BMVA
British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
Call for Participation
Detection vs Tracking
www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings
One Day BMVA symposium at the British Computer Society, 5 Southampton
St., London, WC2E 7HA on 5th July 2006
Chair: Richard Bowden, CVSSP, University of Surrey
Due to its proximity to the Visual Recognition meeting on the 1st of March
the Detection vs Tracking meeting was postponed until July 5th. Prof Andrew
Blake of Microsoft Research has agreed to give a keynote speech to open the
day and it stands to be an exciting event. A number of authors have already
submitted contributions for the meeting but with the additional time
available we have decided to reopen the call to allow others to contribute.
Authors who have already submitted contributions will also have the
opportunity to refresh their submission should they wish. They will be
contacted directly in the near future.
The development and exploitation of techniques such as AdaBoost and Salient
regions (to name but two) have brought about a new level of performance in
robust object detection. Little or no a priori information of object
location or pose is used. Detection is often performed over the entire
image space (scale and translation) and many detection schemes are affine
invariant. Such approaches, in many ways, are contrary to the general
assumptions of tracking where motion dynamics and local search strategies
are actively used to localise detection and achieve temporal consistency in
object labelling. This symposium does not support either school but seeks
to provoke stimulating discussion around the benefits or disadvantages of
approaches. Work in either robust, fast detection or novel tracking
approaches are welcome but specific importance will be given to liminal
work which attempts to bring these approaches together.
Please submit an extended summary of about one A4-sized page (no longer
than two pages) in length (PDF preferred). Send contributions by email
attachment (1Mb max please!) to Richard Bowden ([log in to unmask]) 15th
May 2006.
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