Special Session: NEXT GENERATION VISION SYSTEMS

[Norbert Krueger]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to point you to the special session

NEXT GENERATION VISION SYSTEMS

to be held at the

Fourth International ICSC Symposium at the
ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (EIS 2004)

With best regards

Norbert Krueger

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Special Session

NEXT GENERATION VISION SYSTEMS

Fourth International ICSC Symposium at the
ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (EIS 2004)

http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/eis2004/index.html

February 29 - March 2, 2004 at the University of Madeira,
Island of Madeira, Portugal

Organisers:

Dr. Norbert Krueger
University of Stirling
Email: norbert at cn.stir.ac.uk
http://www.cn.stir.ac.uk/~norbert

Dr. Volker Krueger
Aalborg University, Esbjerg
Email: vok at cs.aue.auc.dk

Dr. Florentin Woergoetter
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland, UK
Email: worgott at cn.stir.ac.uk

Abstract

Vision based devices have been entering the industrial and
private world more and more successfully: Face recognition
systems control the access to buildings; airports and train
stations are controlled by Video Surveillance devices; and
cars become equipped with vision based driver assistance
systems.

However, the gap between human performance and the
top performance of today's artificial visual systems is
considerable. Especially, scene analysis in unfamiliar
environments allowing for highly reliable actions is yet an
outstanding quality of biological systems.

The next generation of vision systems will have to show
stable and reliable performance in uncontrolled environments
in real time. To achieve reliability these systems need to make
use of regularities in visual data. In this respect, the
representation of the temporal structure of visual data as
well as the fusion of visual sub-modalities are crucial.
Such systems also need to be equipped with a sufficient
amount of prestructured knowledge as well as the ability to
deal with uncertainties and to learn in complex environments.

The invited session focusses on requirements for and prospects
of future vision systems. This covers all questions of visual
representation and integration as well as questions of hardware
and software design.

Submission Deadline: 15.9.2003
Maximum number of pages: Fifteen pages (including
diagrams and references)
Papers (either as pdf or postscript) to be send to
norbert at cn.stir.ac.uk