Spatial
Coherence for
Visual Motion Analysis, 2004
to be held in conjunction with ECCV'04
May 15, 2004
Prague, Czech Republic
SCVMA'04 Call For Papers
Submission Deadline:
February 16, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: March
23, 2004 Camera Ready Copy Due: April
12, 2004
Selected papers from the workshop will be
published in a special issue of a leading vision journal (more details
later)
Motion analysis is a central problem in computer vision, and the past
two decades have seen important advances in this field. However, visual
motion is still often considered on a pixel-by-pixel basis, even though
this ignores the fact that image regions corresponding to a single
object usually undergo motion that is highly correlated. Further, it is
often of interest to accurately measure the boundaries of moving
regions. In the case of articulated motion, especially human motion,
discovering motion boundaries is non-trivial but an important task
nonetheless. Another related problem is identifying and grouping
multiple disconnected regions moving with similar motions, such as a
flock of geese. Early approaches focused on measuring motion of either
the boundaries or the interior, but seldom both in unison. In the past
several years attempts have been made to include spatial coherence
terms into algorithms for 2- and 3-D motion recovery, as well as motion
boundary estimation.
This workshop will examine techniques for integrating spatial coherence
constraints during motion analysis in image sequences. Topics for
submitted papers include (but are not limited to):
Bayesian models of spatial coherence
Markov random field techniques
Recovery of motion boundaries
Active contours & boundary tracking
Layered motion models
Region segmentation & Motion-based grouping
Spatial coherence models for transparency
Spatial coherence in biological vision
Human motion analysis
Use of contextual information in applying spatial coherence
Papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be published
in the workshop proceedings.
Program Committee
W. James MacLean,
University of Toronto (Committee Chair) P. Anandan, Microsoft Research Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA/INRIA
Rennes Brendan Frey, University of
Toronto David Fleet, University of
Toronto Allan Jepson, University of
Toronto Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon
University, Hans-Hellmut Nagel,
Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Harpreet S. Sawhney, Sarnoff
Corporation Nikos Paragios, Siemens Corporate Research Hai Tao, University of
California, Santa Cruz Yair Weiss, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Contact Information
All inquiries and/or correspondence regarding the workshop should
be directed to:
W. James MacLean,
SCVMA'04 Program Committee Chair
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto,
10 King’s College Road,
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5S 3G4
1-416-946-7285
1-416-946-8734 (Fax) http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~maclean/ maclean@eecg.toronto.edu
Paper Formatting & Submission
Paper format will follow that of ECCV 2004. LaTeX class files may be downloaded
from the menu to the left.
Paper submission is open. A link can be found in
the menu to the left.