5th International Fall Workshop VISION, MODELING, AND VISUALIZATION 2000 November 22 - 24, 2000 Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik Saarbrücken, Germany in cooperation with IEEE Signal Processing Society Gesellschaft für Informatik GI (FG 1.0.4, FG 4.1.2)

1. Organization

General Chair:

Hans-Peter Seidel, MPI

Technical Program Chairs:

Bernd Girod, Stanford

Günther Greiner, Erlangen

Heinrich Niemann, Erlangen

Publicity:

Wolfgang Heidrich, MPI

Katja Daubert, MPI

Local Arrangements:

Stefan Brabec, MPI

Hartmut Schirmacher, MPI

Finances:

Leif Kobbelt, MPI

Christian Rössl, MPI

Conference Secretary:

Sabine Budde, MPI

2. Technical program committee

3. Call for participation

This workshop is the fifth in a series of annual meetings organized by the Graduate Research Center "3-D Image Analysis and Synthesis" and the SFB 603 "Model-based Analysis and Visualization of Complex Scenes and Sensor Data" at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Three of these meetings were held in Erlangen, one previous meeting was held in Alpbach, Austria. In 2000, the meeting is for the first time jointly organized with the newly established Computer Graphics Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany. The program will consist of invited talks by internationally renowned speakers, as well as contributed papers.

The workshop will address the following topics:

• 3-D imaging
• Object localization and recognition
• Volume data processing and visualization
• Multisensor fusion and 3-D registration
• 3-D structure from motion and stereo
• Geometry-based and image-based rendering
• Geometric modeling
• Scene modeling and integration
• Multiview image processing and coding
• Applications (medical, robotics, fluid mechanics, manufacturing, automated inspection, virtual reality, communication etc.)

4. Contact

The General Chair can be reached at:

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel

Computer Graphics Group

Max-Planck Institut für Informatik

Im Stadtwald

66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

Phone: +49 681 9325 400

Fax: +49 681 9325 499

EMail: Hans-Peter Seidel

5. Workshop venue

The workshop will be hosted by the Max-Planck Institut für Informatik (Computer Graphics Group).
For directions on how to get there, please visit ourtravel guide.

6. Conference Dinner

The conference dinner is included in the registration fee, and will take place on Thursday 23rd in the rooms of the Château-style Restaurant Schloss Halberg in Saarbrücken. We will arrange for a bus shuttle service from the conference place (and the conference hotels) to the restaurant and back.

In Schloss Halberg, the participants will be offered a Gourmet buffet inclusing many different delicious dishes. You will have the opportunity to meet your fellow participants in a very nice and relaxed atmosphere.

7. Accomodation

We have arranged special prices for participants of the VMV2000 with the following hotels:

To get to the Max-Planck Institut by bus from the Hotel Madeleine and the Hotel Continental get on bus line 11 in direction Dudweiler Dudoplatz at the bus stop Rathaus, or take bus line 49 in direction Dudweiler Dudoplatz at the bus stop Haus der Zukunft.

Note: The bus stop Rathaus is located in a one way street. Therefore, when driving from the university to town the bus does not take exactly the same route. The bus stop corresponding to Rathaus is called Johanneskirche and is located very near the Hotel Madeleine.

If you're staying at the Hotel am Triller catch the bus number 37 at bus stop Schlossplatz in direction Rathaus, but get off at Hansahaus and catch bus line 11 in direction Dudweiler Dudoplatz.

The bus stop nearest to the Max-Planck Institut is called Mensa. After getting off, cross the road and continue downhill. The Max-Planck Institut is the third building on the left.

Bus schedules

8. Program

The preliminary program is now online.

8.1. Keynote speakers

J.-O. Eklundh, NADA - KTH Stockholm, Sweden

Depth and Motion from a Fixating Binocular System

B. Draper, Dept. of Computer Science, Colorado State University, USA

Image-based Feedback for Learning Object Recognition Strategies

R. Scopigno, Instituto CNUCE, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy

3D Scanning Cultural Heritage Artifacts: Potentialities and Issues

C. Bregler, Stanford University, USA

Using Vision for Animation: From Kangaroos to Talking Heads

C. Johnson, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, School of Computing, University of Utah, USA

Interactive Modeling, Simulation and Visualization in Medicine: Applications to Cardiology, Neuroscience, and Medical Imaging

8.2. Presentations

Presentations in each session can be found on a separate page.

9. About Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken is located right in the middle of Europe, just five minutes to France and only a few kilometers away from the Grand Dutchy of Luxembourg.

• www.saarbruecken.de
• sights
• day & night

10. Publication

The workshop proceedings will be printed as

B. Girod, G.Greiner, H. Niemann, H.-P. Seidel (Eds.)

Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2000. infix (ISBN number not yet available)

The proceedings are available from

infix

Dr. Ekkehardt Hundt
Ringstrasse 32
53757 Sankt Augustin
Germany
email:info@infix.com
www.infix.com

11. Registration

Please download our registration form and return it preferably by FAX

On site registration is possible on Wednesday Nov. 22nd 8:00 - 12:00, but we ask you to register as soon as you know that you will attend the conference (needed for local arrangements).

12. Important dates / schedule

13. Information for authors

Prospective attendees are invited to submit a paper up to 8 pages in final form. All submissions will be reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop digest as submitted.

Authors should obtain the author's kit (including LaTeX style file) from

The author's kit provides complete information relative to the submission process. It is the intention of the Committee to conduct all communication with authors electronically.

14. Documents

Call for Papers: Postscript version cfp2000.ps / cfp2000.ps.gz

Author's kit (including style files for LaTeX and Word)