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SPECIFIC ACTION STATUS

Specific Action 1-1: Best Paper Prize in Cognitive Vision at ECCV'02
Specific Action 2-1: 1st Summer School in Cognitive Computer vision 2003
Specific Action 2-2: 2nd Summer School in Cognitive Computer vision 2004
Specific Action 6-1: Cognitive Vision Education Survey
Specific Action 6-2: Restructuring of CVOnline
Specific Action 6-3: Encyclopedia Cognitive Computer vision
Specific Action 6-4: Education / Online Books
Specific Action 7-1: White Paper on Applications of Cognitive Vision Systems
Specific Action 7-2: Prize for Best Application Development in Cognitive Vision Systems
Specific Action 7-3: Industrial Activity - Project Liaison
Specific Action 7-4: IST Conference – ECVision Organization of Cognitive Systems Events
Specific Action 8-1: Keyword Indexed Bibliography with Abstracts of Papers
Specific Action 8-2: ECCV 2004 Workshop on "Real-World Issues in Animate Vision"
Specific Action 8-3: Probabilistic Graphical Models for Cognitive Computer Vision
Specific Action 12-1: Staff/Student Exchange - University of Oxford and Graz University of Technology
Specific Action 13-1: ICVS'03 - 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Systems
Specific Action 13-2: Overview of software Frameworks for Use in Cognitive Vision Approaches
Specific Action 13-3: Staff/Student Exchange - Vienna University of Technology
Specific Action 16-1: Staff/Student Exchange - University of Bielefeld and University of Surrey
Specific Action 16-2: Staff/Student Exchange - University of Bielefeld and University of Surrey
Specific Action 21-1: Cognitive Computer Vision Ontology Development
Specific Action 21-2: Imprecise Knowledge Representations in Cognitive Vision
Specific Action 25-1: CVPR 2004 Workshop on Generic Object Recognition and Categorization
Specific Action 33-1: ECCV 2004 Workshop on Statistical Learning for Computer Vision
Specific Action 37-1: WAPCV 2003 - Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision
Specific Action 37-2: WAPCV 2004 - Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision
Specific Action 39-1: Cognitive Computer Vision Colloquium
Specific Action 39-2: Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox

Specific Action 1-1: Best Paper Prize in Cognitive Vision at ECCV'02
Responsible David Vernon, Computer Applied Techniques Ltd. (Coordinator)
Area Information Dissemination
Goals Promotion of the discipline
Amount (euro) 800
Start Date 26/5/2002
End Date 31/5/2002
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Winning Paper

Specific Action 2-1: 1st Summer School on Cognitive Computer Vision 2003
Responsible Wolfgang Foerstner, University of Bonn
Area Education and Training
Goals Provide an intensive and challenging introduction to the area of cognitive computer vision.
Amount (euro) 33,980
Start Date 1/3/2003
End Date 31/8/2003
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Summer School

Specific Action 2-2: 2nd Summer School on Cognitive Computer Vision 2004
Responsible Wolfgang Foerstner, University of Bonn
Area Education and Training
Goals Provide an intensive and challenging introduction to the area of cognitive computer vision.
Amount (euro) 46,880
Start Date 16/8/2004
End Date 20/8/2004
Status In preparation
Links to Associated Documents 1st Summer School 2003

Specific Action 6-1: Cognitive Vision Education Survey
Responsible Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh
Area Education and Training
Goals Survey of what is already taught worldwide in the area of cognitive computer vision
Amount (euro) 5133.34
Start Date 1/5/2002
End Date 30/5/2002
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Model Curriculum on Cognitive Computer Vision

Specific Action 6-2: Restructuring of CVOnline
Responsible Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh
Area Education and Training
Goals Restructuring CVonline to make the vision concept structure more transparent, as a preparation for linking in the cognitive vision syllabus that ECVision will be developing
Amount (euro) 2.333.33
Start Date 1/5/2002
End Date 30/6/2002
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents CVOnline

Specific Action 6-3: Enclyclopedia of Cognitive Computer Vision
Responsible Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh
Area Education and Training
Goals To take the developing "ontology" of Cognitive Computer Vision and add web links to tutorial materials for each of the topics.
Amount (euro) 5,000
Start Date 1/10/2002
End Date 28/2/2005
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Cognitive Vision Ontology

Specific Action 6-4: Education / Online Books
Responsible Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh
Area Education and Training
Goals To compile a complete list of all published computer vision and image processing monographs and textbooks, excluding conference proceedings.
Amount (euro) 4,200
Start Date 1/10/2004
End Date 28/2/2005
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/books.htm

