www.computer-vision.org

Video Recognition Technology portal

www.visioninterface.net

Notable events:

• VT4NS'08. October 21, 2008 (TBC).
  
  
• Invited Contribution:  “Face databases and evaluation” chapter in Encyclopedia of Biometrics (Editor: Stan Li), Planned for publication in 2009, Elsevier Publisher - [ Read it ]
  
  
• Invited Talk : "Intelligent Video: problems and solutions" Transport Canada Rail and Urban Transit Security Workshop, Montreal, Nov. 2007.  - [in English , en français]
  
  

• Organizer & Coordinator,
  Interdepartmental Workshop on Deploying Video Technology for National Security. June 5-6, 2007, In coordination with USA DTO-VACE (Disruptive Technology Office, Video Analysis and Content Extraction) program. - [VACE brochure]
  
  

• Tutorial on Recognition in Video.  At Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'06), May 7 to 10, 2006,  Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Canada. - [tutorial web-page].
  
  

• Special Issue Editor: 
  Image and Vision Computing Journal. Special Issue on Face Processing in Video Sequences. (Vol. 24, No. 6). June 1, 2006. - [Read Editorial: "Seeing Faces. In Video. By Computers"].
  
  
• Organizer & Program Co-Chair: 
   International workshop on Video Processing and Recognition 
  Jointly with Canadian conference Computer & Robot Vision ( CRV'07 ) , May 28-30, Montreal, Canada, Marriott Chateau Champlain - www.computer-vision.org/VideoRec07
  
  
  
• Organizer & Program Co-Chair: 
  International Workshop on Video Processing for Security 
  Jointly with Canadian conference Computer & Robot Vision ( CRV'06 ),  June 7-9, Quebec City, Canada - www.computer-vision.org/4security
  
  
  
• Organizer & Program Co-Chair: 
  The Second Workshop on Face Processing in Video 
  Jointly with Canadian conferences on Artificial Intelligence / Graphics Interface / Computer & Robot Vision ( AI / GI / CRV '2005), Victoria, BC, Canada, 9-11 May, 2005. -  www.visioninterface.net/fpiv05
  
  
  
• Organizer & Program Chair: - www.visioninterface.net/fpiv04 , 
  The First IEEE CVPR Workshop on Face Processing in Video - 
  Jointly with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR'04 ), June 28, 2004, Washington, D.C., USA. - www.visioninterface.net/fpiv04 - [Read Editorial]
  
  
  
• Program Chair: - http://www.cipprs.org/vi2002
  The 15th International Conference on Vision Interface
  (now called Canadian Conference of Computer and Robot Vision), May 27-29, 2002, Calgary, Canada
  
  
  
• 2001-2005 Face Tracking portal (last updated 2005)
  
• 2002-2006  Associative Neural Network Open Source Library: www.perceptual-vision.com/memory/pinn
  
• 2005       Neural Technology Exhibition Chair, Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'05)
  
• 2004       Chair EEE Computational Intelligence Society ( Ottawa chapter)
  
• 2004       Co-Editor (with Dr. Hong Zhang), Image and Vision Computing journal, 

Other:

• Adjunct Professorship and Graduate Student supervisor, 
  University of Dalhousie, Faculty of Computer Science.
  
• Co-founder and Chief Consultant,
  IVIM Inc. ("Intelligent Vision Interfaces and More...") - official licensee of Nouse^® Hands-Free Interface, leading technical partner for Ottawa Long Care facilities and University of Ottawa's School of Medicine on designing hands-free computer control tools for disabled.

Featured Video Recognition Technologies (see all):

• Vision-based computer control (Nouse^®) 
• Automated Surveillance (ACE Surveillance™)
• Face Recognition from Video (FRiV)

Recent publications (see all, patents):

• "Automated video surveillance: challenges and solutions. ACE Surveillance (Annotated Critical Evidence) case study" (NATO workshop 2008)
• "Video-based framework for face recognition in video" (IEEE CRV workshop, 2006)

Current conference PC:

• IEEE CIB 2009 - Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2009
• Second IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications. Detecting and Adapting to Emerging Threats. Ottawa, Canada, 9-10 July 2009

Technical Committees:

• CAC/JTC1 (Canadian Advisory Committees for the Joint Technical Committee) - Biometrics
• NSERC TC Committee on Biometrics and Surveillance
• PSEPS Biometrics Working Group

• Agencies reviewer: IRAP, AIF, CCIFF. NSERC
  

Conferences, labs, resources on Computer Vision, Image Understanding and their applications in Canada and elsewhere

Sponsor: 

Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) is the sponsor of  Vision Interface (VI) - the oldest (since 1977) annual conference on computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition hold  in Canada, which since 2004 is renamed to Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV). 

CIPPRS sponsored proceedings online:

CVPR FPiV'04, Washington - proceedings
VI 2003, Halifax -  proceedings

VI'2002, Calgary - proceedings

VI'2001, Ottawa - proceedings

VI'2000, Montreal 

VI'99, Trois-Rivières - proceedings

 

Research areas:

AI on the Web | Computer Vision | Perceptual Vision | Pattern Recognition |  Face Recognition | Machine Learning  |  Neuro-computation | Robotics | HCI & HCI Resources| Multimedia

 

Canadian labs:

CENPARMI, Concordia University
Communications Visuelles, INRS, Montreal

Computer Vision and Systems Lab, Laval University
Center For Intelligent Machines, McGill University
Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, UBC

Computational Video Group, NRC-CNRC, Ottawa

Visual Information Technology, NRC-CNRC, Ottawa
Computer Vision and Multimedia Communications, U of Alberta
Robot Vision Group, U of Guelph 

University of Toronto Vision Laboratory

GRMB, U de Montreal
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Lab, U of Waterloo

University of Western Ontario

Computer Vision Group, University of Windsor

MOIVRE, Universite de Sherbrooke

Vision, Imaging, Video and Audio Research Laboratory, U of Ottawa

Scene Analysis and Modelling Group, U of Saskatchewan

Centre for Vision Research, York University

 

Canadian Vision companies:

See Computer Vision Industry

See PRECARN projects

Other places announcing events:

http://iris.usc.edu/Information/Iris-Conferences.html
http://www.computer.org/conferences/calendar.htm 
http://ieee-nns.org/conferences/comprehensive.html 
http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/PRInfo/conferences.html
http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/~aha/research/conference-announcements.html
http://www.isi.uu.nl/Conferences/ 
http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~doetsch/conf/conferences.html
http://www.aaai.org/Meetings/meetings.html 
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