EMMCVPR'01 Preliminary Program

Monday, September 3rd
8 :00
Bus from hotels
8:45-9:00
Welcome by the Director of INRIA Sophia Antipolis
9:00-10:00
Invited talk 

     "The differential geometry of the space of curves"
    David Mumford
    Division of Applied Mathematics,  Brown University, USA
 

10:00-10:30
Coffee break
10:30-13:00
Session I: Probabilistic Models and Estimation.
     Chair: Joachim Buhmann,
                Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität, Bonn, Germany

  1. A. Yuille, "A double-loop algorithm to minimize the Bethe 
      free energy".
      Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA

  2. A. Ben-Hamza and H. Krim, "A variational approach to 
      maximum a posteriori estimation for image denoising".
      North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

  3. P. Aguiar and J. Moura, "Maximum likelihood estimation 
      of the template of a rigid moving object".
      Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal. 
      Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  4. A. Trouvé and Y. Yu, "Metric dimilarities learning through 
      examples: an application to shapes retrieval".
     University Paris 13, Paris, France

  5. J. Sanches and  J. Marques, "A fast MAP algorithm for 3D 
     ultrasound".
     Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
 

13:00-14:00
Lunch at the INRIA cafeteria
14:00-16:00
Session II:  Image Modelling and Synthesis
     Chair: Alan Yuille,
                Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA

  1. A. Rangarajan, "Learning matrix space image representations".
     University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

  2. G. Gimel'farb, "Supervised texture segmentation by 
      maximising  conditional likelihood".
      University of Auckland, New Zealand

  3. G. Lebanon, A. Bruckstein, "Designing Moire patterns".
      Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
      Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

  4. T. Sziranyi and Z. Toth, "Optimization of paintbrush 
      rendering of images by dynamic MCMC methods".
      Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Veszprem University, Hungary
 

16:00
Bus to the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot
16:30-17:30
Visit of the Fernand Léger Museum with a guide (in English)
17:45
Bus back to Sophia Antipolis
18:30-19:30
Chamber music concert (Mozart, Saint-Saens, Bartok) in Sophia Antipolis
19:45
Bus back to hotels
Free evening


 

Tuesday, September 4th
8:30
Bus from hotels
9:00-10:00
Invited talk 

    "How to learn energy-based models of images"
    Geoffrey  Hinton
    Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit,
    University College London, UK
 

10:00-10:30
Coffee break
10:30-13:00
Session III: Clustering, Grouping, and Segmentation
     Chair: Anand Rangarajan,
               University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

  1. B. Fischer, T. Zöller, and J. Buhmann, "Path based pairwise data 
      clustering with application to texture segmentation".
      Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität, Bonn, Germany

  2. A. Kelly and E. Hancock, "A maximum likelihood framework 
      for grouping and segmentation".
      University of York, UK

  3. C. Schellewald, J. Keuchel, and C. Schnörr, "Image labeling and 
      grouping by minimizing linear functionals over cones".
      University of Mannheim, Germany

  4. S. Yu, and J. Shi, "Grouping with directed relationships".
      Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  5. S. Kamijo, K. Ikeuchi, and M. Sakauchi, "Segmentation of 
      spatio-temporal images by  spatio-temporal Markov 
      random field model".
      University of Tokyo, Japan
 

13:00-14:00
Lunch at the INRIA cafeteria
14:00-17:00
Session IV: Posters (with coffee break at 15:30) 
     Chair: Edwin Hancock,
               University of York, UK

  1. A. Abrantes and J. Marques, "shape tracking using centroid-based 
     methods".
     Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal

  2. M. Al-Rawi and J. Yang,"Illumination invariant recognition of color 
      texture  using correlation and covariance functions".
      Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China

  3. E. Bengoetxea, P. Larrañaga, I. Bloch, and A. Perchant, "Estimation 
     of distribution algorithms: a new evolutionary computation approach 
     for graph matching problems".
     University of the Basque Country, Spain
     Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France

  4. M. Bicego, A. Dovier, and V. Murino, "Designing the minimal structure 
      of  hidden Markov models by bisimulation".
      Universita' degli Studi di Verona, Italy

  5. P. Fieguth and S. Wesolkowski, "Highlight and shading invariant color 
      image segmentation using simulated annealing".
      University of Waterloo, Canada

  6. A. Fusiello, U. Castellani, and V. Murino, "Relaxing Symmetric 
     Multiple Windows Stereo Using Markov Random Fields".
     Universita' degli Studi di Verona, Italy

