Vision Algorithms: Theory and Practice -- Programme

This is the (we hope) final workshop programme. Presenter names are in bold italic. For more details, read the paper abstracts.

Tuesday 21 September

08:45 Get a coffee, find a seat, say hi . . .
08:55 Welcome
09:00-10:30 3D Reconstruction, Structure and Motion 1
09:00 Generalized Voxel Coloring
W. Bruce Culbertson, Thomas Malzbender and Greg Slabaugh
09:30 Direct Recovery of Planar-Parallax from Multiple Frames
Michal Irani, P. Anandan and Meir Cohen
10:00 Optimization Criteria and Geometric Algorithms for Motion and Structure Estimation
Jana Kosecka, Yi Ma and Shankar Sastry
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:15 Structure and Motion II
11:00 Coordinate-frame Independence in Optimization Algorithms for 3D Vision
Philip McLauchlan
11:30 Error Characterization of the Factorization Approach to Shape and Motion Recovery
Zhaohui Sun, Visvanathan Ramesh and A. Murat Tekalp (presented by Terry Boult owing to visa problems)
12:00 Uncertainty Modeling for Optimal Structure from Motion
Daniel D. Morris, Kenichi Kanatani and Takeo Kanade
12:30 Technical Review #1: Bundle Adjustment for Structure and Motion
Andrew Fitzgibbon, Richard Hartley, Philip McLauchlan and Bill Triggs
13:15-17:00 Lunch and Afternoon Break
17:00-19:00 Error Modelling, Correspondence, Tracking
17:00 Bootstrapping a Heteroscedastic Regression Model with Application to 3D Rigid Motion Evaluation
Bogdan Matei and Peter Meer
17:30 Characterizing the Performance of Multiple-image Point-correspondence Algorithms using Self-Consistency
Yvan G. Leclerc, Q.-Tuan Luong and Pascal Fua
18:00 A General Method for Feature Matching and Model Extraction
Clark F. Olson
18:30 A Sampling Algorithm for Tracking Multiple Objects
Hai Tao, Harpreet S. Sawhney and Rakesh Kumar
19:00-19:40 Drinks and Snacks Break
19:40-21:10 An Evening with . . .
19:40 Invited Talk #1: Computer-Vision for the Post-Production World: Facts and Challenges through the REALViZ Experience
Luc Robert, REALViZ S.A.
20:25 Technical Review #2: Direct vs. Feature Based Methods in Motion Analysis
P. Anandan, Michal Irani, Philip Torr and Andrew Zisserman
21:10 End of first day

Wednesday 22 September

08:20 Get a coffee, find a seat, say hi again . . .
08:30-10:30 Tracking, Representations and Geometry
08:30 Real-time Tracking of Complex Structures for Visual Servoing
Tom Drummond and Roberto Cipolla
09:00 Point- and Line-Based Parameterized Image Varieties for Image-Based Rendering
Yakup Genc and Jean Ponce
09:30 Projective Reconstruction from N views having one view in common
Martin Urban, Tomas Pajdla and Vaclav Hlavac
10:00 Circular Motion Recovery from Image Profiles
P. R. S. Mendonca, K-Y. K. Wong and R. Cipolla
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:30 Stereo, Video, Panel Session
11:00 An Experimental Comparison of Stereo Algorithms
Richard Szeliski and Ramin Zabih
11:30 Invited Talk #2: Annotation of Video by Alignment to Reference Imagery
Keith Hanna, Sarnoff Corporation
12:15 Panel Session and Open Discussion
P. Anandan, Olivier Faugeras, Richard Hartley, Jitendra Malik and Joe Mundy
13:30 End of Workshop

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