VIGTA 2012 - First International Workshop on Visual Interfaces for Ground Truth Collection in Computer Vision Applications

VIGTA 2012 ? First International Workshop on Visual Interfaces for
Ground Truth Collection in Computer Vision Applications
Workshop at AVI2012 - Capri, Italy, May 21-25, 2012
http://vigta2012.dieei.unict.it/
Overview

The importance of having image/video database containing high quality
ground truth annotations generated by humans for a variety of computer
vision applications is recognized by the whole machine vision
community. Indeed, one of the most significant efforts during the
evaluation process is represented by the development of accurate truth
and comparing this truth to the decision of image and video processing
applications. For example, datasets with ground truth labels are
necessary for supervised learning of object categories. However, the
cost of providing labelled data, which implies asking a human to
examine images and provide labels, becomes impractical as training
sets grow. The computer vision community has mainly directed its
attention to develop methods for collecting large scale datasets by
exploiting the collaborative effort of a large population of
annotators. Although there exist functional, task-oriented
requirements for tools supporting ground truth labeling,
the research still lacks in following human computer interaction
paradigm to develop user-oriented tools. In fact, annotators, must be
at the centre of such tools since the ground truth needs to be
established by humans who, for example, on a video sequence of five
minutes captured at 30 fps, have to annotate manually
a total of 9000 frames. Therefore, tools for ground truth annotation
must be user-oriented, providing advanced visual interfaces able to
speed-up the process of ground truth creation by helping users,
through the integration of computer vision methods and multi-users
ground truth annotations, to finish the task in a reasonable amount of
time with less effort.
The workshop aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers
both in computer vision and in HCI and in multimedia research to share
ideas and experiences in designing and implementing visual interfaces
for ground truth data generation, thus promoting interdisciplinary
research between computer vision, HCI and multimedia research.
Topics of interest

The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to:
* Adaptive and multimodal interfaces
* Comparative analysis of existing tools
* Interactive and Collaborative Interfaces
* Mobile and Web 2.0 Interfaces
* Computer vision methods supporting automatic or semi-automatic
machine tagging for ground truth data annotation
* Incorporation of Semantic Data in Interfaces
* Web Semantic approaches for ground truth representation and sharing
* Tools and Applications
Important dates

* Deadline for paper submission: March 22, 2012.
* Notification of acceptance: April 08, 2012
* Camera Ready Paper and Registration: April 15, 2012
* Date of the workshop: May 21, 2012
Submission

Submissions to VIGTA 2012 workshop must be original and have not been
published or submitted elsewhere. All papers must be written in English.
The submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind procedure by at
least two members of the Program Committee. The papers must contain no
information identifying the author(s) or their organization(s).
All papers must strictly have page limit of 6 pages, which conforms to
the ACM SIG Proceedings format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
To submit your research paper, please send it to vigta2012-AT-dieei.unict.it
All accepted papers will be published on the workshop website.
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in special
issues of international ISI journals.
Workshop Organizers

* Concetto Spampinato, University of Catania, Italy
* Bas Boom, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Jiyin He, Center of Mathematics & Informatics (CWI), the Netherlands
Please contact us at vigta2012-AT-dieei.unict.it
Program committee

* Emmanuelle Beauxis-Aussalet, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)
* Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Lynda Hardman, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)
* Xuan Huang, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Isaak Kavasidis, University of Catania (Italy)
* Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)
* Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)
* Simone Palazzo, University of Catania (Italy)
* Jenny Benois-Pineau, University Bordeaux (France)
* Anna Bosch Rue, University of Girona (Spain)
* Simona Ullo, IIT ? Genova (Italy)