| Monday 8th September | ||
| Tutorial session | ||
| Statistical Pattern Recognition | Andrew R Webb (Qinetiq) | 14:00—17:00 |
| Dinner (Refectory) | ||
| Tuesday 9th September | ||
| Plenary session | ||
| Words,Pictures and Video | David Forsyth (University California Berkeley) | 09:00—10:00 |
| Coffee | ||
| Oral session: Faces | ||
| Using Local Context To Improve Face Detection | Hannes Kruppa, Bernt Schiele (ETH Zurich) | 10:30—10:50 |
| Exploratory Sparse Models for Face Recognition | Nicholas Paul Costen, Martin Brown (Manchester Metropolitan University) | 10:50—11:10 |
| An Analytical Mapping for LLE and Its Application in Multi-Pose Face Synthesis | Jun Wang, Changshui Zhang, Zhongbao Kou (Tsinghua University) | 11:10—11:30 |
| Modelling ‘Talking Head’ Behaviour | Craig A Hack, Chris J Taylor (University of Manchester) | 11:30—11:50 |
| 2.5D Visual Speech Synthesis Using Appearance Models | Barry-John Theobald, Andrew Bangham (University of East Anglia), Iain Matthews (Carnegie Mellon University), John R W Glauert, Gavin C Cawley (University of East Anglia) | 11:50—12:10 |
| Lunch (LCR) | ||
| Oral session: Geometry | ||
| The Analysis of Ambiguous Solutions in Linear Systems and its Application to Computer Vision | Marta Wilczkowiak, Peter Sturm, Edmond - Boyer (INRIA) | 13:10—13:30 |
| Batch Recovery of Multiple Views with Missing Data Using Direct Sparse Solvers | Nicolas Guilbert (Lund University) | 13:30—13:50 |
| Joint Orientation of Epipoles | Ondrej Chum, Tomas Werner, Tomas Pajdla (Czech Technical University in Prague) | 13:50—14:10 |
| Invariant Fitting of Two View Geometry | Andrew W Fitzgibbon (University of Oxford), Philip Torr (Microsoft Research Ltd) | 14:10—14:30 |
| Poster session 1 | (14:30—15:50) | |
| Discriminant Analysis by Locally Linear Transformations | Tae-Kyun Kim (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)), Josef Kittler (University of Surrey (UniS)), Hyun-Chul Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Seok Cheol Kee (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)) | |
| Class-based Multiple Light Detection: An Application to Faces | Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Mike Brookes (Imperial College) | |
| A Linear Trinocular Rectification Method for Accurate Stereoscopic Matching | Huaifeng Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Automation), Jan Cech, Radim Sara (Center for Machine Perception), Fuchao Wu, Zhanyi Hu (Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Automation) | |
| Application of Characteristic Function Method in Target Detection | Mohammad H Marhaban, Josef Kittler (University of Surrey (UniS)) | |
| Thresholding based on linear diffusion for feature segmentation | Andreas Hoppe, Marco-Olivier Baradez (Kingston University) | |
| Tracking in a Hough Space with the Extended Kalman Filter | Steven Mills (University of Nottingham), Tony P Pridmore (The University of Nottingham), Mark Hills (University of Nottingham) | |
| Dense matching using correlation: new measures that are robust near occlusions | Sylvie Chambon, Alain Crouzil (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)) | |
| Sparse IBR Using Range Space Rendering | Dan Kong, Hao Tao (University of California, Santa Cruz), Hector H Gonzalez-Banos (Honda R&D Americans, Inc.) | |
| Ranklets on hexagonal pixel lattices | Fabrizio Smeraldi, Mohammed Abdul Rob (Queen Mary, University of London) | |
| Dense 3-D Structure from Image Sequences Using Probabilistic Depth Carving | Annie Yao, Andrew D Calway (University of Bristol) | |
| A Shape Descriptor for Shapes with Boundary Noise and Texture | Wooi-Boon Goh, Kai-Yun Chan (Nanyang Technological University) | |
| Rough Surface Analysis using Kirchhoff Theory | Hossein Ragheb, Edwin R Hancock (University of York) | |
| Learning Based Resolution Enhancement of Iris Images | Junzhou Huang, Li Ma, Tieniu Tan, Yunhong Wang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences) | |
| Facial feature detection using AdaBoost with shape constraints | David Cristinacce, Timothy F Cootes (University of Manchester) | |
| Rendering Almost Perspective Views from a Sparse Set of Omnidirectional Images | Hynek Bakstein, Tomas Pajdla, Daniel Vecerka (Center for Machine Perception) | |
| Synthesis of Photographic Quality Facial Composites using Evolutionary Algorithms | Stuart J Gibson, Christopher J Solomon, Alvaro Pallares Bejarano (University of Kent) | |
| Multi-Modal Matching Applied to Stereo | Nicolas Pugeault (University of Stirling), Norbert Krueger (Aalborg University Esbjerg) | |
