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ECVision Research Roadmap
[23 August 2005]
Artificial Cognitive Systems
[18 May 2005]
New Cognitive Vision Course
[17 May 2005]
New Annotated Bibliography
[30 March 2005]
Application Prize Press Cuttings
[28 March 2005]
SA 12-1 - Report Available
[12 March 2004]
ECVision Contract Ends
[28 February 2005]
Final ECVision Meeting Documents
[12 February 2005]
CVonline
[7 February 2005]
Overview Software Frameworks for Use in Cognitive Vision Approaches
[2 February 2005]
Final ECVision Meeting
[25 January 2005]
Cognitive Vision System wins BCS Prize
[25 January 2005]
New Cognitive Systems Call
[28 November 2004]
FP6 Cognitive Systems Projects
[28 November 2004]
New Image Dataset
[16 October 2004]
Education / Online Books
[13 October 2004]
IST Conference – ECVision Organization of Cognitive Systems Events
[13 October 2004]
Research Roadmap
[11 October 2004]
SA 25-1 - Workshop on Generic Object Recognition & Categorization
[9 October 2004]
SA 12-1 - Student Exchange
[21 September 2004]
Update of ECVision Bibliography
[19 September 2004]
Fifth Periodic Managment Report
[13 September 2004]
Research Roadmap
[6 September 2004]
Cognitive Vision in a Nutshell!
[3 September 2004]
5th Six-Monthly Meeting
New Member
[10 August 2004]
SA 16-2 - Student Exchange
[14 July 2004]
Special Issue of AI Magazine
[12 July 2004]
Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox Complete
[10 July 2004]
New Member
[8 July 2004]
Fourth Periodic Managment Report
[23 June 2004]
5th Six-Monthly Meeting
Inx Systems Wins Prize
[8 June 2004]
Best Paper Prize Goes to Okuma et al.
[8 June 2004]
Motris Framework for 3-D Model-based Tracking
[6 June 2004]
IST Workprogramme 2005-2006
[18 May 2004]
2nd Summer School on Cognitive Vision
[24 April 2004]
Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox
[22 April 2004]
Imprecise Knowledge Representations in Cognitive Vision
[21 April 2004]
New Member
[21 April 2004]
ECVision Research Roadmap
[5 April 2004]
Tutorial on Cognitive Vision Systems
[27 March 2004]
Staff/Student Exchange - Specific Action 13-3
[20 February 2004]
CVPR 2004 Workshop on Generic Object Recognition and Categorization
[18 February 2004]
Colloquium on Cognitive Computer Vision
[16 February 2004]
ECCV 2004 Workshop on Statistical Learning for Computer Vision
[11 February 2004]
2nd Summer School on Cognitive Computer Vision
[11 February 2004]
4th Six-Monthly Meeting
[10 February 2004]
Dagstuhl Seminar 03441
[10 February 2004]
MPEG-7 library
[10 February 2004]
New Member
[11 January 2004]
ECVision Student and Staff Exchanges
[8 January 2004]
ECCV 2004 Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision - WAPCV 2004
[8 January 2004]
ECCV 2004 Workshop on “Real World Issues in Animate Vision”
[24 December 2003]
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Cognitive Computer Vision
[24 December 2003]
Mid-Term Review Report
[18 December 2003]
Overview of software Frameworks for Use in Cognitive Vision Approaches
[16 November 2003]
Specific Action 7-3 - Industrial Activity - Project Liaison
[16 November 2003]
New Member
[4 November 2003]
Cognitive Computer Vision Colloquium
[25 September 2003]
New Member
[21 September 2003]
Summer School 2003
[21 September 2003]
New Format Fourth Six-Monthly Meeting
[21 September 2003]
Mid-Term Review and Third Six-Monthly Meeting
[20 September 2003]
Specific Action 39-1 - Cognitive Computer Vision Colloquium
[11 September 2003]
Summer School 2003
[10 September 2003]
New Member
[23 August 2003]
Mid-Term Review and Third Six-Monthly Meeting
[10 August 2003]
SA 16-1 - Student Exchange
[9 August 2003]
Cognitive Vision Model Syllabus
[19 July 2003]
MSc and PhD Project Topics
[19 July 2003]
Second Managment Report
[29 June 2003]
Call for Proposals on Cognitive Systems - Support Document Available.
[21 June 2003]
SA 21-1: Imprecise Spatial Information
[17 June 2003]
Indexed and Annotated Bibliography
[14 June 2003]
White Paper
[4 May 2003]
Database of European Vision Vendors
[4 May 2003]
Second Six-Monthly Meeting
[17 April 2003]
Information Day on Cognitive Systems
[16 April 2003]
Research Roadmap
[8 April 2003]
EU Computer Vision Groups
[2 April 2003]
New Member
[30 March 2003]
Second Six-Monthly Meeting
[19 March 2003]
Research Planning Meeting
[16 February 2003]
Draft Cognitive Vision Model Syllabus
[15 February 2003]
New Member
[13 January 2003]
New Member
[3 January 2003]
CCV Ontology Specific Action
[15 December 2002]
First Managment Report
[4 December 2002]
New Members
[15 November 2002]
Jobs Offered and Available
[23 September 2002]
All Members Now Eligible for Funding
[20 September 2002]
Next ECVision Meeting
[20 September 2002]
Dagstuhl Seminar on Cognitive Vision Systems
[16 September 2002]
Simplification of Six-Monthly Cost Statements
[15 September 2002]
First Six-Monthly Meeting
[14 September 2002]
New Member
[9 September 2002]
Bibliography Specific Action
[30 August 2002]
Change in Domain Name to ecvision.org
[27 August 2002]
New Member
[11 August 2002]
CVonline Restructured
[27 June 2002]
Information->Links Re-Organized
[26 June 2002]
More Specific Actions Launched
[12 June 2002]
New Members
[11 June 2002]
ECCV Best Paper Prize in Cognitive Vision
[5 June 2002]
Information->Link Updates
[28 May 2002]
First Specific Actions Launched
[3 May 2002]
Guidelines for Contributors to the ECVision Website
[1 May 2002]
Guidelines for ECVision Specific Actions
[1 May 2002]
First Call For Papers For BMCV 2002 - Biologically Motivated Computer Vision Workshop 2002
[23 April 2002]
ECVision email distribution lists
[14 April 2002]
Official ECVision Website Launched
[10 April 2002]
3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Systems ICVS'03
[9 April 2002]
Special Issue of the AI magazine on Cognitive Vision Systems
[6 April 2002]
ECVision Discussion Forum
[5 April 2002]
ECVision Research Roadmap
[5 April 2002]
ECVision Kickoff Meeting
[4 April 2002]
 Version 5.0 of the roadmap is now available Click here or, alternatively, go to menu item Research Planning->Research Roadmap.
The main changes are:
Sections 4.3 and 4.3.1: updated to reflect the findings in the ECVision white paper on industrial applications of cognitive vision.
Sections 5.1.1, 5.1.2, and 5.1.3: added examples of cognitivist, emergent, and hybrid vision systems, respectively.
Section 5.2: added an additional critique of emergent and hybrid systems.
[posted on 23 August 2005]
A report on the Workshop 'Future Trends in Artificial Cognitive Systems'
is available here .