Specific Action 7-1: White Paper on Applications of Cognitive Vision Systems
Responsible Patrick Courtney, PBConsulting
Area Industrial Liaison
Goals To collate knowledge of existing systems and opinion on future trends in cognitive system systems in the EU
Amount (euro) 11,500
Start Date 1/5/2002
End Date 30/9/2002
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents White Paper on Applications of Cognitive Vision Systems

Specific Action 7-2: Prize for Best Application Development in Cognitive Vision Systems
Responsible Patrick Courtney, PBConsulting
Area Industrial Liaison
Goals To recognize exploitation of cognitive vision technology, to raise the profile for the ECVision network within the application community, and to raise the profile of cognitive vision as a distinct domain
Amount (euro) 7,000
Start Date 1/5/2002
End Date 31/12/2003
Status Coomplete
Links to Associated Documents Application Prize Website

Specific Action 7-3: Industrial Activity - Project Liaison
Responsible Patrick Courtney, PBConsulting
Area Industrial Liaison
Goals The goals are to strengthen the impact of industrial activities, to support ECVision member projects (especially those without industrial participation) and their technologies, and to promote the use of resources developed by TA4.
Amount (euro) 20,880
Start Date 31/10/2003
End Date 28/2/2005
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents

Specific Action 7-4: IST Conference – ECVision Organization of Cognitive Systems Events
Responsible Patrick Courtney, PBConsulting
Area Information Dissemination
Goals This specific action has been awarded to support the effort of ECVision to organize a exhibition stand and networking session at the the forthcoming IST 2004 conference, 15-17 November, The Hague, Netherlands.
Amount (euro) 13,000
Start Date 1/10/2004
End Date 31/12/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents

Specific Action 8-1: Keyword Indexed Bibliography with Abstracts of Papers
Responsible Hilary Buxton, University of Sussex
Area Information Dissemination
Goals Development of keyword indexed bibliography with abstracts of papers
Amount (euro) 19,000
Start Date 1/10/2002
End Date 28/2/2005
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Indexed and Annotated Bibliography

Specific Action 8-2: ECCV 2004 Workshop on "Real-World Issues in Animate Vision"
Responsible Hilary Buxton, University of Sussex
Area Information Dissemination
Goals To attract papers from the Cognitive Sciences and Neuroscience communities to complement the CCV research issues and widen dissemination and information gathering to these related disciplines.
Amount (euro) 3,500
Start Date 1/1/2004
End Date 30/6/2004
Status Cancelled due to unforseen circumstances
Links to Associated Documents

Specific Action 8-3: Probabilistic Graphical Models for Cognitive Computer Vision
Responsible Hilary Buxton, University of Sussex
Area Education and Training
Goals Enhance the new Sussex level 3 (and future Masters) spring term courses for the CCV community and to make available extra teaching materials from related projects. The specific action will involve the systematic development of the tutorial examples, graphical model visualisation software and Matlab exercises.
Amount (euro) 19,000
Start Date 1/1/2004
End Date 30/9/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents On-line Cognitive Vision Course

Specific Action 12-1: Student Exchange: University of Oxford and Graz University of Technology
Responsible Member: Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford
Student: Andreas Opelt, Graz University of Technology
Area Education and Training
Goals - Effect a student exchange between the Graz University of Technology and the University of Oxford.
- During the visit, the student will work on learning and recognition objects from example. Specifically, he will address representational issues whereby a spectrum of geometric constraints are deployed alongside appearance-based features.
Amount (euro) 7850
Start Date 1/10/2004
End Date 31/12/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents www.ecvision.org/education/SA_12-1_report.pdf (396kb)

Specific Action 13-1: ICVS'03 - 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Systems
Responsible Markus Vincze, Technical University of Vienna
Area Information Dissemination
Goals - Document the emergence of an engineering science of Computer Vision Systems and Cognitive Vision Systems
- Discuss the embedding of complete machine vision systems within the real world
- Increase the visibility of Cognitive Vision internationally
Amount (euro) 5,010
Start Date 1/2/2003
End Date 30/4/2003
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents ICVS 2003 Website

Specific Action 13-2: Overview of software Frameworks for Use in Cognitive Vision Approaches
Responsible Markus Vincze, Technical University of Vienna
Gerhard Saegerer, University of Bielefeld
Area Education and Training
Goals - Summarise, compare and evaluate middlewares,software frameworks and architectures that are used or can be used for developments in CV.
- Contribute to deliverable TA2.10 “Identification of Common Development Environments”
- Go beyond this deliverable in listing and evaluating middleware,frameworks and architectures that can be used as on-line environments to link the different functions expected to be seen in a cognitive vision system.
Amount (euro) 19,530
Start Date 1/11/2003
End Date 31/3/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents TR-SA13-2.pdf (1,463kb)

