[visionlist] CFP: 1st IEEE Workshop on Kernels and Distances for Computer Vision

[Brian Kulis]

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Call for Participation:
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1st IEEE Workshop on Kernels and Distances for Computer Vision
ICCV 2011 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain
http://kdcv2011.ist.ac.at/
workshop date: November 13, 2011,
submission deadline: August 28th, 2011

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A basic building block in many high-level Computer Vision tasks such as
image classification, object detection, image retrieval, image segmentation,
etc is the notion of a distance or similarity between images and/or parts
thereof. This is conveniently formalized in the concept of distance
functions and kernels which can be used with many existing algorithms such
as large margin classifiers or nearest neighbour algorithms. The importance
of suitable distances and kernels is reflected in the large number of
publications at major computer vision conferences. Researchers have mainly
pursued two different routes, via a) encoding human prior knowledge
manually, or b) learning-based approaches that try to infer these functions
automatically from training data. In particular, approaches to the latter
have been applied quite successfully to the aforementioned tasks, as evident
from ever-improving performance results on standard benchmark data sets.
However, several key issues remain, and many existing approaches employ only
simple distance and kernel functions that are not tailored to the specifics
of the Computer Vision problem at hand.

We invite authors to submit abstracts of relevant research for presentation
at the workshop.  Topics relevant to the workshop include (but are not
limited to) ongoing research efforts related to distances and kernels in
computer vision, such as novel algorithmic formulations, applications of
distance/kernel learning in vision, or empirical evaluations of existing
techniques.

Invited Speakers:
Liefeng Bo (University of Washington), Deva Ramanan (UC Irvine), Fernando de
la Torre (CMU), Andrea Vedaldi (University of Oxford)

Submissions:
Abstracts should be submitted as .pdf, and should not exceed two pages.
 Each submission will be reviewed by members of the workshop committee, and
successful abstracts will be selected for presentation at the workshop as
either oral or poster presentations.  The deadline for submission is August
28, 2011.  We expect decisions to be announced on or around September 4,
2011. Link to the submission site:

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/KDCV2011/

Please note that we do not plan workshop proceedings. The intention of the
workshop is to provide an overview of recent advances, so we invite
presentation of previously-published work.  We also invite submissions of
work in progress that has not been published; since there are no
proceedings, such work can be published in another peer-reviewed venue.

Organization
The workshop is co-organized by Peter Gehler (Max Planck Institute for
Informatics), Christoph Lampert (IST Austria), and Brian Kulis (UC
Berkeley).
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