---- Advance Program ----
IEEE Computer Society Workshop on
Empirical Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms

The workshop takes place on Sunday, June 21 and Monday, June 22. This is just prior to the CVPR '98 conference. The location is the ``Flying A'' room of the University Center on the University of California at Santa Barbara campus. On-site registration is scheduled to open at 7:30 am on Sunday, June 21.

Sunday, June 21

9:00 - 10:00, Invited Talk.

The impact of standard databases, benchmarks, and generative models on document image analysis research,
Henry Baird (hsb@bell-labs.com)
Head, Multimedia Messaging Research Dept, Bell Laboratories

10:00 - 10:30, Coffee Break.
10:30 - 12:15, Performance evaluation of algorithms.

• Session chair's overview
  Pat Flynn (flynn@eecs.wsu.edu)
  School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University
• A benchmark for graphics recognition systems
  Atul Chhabra (atul@basit.com)
  Bell Atlantic Network Systems
  Ihsin Phillips (yun@seattleu.edu)
  Seattle University
• Performance evaluation of clustering algorithms for scalable image retrieval
  Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Santhana Krishnamachari, and Nicholas Mankovich
  (sgk@philabs.research.philips.com)
  Philips Research
• Analysis of PCA-based face recognition algorithms
  Hyeonjoon Moon (moon@acsu.buffalo.edu)
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
  P. Jonathon Phillips (jonathon@magi.nist.gov)
  National Institute of Standards and Technology

12:15 - 1:45 Lunch Break
1:45 - 3:30, Evaluation of Edge Detectors.

• Session chair's overview
  Peter Meer (meer@caip.rutgers.edu)
  Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University
• Analytical and empirical performance evaluation of subpixel line and edge detection
  Carsten Steger (stegerc@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
  Technische Universität München, Germany
• Objective evaluation of edge detectors using a formally defined framework
  Sean Dougherty and Kevin Bowyer (doughert, kwb @bigpine.csee.usf.edu)
  Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Florida
• Evaluation of edge detection algorithms using a structure from motion task
  Min Shin, Dmitry Goldgof and Kevin Bowyer (shin, goldgof or kwb @bigpine.csee.usf.edu)
  Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Florida

3:30 - 4:00, Break.

4:00 - 5:15, Motion.

• Session chair's overview
  Sandor Der (sder@ragu.arl.mil)
  U.S. Army Research Laboratory
• Shape of motion and the perception of human gaits
  Jeffrey Boyd (jeffboyd@ece.ucsd.edu)
  Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC - San Diego
  James Little (little@cs.ubc.edu)
  Computer Science, University of British Columbia
• Performance assessment by resampling: rigid motion estimators
  Bogdan Matei, Peter Meer and David Tyler (matei, meer dtyler @caip.rutgers.edu)
  Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers University

Monday, June 22

9:00 - 10:00, Invited Talk.

• A blinded evaluation and comparison of image registration methods
  J. Michael Fitzpatrick (jmf@vuse.vanderbilt.edu)
  Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University

10:00 - 10:30, Coffee Break.
10:30 - 12:00, Aerial Image Analysis and ATR.

• Session chair's overview
  Adam Hoover (hoover@ece.ucsd.edu)
  Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California - San Diego
• Empirical evaluation of laser radar recognition algorithm using synthetic and real data
  Sandor Der (sder@ragu.arl.mil)
  U.S. Army Research Laboratory
  Qinfen Zheng (qinfen@cfar.umd.edu)
  Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
• Empirical evaluation of automatically extracted road axes
  Christian Wiedemann, Christian Heipke and Helmut Mayer
  (wied, chris, helmut @photo.verm.tu-muenchen.de)
  Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Technische Universität München

12:00 - 1:30, Lunch.
1:30 - 2:45, Modeling Image Formation.

• Session chair's overview
  W. Philip Kegelmeyer (wpk@ananda.ran.sandia.gov)
  Center for Computational Engineering, Sandia National Laboratories
• Fingerprint image enhancement: algorithm and performance evaluation
  Lin Hong, Yifei Wan and Anil Jain (honglin, wanyifei, jain @cps.msu.edu)
  Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University
• Sensor errors and the uncertainties in stereo reconstruction
  Gerda Kamberova and Ruzena Bajcsy (kamberov, bajcsy @grip.cis.upenn.edu)
  GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania

2:45 - 3:15, Break.
3:15 - 5:00, Editors' Expectations for Empirical Evaluation in Journal Papers.

• Panel Discussion with Jim Duncan (MedIA), Avi Kak (CVIU), Rangachar Kasturi (PAMI), Gerard Medioni (I&VCJ), Mohan Trivedi (MV&A)