| 3D Shape and Pose Estimation of Deformable Tapes from Multiple Views | Hitoshi Kubota, Masakazu Ono, Masami Takeshi (Suzuki Motor Co.), Hideo Saito (Keio University) | |
| Minimizing the description length using steepest descent | Anders Ericsson, Kalle Åström (Lund University) | |
| Determining pose of a human face from a single monocular image | Jian-Gang Wang (Institute for Infocomm Research), Eric Sung (Nanyang Technological University), Ronda Venkateswarlu (Institute for Infocomm Research) | |
| A continuous Formulation of intrinsic Dimension | Norbert Krueger (Aalborg University Esbjerg), Michael Felsberg (Linköping University) | |
| Adding Curvature to Minimum Description Length Shape Models | Hans Henrik Thodberg, Hildur Olafsdottir (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) | |
| Oral session: Techniques and Methods | ||
| Graph Clustering using Symmetric Polynomials and Local Linear Embedding | Edwin R Hancock, Richard C Wilson, Bai Xiao (University of York) | 15:50—16:10 |
| Robust subspace mixture models using t-distributions | Dick de Ridder (Delft University of Technology), Vojtech Franc (Center for Machine Perception) | 16:10—16:30 |
| Exact polyhedral visual hulls | Jean-Sebastien Franco, Edmond Boyer (INRIA) | 16:50—17:10 |
| Stratified Dense Matching for Stereopsis in Complex Scenes | Jana Kostkova, Radim Sara (Center for Machine Perception) | 17:10—17:30 |
| Lord Mayor's Reception (City Hall) | ||
| Wednesday 10th September | ||
| Plenary session | ||
| Pattern theory: the formative years | Ulf Grenander (Brown University) | 09:00—10:00 |
| Oral session: Biomedical vision (10:00—11:00) | ||
| Linking Sequences of Active Appearance Sub-Models via Constraints: An Application in Automated Vertebral Morphometry | Martin G Roberts, Timothy F Cootes, Judith E Adams (University of Manchester) | 10:00—10:20 |
| Strain Quantification In Ultrasound Sequences | James Revell, Majid Mirmehdi (University of Bristol), Donal McNally (Nottingham University) | 10:20—10:40 |
| Automatic Construction of Statistical Shape Models for Protein Spot Analysis in Electrophoresis Gels | Mike Rogers, James Graham (University of Manchester), Robert P Tonge (AstraZeneca) | 10:40—11:00 |
| Coffee | Poster session 2 (11:00—12:20) | |
| Pose Evaluation Based on Bayesian classification Error | Tieniu Tan (Chinese academy of science) | |
| Factorization Method Using Interpolated Feature Tracking via Projective Geometry | Hideo Saito, Shigeharu Kamijima (Keio University) | |
| Classification of Moving Targets Based on Motion and Appearance | Yuri Bogomolov (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Gideon Dror (Academic Colloege of Tel Aviv Yaffo), Stas Lapchev, Ehud Rivlin, Michael Rudzsky (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) | |
| Error Equalisation for Sparse Image Mosaic Construction | Bogdan J Matuszewski, Lik-Kwan Shark, John Smith, Martin Roy Varley (University of Central Lancashire) | |
| Spotting Scene Change for Indexing Surveillance Video | Andrew Graves, Shaogang Gong (Queen Mary, University of London) | |
| Learning a Kinematic Prior for Tree-Based Filtering | Arasanathan Thayananthan, Bjorn Stenger (University of Cambridge), Philip Torr (Microsoft Research Ltd), Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge) | |
| Visual Golf Club Tracking for Enhanced Swing Analysis | Nicolas Gehrig, Vincent Lepetit, Pascal Fua (EPFL) | |
| Active Wavelet Networks for Face Alignment | Changbo Hu, Rogerio S Feris (University of California), Matthew Turk (University of California, Santa Barbara) | |
| Automated Registration of 3D Faces using Dense Surface Models | Tim J Hutton, Bernard F. Buxton, Peter Hammond (University College London) | |
| Face Model Adaptation for Tracking and Active Appearance Model Training | Fadi Dornaika (Linköping University), Jörgen Ahlberg (Swedish Defence Research Agency) | |
| An Image-Based Three-Dimensional Digitizer for Pre-Decorating Thermoformed Parts | JP Mellor (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) | |
| Fusing Complementary Operators to Enhance Foreground/Background Segmentation | Ahmad H. Al-Mazeed, Mark S Nixon, Steve R Gunn (University of Southampton) | |
| Adaptive Probabilistic Models of Wavelet Packets for the Analysis and Segmentation of Textured Remote Sensing Images | Karen Brady, Ian H. Jermyn, Josiane Zerubia (INRIA) | |
| A method to add Hidden Markov Models with application to learning articulated motion | Yulia A Hicks (Cardiff University), Peter M Hall (University of Bath), David Marshall (Cardiff University) | |