This workshop, organised jointly by ECVision and Unit INFSO/E5 (“Cognition”) of the European Commission, was held in Frankfurt Airport Conference Centre, 9th and 10th of December, 2004.
The report was authored by Hans-Georg Stork. You are invited to give feedback on the report; please send your comments to the author Hans-Georg.Stork@cec.eu.int
Other relevant documents can be found at http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_e/cognition/presentations.htm
[posted on 18 May 2005]
Hilary Buxton and Kingsley Sage, University of Sussex, have prepared a new course on cognitive computer vision: click here!
The preparation of this course was funded by ECVision under Specific Action 8-3
For more information click here!
[posted on 17 May 2005]
The bibliography has been updated and now contains 700 indexed and annotated entries: click here! . [posted on 30 March 2005]
Application Prize Press Cuttings The ECVision Prize for the Best Application Development in Cognitive Vision Systems was won by Inx Systems Corp., Finland; click here for details and press cuttings. [posted on 28 March 2005]
The report on a student exchange between the Graz University of Technology and the University of Oxford is now available.
See: menu item Information->Specific Action Status or click here for more details.
[posted on 12 March 2004]
Today is the last official day of the ECVision contract. However, it is not the end of the ECVision project.
The website will continue to be maintained for the foreseeable future (the hosting charges are paid up for another year and I'm sure we will find someone to cover this cost for future years).
The members@ecvision.org mailing list will also be maintained although we will have to cancel the executive@ecvision.org mailing list (we only get one Mailman list free with the hosting plan).
[posted on 28 February 2005]
Final ECVision Meeting Documents Documents and presentations for the sixth and final six-monthly meeting of ECVision are now available.
The full list of documents is can be accessed here www.ecvision.org/information/Sixth_Six-Monthly_Meeting.htm.
[posted on 12 February 2005]
Some vision books are now online
CVonline now has a list of all books (about 300) that are relevant to computer vision (books on image processing, machine vision, computer vision, visual psychophysics, etc). Conference proceedings and books that were lightly edited conference proceedings are not included.
Even better news, about 40 of these books/resources/book support sites are online:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/books.htm
Bob Fisher is currently indexing some of the content of the online books into
This work was undertaken under Specific Action 6-4.
[posted on 7 February 2005]
Overview Software Frameworks for Use in Cognitive Vision Approaches The report is now available.
The Technical University of Vienna and the University of Bielefeld have completed their report which summarizes, compares and evaluates middlewares, software frameworks and architectures that are used or can be used for developments in CV. It will contributes to Deliverable TA 2.10 “Identification of Common Development Environments” but goes well beyond this deliverable in listing and evaluating middleware, frameworks and architectures that can be used as on-line environments to link the different functions expected to be seen in a cognitive vision system.
This work was undertaken under Specific Action 13-2.
The report is available here: TR-SA13-2.pdf (1,463kb).
[posted on 2 February 2005]
The sixth and final six-monthly meeting of ECVision will be held on the 11th February 2005.
The venue is the Frankfurt Airport Conference Centre. For more details, see the agenda.
[posted on 25 January 2005]
Cognitive Vision System wins BCS Prize The BCS Machine Intelligence Prize 2004 was won by a cognitive vision system developed in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds.
The system was developed live at AI-2004 in the final and voted on by the conference audience. The prize is awarded for demonstration towards Machine Intelligence and is sponsored by Electrolux. Leeds' winning entry was a product of the COGVIS research project, in which perceptual learning is integrated with task induction. For more details see http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/chrisn/miprize2004.html.
[posted on 25 January 2005]
Cognitive Systems is one of the Strategic Objectives of IST Call 4,
published 19 November 2004 (closing date: 22 March 2005). For further details, see: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_e/cognition/highlights.htm and
For background information please consult the IST Cognition website at http://www.cordis.lu/cognition .
[posted on 28 November 2004]
FP6 Cognitive Systems Projects
A brief overview of the eight projects
that were launched in 2004 is contained in a presentation prepared for the IST Networking Session on Cognitive Systems
You can access the website of each project through the ECVision menu. Just select menu: Information->IST Cognitive Systems Projects
[posted on 28 November 2004]
The CAVIAR project has made available its dataset of ground truth labeled video sequences.
This is a collection of hand-labelled ground truth image for 81 video sequences comprising about 90K frames.
For details on how to access this dataset, see this page http://www.ecvision.org/information/CAVIAR.htm#dataset
[posted on 16 October 2004]
Specific Action 6-4
The main goal of this specific action is to compile a complete list of all published computer vision and image processing monographs and textbooks, excluding conference proceedings. It is estimated that there about 100-200 books. This list will be entered into CVonline. The authors will then be contacted the and asked for donations of online versions of the books, to be a) linked into the list and additionally b) indexed into CVonline.
It is estimated that only about 5-10 books will be available in this form. If we do not get many books to index, then we will use some of the time and budget to arrange for scanning of 1-2 key books.
Some books are already online, at: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/books.htm
[posted on 13 October 2004]
IST Conference – ECVision Organization of Cognitive Systems Events Specific Action 7-4
This specific action has been awarded to support the effort of ECVision to organize a exhibition stand and networking session at the the forthcoming IST 2004 conference, 15-17 November, The Hague, Netherlands.
On Tuesday 16th November, there will be two important networking sessions organised by ECVision and the EU Cognition unit:
9:00-10:30 A VISION FOR COGNITION: Cognitive Vision and Cognitive Systems in Europe (session 437) Presentation and panel discussion on cognitive vision
AND
11:00-12:30 Cognitive Systems in the FP6 IST Programme an information session on mechanisms in FP6 and FP7 (session 420)
At 10:30 there will also be a demonstration of a cognitive robot system.
You can register for these sessions online at:
Cognitive Vision projects will also represented at the Exhibition Both the Vampire project, and at an Ecvision stand.
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2004/cf/viewexhibdetail.cfm?exhib_id=381
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2004/cf/viewexhibdetail.cfm?exhib_id=385
Registration information can be found at
[posted on 13 October 2004]
The first official version of the ECVision Research Roadmap of Cognitive Vision, version 4.0, is now available.
Click here.
Or, alternatively, go to menu item Research Planning->Research Roadmap.
[posted on 11 October 2004]
SA 25-1 - Workshop on Generic Object Recognition & Categorization The workshop report and presentations are now available.
See: menu item Research Planning->SA 25-1 Object Recognition & Categorization Workshop or click here for more details.
[posted on 9 October 2004]
A student exchange between the Graz University of Technology and the University of Oxford has recently been approved.
See: menu item Information->Specific Action Status or click here for more details.
[posted on 21 September 2004]
Update of ECVision Bibliography The ECVision indexed and annotated bibliography of cognitive computer vision publications has been updated and now includes 485 entries, an increase of over 100.
You can access it at menu item Information->Indexed and Annotated Bibliography or directly at: www.ecvision.org/bibliography/Indexed_and_Annotated_Bibliography.htm.
[posted on 19 September 2004]
Fifth Periodic Managment Report The fifth six-monthly management report for the period March 2004 to August 2004 is now available; click here.
Or, alternatively, go to menu item Information->Administrative Documents->Periodic Management Reports.
[posted on 13 September 2004]
The first complete draft of the ECVision Research Roadmap of Cognitive Vision is now available.
