WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21

SESSION 5 -- Face and Gesture Recognition -- 8:00 -- 9:40

Co-chairs: Tomaso Poggio (MIT), Ramesh Jain (UCSD)

• Automatic recognition of human facial expressions, Katsuhiro Matsuno (Kansai Electri), Chil-Woo Lee (Lab of Image Information Science), Satoshi Kimura (Lab of Image Information Science), Saburo Tsuji (Wakayama).

• Facial expression recognition using a dynamic model and motion energy, Irfan Essa (MIT), Alex Pentland (MIT).

• A unified approach for coding and interpreting face images, A. Lanitis (Manchester), C.J. Taylor (Manchester), T.F. Cootes (Manchester).

• Tracking and recognizing rigid and non-rigid facial motions using local parametric models of image motion Michael Black (Xerox), Yaser Yacoob (Maryland)

• A state-based technique for the summarization and recognition of gesture, Aaron Bobick (MIT), Andrew Wilson (MIT).

SESSION 6 -- Curve Matching, Shape Completion -- 10:10 -- 11:50

Co-chairs: Roger Mohr (LIFIA), Nicholas Ayache (INRIA)

• Matching of 3d curves using semi-differential invariants, Tomas Pajdla (Leuven), Luc Van Gool (Leuven).

• Shape extraction for curves using geometry-driven diffusion and functional optimization, Eric Pauwels (Leuven), Peter Fiddelaers (Leuven), Luc Van Gool (Leuven).

• Optimal subpixel matching of contour chains and segments, Bruno Serra (INRIA, AEROSPATIALE), Marc Berthod (INRIA).

• Stochastic completion fields: A neural model of illusory contour shape and salience, Lance Williams (NEC), David Jacobs (NEC).

• Region competition: Unifying snakes, region growing, energy/Bayes/MDL for multi-band image segmentation, S. Zhu (Harvard), Tai Sing Lee (Harvard), Alan Yuille (Harvard).

SESSION 7 -- Pose and Correspondence -- 1:30 -- 2:30

Co-chairs: Olivier Faugeras (INRIA), Daniel Huttenlocher (Cornell)

• Object Pose: Links between paraperspective and perspective, Radu Horaud (LIFIA, INRIA), Stephane Christy (LIFIA, INRIA), Fadi Dornaika (LIFIA, INRIA), Bart Lamiroy (LIFIA, INRIA).

• A geometric criterion for shape-based non-rigid correspondence, Hemant Tagare (Yale), Don O'Shea (Mt. Holyoke), Anand Rangarajan (Yale).

• Region correspondence by inexact attributed planar graph matching, Caihua Wang (Shizuoka), Keiichi Abe (Shizuoka).

POSTER SESSION 2 -- Recognition, Applications -- 2:30 -- 4:30

• Relational matching with dynamic graph structures, Richard Wilson (York), Edwin Hancock (York).

• Locating objects using the Hausdorff distance, William Rucklidge (Xerox).

• FORMS: a Flexible Object Recognition and Modelling System, S. Zhu (Harvard), Alan Yuille (Harvard).

• Elimination: An approach to the study of 3d-from-2D, Michael Werman (Hebrew), Amnon Shashua (Hebrew).

• Recognizing 3D objects using photometric invariant, Kenji Nagao (Matsushita, MIT).

• Probabilistic 3d object recognition, Ilan Shimshoni (Illinois), Jean Ponce (llinois).

• Nonlinear manifold learning for visual speech recognition, Christoph Bregler (Berkeley), Stephen Omohundro (NEC).

• Face recognition from one example view David Beymer (MIT), Tomaso Poggio (MIT).

• Invariant-based recognition of complex curved 3d objects from image contours, B. Vijaykumar (Yale), David Kriegman (Yale), Jean Ponce (Illinois).

• Computing visual correspondence: Incorporating the probability of a false match, Daniel Huttenlocher (Cornell), Eric Jaquith (Xerox)

• Fast object recognition in noisy images using simulated annealing, Margrit Betke (MIT), Nicholas Markis (Naval Research Laboratory).

• Model-based matching of line drawings by linear combinations of prototypes, Michael Jones (MIT), Tomaso Poggio (MIT).

• Gabor wavelets for 3-d object recognition, Xing Wu (Riverside), Bir Bhanu (Riverside).

