ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Co-chairs:

• Dr. Élisabeth Cuchet, GEMS, Bangalore, India
• Dr. Gérard Subsol, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

Scientific Board

• Prof. Raj Acharya, SUNY-Buffalo, USA
• Prof. Nicholas Ayache, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
• Prof. Michael Brady, Oxford University, UK
• Prof. Guido Gerig, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
• Prof. Gérard Medioni, University of South California, USA
• Prof. Dimitris Metaxas, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Prof. Alex Pentland, MIT, Cambridge, USA
• Prof. Jean Ponce, University of Illinois, USA
• Prof. Richard Szeliski, Microsoft, USA
• Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland

Program Committee

• Dr. Hervé Delingette, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
• Dr. Christos Davatzikos, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Dr. Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech, USA
• Dr. Pascal Fua, EPFL, Switzerland
• Dr. Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey, UK
• Dr. Kiriakos Kutulakos, University of Rochester, USA
• Dr. Stan Sclaroff, Boston University, USA
• Dr. Ilan Shimshoni, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel
• Dr. Harry Shum, Microsoft, USA

An image of Indian god Ganesh

PRESENTATION These last years have seen the multiplication of 3D images due to the development and improvement of new acquisition devices (CT-Scan, MR, 3D ultrasound, confocal microscopy, seismic imagery, Cyberware range laser, etc.) in several application fields (medicine, molecular biology, geology, industry, paleontology, etc.). Such 3D images are very large, difficult to interact with, and contain very complex non-polyhedral structures. In order to obtain precise and reliable results within a reasonable computation time, 3D image processing algorithms are very often based on "models", i.e., simplified and synthetic representations of complex entities.

An example of a 3D model of Ganesh

This workshop will be an opportunity to gather people from different fields (Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Industry, etc.) to present their research and results, to exchange ideas, and to discuss model-based 3D image analysis. There are three main axes for the workshop:

Design of a model. What to model? Mathematical formulations? How to infer model parameters from a database?

• Geometry Modeling
• Shape Modeling
• Physical Modeling
• Mechanical Modeling
• Motion/Deformation Modeling
• Morphometric Tools
• Atlas Construction
• Deformable Models
• Virtual Worlds
• ...

Utilization of a model. How to use the model to represent structures as well as their properties?

• Model-Based Segmentation
• Model-Based Matching and Tracking
• Model-Guided Registration
• Physical Simulation
• Morphometric Analysis
• Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
• ...

Applications. Examples of concrete implementations of model-based 3D image analysis.

• Medicine (representation of anatomical knowledge, planning, assisted diagnosis, surgery simulation, etc.)
• Molecular Biology (3D substructure matching of proteins, etc.)
• Geology (extraction of rifts in seismic images, etc.)
• Industry (non destructive control quality, reverse engineering, etc.)
• Paleontology (study of fossil evolution, etc.)
• ...

The workshop is composed of 12 oral presentations of 25-minutes and a key note talk given by an authoritative person of the field, Prof. Guido Gerig - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (Switzerland). Texts of presentations will be published in proceedings that will be available for the workshop.

PROGRAM

Each submitted paper has been reviewed by three people under the supervision of the Program Committee.

The name of the speaker is in boldface.

E. Cuchet - General Electric Medical Systems, Bangalore (India)

G. Subsol - EPIDAURE Project, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis (France)

G. Gerig - Communication Technology Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (Switzerland)

Guido Gerig is currently Assistant Professor of image data analysis at the Communication Technology Laboratory since autumn 1993. Since autumn 1996 he is the administrational leader of the Image Science Group at ETH Zürich with 24 researchers. In July 1998 he will be full Professor for Medical Image Data Analysis at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA).

Guido Gerig, born on 24. September 1954, studied natural sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zürich. In 1987 he received his Ph.D. degree at the Electrical Engineering Department of ETH in the field of image processing. Between 1989 and 1991 he organized several research stays as visiting assistant professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA). After 1992 he was responsible for the participation of the medical image processing group in the international European project COVIRA (Computer Vision in Radiology). In 1993, Guido Gerig became Private Lecturer at ETH with his habilitation on "Multimodal Image Analysis". Later in October 1993 he was appointed as Assistant Professor ETH for Image Data Analysis.

Guido Gerig is currently involved in several national and international research projects with focus on the development of image analysis procedures driven by challenging applications in medical imaging. He is participating in various research cooperations with leading European and US partner groups from academia, medicine and industry. He is member of the ICCV Program Committee. Guido Gerig is co-editor of the MEDIA journal (Medical Image Analysis) published by Oxford University Press.

J. Chao, A. Karasudani, T. Shimada, K. Minowa - Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo (Japan)

J.Ph. Tarel, H. Çivi, D. B. Cooper - LEMS Lab, Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence (USA) / INRIA, Rocquencourt (France)

D. Zhang, A. Johson, M. Hebert, Y. Liu - The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA)

S. Hiura, G. Takemura, T. Matsuyama - Dept. of Electronics and Communication, Graduate School of Eng., Kyoto University (Japan)

N. Werghi, R. Fisher, C. Robertson, A. Ashbrook - Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh (UK)

H. Delingette, J. Montagnat - EPIDAURE Project, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis (France)

L. Dekker, S. Khan, E. West, B. Buxton, P. Treleaven - Dept. of Computer Science, University College London (UK)

H. M. Yahia, J.P. Berroir, G. Mazars - INRIA, Rocquencourt (France)

A. Kelemen, G. Székely, G. Gerig - Communication Technology Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (Switzerland)

T. Kapur, P. A. Beardsley, S. F. Gibson, W. E. L. Grimson, W. M. Wells - AI Lab, MIT / Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab / Brigham and Womens Hospital, Cambridge (USA)

M. Ristic, D. Brujic, T. Moeljono - Mechanical Engineering Dept., Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (UK)

I. Kompatsiaris, D. Tzovaras, M. G. Strintzis - Information Processing Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

All the workshop participants will be picked and dropped between the Indian Institute of Technology and the ICCV hotels, in the center of Mumbai.

The lunch is included in registration fees and will be taken at the Indian Institute of Technology.

For any information, please mail to Gérard Subsol <Gerard.Subsol@sophia.inria.fr> or Élisabeth Cuchet <cuchete@wiproge.med.ge.com>