Click here.
Or, alternatively, go to menu item Research Planning->Research Roadmap.
[posted on 6 September 2004]
Cognitive Vision in a Nutshell! Want to find out more about cognitive vision and the ECVision Network? Here's a quick overview ...
This article was written for a general technical audience to introduce them to the challenges and capabilities of
[posted on 3 September 2004]
The next six-monthly meeting will be held on Friday 24th September 2004 in Frankfurt Airport Conference Centre. The meeting will be devoted mainly to the finalization of the first draft of the ECVision Research Roadmap.
The meeting will start at 10:30 and finish at 16:30. This should allow most participants to arrive and depart on the same day.
A copy of the Roadmap document will be available on the website by the 7th September.
[posted on 2 September 2004]
Justus Piater, University of Liège, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of his interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 10 August 2004]
A student exchange between the University of Bielefeld and the University of Surrey has recently been approved.
See: menu item Information->Specific Action Status or click here for more details.
[posted on 14 July 2004]
A special issue of AI Magazine on cognitive systems has been published. The volume can be seen at http://www.aaai.org/Library/Magazine/Vol25/25-02/vol25-02.html.
It can also be accessed from the ECVision website at menu item Information->Links->Journals->AI Magazine - Special Issue on Cognitive Systems.
[posted on 12 July 2004]
Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox Complete
A new and improved version of a Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox from the Centre for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University in Prague is now available.
It can be accessed at:
Both supervised and unsupervised learning methods are included in the toolbox which has proved to be very useful in prototyping including cognitive vision tasks, e.g. in human face detection.
Documentation has been improved, demos tailored to cognitive vision tasks have been included, and a series of (self) teaching lessons have been prepared to lead the user in her/his first tour through the toolbox.
This version of the toolbox was generated with the assistance of ECVision Specific Action 39-2.
[posted on 10 July 2004]
Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of his interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 8 July 2004]
Fourth Periodic Managment Report The fourth six-monthly management report for the period September 2003 to February 2004 is now available; click here.
Or, alternatively, go to menu item Information->Administrative Documents->Periodic Management Reports.
[posted on 23 June 2004]
The next six-monthly meeting will be held on Friday 24th September 2004 in Frankfurt Airport Conference Centre. The meeting will be devoted mainly to the finalization of the first draft of the ECVision Research Roadmap.
The meeting will start at 10:30 and finish at 16:30. This should allow most participants to arrive and depart on the same day.
It is hoped to circulate a copy of the Roadmap document to all partners by July 2004.
[posted on 21 June 2004]
The ECVision Prize for the Best Application Development in Cognitive Vision Systems has been won by Inx Systems Corp., Finland.
For more information on the competition, the prize, and the winning entry,
[posted on 8 June 2004]
Best Paper Prize Goes to Okuma et al. The ECVision Prize for Best Paper in Cognitive Vision at ECCV 2004 was awarded to:
K. Okuma, A. Taleghani, N. de Freitas, J. Little, and D. Lowe. "A boosted particle filter: Multitarget detection and tracking." In T. Pajdla and J. Matas, editors, Proceeding of the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2004, volume I of LNCS, pages 28–39. Springer, 2004.
The paper captures a key aspect of the cognitive vision paradigm in its use of adaptively learned models to leverage improved performance from already-robust vision capabilities.
[posted on 8 June 2004]
Motris Framework for 3-D Model-based Tracking Hans-Hellmut Nagel, University of Karlsruhe, has kindly made available the Motris ("Model-Based Tracking in Image Sequences") framework for 3-D model-based tracking under a GNU Lesser General Public Licence at: http://kogs.iaks.uni-karlsruhe.de/motris/
Motris was developed as a successor to XTrack and its main purpose is to provide a flexible framework for exploration and exchange of ideas as well as to faciliate comparisons between algorithmic approaches.
Motris is written entirely in Java for full platform independence. It splits 3D tracking into smaller sub-problems which can be combined and exchanged independently. This way, each sub-problem can be optimized independently and different approaches to the same subproblem can be compared without external influences such as differences (and bugs) in the other parts of the tracker.
Its features include:
- Support for rigid or articulated models, possibly combined hierarchially (for example both humans and vehicles)
The University of Karlsruhe gratefully acknowledges partial support of this project by the European Union
[posted on 6 June 2004]
The results of an on-line consultation by the European Commission on the orientation its future workprogramme in the "Cognitive Systems" domain is available on the CORDIS website.
Copies of contribution to a related workshop on 23 April 2004 in Luxembourg are also available on this site.
[posted on 18 May 2004]
2nd Summer School on Cognitive Vision Activotel, Bonn, Germany, August 16-20, 2004
The goal of the summer school is to provide an intensive and challenging introduction to the area of cognitive computer vision. The summer school modules will be given by acknowledged experts in each key area:
- Bob Fisher, UK
The objective is to provide post-graduate students with a comprehensive introduction to all of the constituent areas of cognitive vision. This will help create a new generation of researchers in the area and will help maximize the impact of the ECVision network in the long run. In addition, it will provide practising researchers with an opportunity to learn about areas outside their main speciality and, hence, foster the cross-fertilization of ideas that is essential for real progress in the area.
Please refer to the home page
Wolfgang Förstner
[posted on 24 April 2004]
Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox Specific Action 39-2
The Centre for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University in Prague, has made available a Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox on the internet at
Both supervised and unsupervised learning methods are part of
Vasek Hlavac has been awarded a Specific Action to make this Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox more easily accessible to users: (a) researchers, (b) teachers, and (c) students, improving documentation, and tailoring demos to cognitive vision tasks. In addition, a series of (self) teaching lessons will be prepared to lead the user in her/his first tour through the toolbox.
[posted on 22 April 2004]
Imprecise Knowledge Representations in Cognitive Vision Specific Action 21-2
A second specific action has been launched to extend the CCV Ontology on aspects related to imprecise knowledge representation in cognitive vision, tools and methods for dealing with imprecise spatial information, and information fusion issues and methods. This is a follow-up action to SA 21-1.
This new contribution will contain a formal method description for both fuzzy sets and belief functions.
This action is being undertaken by Isabelle Bloch, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications COMMUNICATIONS (see members menu "Members->List of Members" http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm on the website for contact details).
The following is an outline of the issues that will be addressed.
Knowledge representation and uncertainty in images
Reasoning
Numerical methods for information fusion and decision making
2 Belief function theory
3 Fuzzy and possibilistic fusion
Spatial information in fusion
[posted on 21 April 2004]
Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of his interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 21 April 2004]
New working documents developed at the recent six-montly meeting are now available.
Full details can be found here
Members are encouraged to comment on these documents. In particular, members are asked to provide information they feel should be included under any of the headings in the Proposed Outline Structure, with references where appropriate.
[posted on 5 April 2004]
Tutorial on Cognitive Vision Systems Gösta Granlund and Michael Felsberg will be presenting a tutorial on 'Cognitive vision systems: representation and organization' at ICPR 2004, Cambridge, United Kingdom on August 22.
Full details can be found on the ICPR website at: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/icpr2004/tutorials/Cognitivevisionsystems_000.htm
[posted on 27 March 2004]
Staff/Student Exchange - Specific Action 13-3
Walter Kropatsch has been awarded a specific action to fund a ten-day visit by Zygmunt Pizlo to the Vienna University of Technology in May/June 2004.
