The Sixth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision Sunday June 13, 2010 San Francisco, USA (held in conjuction with CVPR 2010) www.computervisioncentral.com/content/ecvw2010 Contact: (ecv10 at computervisioncentral dot com) Call for papers: pdf Submit your papers here.

Call For Papers

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of computer vision in embedded systems. Applications powered by computer vision range from accurate, performance-centric systems to high volume, cost-centric consumer devices. Computer vision was successfully used, for example, in mission critical systems such as the landing of Rovers on Mars, and in computer-aided surgery. It is used in video gaming devices to detect gestures and body movement. Furthermore, computer vision is used for automated surveillance applications to enhance safety and security. It is also used to assist drivers in automotive safety applications.

Embedded vision applications are built upon advances in computer vision algorithms, embedded processing architectures, advanced circuit technologies, and new electronic system design methodologies. They are implemented on embedded processing devices and platforms such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable digital signal processors (DSPs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and various kinds of heterogeneous multiprocessor devices. While there are many opportunities for new computer vision enabled applications, there are, at the same time, resource constraints of processing, memory, power, size, and communication bandwidth that pose significant challenges to attaining required levels of reliability and speed.

The Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ECVW) aims to bring together researchers working on computer vision problems that share embedded system characteristics. Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Analysis of computer vision problems that are specific to embedded systems.
• Analysis of embedded systems problems that are specific to computer vision.
• Embedded computer vision for robotics
• New trends in programmable processors and their computational models.
• Applications of embedded computer vision on platforms such as GPUs (embedded and mobile).
• Applications of embedded computer vision on reconfigurable platforms such as FPGAs.
• Applications of embedded computer vision on programmable platforms DSPs and multicore SoC such as the Cell Processor.
• Biologically-inspired vision and embedded systems
• Computer vision applications distributed between embedded devices and servers
• Social networking computer vision applications
• Educational methods for computer vision
• User interface designs for computer vision applications
• Hardware enhancements (lens, imager, processor) that impact computer vision applications
• Software enhancements (OS, middleware, vision libraries, development tools) that impact computer vision application
• Methods for standardization

The workshop is the sixth in its series. The first five Workshops on Embedded Computer Vision were held in conjunction with CVPR and ICCV. These events were very successful. Selected and extended papers from the workshops have been published in a special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems and in a book on Embedded Computer vision.

Important Dates:

• Paper submission: March 10th, 2010 March 19th, 2010
  (Submit your papers here.)
• Notification to the authors: April 6, 2010
• Camera ready copy: April 14, 2010

For submitting papers to ECVW 2010, authors have to use the CVPR2010 author kits and follow the instructions listed under http://cvl.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/cvpr2010/submission/. Please note that papers accepted for the workshop will be allocated 6+2 pages in the proceedings, without extra fees for the 2 extra pages. Papers violating the formatting rules, the double-blind or dual-submission policies, or having more than 8 pages will be automatically rejected without review.

Authors should upload their paper, author information as well as paper abstract and list of co-authors to the Submission Site http://www.computervisioncentral.com/ecvw2010/. A paper ID will be assigned to each registration.

The deadline for full paper submission to the Submission Site is March 10th, 11:59pm, EDT, 2010.

General Chair:
Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Program Chair:
Abbes Amira, Brunel University

Steering Committee:
Nikolaos Bellas, University of Thessaly, Greece
Sek Chai, Motorola Inc
Branislav Kisačanin, Texas Instruments
Boaz J. Super, Motorola Inc.

Program Committee: (tentative)
Kristian Ambrosch, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Nikolaos Bellas, University of Thessaly, Greece
Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland
Horst Bischof, TU Graz, Austria
Terry Boult, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Sek Chai, Motorola Inc
Goksel Dedeoglu, Texas Instruments
Khanh Duc, NVIDIA
Antonio Gentile, University of Palermo, Italy
Jan-Michael Frahm, UNC-Chapel Hill
Antonio Haro, Nokia Research Center
Masatoshi Ishikawa, University of Tokyo
Branislav Kisačanin, Texas Instruments
Reinhard Koch, University of Kiel
Ajay Kumar, IIT Delhi, India
Zhu Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Abelardo Lopez-Lagunas, ITESM-Toluca, Mexico
Jiebo Luo, Kodak
Roberto Manduchi, University of California, Santa Cruz
Larry Matthies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hongying Meng, University of Lincoln
Rajesh Narasimha, Texas Instruments
Burak Ozer, Verificon Corporation
Bernhard Rinner, Klagenfurt University of Austria
Mainak Sen, Cisco Systems
Vinay Sharma, Texas Instruments
Yu Shi, NICTA, Australia
Boaz J. Super, Motorola Inc
Salvatore Vitabile, University of Palermo, Italy
Linda Wills, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marilyn Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia
Ruigang Yang, U. Kentucky, USA
Tianli Yu, Like.com
Lin Zhong, Rice University

Previous Embedded Computer Vision Workshops (ECVW)

• ECVW09
• ECVW08
• ECVW07
• ECVW06
• ECV2005 (unavailable)