[General] 3D Object Retrieval Workshop (3DOR) 2015

3D Object Retrieval Workshop (3DOR) 2015 Co-located event with Eurographics 2015 Website: <http://vc.ee.duth.gr/3dor2015/> http://vc.ee.duth.gr/3dor2015/ Do you remember the days when retrieving the data that you needed from the internet was a matter of visiting sites your friends knew? The days when you would try out alternative search engines to find a single result? Was it a coincidence that text retrieval engines flourished with the explosion of textual information on the internet that could not be manually explored? A new wave of information is now underway. Low-cost 3D scanners and 3D printers combined with popular applications of Computer Graphics and Vision are making 3D object models appeal to an increasing audience. See for example repositories such as <http://shapes.aimatshape.net/> http://shapes.aimatshape.net/ , <https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/> https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/. As these 3D object collections are growing, the importance of effective retrieval, search and exploration is increasing. Because it is easier to find something than to create it from scratch and because manual browsing quickly becomes intractable as a collection grows. To this effect it is crucial to develop algorithms for the content-based searching of 3D object collections; creating compact and accurate descriptors for 3D objects; indexing 3D objects; creating efficient storage structures for data bases of 3D objects; investigating theoretical aspects of practical importance such as what it means for two shapes to be similar; interfaces for content-based 3D object search; visualization techniques for 3D search results; real time aspects of techniques and algorithms. Many fields of Computer Science and beyond can offer their valuable knowledge to this complex but highly interesting and practical problem. The aim of the 3DOR Workshop series is to stimulate researchers from different fields such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction who work on or are interested in 3D object retrieval search and exploration, to present state-of-the-art work in the field or learn about it and participate in discussions. This will provide a cross-fertilization that will stimulate discussions on the next steps in this important research area. 3DOR 2015will be the 8th workshop in this series. 3DOR 2015 will be a 2-day event for the first time and will contain the following tracks: research papers, posters, 2 keynote speeches (NEW!), EU project presentations and networking (NEW!), industrial session (NEW!). Call for Papers, Posters and System Demonstrations Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research and application papers addressing all areas of 3D Object Retrieval. Submissions are invited in the form of full papers (up to 8 pages) and short papers presented in a poster session (up to 4 pages). Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - 3D object similarity and matching - 3D video retrieval - 3D mobile media retrieval - 3D object retrieval and Web3D - 3D search in large scale data - Personalized 3D search - 3D object classification, indexing, and mining - Similarity of non-rigid shapes - Feature extraction, decomposition, and segmentation - Multi-level representations for matching and retrieval - Partial, part-in-whole, and many-to-many matching - Matching under uncertainty and noise - Semantics-driven 3D object retrieval and classification - Sketch-based retrieval - Query interfaces and search modalities - Benchmarking issues - Relevance feedback methods - Active learning - Statistical techniques for 3D shape analysis and retrieval - Generative/discriminative approaches in 3D object categorization - Applications in multimedia, CAD, architecture, games, biometrics, e-science, e-learning, medicine, biology, and cultural heritage. This year’s workshop will also feature the 10th Shape Retrieval Evaluation Contest (SHREC’2015). A separate call for participation will be issued later. It is planned to have extended versions of selected papers from the Workshop appearing, after a further review, in a special issue of an international journal. Selected papers from previous workshops appeared in special issues of The Visual Computer (TVC) journal. Workshop Chairs: • Ioannis PRATIKAKIS, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece • Theoharis THEOHARIS, NTNU, Norway Programme Chairs: • Michela SPAGNUOLO, IMATI – CNR, Italy • Luc Van GOOL, ETH Zürich, Switzerland • Remco VELTKAMP, University of Utrecht, Netherlands Programme Committee (to be confirmed) •Ceyhun B. Akgul, (Vistek-ISRA Vision, Turkey) •Yiannis Aloimonos (UMIACS, USA) •Halim Benhabiles (ESIGELEC Rouen, France) •Mohamed Ben Salah (University of Alberta, Canada) •Stefano Berretti (University of Florence, Italy) •Silvia Biasotti (IMATI – CNR Genoa, Italy) •Michael Bronstein (Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) •Benjamin Bustos (University of Chile, Chile) •Umberto Castellani (University of Verona, Italy) •Petros Daras (Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece) •Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Florence, Italy) •Bianca Falcidieno (IMATI-CNR, Italy) •Alfredo Ferreira (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) •Daniela Giorgi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) •Afzal Godil (National Institute of the Standards and Technology, USA) •Yossi Keller (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) •Ron Kimmel (Technion, Israel) •Hamid Laga (University of South Australia, Australia) •Guillaume Lavoue (INSA Lyon, France) •Niloy Mitra (University College of London, UK) •Georgios Papaioannou (AUEB, Greece) •David Picard (ETIS-ENSEA, France) •William Regli (Drexel University, USA) •Marcos Rodrigues (University of Sheffield, UK) •Raif M. Rustamov (Stanford University, USA) •Dietmar Saupe, (University of Konstanz, Germany) •Nickolas S. Sapidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece) •Tobias Schreck (University of Konstanz, Germany) •Ariel Shamir, Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel •Hedi Tabia (ETIS-ENSEA, France) •Oliver van Kaick (Simon Fraser University, Canada) •Jean-Philippe Vandeborre (Télécom Lille / Institut Mines-Télécom, LIFL, France) •Hazem Wannous (University Lille1 / LIFL, France) •Stefanie Wuhrer (Saarland University / Max Planck Institute, Germany) Important dates Paper submission : Jan. 30, 2015 Notification of authors : Mar. 13, 2015 Camera-ready papers due : Mar. 30, 2015 Workshop dates : May 2-3, 2015