The aim of the visit is to initiate a collaboration on the study of pyramid algorithms as models of human cognition.
[posted on 20 February 2004]
CVPR 2004 Workshop on Generic Object Recognition and Categorization Specific Action 25-1
This workshop aims to bring together the leading researchers in the field of generic object recognition and appearance-based object categorization in order to discuss and consolidate the state of the art in the field.
In order to achieve the most stimulating discussions around the theme of generic object recognition and visual object categorization, 12 presentations will be made by well-known researchers in the field with a record in the area of generic object recognition and visual object categorization. The workshop day will be concluded by a general discussion by all workshop participants about current and future trends in the field.
The presentation by the 12 invited speakers will include a retrospective of their past research, highlights of their current research, as well their vision for future research. More specifically, each invited speaker will be asked to give a perspective on their approach. In particular they should discuss to what extent the object representations the researchers have worked with scale up to categories? Which representations suit the task of generic object modeling? How much attention should be devoted to perceptual grouping? How should we address the problems of indexing and matching? What is the role of learning in solving these problems? What are the major challenges facing generic object recognition and categorization?
It is planned to take a broad view on the problem, including speakers from both computer vision and human vision. Furthermore, while traditional work in generic object recognition assumed higher level object descriptions (whether 2-D viewer-centered or 3-D object-centered), recent work closer to the appearance level has suggested that some lower level features may be su_cient for at least some categorization problems. On this representational spectrum, we also want a balance, including speakers from different camps. We’re not promoting a particular methodology, but trying to solicit feedback from the broadest collection possible of those working in generic object recognition and categorization, including those from the human vision community, who can bring psychophysical and neuroscience arguments to the table.
The workshop itself will take place on Sunday, June 27, 2004 Washington DC.
The specific action will contribute towards the travel costs of invited speakers.
The workshop website can be accessed at http://www.vision.ethz.ch/cvpr04-gorc/
[posted on 18 February 2004]
Colloquium on Cognitive Computer Vision A report on the colloquium on cognitive computer vision organized by The Czech Technical University in Prague on January 12 and 13, 2004, is available here [posted on 16 February 2004]
ECCV 2004 Workshop on Statistical Learning for Computer Vision Specific Action 33-1
The goal of this workshop is to promote information exchange and technical interaction among researchers working on methods for visual learning, focusing on robust and adaptable techniques, capable of operating in unconstrained environments. Statistical methods have been carried over from the statistical pattern recognition to computer vision and have successfully been used in many applications. However, it is still to be determined how these methods can be used and adapted for multi-modal, continuous, robust learning. Several issues need closer investigation e.g., representations, types of learning (supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement), relations between generative and discriminative methods, etc. For more details please see http://slcv.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/
The workshop will be held on May 15th.
The specific action will contribute towards the travel costs of invited speakers.
[posted on 11 February 2004]
2nd Summer School on Cognitive Computer Vision Specific Action 2-2
A summer school in cognitive computer vision will be held over a 5-day period, from August 16th to August 20th, 2004. The summer school will be held at the Activotel, Much, Germany. It is expected that there will be 60 participants and 8 lecturers.
The goal of the proposed summer school is to provide an intensive and challenging introduction to the area of cognitive computer vision. The summer school modules will be given by acknowledged experts in each key area.
More details will be published on the website in due course.
[posted on 11 February 2004]
The next six-monthly meeting will be held on Friday 26th March 2004 in Frankfurt Airport Conference Centre, Room 06. The format will be different from past meetings and will be devoted exclusively to the research roadmap.
The meeting will start at 10:30 and finish at 16:30. This should allow most participants to arrive and depart on the same day.
[posted on 10 February 2004]
The official report on the Dagstuhl seminar on Cognitive Vision is now available at http://www.dagstuhl.de/03441/Report/). [posted on 10 February 2004]
A free MPEG-7 library is available from JOANNEUM RESEARCH
The MPEG-7 ISO standard to describe multimedia objects is an important
In the course of a series of projects, partially funded by the European
To promote the uptake of MPEG-7, JOANNEUM RESEARCH offers its MPEG-7
If you want to deal with MPEG-7 metadata, and if you do not want to
Application developers can create and manipulate multimedia content
For further information please check the web site or contact us under
On behalf of the JOANNEUM RESEARCH /IIS&IMA team Herwig Rehatschek and
[posted on 10 February 2004]
James Ferryman, University of Reading, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of his interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 11 January 2004]
ECVision Student and Staff Exchanges
Do you know of a student or faculty member that you would like to have work on cognitive vision in your laboratory for a short period but can’t afford to pay their travel and accommodation costs?
If so, ECVision can help.
The ECVision contract makes specific provision for the support of short-term visits to 'foster exchange of ideas through inter-institutional interaction of staff and students.’
To apply for support for an exchange, just submit a proposal for a specific action (instructions for applicants can be found on the ECVision website at: http://www.ecvision.org/information/Funding_for_Specific_Actions.htm).
There are a few simple guidelines for these exchanges:
- The work to be done during in the exchange must have cognitive vision as its focus.
ECVision will make a contribution to subsistence and accommodation costs on the following basis:
- Visits of 10 days or less: €150 per day (normal rate).
For further information, email coordinator@ecvision.org
[posted on 8 January 2004]
ECCV 2004 Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision - WAPCV 2004 Specific Action 37-2
Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, is organizing this workshop at ECCV 2004. The goal is to provide an
[posted on 8 January 2004]
ECCV 2004 Workshop on “Real World Issues in Animate Vision” Specific Action 8-2
Hilary Buxton, University of Sussex, is organizing this workshop at ECCV 2004 with the goal of attracting papers from the Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience communities to complement the CCV research issues and widen dissemination and information gathering to these related disciplines.
UPDATE - DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED
[posted on 24 December 2003]
Probabilistic Graphical Models for Cognitive Computer Vision Specific Action 8-3
The goal of this specific action is to significantly enhance the new Sussex level 3 (and future Masters) spring term courses for the CCV community and to make available extra teaching materials from related projects. The specific action will involve the systematic development of the tutorial examples,
[posted on 24 December 2003]
The Commission report on the mid-term review is now available.
It may be accessed from menu Information->Reviews->Mid-Term Review).
[posted on 18 December 2003]
Overview of software Frameworks for Use in Cognitive Vision Approaches Specific Action 13-2
The Technical University of Vienna and the University of Bielefeld are collaborating on a new specific action.
The objective is to summarise, compare and evaluate middlewares, software frameworks and architectures that are used or can be used for developments in CV. It will contribute the Deliverable TA2.10 “Identification of Common Development Environments”. It will go beyond this deliverable in listing and evaluating middleware, frameworks and architectures that can be used as on-line environments to link the different functions expected to be seen in a cognitive vision system.
[posted on 16 November 2003]
Specific Action 7-3 - Industrial Activity - Project Liaison Patrick Courtney is undertaking a new specific action in industrial liaison.
The goals are to strengthen the impact of industrial activities, to support ECVision member projects (especially those without industrial participation) and their technologies, and to promote the use of resources developed by TA4.
