The IEEE's CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Conference is one of the premier worldwide technical events focused on vision processing. For perhaps obvious reasons, the conference's Embedded Vision Workshop is of particular import to the Embedded Vision Alliance. Alliance founder Jeff Bier has personally attended and participated in the event the past several years, as I noted last February, and General Co-Chair Goksel Dedeoglu (a name that'll undoubtedly be familiar to many of you) recently contacted me to report that the Embedded Vision Workshop's Program Committee is now accepting contributed paper proposals for the 10th annual iteration of the event.
From the Embedded Vision Workshop event page (the Call for Papers is also available as a PDF):
Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the use of embedded systems for vision. Applications range from accurate, performance-centric systems to high volume, low-cost, light weight and energy efficient consumer devices. Computer vision has been deployed in many applications, for example, in video search and annotation, surveillance, computer-aided surgery, for gesture and body movement detection in video games, to assist drivers in automotive safety and for in-home monitoring of vulnerable persons. Embedded computer vision is part of a growing trend towards developing low-cost “smart sensors” that use local “analytics” to interpret data, passing on relatively high level alerts or summary information via network connectivity.
Embedded vision applications are built upon advances in vision algorithms, embedded processing architectures, advanced circuit technologies, and new electronic system design methodologies. They are implemented on embedded processing devices and platforms such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable digital signal processors (DSPs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and various kinds of heterogeneous multi-core devices. They are developed under significant resource constraints of processing, memory, power, size, and communication bandwidth that pose significant challenges to attaining required levels of performance and speed, and frequently exploit the inherent parallelism of the specialized platforms to address these challenges. Given the heterogeneous and specialized nature of these platforms, efficient development methods are an important issue.
The Embedded Vision Workshop (EVW) aims to bring together researchers working on vision problems that share embedded system characteristics. Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Analysis of vision problems specific to embedded systems.
- Analysis of embedded systems problems specific to computer vision.
- Embedded computer vision for robotics
- New trends in programmable processors and their computational models.
- Applications of and algorithms for embedded vision on standard parallelized platforms such as GPUs (PC, embedded and mobile)
- Applications of and algorithms for embedded vision on reconfigurable platforms such as FPGAs
- Applications of and algorithms for embedded computer vision on programmable platforms, such as DSPs, and multicore SoCs such as the Cell Processor
- Applications of embedded computer vision on mobile devices including phones
- Biologically-inspired vision and embedded systems
- Computer vision applications distributed between embedded devices and servers
- Social networking embedded computer vision applications
- Educational methods for embedded computer vision
- User interface designs and CAD tools for embedded computer vision applications
- Hardware enhancements (lens, imager, processor) that impact computer vision applications
- Software enhancements (OS, middleware, vision libraries, development tools) that impact embedded computer vision application
- Methods for standardization and measurement of computer vision functionality as they impact embedded computer vision
- Performance metrics for evaluating embedded systems performance
- Hybrid embedded systems combining vision and other sensor modalities
Paper submissions are due by March 12, with subsequent notifications to authors scheduled to go out on April 14. The Embedded Vision Workshop will be held June 28 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio; the broader IEEE CVPR Conference will take place June 24-27 in the same location, with additional workshops taking place on June 23.
To submit a paper for Embedded Vision Workshop Program Committee consideration, or for any other questions about the event, please contact Goksel at [email protected].