Specific Action 13-3: Staff/Student Exchange Vienna University of Technology
Responsible Walter Kropatsch, Technical University of Vienna
Area Eductation and Training
Goals To fund a ten-day visit by Zygmunt Pizlo to the Vienna University of Technology in Technology in May/June 2004. The aim of the visit is to initiate a collaboration on the study of pyramid algorithms as models of human cognition.
Amount (euro) 2,173
Start Date 1/5/2004
End Date 30/6/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents

Specific Action 16-1: Student Exchange: University of Bielefeld and University of Surrey
Responsible Member: Gerhard Sagerer, University of Bielefeld
Student: Nicolas Gorges, University of Bielefeld
Area Education and Training
Goals - Effect a student exchange between the University of Bielefeld and the University of Surrey.
- During the visit, the student will work on his diploma thesis dealing with image mosaicing. In essence, the problem is to build a mosaic of a scene and use this mosaic to extract foreground objects.
Amount (euro) 2715.58
Start Date 1/8/2003
End Date 31/1/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents

Specific Action 16-2: Student Exchange: University of Bielefeld and University of Surrey
Responsible Member: Gerhard Sagerer, University of Bielefeld
Student: Ingo Lütkebohle, University of Bielefeld
Area Education and Training
Goals - Effect a student exchange between the University of Bielefeld and the University of Surrey.
- The work done during the visit will be part of his diploma thesis which is comparable to a master's degree. As the topic of his thesis he will design and implement an evaluation scheme for a cognitive vision system.
Amount (euro) 5503
Start Date 1/8/2004
End Date 30/9/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents

Specific Action 21-1: Cognitive Computer Vision Ontology Development
Responsible Isabelle Bloch, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France
Area Education and Training
Goals To create new material on imprecise knowledge representations for the Cognitive Computer Vision Ontology
Amount (euro) 6,000
Start Date 1/1/2003
End Date 30/4/2003
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Draft Report on Imprecise Spatial Information in Cognitive Vision

Specific Action 21-2: Imprecise Knowledge Representations in Cognitive Vision
Responsible Isabelle Bloch, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France
Area Education and Training
Goals To create new material on imprecise knowledge representations for the Cognitive Computer Vision Ontology focussing on imprecise spatial information, fuzzy sets, belief functions, and fusion problems.
Amount (euro) 6,000
Start Date 1/5/2004
End Date 31/8/2004
Status On-going
Links to Associated Documents

Specific Action 25-1: CVPR 2004 Workshop on Generic Object Recognition and Categorization
Responsible Bernt Schiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ales Leonardis, Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Area Information Dissemination
Goals To sponsor invited speakers.
Amount (euro) 11,250
Start Date 27/6/2004
End Date 31/8/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Workshop Website (including slides from talks)
Workshop Report (PDF - 63kb)

Specific Action 33-1: ECCV 2004 Workshop on Statistical Learning for Computer Vision
Responsible Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Area Information Dissemination
Goals To sponsor invited speakers.
Amount (euro) 2,000
Start Date 15/5/2004
End Date 15/5/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Workshop Website

Specific Action 37-1: WAPCV 2003 - Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision
Responsible Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria
Area Information Dissemination
Goals To sponsor invited speakers and proceeding printing costs for WAPCV 2003, held in conjunction with ICVS '03.
Amount (euro) 3,808
Start Date 1/1/2003
End Date 31/6/2003
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Workshop Website

Specific Action 37-2: WAPCV 2004 - Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision
Responsible Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research, Austria
Area Information Dissemination
Goals To sponsor organization, invited speakers, and proceeding printing costs for WAPCV 2004, held in conjunction with ECCV 2004.
Amount (euro) 5,800
Start Date 1/1/200
End Date 31/5/2004
Status Ongoing
Links to Associated Documents Workshop Website

Specific Action 39-1: Cognitive Computer Vision Colloquium
Responsible Vaclav Hlavac, Tomas Pajdla, Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University
Area Research Planning
Goals To sponsor invited speakers
Note: attendance at the colloquium is free to members of ECVision
Amount (euro) 6,000
Start Date 12/1/2004
End Date 13/1/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents Colloquium Website , Cognitive Computer Vision Colloquium Report

Specific Action 39-2: Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox
Responsible Vaclav Hlavac, Czech Technical University
Area Research Planning
Goals To enhance an existing Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox to make it more easily accessible by users: (a) researchers, (b) teachers, and (c) students, and to focus examples and demos on application to cognitive vision.
Amount (euro) 3,180
Start Date 19/4/2004
End Date 18/6/2004
Status Complete
Links to Associated Documents http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~xfrancv/stprtool/index.html


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