[posted on 16 November 2003]
Filiberto Pla, Universitat Jaume I, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of his interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 4 November 2003]
Cognitive Computer Vision Colloquium The Colloquium Website is now operational.
The Czech Technical University in Prague are organizing a colloquium on January 12 and 13, 2004.
The colloquium will focus on results and problems related to cognitive computer vision. An audience of about 70 participants is expected. Attendance is free to members of ECVision.
See: menu item Information->Specific Action Status or click here for more details.
[posted on 25 September 2003]
Peter Auer, University of Loeben, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of his interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 21 September 2003]
Full set of lecture notes are now available on-line
These may be accessed from menu "Education and Training->Summer School on Cognitive Vision 2003" (www.ecvision.org/education/Summer_School_on_Cognitive_Vision_2003.htm).
[posted on 21 September 2003]
New Format Fourth Six-Monthly Meeting The next six-monthly meeting will be held on the 26th March 2004 in Frankfurt Airport Conference Centre.
The format will be different from past meetings in that it is intended to focus the meeting around a particular topic of research interest. Possible topics include the issue of embodiment in cognitive vision systems, the research roadmap, and the ECVision model curriculum and/or ontology.
[posted on 21 September 2003]
Mid-Term Review and Third Six-Monthly Meeting The Mid-Term Review and the third ECVision six-monthly meeting presentations are available on-line.
The periodic management report and presentations can be accessed at: Mid-Term Review and Third Six-Monthly Meeting.
[posted on 20 September 2003]
Specific Action 39-1 - Cognitive Computer Vision Colloquium The Czech Technical University in Prague are organizing a colloquium on January 12 and 13, 2004.
The colloquium will focus on results and problems related to cognitive computer vision. An audience of about 70 participants is expected. Attendance is free to members of ECVision.
See: menu item Information->Specific Action Status or click here for more details.
[posted on 11 September 2003]
Lecture notes are now available on-line
These may be accessed from menu "Education and Training->Summer School on Cognitive Vision 2003" (www.ecvision.org/education/Summer_School_on_Cognitive_Vision_2003.htm).
[posted on 10 September 2003]
Rainer Malaka, European Media Laboratory GmbH, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of EML's interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 23 August 2003]
Mid-Term Review and Third Six-Monthly Meeting The Mid-Term Review and the third ECVision six-monthly meeting will be held on the 19th September
The venue for the review/meeting is the Conference Centre, Frankfurt Airport. The review/meeting will start at 10:00 and finish at 17:00. This should allow most participants to arrive and depart on the same day.
A provisional agenda for the meeting can be accessed at: Mid-Term Review and Third Six-Monthly Meeting.
[posted on 10 August 2003]
A student exchange between the University of Bielefeld and the University of Surrey has recently been approved.
See: menu item Information->Specific Action Status or click here for more details.
[posted on 9 August 2003]
Cognitive Vision Model Syllabus
The Cognitive Vision Model Syllabus now has been linked to the Annotated Bibliography,
so clicking on a topic not only gets on-line materials but also citations (where either are known).
See: menu item Education and Training->Draft Cognitive Vision Model Syllabus.
Many thanks to Thor List, Helmut Cantzler, Benoit Gaillard and Hilary Buxton with help in this and also in filling out the syllabus - about 75% of the entries now have content.
[posted on 19 July 2003]
The ECVision Education team have created a project topics page at:
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbf/CCVO/projects.htm or menu item 'Education and Training->MSc and PhD Project Topics' on the ECVision website.
What is needed for the page is:
1) title
[posted on 19 July 2003]
The second six-monthly periodic management report is now available; click here.
Or, alternatively, go to menu item Information->Administrative Documents->Periodic Management Reports.
[posted on 29 June 2003]
Call for Proposals on Cognitive Systems - Support Document Available. The Commission has issued a support document describing the call, the domain of cognitive systems, and the types of research questions that it expects will be addressed by proposals.
Specifically, the document aims to provide a clear definition of the scientific and technological domain cognitive systems as covered by the call and anticipate the information needed for individuals to provide proposals that are interesting, achievable and within the scope of the call.
It can be downloaded from: CS-Support_Document-v2.pdf (152kb) or via menu News->Call for Proposals on Cognitive Systems.
[posted on 21 June 2003]
SA 21-1: Imprecise Spatial Information
The first version of the results of Specific Action 2-1, dealing with imprecise spatial information in cognitive vision, is now available.
[posted on 17 June 2003]
Indexed and Annotated Bibliography The ECVision indexed and annotated bibliography of cognitive computer vision publications has now been formally launched.
The bibliography currently has over 350 entries and it will be updated periodically (members will be notified when this happens).
You can access it at menu item Information->Indexed and Annotated Bibliography or directly at: Indexed and Annotated Bibliography.
[posted on 14 June 2003]
A white paper on industrial applications of cognitive vision is now available
at menu item Industrial Liaison->White Paper on Industrial Applications or directly at: White Paper on Industrial Applications (843kB).
[posted on 4 May 2003]
Database of European Vision Vendors
An updated version of the database of European vision vendors is available
at menu item Industrial Liaison->Database of Vision Vendors or directly at: Database of Vision Vendors.
[posted on 4 May 2003]
Meeting notes and presentations from the second ECVision six-monthly meeting held in Graz on the 4th April can be accessed at: Second Six-Monthly Meeting. [posted on 17 April 2003]
Information Day on Cognitive Systems June 20, 2003, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
The second call for proposals under the IST component of the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme will be published on June 17, 2003. The closing date is October 15, 2003.
This call will invite proposals addressing cognitive systems (artificial systems that combine perception, action, reasoning and learning and that derive inspiration from biological intelligence).
The Commission is holding an information day specifically on this call for proposals in Cognitive Systems on June 20, in Kirchberg, Luxembourg.
Full details, including a registration form, can be downloaded from: Information_Day_on_Cognitive_Systems.pdf (132kb) or via menu News->Information Day on Cognitive Systems.
[posted on 16 April 2003]
Version 2.5 of the ECVision cognitive vision research roadmap is now available.
The full document can be accessed at: ECVisionRoadMapv2.5.pdf (145kb) or via menu Research Planning->Working Documents->Research Roadmap v2.5 25-3-03.
[posted on 8 April 2003]
A list of all active computer vision groups in Europe is now available on this website.
This list of groups was compiled and edited by Danica Kragic and Henrik I Christensen, Computational Vision and Active Perception, Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
The list is currently configured as one large indexed html file. In the future, it is hoped to reconfigure it as an indexed page with separate pages for each individual group (in much the same way as the members list is maintained).
The list can be accessed at: EU Computer Vision Groups or via menu Research Planning->EU Computer Vision Groups.
[posted on 2 April 2003]
Fiora Pirri, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Autonomous Agents Laboratory for Cognitive Robotics, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of their interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 30 March 2003]
The second ECVision six-monthly meeting will be held in the Hotel Weitzer, Graz, on the 4th April.
The agenda for the meeting can be accessed at: Second Six-Monthly Meeting.
[posted on 19 March 2003]
The second meeting of the Research Roadmap Committee was held on the 13th February in Amsterdam.
The current version of the Research Roadmap document can be accessed on the website on the Research Planning menu "Research Planning->Working Documents->Research Roadmap". The Research Planning menu also contains a number of other useful background documents.
