Indo-Israeli Workshop on Computer Vision
IIIT, Hyderabad
February 04-05, 2008

Preliminary Programme

Monday, February 4:
0900-1000: Registration
0930-1000: Inauguration
Gideon Ariely, Shmuel Peleg, Rajeev Sangal, P. Anandan, P. J. Narayanan
1000-1050: Plenary Talk
Jitendra Malik Recognizing Objects and Actions in Images and Video
1050-1130 Tea Break
1130-1310: Shmuel Peleg Indexing into Surveillance Video
Anurag Mittal Belief Propagation for Human Detection and Pose
Lihi Zelnik Non-Parametric Probabilistic Image Segmentation
Yoav Schechner Harmony in Motion
1310-1400 Lunch
1400-1600 Poster session and interaction
1530-1600 Tea Break
1610-1815: Michal Irani Summarizing Visual Data using Bidirectional Similarity
Sharat Chandran Constrained Factorization
Michael Lindenbaum Unsupervised Estimation of Segmentation Quality using Nonnegative Factorization
Dipti Mukherjee Affine Constrained Contour Evolution Model for Tracking
Hezy Yeshurun Modular Synchronization in the Visual System
1830-2100: Dinner. Venue: Lawns, IIIT Guest House
Tuesday, February 5:
0930-1020: Plenary Talk
Shree Nayar Visual Chatter in the Real World
1020-1045: Tomas Pajdla Fast and Robust Solving of Minimal Problems
1045-1120 Tea Break
1120-1300: Lior Wolf Content-Driven Video Retargeting
Manik Varma Multiple Kernel Learning
Ilan Shimshoni Dense Mirroring Surface Recovery from 1D Homographies and Sparse Correspondences
Niloy Mitra Symmetry and Structure Detection in 3D Geometry
1400-1540: Ohad Ben-Shahar Specular objects, Specular flows, and Reconstruction of Specular Shape Under Unknown Illunimation
Anoop Namboodiri Towards Secure and Anonymous Remote Authentication
Alfred Bruckstein Vesicles and Amoebae: On Area and Perimeter Constrained Shape Evolution and Optimization
Jayanta Mukhopadhyay Image Processing in the Block DCT Space
1540-1610 Tea Break
1610-1700: Panel Discussion and Closing

Speakers:
Ohad Ben-Shahar Ben-Gurion University
Alfred Bruckstein Technion
Sharat Chandran IIT, Bombay
Michal Irani Weizmann Institute
Michael Lindenbaum Technion
Jitendra Malik University of California, Berkeley
Niloy Mitra IIT, Delhi
Anurag Mittal IIT, Madras
Dipti Prasad Mukherjee ISI, Calcutta
Jayanta Mukhopadhyay IIT, Kharagpur
Anoop Namboodiri IIIT, Hyderabad
Shree Nayar Columbia University
Tomas Pajdla Czech Technical University, Prague
Shmuel Peleg Hebrew University
Yoav Schechner Technion
Ilan Shimshoni University of Haifa
Manik Varma Microsoft Research, Bangalore
Lior Wolf Tel-Aviv University
Hezy Yeshurun Tel-Aviv University
Lihi Zelnik Technion