CRV 2010

Joint conference information

Seventh Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2010)

Ottawa, Ontario, 31 May - 2 June 2010

A free day of tutorials will be held on Sunday May 30, 2010 in conjuction with the CRV conference. The tutorial day will consist of many short 15-30 minute presentations in areas of interest to CRV attendees. The topics are areas of importance in computer vision and robotics, and specifically on subjects presented in the following days at the conference itself.

Please look at last year's successful 2009 Tutorial day for an example of what we hope to repeat again in 2010.

The presentations will cover the most basic concepts, equations, and most referenced papers in each area . The material will not be the speaker’s latest results, but rather the essential basics, and should be useful to new students and seasoned researchers alike.

We are inviting your attendance, and partipication. Below are some suggested topics, some with topics with speakers planned. Please feel free to suggest more topics within the subject area of computer vision and robotics.

Computer Vision

  • Tracking
  • -Differential Optic Flow - John Barron (UWO)
  • -KLT tracker - Mark Fiala (Ryerson)
  • -mean shift, histogram based, particle
  • Salient feature detection:
  • -KLT/Harris corners, FAST, SUSAN
  • -SIFT, PCA-Sift, SURF, Hessian-Laplace, MSER
  • -Haar and face-finder, kd-tree, random tree, ferns
  • Segmentation
  • - line, edge, contour extraction
  • - foreground/background, Mixture of Gaussians, median, codebook, connected components
  • Geometry - projection matrices, epipolar geometry
  • -3-view tensors - Robert Laganiere (UofOttawa)
  • -pose estimation - Mark Fiala (Ryerson)
  • RANSAC
  • 3D reconstruction, bundle adjustment - Gerhard Roth (Carleton)
  • modeling, texturing and rendering from images
  • statistical shape analysis - Chang Shu (NRC)
  • Image search - Gerhard Roth (Carleton)
  • Machine learning, ada boost, svm
  • OpenCV - brief primer and some starting examples.- Robert Laganiere (UofOttawa)

    Robotics

  • Introduction to Vision-based Motion Control of Robots
  • motion models
  • Kalman filters - Mark Fiala (Ryerson)
  • SLAM, fastslam 2.0
  • Particle Filters for Mobile Robot Navigation

    Please contact the tutorial organizer Mark Fiala at mark.fiala@ryerson.ca to indicated your possible attendance and/or participation.