Designing Tomorrow's Category-Level 3D Object Recognition Systems:
An International Workshop

September 8 to September 10, 2003
Taormina, Sicily

Objectives

The ability to recognize living creatures and inanimate objects in photographs or video clips is a critical enabling technology for a wide range of applications including defense, health care,  human-computer interaction, image retrieval and data mining, industrial and personal robotics, manufacturing, scientific image analysis, space exploration, surveillance and security, and transportation. In fact, with the ever expanding array of imagery sources, some form of automatic object recognition technology must eventually be an integral part of every information system.  Despite 40 years of research, however, today's recognition systems are still largely unable to handle the extraordinarily wide range of appearances assumed by common objects in typical images.
The tenet of this workshop is that fundamental new advances in automated object recognition can be achieved by integrating the sophisticated geometric and physical image formation models developed in the computer vision community with the effective models of data distribution and classification procedures developed in the statistical learning theory and theoretical computer science communities.
This three-day workshop will bring together prominent computer vision, machine learning, and computational geometry researchers interested in the fundamental and applicative aspects of object recognition, as well as representative of industry and funding agencies. Its goals are (1) to promote the creation of an international object recognition community, with common datasets and evaluation procedures, (2) to map the state of the art and identify the main open problems and opportunities for synergistic research, and (3) to articulate the industrial and societal needs and opportunities for object recognition research worldwide.

Kobus Barnard (University of Arizona)

Stab Bileschi (MIT)

Andrew Blake (Microsoft)

Chris Bishop (Microsoft)

Stefan Carlsson (Royal Intitute of Technology)

Guillaume Charpiat (ENS/INRIA)

Jeff Erickson (University of Illinois)

Mark Everingham (Oxford)

Rob Fergus (Oxford)

Patrick Gallinari (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)

Martial Hebert (Carnegie Mellon University)

Bernd Heisele (MIT)

Yutaka Hirano (Toyota)

Anthony Hoogs (GE)

Katsushi Ikeuchi (University of Tokyo)

David Kriegman (U.C. San Diego)

Sanjiv Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University)

Svetlana Lazebnik (University of Illinois)

Yann LeCun (NYU)

David Lowe (UBC)

Jiri Matas (Czech Technical University)

Steve Maybank (University of Reading)

Daniel Morris (Northrop Grumman)

Joe Mundy (Brown)

Kevin Murphy (MIT)

Jean Ponce (University of Illinois)

Jim Rehg (Georgia Tech)

Henri Sanson (France Telecom)

Cordelia Schmid (INRIA)

Bernhard Schoelkopf (MPI for Biological Cybernetics)

Antonio Torralba (MIT)

Bill Triggs (CNRS)

Akihiro Tsukada (Toyota)

Tinne Tuytelaars (KU Leuven)

Shimon Ullman  (Weizmann Institute)

Luc Van Gool (Catholic University of Leuven)

Carola Wenk (University of Arizona)

Chris Williams (University of Edinburgh)

Song-Chun Zhu (UCLA)

Andrew Zisserman (Oxford)

 

Sponsors

• National Science Foundation (under grant IIS 0335780)
• Institut National de Recherche and Informatique and Automatique
• General Electric
• Microsoft
• Northrop Grumman
• France Telecom
• Toyota
• Xerox
Local Arrangements
 
• The workshop will be held at the hotel "La Plage" just outside of Taormina (www.laplage.it). In case you need to make a change to your hotel reservations, please contact directly Marina Sorento, preferable by fax, at (011) 39-0942-625850, and ask her to confirm your request by fax as well. You can also contact her by phone at (011) 39-0942-626095.
• The nearest airport in Catania (better than Palermo, the other option). Attendees from the U.S. should fly on U.S. carriers. There are three possibilities for transportation from the airport : (1) take a bus from the airport to Taormina stazione (4.7 Euros, 1hr 15mn drive) then a cab from there to La Plage (about 10 Euros, 5mn drive). The bus runs every 1/2 hour in the morning, then every hour (9:45, 10:45, etc.) after that. (2) take a cab from the airport to La Plage. Should cost about 85 Euros, and take about 45mn to 1hr. (3) rent a car at the airport.

Abstracts abstracts.pdf  

Final NSF Report wreport.pdf  

Advances in Component Based Face Detection
Stab Bileschi

Shape warping and statistics
Guillaume Charpiat

Scene categorization by learning repeated elements
Mark Everingham

SVM-based nonparametric discriminant analysis, an application to face detection
Rik Fransens, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc Van Gool

Discriminative random fields for modeling spatial dependencies in images
Sanjiv Kumar and Martial Hebert

3D object modeling and recognition using affine-invariant patches and multi-view spatial constraints
Fred Rothganger, Svetlana Lazebnik, Cordelia Schmid, and Jean Ponce

Wide-baseline matching and object recognition using extremal regions
Jiri Matas

Video google: a text retrieval approach to object matching in videos
Josef Sivic and Andrew Zisserman