| A Robust Iterative Shape-From-Shading Algorithm with Modified Transforming Matrix | Osamu Ikeda (Takushoku University) | |
| Texture Edge Detection Using the Compass Operator | Bruce A Maxwell (Swarthmore College), Stephanie J. Brubaker(Georgia Institute of Technology) | |
| A Fully Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Algorithm | Mohammad F. A. Fauzi, Paul H. Lewis (University of Southampton) | |
| Deterministic Surface Registration at 10Hz Based on Landmark Graphs With Prediction | Fred W DePiero (CalPoly State University) | |
| The Art of Scale-Space | J. Andrew Bangham, Stuart E Gibson, Richard Harvey (University of East Anglia) | |
| On-line Face Tracking Using a Feature Driven Level Set | Derek R Magee (University of Leeds), Bastian Leibe (ETH Zurich) | |
| Face Detection Based on Multiple Regression and Recognition Support Vector Machines | Jianzhong Fang (Nottingham University), Guoping Qiu (The University of Nottingham) | |
| Spatio-Temporal Semantic Object Segmentation using Probabilistic Sub-Object Regions | David James Thirde, Graeme A. Jones (Kingston University), Julien Flack (DDD Group Plc) | |
| Geodesic Colour Active Contour Resistent to Weak Edges and Noise | Xianghua Xie, Majid Mirmehdi (University of Bristol) | |
| Lunch (LCR) | Oral session: Shape and Motion | |
| 3D head tracking using non-linear optimization | James A Paterson, Andrew W Fitzgibbon (University of Oxford) | 13:20—13:40 |
| Outdoor Activity Recognition using Multi-Linked Temporal Processes | Tao Xiang, Shaogang Gong (Queen Mary, University of London) | 13:40—14:00 |
| Synchronizing Image Sequences of Non-Rigid Objects | Philip A Tresadern, Ian Reid (University of Oxford) | 14:00—14:20 |
| Robust Motion Segmentation by Spectral Clustering | Hongbin Wang, Phil F. Culverhouse (University of Plymouth (UK)) | 14:20—14:40 |
| The Template Update Problem | Iain Matthews, Takahiro Ishikawa, Simon Baker (Carnegie Mellon University) | 14:40—15:00 |
| Coffee | ||
| Oral session: Video and Motion | ||
| Video Indexing using Motion Estimation | Sarah V Porter, Majid Mirmehdi, Barry T. Thomas (University of Bristol) | 15:30—15:50 |
| Robust multi-body segmentation | Andreas Dante, Mike Brookes, Anthony G Constantinides (Imperial College) | 15:50—16:10 |
| Guiding Optical Flow Estimation | Peter J Myerscough (University of Southampton) | 16:10—16:30 |
| An implicit motion likelihood for tracking with particle filters | Jean-Marc Odobez, Sileye O Ba, Daniel Gatica-Perez (IDIAP) | 16:30—16:50 |
| Simultaneous Pose Estimation of Multiple People using Multiple-View Cues with Hierarchical Sampling | Joel R Mitchelson, Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey) | 16:50—17:10 |
| Conference Dinner (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts) | ||
| Thursday 11th September | ||
| Oral session: The Interface with Graphics | ||
| Bayesian Stochastic Mesh Optimization for 3D reconstruction | George Vogiatzis (University of Cambridge), Philip Torr (Microsoft Research Ltd), Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge) | 09:00—09:20 |
| Rapid rendering of apparent contours of implicit surfaces for real-time tracking | Edward Rosten, Tom W Drummond (University of Cambridge) | 09:20—09:40 |
| A Multiple View Layered Representation for Dynamic Novel View Synthesis | Keith Richard Connor, Ian Reid (University of Oxford) | 09:40—10:00 |
| Architectural Reconstruction with Multiple Views and Geometric Constraints | Sébastien S.C. Cornou(CEA), Michel Dhome (CNRS/Université Blaise Pascal), Patrick Sayd (CEA) | 10:00—10:20 |
| Video Analysis for Cartoon-like Special Effects | John P Collomosse (University of Bath), David Rowntree (Nanomation Ltd.), Peter M Hall (University of Bath) | 10:20—10:40 |
| Coffee | Oral session: segmentation and low-level vision | |
| Interleaved Object Categorization and Segmentation | Bastian Leibe, Bernt Schiele (ETH Zurich) | 11:10—11:30 |
| Discriminant Feature Selection for Texture Classification | Abhir H Bhalerao, Nasir M Rajpoot (University of Warwick) | 11:30—11:50 |
| Shape recognition with edge-based features | Krystian Mikolajczyk, Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford), Cordelia Schmid (INRIA) | 11:50—12:10 |
| Simultaneous surface texture classification and illumination tilt angle prediction | Xavier Lladó, Arnau Oliver (University of Girona), Maria Petrou (University of Surrey), Jordi Freixenet, Joan Martí (University of Girona) | 12:10—12:30 |
| Evaluating colour morphological scale-spaces | Stuart E Gibson, J. Andrew Bangham, Richard Harvey (University of East Anglia) | 12:30—12:50 |
| Lunch (LCR) | ||