POCV2001
The 3rd Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision
Vancouver, Canada, July 8, 2001

The program

8:50-9:00 opening

9:00-10:20

 

1.

A Field Model for Contour Organization and Partial Differential Equations, by Jonas August and Steven W. Zucker, Yale University, USA.

2.

Conceptualization and Modeling of Visual Patterns, by Song-Chun Zhu and Cheng-En Guo, Ohio State University, USA.

3.

A Database of Human Segmented Natural Images and its Application to Evaluating Segmentation Algorithms, by David Martin, Charles Fowlkes, Doron Tal and Jitendra Malik, University of California, USA.

4.

Perceptual Organization as Object Recognition Divided by Two, by Marc Johannes, Thomas B. Sebastian, Huseyin Tek and Benjamin B. Kimia, Brown University, USA.

10:20-10:40 break

10:40-11:30 Invited talk (Prof. Edward Adelson, MIT)

11:30-12:30 poster session

 

1.

Flowing toward coherence: On the geometry of texture and shading flows, by Ohad Ben-Shahar and Steven W. Zucker, Yale University, USA.

2.

Contour Grouping with Strong Prior Models, by James H. Elder and Amnon Krupnik, York University, Canada.

3.

Towards Statistical Image Restoration: Perceptual Grouping as Regularizing Operators, by Lixin Fan and Kah Kay Sung, National University of Singapore.

4.

Perceptual Grouping by Path Based Clustering, by Bernd Fischer, Thomas Zöller and Joachim M. Buhmann, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität, Bonn, Germany.

5.

Understanding Gestalt Cues and Ecological Statistics Using A Database of Human Segmented Images, by Charles Fowlkes, David Martin and Jitendra Malik, University of California, USA.

6.

Grouping Using Regions: A Consistency Study, by Anthony Hoogs, GE Corporate Research and Development, NY, USA and Roderic Collins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA.

7.

Color Image Segmentation Based on Tensor Voting, by Eun-Young ``Elaine'' Kang and Gérard Medioni, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and Integrated Media Systems Center, University of Southern California, USA.

8.

Inference of Segmented Overlapping Surfaces from Binocular and Multiple-View Stereo, by Philippos Mordohai, Gérard Medioni, University of Southern California, USA and Mi-Suen Lee, Philips Research, Philips Electronics North America Corp. NY, USA.

9.

Finding Perceptually Closed Paths in Sketches and Drawings, by Eric Saund, Xerox PARC, USA.

10.

Integrated Tensor Voting in Multiple Scales for Shape Description in 3D, by Dickson Wai-Shun Tong, Chi-Keung Tang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Gérard Medioni, University of Southern California, USA.

12:30-14:00 lunch

14:00-15:00

 

1.

An Expectation-Maximisation Framework for Segmentation and Grouping, by Antonio Robles-Kelly and Edwin R. Hancock, University of York, UK.

2.

Analysis of MinCut, Average Cut, and Normalized Cut Measures, by Padmanabhan Soundararajan and Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida, USA.

3.

Convex Relaxation for Figure-Ground Discrimination and Perceptual Grouping, by J. Keuchel, C. Schellewald, D. Cremers and C. Schnörr, University of Mannheim, Germany.

3:00-3:30 break

3:30-4:20 Invited talk (Dr. Byron Dom, IBM)

4:20-5:00

 

1.

Perceptual organization as graph rectification in a constraint-based scheme for interpreting sloppy stick figures, by James V. Mahoney and Markus P.J. Fromherz, Xerox PARC, USA.

2.

Perceptual Grouping for Image Retrieval and Classification, by Qasim Iqbal and J.K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, USA.