Mathematical Control and Systems Theory

2002/2003 Spring

Workshop

Vision from a Mathematical Perspective

 
Monday March 10
 
10:15-10:30  Welcome

10:30-11:30  Level set methods
             James Sethian, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA
 
11:30-12:00  Break
 
12:00-13:00  "Metamorphoses"
             Laurent Younes, ENS Cachan, France
 
13:00-14:30  Lunch
 
14:30-15:30  What can we learn from two pixels
             Joachim Weickert, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
 
Tuesday March 11
 
10:30-11:30  Hierarchical adaptive segmentation
             Eitan Sharon, Brown University, Providence RI, USA
 
11:30-12:00  Break
 
12:00-13:00  Hierarchical adaptive segmentation, cont.
             Eitan Sharon, Brown University, Providence RI, USA

13:00-14:30  Lunch

14:30-15:30  Image segmentation by path-based and probabilistic clustering
             Joachim Buhmann, Universitaet Bonn, Germany

15:30-16:00  Break
 
16:00-17:00  Ecological statistics and visual grouping
             Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA
 
 
Wednesday March 12
 
09:30-10:30  Modeling and tracking of articulated human motion in 3D
             Cristian Sminchisescu, INRIA Grenoble. France
 
10:30-11:00  Break
 
11:00-12:00  Galilean invariants for optical motion
             Daniel Fagerstrom, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
 
12:00-13:00  to be announced
             Bill Triggs, INRIA Grenoble, France
 
13:00-14:30  Lunch
  
14:30-15:30  Appearance dynamics and internal models
             Bijoy Ghosh, Washington University, St Louis MO, USA


15:30-16:00  Break

16:00-17:00  to be announced
             Jan Koenderink, Utrecht University, the Netherlands 


Thursday March 13
  
9:30-10:30   Determining the geometry of boundaries of regions from
             medial data
             James Damon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, USA
 
10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-12:00  Vision on a 1-D retina
             Kalle Astrom, Lund University, Sweden
 
12:00-13:00  Critical configurations for 3D reconstruction, elliptic curves,
             generalizations of Pascal's theorem
             Fredrik Kahl, Lund University, Sweden
 
13:00-14:30  Lunch
 
14:30-15:30  Shape and Riemann metrics
             David Mumford, Brown University, Providence RI, USA
 
15:30-16:00  Break

16:00-17:00  Towards a theory of natural scenes
             Ulf Grenander, Brown University, Providence RI, USA
 
Friday March 14
 
09:30-10:30  Building taxonomies for categorization
             Barbara Caputo, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
 
10:30-11:00  Break
 
11:00-12:00  Shape characterization using order types
             Stefan Carlsson, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
 
12:00-13:00  Recognizing objects and actions in images and video
             Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA
 
13:00-14:30  Lunch