International Cognitive Vision Workshop – ICVW 2007
Update: Invited talk to be given by Prof. Dr. James Crowley!
Update: Tentative Schedule available!
Update: Deadline for paper submissions extended!
Description of the workshop
Cognitive vision is a research area calling for interdisciplinary research. Our workshop on cognitive vision shall continue the cross-fertilization between different research communities, research projects, and research groups. The specific objectives are:
- Document the progress of the relatively young field of Cognitive Vision and Cognitive Vision Systems
- Gather the researchers already working and those interested in this field and offering them a platform to discuss the results of the different European cognitive vision projects, other international projects, and further activities in this area
- Increase the global visibility of Cognitive Vision
The workshop programme is based on one or two invited speakers, about 10-12 oral presentations with ample room for discussion during presentation session, posters depending on the quality of submissions, and a wrap-up discussion. Following the very successful model set in other workshop series, the chairs will incentivate and facilitate interaction among participants, asking also for the presentations to include position statements on a number of key questions to be identified based on accepted papers, to clearly expose research challenges, and invite comments regarding negative results (rather than reporting shrink-wrapped “success stories”).
General topics
Papers should indicate their scientific contribution to the field of Cognitive Vision. We cordially invite you to submit papers on all aspects of Cognitive Vision and Cognitive Vision systems including, but not limited to
- Theory of Cognitive Vision
- Computational models of biological vision systems and their relation to Cognitive Vision
- Representations suited to cover Cognitive Vision requirements of learning, knowledge acquisition and contextual control
- Methods for continuous learning and learning from a minimum number of exemplars
- Formalisation of task requirements, contextual dependencies and spatio-temporal reasoning to enable active control of processes for reliable interpretation
- Software frameworks and architectures to accommodate all functionalities required in a multi-tasking Cognitive Vision system
- Applications, such as understanding situations involving objects and humans and their relations and to be aware of the environment and its objects and functions.
Tentative Schedule
Workshop Session II
Wednesday, March 21st, 14:00-16:00
- 14:00 Welcome
- 14:10 Invited Presentation: Situated Observation of Human Activity
James L. Crowley, INP Grenoble, Project Group PRIMA - INRIA Rhone Alpes - 15:10 Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Reliable Facial Expression Interpretation
Javier Orozco, Jordi Gonzàlez, Josep Lluis Arcos, F. Alejandro García, Computer Vision Centre Barcelona - 15:25 What was that? Gaze shift reflex in a humanoid active vision system
Ansgar R. Koene, Jan Moren, Vlad Trifa, Gordon Cheng, NiCT / ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) Kyoto
Workshop Session III
Wednesday, March 21st, 16:30-18:30
- 16:30 Implicit Modeling of Object Topology with Guidance from Temporal View Attention
Peter Michael Goebel, Vienna University of Technology/Siemens AG Austria - 16:55 Lifting Wavelet Based Cognitive Vision System
Yuka Higashijima, Department of Informatics, Kyushu University - 17:20 Exploratory Learning Strucutre in Artificial Cognitive Systems
Michael Felsberg, Johan Wiklund, Erik Jonsson, Anders Moe, Gösta Granlund, Linköping University - 17:45 Open-Ended Inference of Relational Representations in the COSPAL Perception-Action Architecture
David Windridge, Mikhail Shevchenko, Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK - 18:10 Closing discussion
- 18:30 End
Programme Committee
In alphabetical order:
- Peter Auer, University of Leoben, email: auer@unileoben.ac.at
- Ross Beveridge, Colorado State University, email: ross@cs.colostate.edu
- Darius Burschka, TU München, email: burschka@cs.tum.edu
- Barbara Caputo, IDIAP, CH, email: bcaputo@idiap.ch
- Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College, email: y.demiris@ic.ac.uk
- Bruce Draper, Colorado State University, email: draper@cs.colostate.edu
- Michael Felsberg, Linköping University, email: mfe@isy.liu.se
- Paul Fitzpatrick, University of Genoa, email: paulfitz@liralab.it
- Rod Grupen, University of Massachusetts, email: grupen@cs.umass.edu
- Václav Hlavác, CTU Prague, email: hlavac@cmp.felk.cvut.cz
- David Hogg, University of Leeds, email: dch@comp.leeds.ac.uk
- Danica Kragic, KTH Stockholm, email: danik@nada.kth.se
- Ales Leonardis, University of Ljubljana, email: alesl@fri.uni-lj.si
- Hans-Hellmut Nagel, Universität Karlsruhe, email: nagel@iaks.uni-karlsruhe.de
- Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, email: lucas.paletta@joanneum.at
- Nick Pears, University of York, email: nep@cs.york.ac.uk
- Justus Piater, University of Liege, email: Justus.Piater@ULg.ac.be
- Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, email: schiele@cs.tu-darmstadt.de
- Monique Thonnat, INRIA, email: Monique.Thonnat@sophia.inria.fr
- John Tsotsos, York University, email: tsotsos@cs.yorku.ca
- David Vernon, Etisalat University College, email: vernon@ieee.org
Submissions (format, styles, etc.)
LNCS (same as ICVS) Papers should not be longer than 10 pages in LNCS .pdf format.
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0
Please use the online conference management system to submit your workshop papers. The submission procedure is the same as described on the Author's Page, just choose International Cognitive Vision Workshop for the type of contribution.
Workshop History and related Workshops
- 1st Cognitive Vision Workshop, 19 and 20 September 2002, Zürich, Switzerland
- NIPS2003 Workshop on "Open Challenges in Cognitive Vision", 13 December 2003, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
- Early Cognitive Vision Workshop, 28.5. -1.6.2004, Isle of Skye, Scotland, emphasis on biological motivated computer vision, visual neuroscience and computational neuroscience of vision
- 1st Austrian Cognitive Vision Workshop, 31.1.2005, Zell an der Pram, Austria
- 1st International Cognitive Vision Conference ICVW 2006 adjoint to ECCV 2006 in Graz, May 13, 2006.
Important Dates
| Submission of papers: | February 8, 2007 | |
| Notification of acceptance: | February 28, 2007 | |
| Camera ready paper: | March 15, 2007 | |
| Workshop: | Is planned to take place on Wednesday, March, 21st (a detailed schedule will be available here soon). |
Workshop organizers, contact
Markus Vincze
Automation and Control Institute, Vienna University of Technology
Gusshausstrasse 27/376, 1040 Vienna, Austria
E-mail: 
vincze@acin.tuwien.ac.at
Tel.: +431/58801-37661
Fax: +431/58801-37697
Web: http://www.acin.tuwien.ac.at
Paolo Petta
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Freyung 6/6, A 1010 Vienna, Austria
E-mail: Paolo.Petta@ofai.at
Tel: +43-1-5336112-12
Fax: +43-1-5336112-77
Web: www.ofai.at/~paolo.petta
