Joint IEEE OTCBVS'04,
Evaluation remarks,
The first annual workshop on
Object Tracking and Classification Beyond the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS), held
on July 2nd, 2004, in the Grand Hyatt Washington, DC. The number of attendees
exceeded 90 persons. Attendees of the workshop were from academia, vision
industries, and military related laboratories. Outstanding presentations have
been given by the authors of the sixteen papers of the five sessions of the
OTCBVS'04 program. Each presentation was given 20 minutes. Printed proceedings
were distributed at the workshop. In the opening session, an excellent talk was
given by Dr Firooz Sadjadi from Lockheed Martin Corp on "Polarimetric
Object Classification". In the closing session, two papers were selected
by the workshop chairs for reward. Also, a discussion was driven on organizing
the next OTCBVS. The workshop was closed at 5:00 pm. The remained issues
(public EM/IR database, PC, etc) would be discussed and followed via e-mails.
To
get involved send an email to Dr. Riad Hammoud, riad.hammoud@delphi.com.
Best
Papers:
Based
on the input of the program committee of OTCBVS'04, and the authors
presentations, the following two papers were selected for reward by the
workshop sponsor. The first paper, from the university of Tennessee, received
500 USD cash and a gift. The second one, from the university of Southern
California, got a stylish Delphi LCD clock.
1)
Fusion of Visual and Thermal Signatures with Eyeglass Removal for Robust
Face Recognition
Jingu
Heo, Seong G. Kong, Besma R. Abidi, and Mongi A. Abidi
University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
2)
Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects from Overlapping EO and IR Sensors
University
of Southern California, LA, CA, USA