Sixth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision
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The Sixth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer VisionSunday June 13, 2010 Contact: (ecv10 at computervisioncentral dot com) Call for papers: pdf Submit your papers here. |
Best Paper Awards
Best paper awards will be given to papers selected by the Technical Program Committee of ECVW.
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, 2010March 19th, 2010
(Submit your papers here.) - Notification to the authors: April 6, 2010
- Camera ready copy: April 14, 2010
Submission Instructions
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 19th, 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
Keynotes:
Title: Solving Vision Tasks with Variational Methods on GPUs
Presenter: Dr. Horst Bischof
Summary of the Talk:
This talk will present novel solutions to long standing computer vision Problems by means of variational methods. We present robust methods for optical flow calculation, the correspondence problem for stereo matching, depth map integration and interactive segmentation methods. The variety of topics that can be handled by these methods demonstrate the wide applicability of variational methods.
In addition, modern graphics hardware (GPUs) allow to compute solutions to these problems very efficiently and in some cases (e.g. optical flow) even in real-time. Having real-time solutions opens several new applications areas (e.g. industrial imaging), interactive medical segmentation, etc. Some of these will be presented during the talk.
Short Bio:
Horst Bischof received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 1998 he got his Habilitation (venia docendi) for applied computer science. Currently he is Professor at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at the Technical University Graz, Austria. H. Bischof is member of the scientific boards of the applied research centers ECV, VrVis and KNOW. H. Bischof is board member of the Fraunhofer Inst. für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD). His research interests include object recognition, visual learning, motion and tracking, visual surveillance and biometrics, medical computer vision, and adaptive methods for computer vision where he has published more than 400 peer reviewed scientific papers.
Horst Bischof was co-chairman of international conferences (ICANN, DAGM), and local organizer for ICPR'96. He was program co-chair of ECCV2006 and Area chair of CVPR 2007, ECCV2008, CVPR 2009, ACCV 2009. Currently he is Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Computer and Informatics and the Journal of Universal Computer Science.
Horst Bischof has received several awards among them the 29th Pattern Recognition award in 2002; the main prize of the German Association for Pattern Recognition DAGM in 2007, the Best scientific paper award at the BMCV 2007 and the Best scientific paper award at the ICPR 2008.
Title: Emerging Applications of Embedded Vision
Presenter: Dr. Branislav Kisačanin
Short Bio:
Branislav Kisacanin was born in Novi Sad, a quiet university city on the Danube river, in former Yugoslavia. He received his BSEE degree from the University of Novi Sad in 1992 and MS and PhD degrees in EE/CS from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1994 and 1998, respectively. Since 2007 Branislav has been a member of technical staff at the Vision R&D group in Texas Instruments. Prior to TI, he worked on vision-based automotive safety algorithms and applications at Delphi.
Branislav authored, co-authored, or co-edited 5 books on math, control theory, and computer vision, most recently "Embedded Computer Vision" (Springer, 2008). He was a guest co-editor of the special issue of the CVIU Journal dedicated to Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (2007), and is currently a guest co-editor of another special issue of the same journal, this one on Embedded Vision (due in 2010). Branislav co-chaired several computer vision workshops at IEEE CVPR (RTV4HCI in 2004, V4HCI in 2004, and ECV in 2007 and 2008) and held tutorials on embedded vision (at CVPR in 2006, ESC in 2007, TIDC in 2008, and most recently at the 2010 ICASSP).
Branislav has 5 US patents and several related patents in EU. For intellectual property contributions at Delphi, he has been inducted into the Delphi Innovation Hall of Fame (2006).
Invited Talks:
Title: High-Speed Vision Systems and Projectors for Real-Time Perception of the World
Presenter: Dr. Shingo Kagami
Short Bio:
Shingo Kagami received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003 respectively. He was a Research Fellow at Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) in 2003, and was a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo from
2003 to 2005. Since 2005, he has been at Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include systems, architectures and algorithms for high-speed vision processing and real-time sensory information processing.
Title: TBD
Presenter: Dr. Kari Pulli
Short Bio:
Kari Pulli is Research Fellow and Member of CEO's Technology Council at Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, CA, USA, where he heads a research team that has been working on mobile imaging, especially on mobile computational photography and mobile augmented reality. During 2004-06 he was a visiting scientist at MIT, before that he headed Nokia's graphics technology, research, and standardization (he also wrote a book on OpenGL ES and M3G). He is an adjunct faculty at University of Oulu, has a PhD from University of Washington and an MBA from University of Oulu. Before Nokia Kari worked at Stanford University (on Digital Michelangelo Project), Alias|Wavefront, SGI, and Microsoft. He was a guest editor at IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, is in the editorial board of Computers and Graphics, and is the co-chair for Eurographics 2010.
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