• Learning geometric hashing functions for model based object recognition, George Bebis (Central Florida), Michael Georgiopoulos (Central Florida), Niels da Vitoria Lobo (Central Florida).

• 3d-2d projective registration of free-form curves and surfaces, Jacques Feldmar (INRIA), Nicholas Ayache (INRIA), Fabienne Betting (INRIA).

• Validation of 3d registration methods based on points and frames, Xavier Pennec (INRIA), Jean-Philippe Thirion (INRIA).

• Combining color and geometric information for the illumination invariant recognition of 3d objects, David Slater (Irvine), Glenn Healey (Irvine).

• 3d pose estimation by fitting image gradients directly to polyhedral models, Henner Kollnig (Karlsruhe), Hans-Hellmut Nagel (Karlsruhe).

• Real-time X-ray inspection of 3D defects in circuit board patterns, Hideaki Doi (Hitachi), Yoko Suzuki (Hitachi), Yasuhiko Hara (Hitachi), Tadashi Iida (Hitachi), Yasuhiro Fujishita (Hitachi), Koichi Karasaki (Hitachi).

• Model-based 2D&3D dominant motion estimation for mosaicing and video representation, Harpreet Sawhney (IBM), Serge Ayer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Monika Gorkani (IBM).

• Face detection by fuzzy pattern matching, Qian Chen (Osaka), Haiyuan Wu (Osaka), Masahiko Yachida (Osaka).

• Perceptual organization in an interactive sketch editing application, Eric Saund (Xerox), Thomas Moran (Xerox)

• Mosaic based representations of video sequences and their applications, Michal Irani (Sarnoff), P. Anandan (Sarnoff), Steve Hsu (Sarnoff).

• Model-based tracking of self-occluding articulated objects, James Rehg (CMU), Takeo Kanade (CMU).

• 3D human body model acquisition from multiple views, Ioannis Kakadiaris (Penn), Dimitri Metaxas (Penn)

• Recognition of human body motion using phase space constraints, Lee Campbell (MIT), Aaron Bobick (MIT).

• Learning-based hand sign recognition using SHOSLIF-M Yuntao Cui (Michigan State), Daniel Swets (Michigan State), John Weng (Michigan State).

• Finding faces in cluttered scenes using labelled random graph matching, Thomas Leung (Caltech, Berkeley), Mike Burl (Caltech), Pietro Perona (Caltech, Padova).

• Visual navigation using a single camera, Jean-Yves Bouguet (Caltech), Pietro Perona (Caltech, Padova).

• A recursive filter for phase velocity assisted shape-based tracking of cardiac non-rigid motion, John McEachen III (Yale), Francois Meyer (Yale), Todd Constable (Yale), Arye Nehorai (Yale), James Duncan (Yale).

• Structure and semi-fluid motion analysis of stereoscopic satellite images for cloud tracking, K. Palaniappan (NASA), Chandra Kambhamettu (NASA), Frederick Hasler (NASA), Dmitry Goldgof (South Florida).

• Vision based hand modeling and tracking for virtual teleconferencing and telelcollaboration, James Kuch (TouchVision Systems), Thomas Huang (Illinois).

• Closed-world tracking, Stephen Intille (MIT), Aaron Bobick (MIT)

• Towards an active visual observer, Tomas Uhlin (KTH), Peter Nordlund (KTH), Atsuto Maki (KTH), Jan-Olof Eklundh (KTH).

• A model-based integrated approach to track myocaridal deformation using displacement and velocity constraints, Pengcheng Shi (Yale), Glynn Robinson (Yale), Todd Constable (Yale), Albert Sinusas (Yale), James Duncan (Yale).

SESSION 8 -- Deformable models -- 4:30 -- 5:30

Co-chairs: Demetri Terzopoulos (Toronto), James Duncan (Yale)

• Geodesic active contours, Vicent Caselles (Illes Balears), Ron Kimmel (Technion), Guillermo Sapiro (HP).

• Volumetric deformable models with parameter functions: A new approach to the 3d motion analysis of the LV from MRI-SPAMM, Jinah Park (Penn), Dimitri Metaxas (Penn), Leon Axel (Penn).

• Optical flow and deformable objects, Andrea Giachetti (Genova), Vincent Torre (Genova).

Banquet -- New England Aquarium, 7:00--11:00

Buses will leave from the Marriott Hotel and from MIT Main Campus at 6:30. Buses will return from the Aquarium around 11:00.