Events


Graphics, Animation and New Media Conference (Notes @ GRAND) 2012
GRAND 2012 will showcase a multi-disciplinary program of research and innovation across the broad spectrum of digital media topics and issues, with presentations from researchers across Canada. I am one of the chairs for the Research Notes session.
Graphics, Animation and New Media Conference, Gregor Miller (Co-Chair, Research Notes), GRAND NCE AGM (Notes @ GRAND), Montreal, Canada, May 2012;
Workshop on Person-Oriented Vision (POV @ WVM) 2011
The majority of researchers in computer vision focus on technology and systems which advancethe state-of-the-art, however there is very little focus on how we can make thestate-of-the-art useable by the majority of "ordinary" people. Additionally, more researchis required to provide interactive or accessible techniques to address the shortcomings incurrent computer vision solutions.

Developing methods to make computer vision accessible poses many interesting questions andwill require novel approaches to the problems. This one day workshop will bring togetherresearchers in the fields of accessible and interactive computer vision to discuss thestate-of-the-art and the direction of research.

As part of the Winter Vision Meetings I organised theWorkshop on Person-Oriented Vision which was held in Keauhou-Kona, Hawaii on the 7th of January 2011. Theworkshop highlighted ongoing research in accessible and interactive computer vision, as well as providing an opportunity fordiscussions on new directions for the field. We invited work on the following topics:
  • Transforming CV problems to exploit meaningful user interaction
  • High-level abstractions of vision algorithms
  • Automatic or interactive algorithm selection based on user input
  • Detection/tracking/recognition of a physical person as input to an interactive system
  • Interpretation of user input such as descriptions, sketches, images or video
  • Automatic or interactive parameter tuning for vision algorithms
  • Case studies on "Person-Oriented" CV
  • Vision systems designed for use by non-experts
  • Interactive/supervised correction of weaknesses in the current state-of-the-art

Workshop on Person-Oriented Vision, Gregor Miller (General Chair), Winter Vision Meetings (POV @ WVM), Keauhou, U.S.A., January 2011;