[visionlist] IEEE/NSF Workshop on, , Multimodal and Alternative Perception for Visually Impaired People (MAP4VIP)

Fri Jan 11 13:06:50 GMT 2013

*IEEE/NSF Workshop on*

*Multimodal and Alternative Perception for Visually Impaired People 
(MAP4VIP)*

*In Conjunction with ICME 2013 <http://www.icme2013.org/>,July 15-19, 2013
Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California, USA*

*Duration:  full day*

**

  Theme and Specific Topics

The workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners from multiple 
disciplines (computer vision, neuroscience, multimedia computing, sensor 
technologies and assistive technology applications) to discuss 
fundamental issues in visual perception, computational intelligence, 
neuroscience and visual prosthesis for helping blind and visually 
impaired people and people working in visually challenged environments. 
Based on the World Health Organization 2012 Report, there are more than 
285 million visually impaired people, of which 39 million are blind. 
About 65 % of all people who are visually impaired are aged 50 and 
older, while this age group comprises about 20 % of the world's 
population. With an increasing elderly population in many countries, 
more people will be at risk of age-related visual impairment. Research 
on multimodal and alternative perception will have a long term impact on 
the health and wellness of society, not only for the visually 
challenged, but for people who often work in dangerous environments, 
such as firefighters, drivers and soldiers. This is the first IEEE 
workshop on this topic, but we have had two very successful internal 
workshops with similar multidisciplinary features (one at Georgia Tech 
and one at The City University of New York - CUNY). This workshop 
coordinates with the main conference theme on /"/*/Multimedia for 
Humanity/*/"./ We hope this workshop will attract attention of the 
multimedia community in understanding human perception, human brain, and 
human-machine interaction issues for assisting the visually impaired and 
challenged individuals.

*Specific topics include but not limited to:*

  * /*Computer vision, sensing and learning algorithms*///for helping
    visually challenged people, including electronic travel aids,
    electronic orientation aids, signage detection, tactile display,
    face recognition, road and obstacle detection;
  * /*Visual prosthesis and human-computer interaction*/, including
    retinal implants, visual cortex stimulation, biomimetics, and
    bio-system engineering issues;
  * /*Neuroscience/biomechanical/psychological/societal studies*/,
    including human perception study, neuro computing, visual coding,
    sensorimotor models, multisensory integration, system evaluation,
    and science/technology policy and future trends.

  *Workshop Format and Paper Selection Process*

The workshop will include the following events (t/he numbers are just 
for planning, and they are up to change based on responses/):

  * */Keynote speeches/* (1 focusing more on human vision, 1 focusing
    more on computer vision)
  * */Panel /*(about 6 panelists from academia, industry, government 
    and community)
  * */Oral Presentations/* (3-4 invited presentations, one per technical
    session; 10-15 oral presentations from open /call for papers/ with
    double-blind reviews)
  * */Posters /*(submitted papers from young/student researchers,
    approximately 20 posters)

To encourage high quality submissions and student involvements, we plan 
to give one or more /*best paper and/or best student paper awards.*/ 
Sponsorship (pending) from the */National Science Foundation/* would 
allow us to support both paper awards and travels of a number of invited 
speakers/participants.

Full-length papers (both oral and poster papers) should be no longer 
than 6 pages. Submission format and instruction, as well as other 
important information, can be found on the ICME web page 
<http://www.icme2013.org/authorguide.php>. Accepted papers will be 
published by IEEE in the workshop proceedings along with the IEEE ICME 
2013 proceedings.

*/More submission details will come soon....../*

Extended versions of some selected accepted papers will be invited to 
submit to one or two */Special Issues/* */on MAP4VIP /*after the 
workshop, tentatively in /I*EEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental 
Development (TAMD)*/**(EIC: Zhengyou Zhang) for multimodal perception 
and human-machine intelligence papers, and/or */IEEE/ASME Transactions 
on Mechatronics/* (EIC: Kok-Meng Lee) for mechatronics and visual 
prosthetic papers.

  *Important Dates*

  * Workshop Paper Submission: March 7, 2013
  * Notification of Workshop Paper Acceptance: April 15, 2013
  * Camera-Ready Paper Due: April 30, 2013

  Workshop Organizers
  <http://www-cs.ccny.cuny.edu/%7Ezhu/MAP4VIP/ICME2013-Workshop-on-MAP4VIP-Organizers.pdf>
  and Committee

    _*/General Chairs/*_

Zhigang Zhu (City University of New York -CUNY, zhu AT cs.ccny.cuny.edu )

Zhengyou Zhang (Microsoft Research)

Kok-Meng Lee (Georgia Tech)

Yann LeCun (New York University)

    _*/Program Chairs/*_

Yingli Tian (City University of New York)

Tony Ro (City University of New York)

Shawn Kelly (Carnegie Mellon University)**

    _/Local Arrangements/_

Wai L. Khoo (CUNY)
Edgardo Molina (CUNY)

Hao Tang (CUNY)

    */_Program Committee _
    /*

      */Computer vision, sensing and learning algorithms:/*

James Coughlan (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute)

Ajay Divikaran (SRI International-Sarnoff)

Siome Klein Goldenstein (UNICAMP, Brazil)

Baoxin Li (Arizona State U.)

Yaser Sheikh (CMU)

Rainer Stiefelhagen (KIT- Germany)

Jizhong Xiao (CUNY)

      */Visual prosthesis:/*

Aries Arditi (Visibility Metrics LLC.)

Ilona Kretzschmar (CUNY)

Laxman Saggere (U. Illinois in Chicago)

Lindsey Spencer (Wicab)

David Zhou (Second Sight)

James Weiland (USC)

      */Neuroscience, biomechanical engineering, psychology:/*

Michael Beauchamp (UT Houston)

Alessandro Farnè (CRNL, Inserm, France)

Sheila Nirenberg (Cornell)

Boris Prilutsky (Georgia Tech)

Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras (CUNY)

Arthur Szlam (CUNY)

Lewis Wheaton (Georgia Tech)

      */Vision serving and supporting agencies:/*

Larry Bank (CUNY)

Erik Philip Blasch (Air Force Research Lab)

Barbara Campbell (NYS Commission on Blind and Visually Handicapped -CBVH)

Jie Yang (NSF/CMU)

Mohanmmed Yousuf (FHWA - Federal Highway Agency)

  Sponsors

IEEE
NSF

Best,

Tony

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Tony Ro, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
The City College and Graduate Center
The City University of New York
Department of Psychology, NAC 7/120
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

E-mail: tro at ccny.cuny.edu
Phone: 212 650 5160
Lab:   212 650 5396
Fax:   212 650 5659
Web:   rolab.ccny.cuny.edu/tro

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