[visionlist] BIP 2005: Announcement and Call for Contributions

[BIP 2005]

Announcement and Call for Contributions

BIP 2005
International Workshop on Bioinspired Information Processing:
Cognitive modeling and gaze-based communication

http://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/bip2005/

20 to 22 September 2005, Luebeck, Germany

The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss the results of
interdisciplinary research on visual attention with applications in
the area of medical diagnosis and visual communication. BIP 2005 is
hosted by ModKog, a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research - see
http://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/Itap/modkog.html.

We invite you to submit an abstract of maximum one page length to
bip2005 at inb.uni-luebeck.de. Accepted contributions will be presented
as posters and demonstrations.

Topics of interest

    * Modeling of eye movements and attention
    * Gaze-based interaction
    * Eye tracking technology
    * Vision in vehicles and driver monitoring
    * Interaction of human and computer vision
    * Augmented reality, head mounted displays
    * Information theoretic analysis of fMRI data sets

    
Important dates

8 August 2005:              	Abstract submission deadline
15 August 2005:             	Program, Registration opens
20 to 22 September 2005:    Workshop


Invited Speakers

Bill Geisler         		University of Texas at Austin, USA
Laurent Itti         		University of Southern California, USA
Peter de Graef       	University of Leuven, Belgium
Gustavo Deco     		Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain
Andrzej Cichocki   		RIKEN Institute, Japan
Mary Hayhoe        		University of Rochester, USA
Klaus-Robert Mueller 	Fraunhofer-Institute Berlin, Germany


Program committee

Erhardt Barth, University of Luebeck
Karl Gegenfurtner, University of Giessen
Elmar Lang, University of Regensburg
Thomas Martinetz, University of Luebeck
Martin Stetter, SIEMENS Munich

Local Organizers

Erhardt Barth
Martin Boehme
Michael Dorr
Thomas Martinetz

Workshop Secretary

Babett Bernitt