Connectionists: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: POCV 2006

[Jeffrey Mark Siskind]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: POCV 2006

The Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in
Computer Vision
New York City June 22, 2006, In Conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2006
http://elderlab.yorku.ca/pocv

IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission deadline: 11:59pm EST, March 17, 2006
* Notification: April 17, 2006
* Final versions of accepted papers due: April 24, 2006

THEME:
Perceptual Organization is the process of establishing a meaningful
relational structure over raw visual data, where the extracted relations
correspond to the physical structure of the scene. A driving motivation
behind perceptual organization research in computer vision is to deliver
representations needed for higher-level visual tasks such as object
detection, object recognition, activity recognition and scene
reconstruction. Because of its wide applicability, the potential payoff
from perceptual organization research is enormous.

The 5th IEEE POCV Workshop, to be held in conjunction with CVPR 2006
(New York), will bring together experts in perceptual organization and
related areas to report on recent research results and to provide ideas
for future directions.

PREVIOUS IEEE POCV WORKSHOPS:
* 2004 CVPR (Washington, DC)
* 2001 ICCV (Vancouver, Canada)
* 1999 ICCV (Crete, Greece)
* 1998 CVPR (Santa Barbara, CA)

SCOPE:
Papers are solicited in all areas of perceptual organization, including
but not limited to:
* image segmentation
* feature grouping
* texture segmentation
* contour completion
* spatiotemporal/motion segmentation
* figure-ground discrimination
* integration of top-down and bottom-up methods
* perceptual organization for object or activity detection/recognition
* unification of segmentation, detection and recognition
* biologically-motivated methods
* neural basis for perceptual organization
* learning in perceptual organization
* graphical methods
* natural scene statistics
* evaluation methods

ALGORITHM EVALUATION:
Research progress in perceptual organization depends in part on
quantitative evaluation and comparison of algorithms. Authors reporting
results of new algorithms are strongly encouraged to objectively
quantify performance and compare against at least one competing approach.

BROADER ISSUES:
Perceptual organization research faces a number of challenges. One is
defining what the precise goal of perceptual organization algorithms
should be. What kind of representation should they deliver? What
databases should be used for evaluation? How can we quantify performance
to allow objective evaluation and comparison between algorithms? How do
we know when we’ve succeeded? To try to meet these challenges, we
particularly encourage contributions of a more general nature that
attempt to address one or more of these questions. These may include
definitional papers, theoretical frameworks that might apply to multiple
different perceptual organization problems, establishment of useful
databases, modeling of underlying natural scene statistics, evaluation
methodologies, etc.
Biological Motivation

BIOLOGICAL MOTIVATION:
Much of the current work in perceptual organization in computer vision
has its roots in qualitative principles established by the Gestalt
Psychologists nearly a century ago, and this link between computational
and biological research continues to this day. Following this tradition,
we specifically invite biological vision researchers working in the
field of perceptual organization to submit work that may stimulate new
directions of research in the computer vision community.

WORKSHOP OUTPUT:
All accepted papers will be included in the Electronic Proceedings of
CVPR, distributed on DVD at the conference, and will be indexed by IEEE
Xplore. We are also exploring the possibility of a special journal issue
on perceptual organization in computer vision, with a separate call for
papers.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Submission is electronic, and must be in PDF format. Papers must not
exceed 8 double-column pages. Submissions must follow standard IEEE
2-column format of single-spaced text in 10 point Times Roman, with 12
point interline space. All submissions must be anonymous. Please use the
IEEE Computer Society CVPR format kit. Stay tuned for exact details on
how to submit.

In submitting a paper to the POCV Workshop, authors acknowledge that no
paper of substantially similar content has been or will be submitted to
another conference or workshop during the POCV review period.

For further details and updates, please see the workshop website:
http://elderlab.yorku.ca/pocv


WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

James Elder, York University
jelder at yorku.ca

Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Purdue University
qobi at purdue.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Kim Boyer, Ohio State University, USA
James Coughlan, Smith-Kettlewell Institute, USA
Sven Dickinson, University of Toronto, Canada
Anthony Hoogs, GE Global Research, USA
David Jacobs, University of Maryland, USA
Ian Jermyn, INRIA, France
Benjamin Kimia, Brown University, USA
Norbert Kruger, Aalborg University, Denmark
Michael Lindenbaum, Technion, Israel
Zili Liu, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
David Martin, Boston College, USA
Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California, USA
Zygmunt Pizlo, Purdue University, USA
Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA
Eric Saund, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Ohad ben Shahar, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Kaleem Siddiqi, McGill University, Canada
Manish Singh, Rutgers University, USA
Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Johan Wagemans, University of Leuven, Belgium
Song Wang, University of South Carolina, USA
Rich Zemel, University of Toronto, Canada
Song-Chun Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Steve Zucker, Yale University, USA

    Jeff (http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~qobi)