14th IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum in conjunction with CVPR (PBVS 2018)

June 18,2018,2018,Salt Lake City, Utah, USA .

Scope and Topics

The objective of this workshop is to highlight cutting edge advances and state-of-the-art work being made in the exponentially growing field of PBVS (previously “Object Tracking & Classification Beyond the Visible Spectrum” - OTCBVS) integrating sensor processing, algorithms, and applications. PBVS involves deep theoretical research in sub-areas of image processing, machine vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, robotics, and augmented reality within and beyond the visible spectrum. Advancing vision-based systems includes frameworks and methods featured in PBVS.

The computer vision community has typically focused mostly on the development of vision algorithms for object detection, tracking, and classification with visible range sensors in day and office-like environments. In the last decade, infrared (IR), depth, thermal and other non-visible imaging sensors were used only in special area like medicine and defense. The relatively lower interest level in those sensory areas in comparison to computer vision was due in part to their high cost, low resolutions, poor image quality, lack of widely available data sets, and/or lack of consideration of the potential advantages of the non-visible part of the spectrum. These historical objections are becoming overcome as sensory technology is advancing rapidly and the sensor cost is dropping dramatically. Image sensing devices with high dynamic range and IR sensitivity have started to appear in a growing number of applications ranging from defense and automotive domains to home and office security. In addition, mobile hyperspectral and mm-wave sensors are also coming into existence.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to, the following

Sensing/Imaging Technologies

• IR/EO/RGBD imaging system
• Underwater sensing
• Multi-spectral/Satellite imaging
• Spectroscopy/Microscopy imaging
• LIDAR/LDV sensing
• Compressive sensing
• RADAR/SAR imaging
• Radiation sensing
• Active imaging; Cooperative Sensing

Applications and Systems

• Surveillance and reconnaissance systems
• Unmanned autonomous systems
• Vehicle, ship, object classification
• Robotic grasping
• Vision-aided navigation and SLAM
• Night/Shadow vision
• Sensing for agriculture and food safety
• Vision-based autonomous aerial vehicles
• Lifelong & Robust machine learning

Theory and Algorithm

• Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning
• Imagery/Video exploitation
• Object/Target tracking and recognition
• Feature extraction and matching
• Activity/Pattern learning and recognition
• Multimodal/Multi-sensor/INT fusion
• Multimodal Geo-registration
• 3D Reconstruction and shape modeling
• Automatic caption generation; Data labeling

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