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The second international ISPRS
workshop,
held with IEEE CVPR 2007
BenCOS 2007
Towards Benchmarking Automated Calibration, Orientation,
and Surface Reconstruction from Images
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Hyatt Regency Hotel, Minneapolis, MN, Saturday, June 23, 2007
Subject Areas: Performance evaluation, surface reconstruction,
multi-view stereo, camera (self-) calibration, image orientation,
motion/pose estimation.
Deadline for camera-ready papers: Monday, March 23, 2007.
Instructions.
Upload your camera-ready paper using the
online submission form.
Papers should be formatted according to the CVPR submission
guidelines, and should be submitted in PDF format, no more than 8
pages in length.
Call for Papers
We invite contributions on automatic methods for surface
reconstruction from images, multi-view stereo, camera (self-)
calibration, motion estimation, and related topics. We especially
encourage submissions of performance evaluations of such methods.
Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Algorithms for shape-from-X (stereo, motion, silhouettes,
shading, focus, ...)
- Markerless sensor orientation methods (motion estimation,
(self-) calibration, ...)
- Integration of surface reconstruction and sensor orientation methods
- Surface representations and dynamic surface models
- Performance evaluation of reconstruction and orientation methods
and surface models:
- accuracy and reliability
- efficiency and versatility
- robustness in automation
- Applications for remote sensing methods and close-range sensors
The goals of this workshop are:
- To communicate new scientific results in the above areas;
- To bring together researchers from the computer vision and
photogrammetry communities; and
- To establish benchmarks for orientation and
surface reconstruction methods.
Working towards the third goal, the workshop organizers will prepare
data sets with ground truth, which will be made available during early
2007. Researchers are invited to test and tune their algorithms on
this data. Shortly before the workshop a second round of different
test data (without ground truth) will be made available. Researchers
will have one day to run their algorithms on this data and submit
their results. The results will be evaluated (regarding completeness,
correctness and speed) during the workshop and one session will be
devoted to discussing the test and results.
Reviewing Process
All papers will be subject to a double-blind review process by a
program committee of leading international researchers of the computer
vision and photogrammetry areas. Each paper will be reviewed by 3
members of the program committee. Based on these reviews, the workshop
organizers will decide on acceptance and presentation mode
(oral/poster).
Organizers
- Olaf Hellwich, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, hellwichcs.tu-berlin.de
- Ilkka Niini, Oy Mapvision Ltd., Finland, ilkka.niinimapvision.fi
- Camillo Ressl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, caripf.tuwien.ac.at
- Daniel Scharstein, Middlebury College, USA, scharmiddlebury.edu
- Peter Sturm, INRIA, France, Peter.Sturminrialpes.fr
Program Committee
- Niclas Börlin, Sweden
- Andrew Fitzgibbon, UK
- Wolfgang Förstner, Germany
- Armin Grün, Switzerland
- Henrik Haggrén, Finland
- Janne Heikkilä, Finland
- Christian Heipke, Germany
- Heiko Hirschmüller, Germany
- Karsten Jacobsen, Germany
- Olli Jokinen, Finland
- Reinhard Koch, Germany
- Kyros Kutulakos, Canada
- Yi Ma, USA
- Hans-Gerd Maas, Germany
- Helmut Mayer, Germany
- David Nistér, USA
- Norbert Pfeifer, Austria
- Marc Pollefeys, USA
- Fabio Remondino, Switzerland
- Richard Szeliski, USA
- Tieniu Tan, China
- Olga Veksler, Canada
- Bernhard Wrobel, Germany
Dates
Submission deadline: | Thu, March 15, 2007 (changed from 3/1)
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Notification of acceptance: | Fri, April 13, 2007
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Camera ready papers due: | Mon, April 23, 2007
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Workshop: | Sat, June 23, 2007
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Submission policy:
Dual submissions with CVPR are explicitly allowed, with the
understanding that if the paper gets accepted to CVPR, it will
automatically be withdrawn from BenCOS. The CVPR rebuttal phase will
be in February, so authors will have the opportunity to submit a
(possibly revised) version of their CVPR submission to BenCOS after
seeing their CVPR reviews.
Dual submissions with CVPR must be clearly identified as such, and
must include the CVPR paper number. In case the BenCOS submission
is different from CVPR submission, a list of changes should be
included (in case both version get reviewed by the same person).
Workshop format
- Invited plenary talk by Rick Szeliski
- 2-3 sessions with about 8-10 oral presentations
- A poster session
- One demo session (open to anyone, i.e., not restricted to
accepted papers) to discuss experiences with the provided test data
- One panel session on the topic of establishing benchmarks
Background and Motivation
The initiative for this workshop comes from two Working Groups of Commission III of the ISPRS (International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing). One major aim of the new
Commission III on Photogrammetric Computer Vision and Image Analysis
(led by Wolfgang Förstner and Helmut Mayer) is to bring together
researchers from the computer vision and photogrammetry fields. The
organizers of this BenCOS workshop are the chairs of two Working
Groups within this commission: WG III/1 (on
Automatic Calibration and Orientation of Optical Cameras), and WG III/2 (on Surface
Reconstruction). Besides being a forum for discussing new scientific
results, a major goal of these Working Groups is to establish true
benchmarks for the performance evaluation of developed methods. We
believe this is a highly important aspect of scientific research; it
allows an objective comparison of different approaches, catalyzes new
developments, and eases the access of potential commercial users to
these research areas and communities.
This workshop is the third in a series of events related to the
activities of the two Working Groups. The two previous events were:
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BenCOS 2005, the first ISPRS BenCOS workshop, in conjunction with ICCV 2005
in Beijing, China, October 2005.
- PCV 2006,
the ISPRS Symposium on Photogrammetric Computer Vision and Image
Analysis, Bonn, Germany, September 2006.
Last modified: Mon Apr 30 15:25:27 EDT 2007
by Daniel Scharstein