Program

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Invited Talks

Technical Program

Opening

8:00   Registration
8:50   Welcome
Lucas Paletta
JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria

Invited Talk 1

9:00   Modelling normal and disordered human attention in an interactive system
Glyn W. Humphreys
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK
(Glyn W. Humphreys and Dietmar Heinke)

There is considerable experimental and neuropsychological evidence indicating that human visual attention involves complex interactions between bottom-up factors (local saliency, grouping between image features) and top-down knowledge (stored object representations, template-based guidance of processing). Important aspects of these processes can be captured in dynamic network models, in which 'attention' emerges from competition and co-operative interactions to select objects for recognition and action. Glyn W. Humphreys reviews the SAIM (Selective Attention for Identification Model) as one approach to this topic, to illustrate how an interactive model is necessary to simulate human behaviour.

Session 1 – Computational Architectures for Attention

9:45   A Probabilistic Estimation Approach for Dynamic Visual Search
Tamar Avraham and Michael Lindenbaum
Technion, Haifa, Israel
10:15   Two Selection Stages Provide Efficient Object-based Attentional Control for
Dynamic Vision
Gerriet Backer and Bärbel Mertsching
University of Hamburg, Germany
10:45   coffee break

Session 2 – Saliency and Feature Selection

11:15   Utilizing Saliency Operators for Image Matching
Friedrich Fraundorfer and Horst Bischof
Graz University of Technology, Austria
11:45   An Attentive, Multi-modal Laser Eye
Simone Frintrop, Erich Rome, Andreas Nüchter, and Hartmut Surmann
Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany
12:15   Evaluation of Selective Attention under Similarity Transforms
Albert Lionelle and Bruce A. Draper
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
12:45   lunch
     

Invited Talk 2

14:30   Seeing With Sensorimotor Contingencies
Kevin O'Regan, D. Philipona, and J-P. Nadal
Université René Descartes, Paris, France

Session 3 - Control of Visual Processes

15:15   Perceptual Agents: A Situated Framework for Image Analysis
Joseph Machrouh and Philippe Tarroux
LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
15:45   Visual Servoing under Changing Illumination Conditions
Geert De Cubber, Hichem Sahli, Eric Colon, and Yvan Baudoin
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium
16:15   coffee break

Session 4 - Attention in Scene and Object Recognition

16:45   Selective Attention for Cue-guided Search Using a Spiking
Neural Network
KangWoo Lee, Hilary Buxton, and Jianfeng Feng
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
17:15   Contextual Cueing for Spatial Attention in Object Detection
from Video
Georg Ogris and Lucas Paletta
JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria
17:45   Sharing Resources: Buy Attention, Get Object Recognition for Free!
Vidhya Navalpakkam and Laurent Itti
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
18:15   finish

Social Program

Welcome Cocktail

Monday, March 31, 2003
Time: 7:30pm
City Hall of Graz, Main Square 2