conferences

Photos from the Sixth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision (ECVW 2010) are now available at Computer Vision Central. Click here to view images from the workshop.

The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010) early registration deadline has been extended to July 15, 2010. This year, the conference will be held in Crete, Greece. There are 325 accepted papers, with 1174 submissions (27% acceptance rate). A breakdown based on thematic areas is available from the ECCV statistic webpage.

The CVPR 2010 organizing committee has announced this year's best paper award receipts:

• Best Student Paper:
  "Visual Event Recognition in Videos by Learning from Web Data"
  Lixin Duan, Dong Xu, Wai-Hung Tsang, and Jiebo Luo
• Best Paper Honorable Mention
  "Modeling Mutual Context of Object and Human Pose in Human-Object Interaction Activities"
  Bangpeng Yao and Li Fei-Fei
• Best Paper
  

The PAMI Technical Committee voted today to hold CVPR 2013 in Portland, Oregon. Due to the growth in the size of CVPR, venues are now selected three years in advance. CVPR 2011 will be Colorado Springs, Colorado, and CVPR 2012 will be in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Sixth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision (ECVW 2010), held in conjunction with CVPR 2010, was a success, with record attendance this year reflecting growth in interest in embedded computer vision. There were several live demos including bio-inspired cameras and a mobile photo collage application.

The opening keynote talk by Horst Bischoff on solving vision tasks with variational methods implemented on GPUs received a great deal of interest. Professor Bischoff demonstrated speedups of up to about 100x, and a range of applications including inpainting, car detection, robust fusion of depth maps, segmentation, and optical-flow based tracking.

In an invited presentation, OpenCV founder Gary Bradski of WillowGarage discussed current work on OpenCV. Developments underway include a re-organization of the library into processing stacks or pipelines; for example, a calibration stack and an object recognition stack. A number of local representations and interest point detectors for object recognition are now in OpenCV, and Dr. Bradski suggested that this would make it easier for published papers in the future to include extensive comparative evaluations.

The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010) starts today with record breaking attendance. There are 1803 registered and the organizers are not allowing additional onsite registrations except for presenters and pre-paid exhibitors. This year, there are 21 workshops, 8 tutorial sessions, and 33 demos.

Submitted by Sek Chai

Researchers from Taeg Sang Cho (MIT), Shai Avidan (Tel Aviv University), William T. Freeman (Adobe System) has set a world record for a computer based jigsaw-puzzle solving software. According to a Popular Science article, it can solve a 400-piece puzzle compared to the previous record of 320 pieces, set by a Danish team in 2008 for puzzles with simple shapes and limited colors. The algorithm analyzes color at the boundaries of each jigsaw piece and then uses a probabilistic approach to find similar values on pieces. Details of this research will be presented at CVPR 2010, in a paper entitled "A Probabilistic Image Jigsaw Puzzle Solver".

For a limited time only, preprints of the 2010 Embedded Computer Vision Workshop are now available on Computer Vision Central. Click here for the ECVW webpage. Website members are invited to post a link to their preprint or paper for public viewing and discussion.

Disclosure: ECVW 2010 is hosted on this website.

Early registration for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) ends May 16, 2010. Save at least $200 by registering early for the event at the CVPR registration site.

Submitted by Boaz Super

The ICPR 2010 program is now available. The conference is a major international forum for pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning theory and applications. This year there will be three distinguished plenary speakers (see below), 385 oral presentations, 777 poster presentations, 9 workshops, 9 tutorials, and 8 contests.