CALL FOR PAPERS Computer Vision and Image Understanding SPECIAL ISSUE ON Time of Flight Camera based Computer Vision (TOF-CV)

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Goals and Scope

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are active sensors that determine both range and intensity at each pixel by measuring the time taken by infrared light to travel to the object and back to the camera. Within the past five years, several manufacturers in the US and Europe have begun marketing of these cameras. TOF cameras emit amplitude-modulated light typically by an array of narrow-band LEDs in the near infrared range; the range to the target is determined from the phase difference between the emitted and incoming light. Typical spatial resolutions are 64 x 16, 160 x 120, and 176 x 144 with variable frame rates up to 50 fps. Systems that integrate TOF measurements with high-resolution intensity image capture are also available.

The fast and reliable access to range maps at high frame rates has an enormous potential in a wide range of application areas including action recognition and tracking, object pose recognition for robotic control, and obstacle detection for automotive control to mention a few. Dynamical 3D measurement at the frame rates mentioned will require the development of a new collection of algorithms for computer vision and considerably widen the scope for 3D vision systems.

This special issue aims at bringing together researchers working with TOF based computer vision. We invite papers over a wide range of TOF based computer vision including

· Integration of range and intensity imaging sensor outputs

· Object recognition and tracking

· Human-computer interaction

· Video surveillance

· Scene segmentation and obstacle detection

· Computer assisted surgical intervention

· Industrial applications of TOF cameras

· Automotive applications of TOF cameras

· Virtual reality applications

The computer vision and Image Understanding special issue follows the CVPR 2008 workshop on

Time of Flight Camera based Computer Vision (TOF-CV). Workshop paper authors are invited to submit a revised and upgraded version of their paper to the special issue. Papers submitted for the special issue will undergo a second review process. The journal special issue is also open to papers not presented at the workshop.

Submission

http://ees.elsevier.com/cviu/ . Note that you should choose “Special Issue: Time-of-flight based CV” in the drop down menu for “article type”.

Guest editors

Rasmus Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, rl@imm.dtu.dk, chairman

Erhardt Barth, University of Lübeck, Germany, barth@inb.uni-luebeck.de

Andreas Kolb, University of Siegen, Germany, kolb@fb12.uni-siegen.de

Supporting Organizations

Reviewers

Reinhard Koch, University of Kiel, Germany

Fredrik Kahl, University of Lund, Sweden

Thomas Moeslund, Aalborg University, Denmark

Stephan Hußmann, University of Applied Sciences Westküste, Germany

Klaus Hartmann, University of Siegen, Germany

Thierry Oggier, Mesa Imaging, Switzerland

Henrik Aanæs, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Roger Bostelman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Shoji Kawahito, Shizuoka University, Japan

Thorsten Ringbeck, PMD Technologies, Germany

Joachim Hornegger, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Bernd Buxbaum, PMD Technologies, Germany

Abbas Rafii, Canesta, USA

Jan-Michael Frahm, University of North Carolina, USA

Joachim Denzler, University Jena, Germany

Giora Yahav, 3DV Systems, USA

Paul Whelan, Dublin City University, Ireland

Robert Lange, PMD Technologies, Germany

Volker Blanz, University of Siegen, Germany

Roberto Manduchi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Sudipta Sinha, University of North Carolina, USA

Bernd Jähne, Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Important Dates

Journal paper submission deadline:	January1^st, 2009
Reviews to authors	March 1st, 2009
Revised papers due	May 1st, 2009
Final accept/reject decisions	July 1st, 2009
Special issue publication	Fall 2009

Previous workshops

TOF based computer vision has been the topic of only a few events in the past. At the IEEE conference International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS), July 2007 two sessions of the symposium comprising 8 oral presentations were allocated to this subject. At the more recent Dynamic 3D Imaging in Heidelberg, September 2007 held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition 10 oral presentations and a poster session was on this subject.