CFP: IEEE TPAMI Special Issue on 3D Scene Interpretation

Vision List Digest: Article 6, Volume 9, Issue 8
From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn)
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Call for Papers

Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelliegnce
on

Interpretation of 3D Scenes

Papers are solicited for a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence which will address the
subject of Interpretation of 3D Scenes. The issue is scheduled for
publication in September, 1991. The Guest Editors for the special issue
will be Anil Jain of Michigan State University and Eric Grimson of
M.I.T.

The interpretation of 3D scenes is a difficult yet an important area of
research in computer vision. Advances in sensors that directly sense in
3D and progress in passive 3D sensing methods have resulted in a steady
but not spectacular progress in 3D scene interpretation. The quality of
sensed data is getting better and faster hardware presents more
alternatives for processing it. However, the problems of object
modeling and matching still pose difficulties for general real world
scenes. Problems in 3D sensing, modeling, and interpretation are being
investigated by a number of vision researchers in a variety of
contexts. The goal of the special issue is to gather significant
research results on sensing, modeling, and matching into one volume
which specifically addresses these issues.

Papers describing novel contributions in all aspects of 3D scene interpretation
are invited, with particular emphasis on:

-- 3D sensing technologies, both active (laser, sonar, etc.) and
passive (stereo, motion vision, etc.),
-- 3D object recognition, both from 3D data and from 2D data,
-- 3D navigation and path planning
-- novel object representations that support 3D interpretation
-- applications (e.g. cartography, inspection, assembly, navigation)
-- representation and indexing of large libraries of objects
-- CAD-based 3d vision
-- architectures for 3D interpretation

We particularly encourage papers that address one or more of these
issues or related issues in 3D interpretation, especially in the context
of complex scenes. While both theoretical and experimental contributions
are welcomed, contributions in which new ideas are
tested or verified on real data are specially sought.

All papers will be subjected to the normal PAMI review process. Please
submit four copies of your paper to:

Eric Grimson
M.I.T. AI Laboratory
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139

The deadline for submission of manuscript is October 1, 1990. For further
information, contact Anil Jain (517-353-5150, jain@cps.msu.edu)
or Eric Grimson (617-253-5346, welg@ai.mit.edu).

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