DIMACS Workshop on Large Scale Discrete Optimization in Robotics and Vision

March 21 - 23, 1999
Rutgers University, CoRE Building, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Jitendra Malik, University of California - Berkeley, malik@cs.berkeley.edu

Jean Ponce, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, ponce@cs.uiuc.edu

Workshop Program:

Sunday, March 21, 1999

8:30 - 9:00   Breakfast and Registration

9:00 - 9:10   Welcome and Greeting
              Jitendra Malik, University of California - Berkeley
              Jean Ponce, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

9:10 - 10:00  Computational Mechanisms for Visual Grouping
              Jitendra Malik, University of California - Berkeley

10:00 - 10:50 Fast Energy Minimization for Computer Vision via Graph Cuts
              Ramin Zabih, Cornell University

10:50 - 11:10 Break	

11:10 - 12:00 Sampling Methods in Computer Vision
              David Forsyth, University of California - Berkeley

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch

1:30 - 2:20   Strategies for Taming the Combinatorially Explosive Search in Vision
              David Mumford, Brown University

2:20 - 2:40   Linear Programming-Based Learning for Face Detection
              Andrew Senior and Gregory Sorkin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

2:40 - 3:00   Break

3:00 - 3:50   Probabilistic Motion Planning Using Visibility Based Roadmaps
              Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS

3:50 - 4:40   Towards Planning for Elastic Objects
              Lydia Kavraki, Rice University

4:40 - 5:00   Break  

5:00 - 6:00   Panel: Can Probabilistic Inference in Vision be Made Computationally Tractable?

	      Moderator: Jitendra Malik, University of California - Berkeley
	
              Participants: David Forsyth, University of California - Berkeley
                            Davi Geiger, New York University
			    David Mumford, Brown University
                            Ramin Zabih, Cornell University

Monday, March 22, 1999

8:15 - 8:50     Breakfast and Registration

8:50 - 9:40	Generic Shape Indexing and Matching for 2-D Object Recognition
                Sven Dickinson, Rutgers University

9:40 - 10:30	Recognition under Variable Illumination: Issues and Problems
                David Kriegman, University of Illinois

10:35 - 10:50	Break	

10:50 - 11:40	Template-Based Indexing for Vision and Robotics
                Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University

11:40 - 12:30	Kinetic Data Structures for Optimization
                Leonidas J. Guibas, Stanford University

12:30 - 2:00 	Lunch

2:00 - 2:50	Differential Algebra & Robot Control
                Bud Mishra, New York University

2:50 - 3:40	Specifying and Performing Hand-Eye Tasks with Uncertain Camera Models
                Gregory Hager, Yale University

3:40 - 4:00	Break

4:00 - 5:00	Posters

5:00 - 6:00	Panel: Vision and Robotics: Growing Apart or Coming Together?

		Moderator: Jean Ponce, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

		Participants: Andrew Zisserman, Oxford University 
                              Gregory Hager, Yale University 
			      Martial Hebert, Carnegie Mellon University
                              David Kriegman, University of Illinois 
                              Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS
 
Tuesday, March 23, 1999
 

8:00 - 8:30     Breakfast and Registration

8:30 - 9:20	Capture Regions for Grasping, Manipulating and Re-Orienting Parts
                Jean Ponce, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

9:20 - 10:10 	Fences and Traps: Geometric Algorithms for Part Feeding
                Mark Overmars, Utrecht University

10:10 - 10:25	Break

10:25 - 11:15	Reconstructing Cameras and Scene Geometry from Multiple Views
                Andrew Zisserman, Oxford University

11:15-12:05	Human Visual Space
                Jan J. Koenderink, Utrecht University

12:05 - 12:10	Closing remarks
                Jitendra Malik, University of California - Berkeley
                Jean Ponce, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

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