  7. T. Kubota, T. Huntsberger, and J. Martin, "Edge based probabilistic 
      relaxation for sub-pixel contour extraction".
      University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

  8. M. Lefébure, and L. Cohen, "Optical flow and image registration: 
      a new local  rigidity approach for global minimization".
      Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France

  9. A. Massaro and M. Pelillo, "A complementary pivoting approach to 
      graph matching".
      Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy

  10. P. Matula and D. Svoboda, "Spherical object reconstruction using 
        star-shaped simplex meshes".
        Masaryk University, Brno, The Czech Republic

  11. R. Morris, V. Smelyanskiy, and P. Cheeseman, "Matching images to 
       models: camera calibration for 3D surface reconstruction".
       NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

  12. J. Rocha and A. Mir, "Articulated object tracking via a genetic 
       algorithm".
       University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

  13. C. Sagiv, N. Sochen, and Y. Zeevi, "Gabor feature space diffusion 
        via the minimal weighted area method".
        University of Tel Aviv, Israel

  14. C. Samson, L. Blanc-Feraud, G. Aubert, and J. Zerubia, "Two 
        variational models for multispectral image classification".
        INRIA, CNRS, and University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, France

  15. K. Siddiqi and A. Vasilevskiy, "3D flux maximizing geometric flows".
        McGill University, Montréal, Canada

  16. K.A. Toh, J. Lu, and W.-Y. Yau, "Global feedforward neural network
        learning for classification and regression".
        Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  17. S. Woo, A. Dipanda, and F. Marzani, "Application of genetic algorithms 
       to 3D shape reconstruction in an active stereo vision system".
       Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

  18. S. Yu, T. Lee, and T. Kanade, "A hierarchical Markov random field 
        model for figure-ground segregation".
        Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 

17:15
Bus to Bijou Plage (beach) in Juan Les Pins (bring your swimsuit!)
19:15-22:00
Banquet at the Bijou Plage restaurant
22:15
Bus back to hotels


 

Wednesday, September 5th
8:30
Bus from hotels
9:00-10:00
Invited talk

     "When is coarse-to-fine search optimal?" 
     Donald Geman
     Whitaker Institute, Johns Hopkins University, USA
     and Centre de Math. et Leurs Applications, ENS Cachan, France
 

10:00-10:30 
Coffee break
10:30-13:00
Session V: Optimization and Graphs
     Chair: Marcello Pelillo,
               Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy

  1. Y. Boykov and V. Kolmogorov, "An experimental comparison of 
      Min-Cut/Max-Flow algorithms for energy minimization in vision".
      Siemens Research, Princeton, NJ, USA
      Cornell University, Ithaca,  NY, USA

  2. J. Dias and J. Leitao, "A discrete/continuous minimization 
      method in interferometric image processing".
      Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal

  3. K.-A. Toh, "Global energy minimization: a transformation 
      approach".
      Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  4. M. Pelillo, "Matching free trees, maximal cliques, and 
      monotone game dynamics".
       Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy

  5. A. Torsello and E. Hancock, "Efficiently computing weighted 
      tree edit distance using relaxation labeling".
      University of York, UK
 

13:00-14:00
Lunch at the INRIA cafeteria
14:00-16:30
Session VI:  Shapes,  Curves, and Templates.
     Chair: K. Siddiqi,
                 McGill University, Montréal, Canada

  1. J. August and S. Zucker, "A Markov process using curvature 
     for filtering  curve images".
     Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

  2. V. Camion and L. Younes, "Geodesic interpolating splines".
      Centre de Math. et Leurs Applications,  ENS Cachan, France

  3. A. Hirani, J. Marsden, and J. Arvo, "Averaged template 
      matching equations".
      California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

  4. H. Pao and D. Geiger, "Continuous shape descriptor by 
      orientation diffusion".
      New York University, USA

  5. L. Cohen and T. Deschamps, "Multiple contour finding and perceptual grouping as
      a set of energy minimizing paths".
      Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France
 

16:30-17:00  Coffee break
17:00  Bus back to hotels
19:00-22:00  Oenology  course (in English) at the INRIA cafeteria from 19:00 to 22:00
 "Discover French Wines and French Food" (200FF extra).
22:15   Bus back to hotels

End of EMMCVPR'01

Optional,Thursday, September 6th
Visit of the Computer Vision & Image Processing research groups at INRIA Sophia Antipolis

 
9:30
Bus from hotels
10:00-13:00
Ariana - Epidaure - Robotovis 
13:00-14:00
Lunch at the INRIA cafeteria
14:00-16:00
Chir - Icare - Orion