Members of the committee are presently working on the next version of the roadmap. Contributions will be submitted to Jim Crowley by Friday 28 February.
The goal of the committee is to have a draft document for circulation and comment at ICVS in Graz the 1-3 April 2003.
If any member would like to make a contribution to the writing please contact Jim Crowley (James.Crowley@inrialpes.fr) and please be prepared to submit your contribution by 28 February.
[posted on 16 February 2003]
Draft Cognitive Vision Model Syllabus The Education team has been developing a syllabus resource for cognitive computer vision education.
The first public draft of the resource is at:
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbf/CCVO/cvsyldraft.htm
Or, via the ECVision website at Menu item "Education & Training->Draft Cognitive Vision Model Syllabus"
This is a different resource from the Ontology (at http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbf/CCVO/CCVOentry.htm) which tries to lay out a view of the structure of Cognitive Computer Vision.
Bob Fisher and Wolfgang Forstner write:
"As a syllabus, we are proposing that this is what should be taught in a comprehensive course on Cognitive Computer Vision. Recognising that what might actually be taught is a subset of this material, we have tried to structure this as a resource, meaning that the given topics are recommended, but the choice of topics for any particular course is up to the lecturer.
There are many technologies that could have been included, but we are proposing those that we thought had the greatest value for Cognitive Vision systems, and are likely to be the foundation for the summer school course and textbook. This is not a hierarchy, nor are the topics mutually exclusive.
We have tried to identify the central topics and aimed at a typical full-year course with 54 lecture hours. We think that at a minimum, coverage of each of the five Cognitive Computer Vision subject areas should include an overview, one or more techniques and an example application.
We have tried to be mildly prescriptive about the order of topics, starting with the most important (in our estimation), but are not specifying the method of presentation, nor the depth, all of which will depend on the presenter's preferences and the amount of available time.
With ECVision funding, we are still working at:
(1) identifying a key citation and
(2) collecting online resources
for each topic so you can expect further development.
We would welcome any feedback, suggestions or proposals for key citations on any aspect of the syllabus."
[posted on 15 February 2003]
John Gilby, Sira Ltd., has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of their interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 13 January 2003]
Christof Eberst, Profactor Produktionsforschungs GmbH, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of their interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 3 January 2003]
A specific action has been launched to extend the CCV Ontology on aspects related to imprecise knowledge representation in cognitive vision, tools and methods for dealing with imprecise spatial information, and information fusion issues and methods.
This action is being undertaken by Isabelle Bloch, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications COMMUNICATIONS (see members menu "Members->List of Members" http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm on the website for contact details).
The following is an outline of the issues that will be addressed.
Section 3 - Reasoning
Section 3.2 - Issues:
General definitions of information fusion for decision making
1 Choice of a definition
Fusion in image processing and cognitive vision
1 Objectives
Section 3.3 - Methods:
Bases of fuzzy sets and possibility theory
1 Definition of fuzzy set fundamental concepts
1.1 Fuzzy sets
2 Fuzzy measures
2.1 Fuzzy measure of a crisp set
3 Elements of possibility theory
3.1 Necessity and possibility
4 Operators
4.1 Fuzzy complementation
5 Linguistic variables
5.1 Definition
6 Fuzzy relations
6.1 Definitions
- Reflexivity
6.3 Composition of relations
7 Fuzzy and possibilistic logics
7.1 Fuzzy logic
8 General principles for constructing fuzzy operations from binary ones
8.1 Extension principle
1 Introduction
2 Representation of spatial information
2.1 Fuzzy spatial objects
3 Fuzzy mathematical morphology
3.1 Definitions
4 Fuzzy topology
4.1 Fuzzy connectivity and neighborhood
5 Distances
5.1 Representations
6 Directional relative position between objects
6.1 Main fuzzy approaches
7 Fuzzy classification
8 Local operations for filtering or edge detection
8.1 Functional approaches
[posted on 15 December 2002]
The first six-monthly periodic management report is now available; click here). [posted on 4 December 2002]
Edwin Hancock, University of York, and Majid Mirmehdi, Dave Bull, & Tom Troscianko, University of Bristol, have recently been admitted as members of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of their interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 15 November 2002]
ECVision (Education & Training) now has a Jobs Offered and Available summary at: News->Jobs Offered and Available
on the ECVision home page (http://www.ecvision.org).
Email information about job advertisements or requests to Bob Fisher (rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk).
[posted on 23 September 2002]
All Members Now Eligible for Funding
At the first six-monthly meeting of ECVision, it was agreed to abolish the concept of sponsored membership.
This means that ALL members are now eligible to apply for funding for specific actions. So, if you've got a good idea that contributes to the goals of ECVision, click here and apply for funding for a Specific Action.
[posted on 20 September 2002]
The next ECVision meeting will be held on the morning of the 4th April 2003, directly after ICVS '03 in Graz.
Please note this important date for your diary!
[posted on 20 September 2002]
Dagstuhl Seminar on Cognitive Vision Systems 27.10.03 - 31.10.03
Organisers: Prof. Henrik I Christensen, Stockholm (hic@nada.kth.se)
Background:
Early attempts to integrate AI and vision failed due to lack of robust vision techniques for the derivation of symbolic models of images, and lack of AI techniques to handle information with associated uncertainty. Over the last decade, significant progress has been achieved in computational vision, AI, and computer platforms.
Regarding Computational Vision, the basis in terms of generating models of the environment through use of robust methods, however, is not yet particularly strong. At the same time, the AI community has established new paradigms for handling uncertain information and scalable models. In parallel, the progress in the design and production of highly integrated circuits has resulted in a system performance that facilitates real-time generation and processing of information even from video sinput streams.
Consequently it now becomes a realistic goal to integrate computational vision and AI techniques into cognitive systems for a range of different applications. Cognitive vision systems are interpreted here as system that can recognize, learn, and represent information about the external environment based (primarily) on the evaluation of monocular and binocular images and image sequences.
Objectives of the meeting:
To bring together leading researchers from Computational Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, and Biological Cybernetics to discuss
- The State-of-the-Art in the involved fields
The meeting will be organised with daily sessions devoted to presentations of the State-of-the-Art, a round table discussion at the end of each day to summarise issues as well as to identify obstacles and potential approaches to continued progress.
The presentations at the meeting will be summarised in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag together with reports from the round-table discussions. The outcome is expected to be a key component of a roadmap towards definition of a long-term research strategy for cognitive vision systems.
Participation in the meeting is by invitation only!
[posted on 16 September 2002]
Simplification of Six-Monthly Cost Statements The process for submission of six-monthly cost statements by members has been simplified.
Note that members do not have to submit six-monthly cost statements for any directly reimbursed costs, i.e. costs for travel, computing, other specific costs which have been reimbursed to you by the Coordinator.
Thus, only members claiming labour (and overheads on labour) need submit cost statements and these statements will comprise only labour and overhead costs: no travel, computing, or other costs.
All costs which have been directly reimbursed to you will go on the coordinators cost statement.
[posted on 15 September 2002]
The agenda and details of the venue are now available.
Click here for details: http://www.ecvision.org/information/First_Six-Monthly_Meeting.htm
[posted on 14 September 2002]
Vaclav Hlavac, Head of the Machine Perception Centre, Czech Technical University, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of his interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" or at http://www.ecvision.org/members/VaclavHlavac.htm).
