[visionlist] BMVA one-day technical meeting: Vision Systems for Perception and Action

[Charles Leek]

BMVA
British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition

Call for Participation
Vision Systems for Perception and Action
One Day BMVA technical meeting in London, UK, on 6th March, 2009
Chairs: Dr Neil Thacker, University of Manchester,
Dr Charles Leek, Bangor University

The task of constructing artificial vision systems still holds many  
challenges, many of which are shown into sharp relief by the apparent  
ease with which humans solve visual processing tasks. By comparison,  
many computer vision algorithms have very restricted applicability,  
particularly with respect to natural scenes. There appears to be more  
to be learned regarding which information is used and at what point  
during human visual processing it is obtained. What should be regarded  
as a semantically useful description of the world? Which tasks are  
inevitably `top down', and which should be achievable `bottom up'?

Great strides have been made within the last twenty years in our  
understanding of the cognitive and neurobiological substrates of  
visual perception and motor control. These advances have begun to  
unravel the complex inner workings of the human brain providing us  
with unique insights into the powerful computational systems that have  
evolved to support seemingly effortless activities like perceiving  
shape, reaching and grasping.

The purpose of this one day BMVA meeting is to bring together  
researchers from areas of biological modelling, psychophysics and  
computer vision, to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the  
computational models used when attempting tasks equivalent to human  
visual perception. It is intended that as well as covering material  
describing latest results in understanding human vision there will be  
more general talks which summarise the experiences and opinions of  
representatives from these disciplines, including challenges to  
current approaches.  We will investigate how our understanding of  
human vision and motor control may be exploited by computer vision  
researchers, and provide constraints on the development of more  
efficient artificial vision and robotics systems. In turn, it is also  
recognised that advances in computer vision themselves provide further  
insights into human cognitive processing.

Time will be allocated for discussion of the issues raised so that the  
possibilities for  consensus and future synergies between these fields  
can be explored. If you have views on this subject please attend and  
join in with the discussions.

Although the agenda has been organised by invitation some space is  
still available for  additional speakers which fit in with the  
objectives of the meeting. If you wish to discuss the possibility of  
making a presentation please send an email to  
neil.thacker at manchester.ac.uk or Charles Leek  (e.c.leek at bangor.ac.uk)  
by 6th February 2009.


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