4th Toronto-Montreal Computer Vision Workshop 2006

The VIVA lab of the School of Information Technology and Engineering at University of Ottawa is the host of the 4th Toronto-Montreal Computer Vision Workshop. This workshop constitutes an opportunity for the Faculty members, the researchers and the students of the computer vision labs located along the Toronto-Montreal axis to meet each other, to share their recent results, to discuss their respective projects, to foster collaborations, to learn more about recent advances in computer vision and perhaps also to enjoy the City of Ottawa with friends. There are no registration fees for the workshop.

• McGill University
• Université de Montréal
• Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal
• Ecole de Technologie Supérieure
• Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique EMT
• Concordia University
• University of Toronto
• University of Waterloo
• York University
• University of Ottawa
• Carleton University

• A 20-min. oral presentation: following a conference-style presentation, the participant can present ongoing research or published works (could be an excellent practice talk for paper to be presented at some international conference, e.g. CRV, CVPR)
• A Poster presentation: there will be a lunch-poster session on the Monday where participants will have the opportunity to show their works and to have fruitful discussions with colleagues.
• Demo: seeing real computer vision systems in action is always great. That is a nice opportunity to demonstrate the practical aspects of your research projects.

Housing

The University of Ottawa Residences are conviently located on the campus of the University, 5-min walk from the SITE building and the Rideau canal. A 15-min walk will bring you to the ByWard market area where you will find several restaurants, pubs and boutiques.

Update - April 14th

• 20 rooms were booked at the special price of 42$ for each participant.The rooms are laid out in a 2 bedroom apartment style.
• To complete your reservation you will need a confirmation number. Contact us for this number.
• You may extend your stay starting from June 1st but the rooms will then be subject to availability. Book early and long enough for your stay.
• Other basic rooms are also available at a cheaper rate.
• For more information consult the U. of O Residences website or call (613) 564-5400 extension 0 for the reception/reservation desk.

new!Schedule

Time	Monday May 29th - SITE A0150	Time	Tuesday May 30th - SITE G0103
8h30	-	8h30	"3D vision-based hand tracking - Towards a Gesture-enabled Context-aware Human-Computer Interface" by Ayman El-Sawah (U. of Ottawa)
9h00	-	9h00	"Seeing around occluding objects" by Scott McCloskey (Mc-Gill)
9h30	-	9h30	"Segmentation of cardiac MRI based on particle filters" by Leyla Imanirad (U. of T.)
10h00	Welcoming Session	10h00	Break
10h15	Overview of the NAVIRE project at the VIVA Lab of the University of Ottawa by Dr. Eric Dubois	10h15	"Revealing significant medial structure in polygonal meshes" by Svetlana Stolpner (Mc-Gill)
10h45	"An online system for synchronized processing of video and audio signals" by Aishy Amer and Mohamed El-Hilali  (Concordia)	10h45	"Evaluating the Stability of Hierarchical Image Segmentations" by Darren M. (U. of Ottawa)
11h15	Computer Vision in the Industry by invited speaker : Paul R. Pearl, ph.D, President, Dipix Technologies Inc.	11h15	Computer Vision research at NRC by invited speaker : Dr. Gerhard Roth, Group Leader, Computational Video Group.
12h00	Lunch break	12h00	Lunch break
13h00	"Grayscale Picture Geometry and Region Decomposition" by Carlos Phillips (Mc-Gill)	13h00	-
13h30	"Spine Shape Analysis using Articulated Models" by Jonathan Boisvert (Polytechnique)	13h30	"Fundamental matrix estimation via TIP - Transfer of Invariant Parameters" by Frank Riggi(Mc-Gill)
14h00	"Motion parallax in 3D cluttered scenes" by Vincent Chapdelaine-Couture (Mc-Gill)	14h00	"Computer Vision Technologies: An Application for Gesture Monitoring and Analysis in Piano Pedagogy" by Martin Côté and Silvain Bériault(U. of Ottawa)
14h30	"Canonical Skeletons for Shape Matching" by Diego Macrini (U. of T.)	14h30	"Contributions to variational image segmentation" by Ismail Ben Ayed (INRS)
15h00	Break +Poster / Demo session - "Evaluation of required and available ultrasound image decompression accuracy for decorrelation based distance estimation" by Catherine Laporte (Mc-Gill) - poster  -"Food grading/sorting based on color appearance through machine vision: the case of fresh cranberries" by Youssouf Chherawala (ETS - Mtl) - poster - "Lexical Acquisition: Where Language and Vision Meet." by Stefan Mathe (U. of T.) - poster -   "Learning Object Visualization in Virtual Environment" by Mahfujur Rahman and Anwar Hossain (U. of O) - poster - "Multiview Range Sensing with Structured Lighting" by Danick Desjardins (U. of O) - demo - "Projective Rectification of Image Triplets from the Fundamental Matrix" by Florian Kangni (U. of O) - poster -  "An online system for synchronized processing of video and audio signals" by Aishy Amer and Mohamed El-Hilali  (Concordia) - demo - "Cosmescia: a Computer Assisted Tool for the Design and Adjustment of Spinal Braces" - poster / "Software tools for 3D visualization of scoliotic deformities" by Philippe Debanne (Polytechnique) - demo - "Canonical Skeletons for Shape Matching" by Matthijs Christiaan van Eede (U. of T.) - demo - "A java cube viewer " by Chris Woodbeck (NRC) - demo - "Belief Propagation on the GPU for Stereo Vision" by Alan Brunton (NRC) - poster - "C-MIDI stands for MIDI that "sees" the notes. Video recognition of pianist hands and fingers" by Dmitry Gorodnichy (NRC) , Arjun Yogeswaran (U. of O) and Gilles Comeux (U. of O) - poster and demo - "ACE (Annotated Critical Evidence) Surveillance" / "Associative tracking and recognition of faces in video" by Dmitry Gorodnichy (NRC) - posters and demos	15h00	Break
15h30	Break + Poster / Demo session (continued)	15h30	"Markerless Augmented Reality for Panoramic Sequences" by Chris Warrington (U. of Ottawa)
16h00	Break + Poster / Demo session (continued)	16h00	"Improving Border Localization of Multi-Baseline Stereo Using Border-Cut" by Marc-Antoine Drouin (U. de Montréal)
16h30	"3D shape from intersecting planar curves" by Ady Ecker (U. of T.)	16h30	"Feature Matching Using Invariant Features" by Akshay Bhatia (U. of Ottawa)
17h00	"Automated Radiographic Indexing System for Spinal Deformities" by Luc Duong (Polytechnique)	17h00	Closing Session
17h30	"Bayesian multiple sclerosis lesion classification: modeling regional and local spatial information" by Rola Harmouche (Mc-gill)		-
18h00	Diner		-

• To the main campus of the University of Ottawa
• Campus Map : the SITE building where the workshop will take place is at the bottom of the map.

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