[posted on 9 September 2002]
A specific action has been launched to develop a web-based keyword-indexed bibliography with abstracts of papers.
The keyword indexing will be compatible with the Cognitive Computer Vision Survey Ontology (see http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbf/ccvsyl2.htm).
It is also intended to provide annual distribution of content on CD to all members allowing appendices of video sequences with pointer to site or full pdf papers (depending on copyright restrictions).
This action is being organized by Hilary Buxton, University of Sussex (see members menu "Members->List of Members" http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm on the website for contact details).
[posted on 30 August 2002]
Change in Domain Name to ecvision.org
The ECVision.org website has been unavailable since August 21st.
The ECVision mailman email distribution lists have also been inoperative.
The problem arose from a two-month battle with the domain name registrar to renew the ECVision.org subscription. Despite many attempts to pay the renewal fee (on-line payment, faxed credit card details, and finally an international bank draft) during July and August, all of which were resisted by the registrar, on the 20th August ecvision.org was de-registered 'for non-payment'. It was immediately re-registered by a third party with a different registrar. You may draw your own conclusions.
After considerable discussion, and after investigating several possible alternatives, the Executive Committee decided to adopt ecvision.org as the new domain name. This is now up and running and everyone should update all their links, replacing www.ECVison.org with www.ecvision.org. Apart from the change to the .info TLD (Top Level Domain), everything else should appear the same.
Aside:
The following are two links which explain the usage and penetration of the .info TLD.
http://www.afilias.info/about_info/
http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/1414181
It appears from the latter article that European companies and organizations have been in the vanguard of .info adoption.
[posted on 27 August 2002]
Robert Massen, Director of MASSEN machine vision systems GmbH, has been admitted as a member of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of his interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" or at http://www.ecvision.org/members/RobertMassen.htm).
[posted on 11 August 2002]
The Education and Training specific action to restructure CVonline is nearly complete.
This should make the hierarchical structure of CVonline (and thus the computer vision topic relationships) much more apparent.
You can see the results on the subject pages at:
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/CVonline/
Many thanks to Bob Fisher for doing this.
Postscript from Bob:
CVonline is about to have its 100,000th visitor, each of which accesses about 4 topics.
There are about 1319 topics indexed, of which about 793 have content.
For the 793, there are 1652 contributions (+another 10-20 to add still).
About 60% were accessed in the past week (hard to tell exactly because web robots also access CVonline. We want this because it helps users.)
[posted on 27 June 2002]
Information->Links Re-Organized With the goal of making the ECVision website a useful resource for researchers, the links menu now allows to access over 100 sites.
The menu is organized under the following headings:
- IST Cognitive Vision Projects
It's a long way from being complete so send in any URLs that you think should be included.
A special plea for the Links->Papers menu: please send me the links to any pdf or html versions of papers you think would be generally useful (alternatively, send me the pdf version and we'll host it on the ECVision site).
Finally, if you notice any broken links, please report them (just copy the URL to the enquiry box on the front page and submit it).
[posted on 26 June 2002]
More Specific Actions Launched Two specific actions have been launched in the Industrial Liaison Area.
The first is develop a white paper on applications of cognitive vision systems, collating knowledge of existing systems and industry opinion on future trends in cognitive system systems in the EU. The white paper will be based primarily on a workshop bringing together several industrial players with an interest/experience in cognitive vision applications to brainstorm where we are now, what the key trends are, what the short, medium and long term applications are area, and what are the main barriers. The white paper should be complete by September 2002.
The second specific action is to organize a prize for best application development in cognitive vision systems. This will be awarded either at the end of the current year or early in 2003.
Both actions are being organized by Patrick Courtney, PBConsulting (see members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm) on the website for contact details).
[posted on 12 June 2002]
Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, and Jeanny Herault, INPG, have recently been admitted as members of ECVision.
Contact details and a profile of their interests and activities can be found on the members menu "Members->List of Members" (http://www.ecvision.org/members/List_of_Members.htm).
[posted on 11 June 2002]
ECCV Best Paper Prize in Cognitive Vision P. Duygulu, K. Barnard, J.F.G. de Freitas and D.A. Forsyth were awarded the Best Paper prize on Cognitive Computer Vision at ECCV 2002 for their paper "Object Recognition as Machine Translation: Learning a Lexicon for a Fixed Image Vocabulary".
See http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2353/23530097.htm for an abstract of the paper.
[posted on 5 June 2002]
Several new links have been added to the links menu:
- CogViSys Internet Resources for Cognitive Vision at http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/projects/cvs/resources.html
- Hans-Hellmut Nagel's and Ernest Hirsch's French/German courses on `Vision et Cognition / Visuelle Kognition' at http://viscog.iar.uni-karlsruhe.de/
- The working draft for the results of the survey by The University of Edinburgh and the University of Bonn of the educational activities and resources that exist in the area of cognitive vision at: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/a1afaber/ccvsrv.htm
- CVonline: the Evolving, Distributed, Non-Proprietary, On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision at http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/CVonline/
- The 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Systems ICVS'03 at http://dib.joanneum.at/ICVS03
- Cognitive Vision Workshop, 19-20 September 2002, Zurich, Switzerland at http://cogvis.vision.ee.ethz.ch
[posted on 28 May 2002]
First Specific Actions Launched Two specific actions have been launched in the Education and Training Area.
The first of these involves a restructuring of CVonline to make the vision concept structure more transparent, in preparation for linking in the cognitive vision syllabus that ECVision will be developing.
The restructured CVonline will provide hot content links for the developing cognitive computer vision syllabus, as well as for general worldwide use.
This action is being undertaken by the University of Edinburgh.
--oOo--
The second specific action is a survey of what is already taught worldwide in the area of cognitive computer vision. This will include:
1. definition of task and preliminary survey result to help structure the search
2. survey
3. collation and presentation of survey as a web page
The results of the survey will result in the generation of a web page summarizing the result of the survey, with clickable links to other resources, summarizing topics taught, where taught, by whom, resources available, etc.
The survey is a preliminary to developing the model cognitive computer vision syllabus. The links to resources, existing syllabi and who is teaching what would be usable by the rest of the consortium.
This action is being undertaken by the University of Bonn and the University of Edinburgh.
[posted on 3 May 2002]
Guidelines for Contributors to the ECVision Website
A set of guidelines on the preparation of material for the ECVision website is now available.
Please see menu item "Information->Website->Guidelines for Web Authors" or refer to http://www.ecvision.org/information/Guidelines_for_Web_Authors.htm for full details.
[posted on 1 May 2002]
Guidelines for ECVision Specific Actions
A set of guidelines on the preparation of proposals for the funding of specific actions is now available on the ECVision website.
Please see menu item "Information->Funding for Specific Actions" or refer to http://www.ecvision.org/information/Funding_for_Specific_Actions.htm
[posted on 1 May 2002]
First Call For Papers For BMCV 2002 - Biologically Motivated Computer Vision Workshop 2002
November 22nd-24th, 2002 in Tuebingen, Germany
http://www.bmcv.tuebingen.mpg.de
*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
The aim of this workshop is to show how understanding and modeling human and animal vision can lead to - and indeed is essential for - successful computer vision systems. The workshop will bring together researchers from computer vision and related areas to discuss this increasingly prominent topic of biologically motivated systems.
