the final paper is IEEE
   two-column, and we will perform double-blind reviews. Detailed
   instructions about the preparation of the paper are available on the
   homepage.  Contributions to WAPCV 2005 are expected to count not more
   than 8 pages in IEEE two-column (letter) format. 
 
 POSTER SESSION
   We consider the organization of a poster session to inform about all
   related ongoing activities in this field (in case we receive a
   reasonable number of high quality contributions). 
 
 PROCEEDINGS
   Accepted contributions will be provided as hand-outs and published on
   IEEE DVD, and will be distributed at the workshop site. 
 
 LINKS
 * CVPR 2005
   Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
   http://www.cs.duke.edu/cvpr2005/
 * 'Neurobiology of Attention'
   Editors: Laurent Itti, John Tsotsos, Geraint Rees
   http://ilab.usc.edu/publications/doc/NeurobiologyOfAttention/
 * WAPCV 2004 revised selected papers in Springer-Verlag
   Editors: Lucas Paletta, John Tsotsos, Erich Rome, Glyn Humphreys
   
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-149-22-39273571-0,00.html
 * Itti Lab, Univ. of Southern California, USA
   http://ilab.usc.edu/
 * EU-IST Cognitive Systems
   http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_e/cognition/index.htm
 
 CONTACT
   Lucas Paletta, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
   Institute of Digital Image Processing, Wastiangasse 6, A-8010 Graz, Austria
   Phone : +43 (316) 876-1769 / Fax: +43 (316) 876-91769
   lucas.paletta@joanneum.at / http://dib.joanneum.ac.at/cape