ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Fourth Workshop on

Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision

June 20^th 2005, in Conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2005 – San Diego, CA

Workshop Chairs: Ross Beveridge, ross@cs.colostate.edu Colorado State U. Salil Prabhakar salilp@digitalpersona.com DigitalPersona Inc. Sudeep Sarkar sarkar@csee.usf.edu U. South Florida Program Committee: Terry Boult Kevin Bowyer Adrain Clark Patrick Courtney Jim Crowley Stan Dunn Bob Fisher Wolfgang Foerstner Adam Hoover Xiaoyi Jiang Arvind Lakshmikumar Peter Meer Ross Michaels Jonathon Phillips Visvanathan Ramesh Jim Wayman Harry Wechsler

MOTIVATION The primary goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the computer vision and pattern recognition community to present papers and discuss methods for empirical evaluation and characterization of vision and pattern recognition algorithms. The workshop program will include tutorials, invited speakers, and presentation of contributed papers. Contributed papers will be reviewed based on content relevant to the theme of the workshop, with an emphasis on sound empirical methods and results. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: performance characterization of algorithms for vision and pattern recognition problems (e.g., biometrics, medical imaging, industrial applications, etc.), statistical analysis of empirical algorithm performance results, empirical comparison of different algorithms, methods / tools / databases for empirical performance evaluation, standardization and independent testing, and design of empirical evaluation methods and protocols. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should be submitted no later than March 8, 2005. Submissions are to be made electronically. See workshop webpage (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/eemcv2005/) for directions. Accepted papers will appear on the CVPR CD-ROM and be indexed in IEEExplore. Consistent with the workshop goals of fostering in depth discussion of empirical evaluation issues, the workshop organizers will consider extended versions of papers submitted to CVPR’05. The workshop paper must provide additional details pertinent to evaluation for a specialized workshop, but not appropriate to a general computer vision conference. For dual submissions the authors need to include a copy of their CVPR submission.