In this context we would also like to encourage contributions from neighboring research fields such as neuroscience, visual psychophysics and robotics.
Contributions are sought for topics including, but not limited to:
Active vision
*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***
Please follow the author guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) given by Springer where you can also find LaTeX and MS-Word templates. Please use only these formats for your submissions!
*** WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ***
*** INFORMATION ABOUT TUEBINGEN ***
[posted on 23 April 2002]
ECVision email distribution lists Two email lists are now available: ECVision@lists.ecvision.org and executive@lists.ecvision.org
To send email to all members of ECVision, send your message to: ECVision@lists.ecvision.org
To send email to the members of the Executive Committee, send your message to: executive@lists.ecvision.org
At present, subscription to the ECVision@lists.ecvision.org list is restricted to ECVision members.
[posted on 14 April 2002]
Official ECVision Website Launched
Members are encouraged to contribute to the site and comments/suggestions are welcome;
see Guidelines for Web Authors for further details.
Members should also make sure that their contact details are up to date; see List of Members.
[posted on 10 April 2002]
3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Systems ICVS'03 First Announcement and Call for Contributions
"Special Topic: Cognitive Vision Systems"
http://dib.joanneum.at/ICVS03 (available shortly)
SCOPE
ICVS solicits original, unpublished high quality scientific papers on the design, control and evaluation of vision systems. The conference is particularly interested in papers providing methods for the following problems.
Original, high quality, scientific papers of at most 10 pages (Springer LNCS Format) are solicited for inclusion in a single track program. Papers will be reviewed by an international program committee according to the following criteria:
Poster sessions will be reserved for papers that document computer vision applications, as well as classical style computer vision papers dealing with techniques for image processing, recognition, geometric methods or reconstruction. Student researchers are encouraged to present vision systems and evaluation results.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chairman
Program Co-Chair
Tutorials/Workshop Chair
Exhibition Chair
Local Chair
Steering Committee
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (confirmed)
Helder Araújo (University of Coimbra, P)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Prior to the submission deadline, connect to the conference web server to enter the title, author names and adresses, abstract and keyword. The paper will then be assigned a paper identification number. Papers must be submitted electronically for review in the conference format (Springer LNCS, as defined on the conference web server). Papers will be allocated 10 pages in the proceedings. Papers not in the conference format will not be reviewed. Please note that each exceeding page of the final camera ready paper will be charged 100 Euro each.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: 15 October 2002
SPECIAL ISSUE in Machine Vision and Applications
The best papers of the conference will be selected for a reviewed special issue of the Springer International Journal "Machine Vision and Applications". Editor: Mohan Trivedi, Guest editors: Markus Vincze, Lucas Paletta, James L. Crowley.
BEST PAPER PRIZE
The best conference paper will be awarded at the conference dinner.
WORKSHOP and TURORIAL PROPOSALS
Please contact Hilary Buxton (hilaryb@cogs.susx.ac.uk) with a proposal summary.
EXHIBITIONS
There will be the opportunity to present vision systems next to the conference hall. Interested industries and laboratories please contact Georg Thallinger (georg.thallinger@joanneum.at). Deadline is 15 December 2002.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Glyn Humphreys (University of Birmingham, UK)
SPONSORS
WEB-PAGE: http://dib.joanneum.at/ICVS03
[posted on 9 April 2002]
Special Issue of the AI magazine on Cognitive Vision Systems
A special issue of the AI magazine (published by the AAAI) on cognitive vision systems will be published the spring of 2003.
The special issue will in particular emphasize use of AI methods in vision including issues related to reasoning/interpretation, knowledge representations, learning, control and integration. Papers outlining novel new methods for use of AI methods for construction of computational vision systems with cognitive capabilities (cognition is here the process of learning, understanding, and representation of knowledge based on visual information). Paper should be 10-12 pages according to the AAAI template.
The deadline for paper is 1 October 2002. Additional information can be obtained from the special issue editor Henrik I Christensen (hic@nada.kth.se).
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AI Magazine - Special section guidelines
The magazine web site includes full guidelines, but the following list may be helpful as a summary of key points to keep in mind as you prepare your article.
LENGTH: Please be careful to adhere to the length/format guidelines provided by the section editor.
AIMING AND PRESENTATION: the aim of AI Magazine is to publish articles that combine technical excellence with clarity that makes them accessible to specialists in other areas of AI. Proper aiming is crucial. The style should be less formal and more compelling than required for a technical conference or journal; anecdotes illustrating approaches or their development are entirely appropriate. However, the articles should be aimed to be informative and useful to AI researchers and practitioners.
AI magazine encourages generous use of boxes, figures and photographs to illustrate the points and catch the reader's eye. For samples, there is an on-line archive of articles at http://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Editorial/magazine-contents.html. These are accessible to all AAAI members (if they have not done so already, they will need to request a password from AAAI). The editor can send a sample copy of the magazine to authors who do not have access to it.
ILLUSTRATIONS: AAAI has a FAQ for illustrations at http://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Editorial/Author/graphics-faq.html. Please note that GIF and JPEG images are unlikely to be usable for publication, due to low resolution, so gathering alternative images early will help avoid production delays.
Please be sure to take the space for the figures into account when assessing length of the articles. Most figures in the magazine take 1/4 or 1/2 page.
PERMISSIONS: Authors must obtain permissions for any copyrighted material before their articles can go into production. To avoid delays, please begin this process as soon as possible. There is a sample permissions request letter on-line at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/permission-letter.html.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: The AI Magazine reference style is somewhat different from, e.g., the APA style. Full guidelines and bibliography information are on the web at
FINAL VERSIONS: Please make the initial submission of your article to the editor in electronic form. Final phases of production will be handled directly by AAAI, which will copy-edit your article and prepare the final camera-ready copy. When it is time for you to submit the article for production, you will receive a letter with detailed guidelines for final submission. Please note that the final versions of the articles will need to be both in hard copy and in electronic versions (RTF is preferred).
Full guidelines are available from http://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Editorial/Author/magazine-guidelines.html.
[posted on 6 April 2002]
A web-based bulletin board has been created to faciliate discussion among members.
You can access it at: www.ecvision.org/wwwboard
[posted on 5 April 2002]
ECvision is preparing a research roadmap for the the area of Cognitive Vision.
The roadmap will detail:
As input the roadmap the Research Coordination committee invites members of the ECvision network to submit documents that details "research dreams", i.e. outline of major research problems to be undertaken (given no limitations in available resources). The dreams are to describe either a particular problem or an application, outline why this is an interest problem and envisaged results of a research effort. The "research dreams" are to be considered sketches (~4 pages in total).
Based on submitted research dreams an inventory of challenges (problems and applications) will be compiled. The catalogue will form the basis for a research planing workshop to take place in October 2002. The end results will form the core of the roadmap document. Dreams are to be submitted no later than September 15, 2002 to Henrik I Christensen (hic@nada.kth.se) and James Crowley (jim.crowley@imag.fr).
[posted on 5 April 2002]
The kickoff meeting documents are now available on the website.
You can access them at: www.ecvision.org/information/Kickoff_Meeting.htm
[posted on 4 April 2002]
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