September 26, 1999, in conjunction with ICCV '99, Corfu Greece
In contrast to object recognition strategies which assume knowledge of the
exact shape or appearance of an object, generic object recognition endeavors
to recognize objects based on their coarse, prototypical shape. Although
a popular topic in the 1970's, generic object recognition has given up the
recognition spotlight over the years to such schemes as alignment, geometric
hashing (and other geometric
invariant-based indexing), and more recently, appearance-based recognition
(e.g., eigenspace methods). Recently, however, interest in recognition domains
where exact object geometry is unknown, e.g., content-based image retrieval
and non-rigid object recognition, has revived an interest in generic object
recognition. At CVPR '97, in Puerto Rico, we (Dickinson and Nevatia) held
the 1st IEEE Workshop on Generic Object Recognition, which featured 10 invited
talks on recent results in generic object recognition. The workshop was
well-attended (approximately 80 paid registrants) and well-received. It
has been two years since the last workshop was held, and we believe that
the time is right to hold the second such workshop.
The workshop will consist of 11 invited talks by prominent researchers working on both generic and non-generic object modeling and recognition. The talks will be approximately 30 minutes in duration with open discussion sessions in both the morning and afternoon. A full schedule for the workshop can be found below.
Any further questions should be addressed to one of the co-chairs.
| Sven J. Dickinson | Gerard Medioni |
|---|---|
| Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science | Department of Computer Science |
| Rutgers University | University of Southern California |
| sven@cs.rutgers.edu | medioni@iris.usc.edu |
Irving Biederman, USC
Mchael Black, Xerox PARC
Davi Geiger, NYU
Jitendra Malik, University of California, Berkeley
Dimitri Metaxas, University of Pennslynavia
Bernt Schiele, MIT
Lawrence Staib, Yale University
Daphna Weinshall, Hebrew University
Alan Yuille, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Song Chun Zhu, The Ohio State University
Schedule
| 8:30 - 8:25 | Registration |
| 8:25 - 8:30 | Opening Remarks (Sven Dickinson) |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Opening Discussion |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Alan Yuille |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Dimitri Metaxas |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | coffee break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Bernt Schiele |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Davi Geiger |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Jitendra Malik, Recent Advances in Visual Grouping and Their Implications for Models of Object Recognition |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Irving Biederman, An Evaluation of "View-Based" vs. Geon Structural Descriptions as Alternative Accounts of Visual Object Recognition |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Michael Black |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Song Chun Zhu, Integrating Bottom-up and Top-down by Effective Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | coffee break |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Daphna Weinshall, Self Organization in Multi-View Object Recognition |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Lawrence Staib |
| 4:30 - 5:30 | open discussion |
| 5:30 | Closing Remarks (Sven Dickinson) |
IEEE Members $50 ($45, advanced registration), Nonmembers $60 ($50), Students $35 ($30)
On-line registration will be available through the ICCV Conference Website