8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks 
Sudeep and Kim

8:50 AM SESSION 1 (Facilitator: Gerard Medioni)

• Contour completion algorithm quantitatively and qualitatively improves the performance of a recognition model (evidence against geon theory)

Peter Kalocsai , University of Southern California
• Target-driven perceptual grouping

Ian Jermyn, David Jacobs, and Davi Geiger, Courant Institute
• A perceptual grouping hierarchy for appearance-based 3D object recognition

Andrea Selinger and Randal Nelson, University of Rochester
• Grouping-based hypothesis verification in object recognition

Arnon Amir and Michael Lindenbaum IBM Almaden and the Technion
• A dual, scalable and hierarchical representation for perceptual organization of binary images

Stephan Heuel and Wolfgang Foerstner, Universitaet Bonn

10:30AM SESSION 2 (Facilitator: Radu Horaud)

• Orientation, scale and discontinuity as emergent properties of illusory contour shape

Karvel Thornber and Lance Williams, NEC Research and University of New Mexico
• Perceptual organization of occluding contours of opaque surfaces

Eric Saund , Xerox PARC
• Convergence rates of algorithms for perceptual organization: Detecting visual contours

A. Yuille and J. Coughlan, Smith-Kettlewell and Harvard University
• Grouping ., -, ->, 0- into regions, curves, and junctions

Mi-Suen Lee and Gerard Medioni , University of Southern California
• The statistics of natural image contours

James Elder and Rick Goldberg, York University
• On the performance of connected components grouping

Alexander Berengolts and Michael Lindenbaum, The Technion
• Low-level grouping by symmetry

Lynne Slivovsky and Avi Kak, Purdue
• Detecting perceptually salient texture regions in images

T. F. Syeda-Mahmood, Xerox Webster Research Center

1:45PM SESSION 3 (Facilitators: David Jacobs and Jacob Feldman)

• Duality in perceptual organization: Grouping vs. shape decomposition

Jonas August, Kaleem Siddiqi, and Steven Zucker, Yale University
• Representation of linear structures using perceptual grouping

Laurent Alquier and Philippe Montesinos, Parc Scientifique G. Besse
• A perceptual organization approach to contour estimation via composition, compression and pruning of contour hypotheses

Stefano Casadei and Sanjoy Mitter, MIT
• Embedding gestalt laws in the Markov random fields

Song-Chun Zhu , Stanford
• Clustering strategies for perceptual grouping

E. J. Pauwels and G. Frederix, K. U. Leuven
• Perceptual organization approach based on Dempster-Shafer theory

P. Vasseur , C. Pegard, E. Mouaddib, and L. Delahoche, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne
• Belief networks for the perceptual grouping of 3D surfaces

R. Liscano , S. Elgazzar, and A. K. C. Wong, NRC (Canada) and University of Waterloo

4:00PM ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION on FUTURE DIRECTIONS (Facilitators: Sudeep Sarkar and Kim Boyer)

• Goals
• Metrics
• Standard data sets