[visionlist] AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium "Cognitive Shape Processing": Call for Contributions

[Thomas Shipley]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium "Cognitive Shape Processing"

March 22-24, 2010, Stanford University, CA

http://www.spatial-cognition.de/CSP/


Important Dates

Submission of contributions: October 2, 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 6, 2009
Camera-ready copies of contributions: January 16, 2010


Organizing Committee

Thomas Barkowsky, University of Bremen, barkowsky at informatik.uni-bremen.de
Sven Bertel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bertel at illinois.edu
Christoph Hoelscher, University of Freiburg,
hoelsch at cognition.uni-freiburg.de
Thomas F. Shipley, Temple University, tshipley at temple.edu


Program Committee

B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Georgia Tech
Ron Ferguson, Atlanta, GA
Kenneth D. Forbus, Northwestern University
Christian Freksa, University of Bremen
Isabel Gauthier, Vanderbilt University
Gabriela Goldschmidt, Technion, Haifa
Mark D. Gross, Carnegie Mellon University
Mary Hegarty, UC Santa Barbara
Stephen C. Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh
Madeleine Keehner, University of Dundee
Philip J. Kellman, UC Los Angeles
Jan J. Koenderink, Universiteit Utrecht
Richard Lowe, Curtin University of Technology
Fred Mast, University of Bern
Ennio Mingolla, Boston University
Luis A. Pineda Cortés, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Kerstin Schill, University of Bremen
Michael Tarr, Brown University
James T. Todd, Ohio State University


Description

Real-world spatial problems typically deal with diverse types of spatial
knowledge at the same time and involve complex objects with meaningful and
specific shapes. Understanding mental processing of knowledge about shapes
thus seems essential for under­standing mental processing of spatial
knowledge in real world scenarios. With the term Cognitive Shape Processing
we refer to all forms of knowledge processing in­volving shape information
that are related to, inspired by, or derived from principles found in
natural cognitive systems.
 

The goal of the symposium is to bring together researchers from artificial
intelligence and cognitive science to promote the understanding – from a
cognitive point of view – of how shape information can be acquired,
represented, retrieved, (re-)constructed, and integrated with other types of
spatial information.
 

Sample questions of interest in cognitive shape processing are:
- How is shape knowledge represented in and retrieved from long-term mental
storage and from technical knowledge bases?
- Is shape knowledge compositional (i.e., constructed from elementary
shapes) or are specific shapes uniquely represented?
- Is shape knowledge contour-based or area-based? Or neither?
- How do prototypical (categorical) shapes relate to specific shapes?
- How does partial shape matching work, i.e. when only parts of a specific
shape are known or visible?
- How can varying levels of granularity be modeled in shape processing?
- Given that visual and spatial aspects are involved in spatial knowledge
processing, how does shape information interact with these modes?
- Is shape information dealt with in 2D, 2½D, 3D, … and how does
dimensionality scale up/down?
- What is the role of attention-related processes in cognitive shape
processing? How does shape knowledge guide (visual) attention?
- What is the relation between control processes in visual perception and
knowledge about shapes?
- How can brain-imaging, eye movement, and behavioral studies contribute to
the understanding of cognitive shape processing?
- How do different modes of shape perception interact (e.g. visual and
haptic)?
 

The symposium will be scheduled to provide extensive discussion time and
group inter­actions.


 

Submission Information

Please email submissions of 4-6 pages (preferably in AAAI format as PDF) to
barkowsky at sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de. Submissions can be position statements, work
in progress, or completed work. For more information please see
www.spatial-cognition.de/CSP <http://www.spatial-cognition.de/CSP/>  and
www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss10.php
<http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss10.php> .