The Sixth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision, organised by the general chair Dr. Ahmed Nabil Belbachir (AIT, Safety & Security Department) and held in conjunction with CVPR 2010, was a success, with record attendance this year reflecting growth in interest in embedded computer vision. There were several live demos including bio-inspired cameras (AIT) and a mobile photo collage application.
The opening keynote talk by Horst Bischoff on solving vision tasks with variational methods implemented on GPUs received a great deal of interest. Professor Bischoff demonstrated speedups of up to about 100x, and a range of applications including inpainting, car detection, robust fusion of depth maps, segmentation, and optical-flow based tracking.
In an invited presentation, OpenCV founder Gary Bradski of WillowGarage discussed current work on OpenCV. Developments underway include a re-organization of the library into processing stacks or pipelines; for example, a calibration stack and an object recognition stack. A number of local representations and interest point detectors for object recognition are now in OpenCV, and Dr. Bradski suggested that this would make it easier for published papers in the future to include extensive comparative evaluations.
Other keynote and invited speakers included Branislav Kisacanin on Emerging Applications of Embedded Vision, Shingo Kagami on High-Speed Vision Systems and Projectors for Real-Time Perception of the World, and Kari Pulli on a Mobile Panoramic Imaging System.
General Observations:
Conference organizers announced that attendance was "officially" at more than 1,800 participants. 10-13 Workshops and tutorials in parallel on Sunday and Monday. For the two parallel tracks on Tuesday through Thursday, there were quite a few "spillover" conference rooms to which presentations were delivered over streaming video.
Further information: ECVW 2010