Australia-Japan Advanced Workshop on Computer Vision

9 - 11 September 2003
National Wine Centre, Adelaide, Australia

Organized by Michael J. Brooks and Kenichi Kanatani

Sponsored by
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
The Australian Government's Innovation Access Program

Tuesday 9 September 2003

Session 1: Factorization and Affine Reconstruction
9:40 -- 10:20
PowerFactorization: 3D reconstruction with missing or uncertain data,
Richard Hartley and Frederik Schaffalitzky (Australian National University, Australia)
10:40 -- 11:20
Robust factorization for the affine camera: Analysis and comparison,
Du Q. Huynh* and Anders Heyden+ (*University of Western Australia, Australia, +Malmo University, Sweden)
11:20 -- 12:00
Extending interrupted feature point tracking for 3-D affine reconstruction,
Yasuyuki Sugaya and Kenichi Kanatani (Okayama University, Japan)
2:00 -- 2:40
Multi-stage optimization for multi-body motion segmentation,
Kenichi Kanatani and Yasuyuki Sugaya (Okayama University, Japan)
Session 2: Correspondence
2:40 -- 3:20
Robust image matching preserving global consistency,
Yasushi Kanazawa* and Kenichi Kanatani+ (*Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, +Okayama University, Japan)
3:40 -- 4:20
Fast algorithms for stereo matching and motion estimation,
Changming Sun (CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia)
Session 3: Parameter Estimation
4:20 -- 5:00
3D accuracy improvement from an image: Evaluation and viewpoint dependency,
Keisuke Kinoshita (ATR Human Information Science Laboratories, Japan)

Wednesday 10 September 2003

9:00 -- 9:40
A constrained parameter estimation approach for some vision problems,
Wojciech Chojnacki, Michael J. Brooks, Anton van den Hengel and Darren Gawley (University of Adelaide, Australia)
9:40 -- 10:20
Curve fitting: orthogonal distance regression, principal curves and full maximum likelihood,
Garry Newsam (Defense Science and Technology Organization, Australia)
10:40 -- 11:20
Recent advances in video based motion estimation: Very robust estimators and improved direct factorization methods,
David Suter, Pei Chen, and Hanzi Wang (Monash University, Australia)
11:20 -- 12:00
Motion parameter estimation from optical flow without nuisance parameters,
Naoya Ohta (Gunma University, Japan)
Session 4: Video and Surveillance Techniques
2:00 -- 2:40
Detecting moving objects, ghosts, and shadows in video streams,
Rita Cucchinara*, Costantio Grana*, Massimo Piccardi+, Andrea Prati* (*Universita di Modena e Geggio Emilia, Italy, +University of Technology at Sydney, Australia)
2:40 -- 3:20
Skin segmentation using color and edge information,
Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, and Douglas Chai (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Session 5: Media Aesthetics
3:40 -- 4:20
Virtual exhibition of traditional dances by blending colors of multiple images,
Takeshi Shakunaga*, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa+, Ryo Yamane*, Daisuke Genda* and Yuji Kamon* (*Okayama University, Japan, +University of Tsukuba, Japan)
4:20 -- 5:00
Extracting Movie Tempo: Computational media aesthetics at work,
Brett Adams*, Chitra Dori+, and Svetha Venkatesh * (*Curtin University of Technology, Australia, +IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.)

Thursday 11 September 2003

9:00 -- 9:40
Automatic construction of optimal statistical shape models,
Rhodri H. Davis*, Carole J. Twining+, Tim F. Cootes+, and Chris J. Taylor+ (*University of Melbourne, Australia, +University of Manchester, U.K.)
9:40 -- 10:20
Surface normals to surfaces via shapelets,
Peter Kovesi (University of Western Australia)
Session 6: Shape
10:40 -- 11:20
Statistical methods for human behaviour recognition,
Goeff West and Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
Session 7: Multi-camera Geometry
11:20 -- 12:00
Recovering epipolar geometry from mutual projections of multiple cameras,
Jun Sato (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
2:00 -- 2:40
Self-calibration from two perspective views under various conditions: Closed-form solutions and degenerate configurations,
Toshio Ueshiba and Fumiaki Tomita (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
2:40 -- 3:20
Diverging viewing-lines in binocular vision: A method for estimating ego motion by mounted active cameras,
Akihiro Sugimoto* and Tomohiko Ikeda+ (*National Institute of Informatics, Japan, +Chiba University, Japan).
3:20 -- 4:00
Construction of 3D map in robot by combining action and perceived images,
Koichiro Deguchi (Tohoku University, Japan)