Connectionists: CFP: "Beyond Patches" CVPR 2006 workshop

[conrad sanderson]

Call for Papers: "Beyond Patches" workshop,
in conjunction with the CVPR 2006 conference.

   http://prost.cv.ri.cmu.edu/~slucey/BP-CVPR06/

Submission deadline: 24 March 2006

The concept of an image "patch", in computer vision, has many
similarities to work within the field of structural pattern
recognition. The structural approach takes the view that
a pattern is composed of simpler subpatterns which, in turn,
are built from even simpler subpatterns. Recently, many inroads
have been made into novel areas of computer vision through the
employment of patch-based representations with machine learning
and pattern recognition techniques. In this workshop, we are
soliciting papers from the computer vision and machine learning
communities that expand and explore the boundaries of patch
representations in computer vision applications.

Relevant topics to the workshop include (but are not limited to):

* Novel methods for identifying (e.g. SIFT, DoGs, Harris detector)
  and employing salient patches.
* Techniques that explore criteria for deciding the size and shape 
  of a patch based on image content and the application.
* Approaches that explore the employment of multiple and/or 
  heterogeneous patch sizes and shapes during analysis.
* Applications that explore how important relative patch position is,
  and whether there are advantages in allowing those patches to 
  move freely or in a constrained fashion.
* Novel methods that explore and extend the concept of patches 
  to video (e.g. space-time patches).
* Approaches that draw upon previous work in structural pattern 
  recognition in order to improve current patch-based computer 
  vision algorithms.
* Novel applications that extend the concept of patch-based analysis 
  to other, hitherto, non-conventional areas of computer vision.
* Novel techniques for estimating dependencies between 
  patches in the same image (e.g. 3D rotations) to improve 
  matching/correspondence.

Submissions: Papers in PDF format are required by midnight
24 March 2006 EST. Papers should not exceed 8 double-column pages.
The paper format must follow the standard IEEE 2-column format of
single-spaced text in 10 point Times Roman, with 12 point interline space.
All paper submissions must be anonymous.  All submissions will be
peer-reviewed by members of the program committee.

Workshop site:  http://prost.cv.ri.cmu.edu/~slucey/BP-CVPR06/
CVPR 2006 site: http://www.cvpr.org/2006/