BMVA
British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition

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       	Call for Participation
Vision meets Graphics: Sketch, Photography and Depiction
One Day BMVA technical meeting in London, UK, on 30th March 2011
Chairs:	Paul Rosin and Yukun Lai (Cardiff University)
John Collomosse (University of Surrey), Peter Hall (University of Bath)

Recent years have seen the convergence of computer graphics and computer 
vision.  In particular, image processing and computer vision techniques 
provide computer graphics with the means to create richer models and 
renderings than is practically possible when using purely synthetic 
models. Several (overlapping) streams of this convergence have become 
dominant:
- image based rendering − Instead of requiring a priori 3D scene models 
or 3D model reconstruction, image based rendering generates 
photorealistic new images from other images, often using large 
collections of captured photos or pre-rendered images.
- expressive rendering and depiction − when applied to photographs the 
aim is to re-render imagery in an artistic style, e.g. painting, 
drawing, cartoon.  Studying this process yields insights into visual 
structure that transfer to computer vision tasks such as sketch parsing 
and multimedia retrieval.
- computational photography − aims to overcome limitations of 
traditional cameras with functions such as high dynamic range imaging, 
all-focus imaging, relighting, synthesising new views or impossible 
photos, motion magnification, etc.
This new area of computer graphics/computer vision convergence has many 
possible applications, such as augmented environments, 
videoconferencing, post-production of films, computer games, interactive 
TV, education and training, video-based consumer electronics and 
scientific imaging.

Topic areas of the meeting include but are not limited to:
- Nonphotorealistic rendering from images/video
- Expressive rendering
- Style transfer
- Graphics models for vision applications
- Non-traditional camera models
- Vision for scientific visualisation
- Visual composition
- Sketch models and sketch input
- Computational photography
- Image and video editing with semantic analysis
- Image synthesis using sketches/database
- Model acquisition from images and video, for graphics  and 
visualisation applications

Please submit an extended summary of one A4-sized page length in length 
(PDF preferred). Send Abstracts by email attachment (5Mb max please) to 
Paul Rosin ([log in to unmask]) by 24th January 2011.

Dr Dimitrios Makris
Reader
Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics
Kingston University, London

Tel: +44 20 8417 7082
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