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                            OMNIVIS 2005

            The SIXTH WORKSHOP on OMNIDIRECTIONAL VISION
              CAMERA NETWORKS and NON-CLASSICAL CAMERAS
                                   
           http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cgeyer/OMNIVIS05

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We are pleased to announce OMNIVIS 2005, the Sixth Workshop on
Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras, to
be held on October 21st in conjunction with ICCV 2005 in Beijing,
China.  The aim of OMNIVIS 2005 is to bring together researchers
interested in the problems associated with distributed networks of
cameras, as well as omnidirectional and other non-classical cameras.

In addition to a focus on any aspect of omnidirectional cameras or
non-classical cameras, contributions are sought for new and original
research on problems associated with large-scale networks of cameras.
Low-powered camera chips, advances in wireless technology and
longer-life batteries will allow for deployment of networks of
wireless camera nodes for surveillance, tele-immersion, environmental
modeling, entertainment and for use in exploration by teams of
persons or robots with mounted cameras.  Success has been made in the
field of sensor networks for comparatively low-bandwidth sensors,
however, scaling up to the bandwidth required by imagery sources is
not yet solved.  Furthermore, many of the problems faced in the
wireless setting are still open for large-scale, wired camera
networks.  

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

 * Large- (>1000) and medium-scale (10-1000) camera networks
   - decentralized algorithms robust to node failures
   - continuous calibration, e.g., of non-stationary camera networks
   - applications: surveillance, tele-immersion
 * Omnidirectional cameras
   - structure-from-motion
   - visual servoing
   - image processing
   - applications
 * Non-classical sensors
   - algorithms and calibration
   - novel, application-tailored designs

For more information see the OMNIVIS 2005 website:
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  http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cgeyer/OMNIVIS05


Important Dates:
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 Submission deadline:        June      9, 2005
 Notification of acceptance: August   12, 2005
 Camera ready:               September 2, 2005
 Workshop date:              October  21, 2005


Submission Details:
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Please submit your paper in PDF format via e-mail to cgeyer AT
eecs.berkeley.edu by midnight of June 9, 2005.  Papers should not
exceed EIGHT (8) pages in IEEE format.  Papers will be reviewed
double-blind and therefore submitted papers should be strictly
anonymous; reviewers should not be able to infer author's identity
from the article.  In the e-mail, please include: 

  1. Paper title.
  2. Authors(s).
  3. Affiliation(s). 
  4. Corresponding author information (address, phone, e-mail).


Program Committee:
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 Organizers:
  - Christopher Geyer, Marc Pollefeys, Xianghua Ying 

 Program Committee:
  - Joao Barreto, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
  - Patrick Baker, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA.
  - Kostas Daniilidis, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
  - Atsushi Imiya, Chiba University, Japan.
  - Sing Bing Kang, Microsoft Research, USA.
  - Shree Nayar, Columbia University, USA.
  - David Nister, University of Kentucky, USA.
  - Tomás Pajdla, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic.
  - Shmuel Peleg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
  - Robert Pless, University of Washington, St. Louis, USA.
  - Richard Radke, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, USA.
  - Ralf Reulke, Humboldt University, Germany.
  - Peter Sturm, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France.
  - Chris Stauffer, MIT, USA.
  - Tomás Svoboda, Czech Technical University, Prague.
  - Rahul Swaminathan, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
  - Seth Teller, MIT, USA.
  - Yasushi Yagi, Osaka University, Japan.