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** Second Call For Papers for IEEE ISM 2011 International Workshop on Video Panorama
** http://sprite.cs.uah.edu/iwvp11
** December 5-7, 2011
** Dana Point, California, USA
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Video panorama is a complete view of an object (or background) that is
generated by aligning and blending a set of overlapping images. In the
past, various names have been used for video panorama with some
differences: sprite, mosaic, panorama, background, salient stills,
panoramic image, etc. We have decided to adopt 'panorama' since it has
a better meaning than others. Panorama is based on combination of two
Greek words and basically means 'all sight' or 'complete view'. Video
panorama means panorama (complete view) of an object in a video.

The video panorama is usually studied as mosaic generation, sprite
generation, background extraction, photo stitching, panoramic image
generation, etc. The set of overlapping images may be captured from
multiple cameras or a single moving camera. The sequence of images may
have moving objects and the objects may appear at different depths.
Video panorama generation has various applications including but not
limited to scene understanding, video compression, video surveillance,
object tracking, retrieval, object segmentation, and wireless
networks.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring the researchers on video
panorama generation, to discover the challenging problems in this
area, and to propose solutions to overcome these problems. Some of
these problems include poor panorama quality evaluation strategies,
limited domain of videos to work on panorama generation, and real-time
panorama generation. In the past, most research in this area worked on
a small set of videos. These videos were especially MPEG test videos
including stefan, coastguard, and foreman. It is questionable whether
the methods that work on a common small set of videos and some private
videos are generalizable. Another problem is that it is not clear
whether it is possible to generate a panorama for a video or not. It
was basically assumed that panorama generation was only applied to
videos where mosaic generation could be useful.

We have developed a set of synthetic videos available for testing
panorama generation based on a single-camera motion patterns. These
videos are available at http://sprite.cs.uah.edu. This online platform
is designed to share more number of videos with intermediate results
of various panorama generation algorithms.

We believe that this workshop will break the barriers for panorama generation.

The topics of this workshop include but are not limited to:

Core Mosaic Generation Areas:
• Global (or Camera) Motion Estimation
• Warping and Blending Techniques for Panorama Generation
• Novel Panorama (mosaic, sprite, background, photo-stitching)
Generation Algorithms
• Multi-View Panorama Generation
• Multi-Panorama Generation
• Temporal Panorama Generation
• 3D Panorama Generation
• Real-Time Panorama Generation
• Super-Resolution Panorama Generation
• Video Classification for Panorama Generation
• Hardware Setups & Designs for Panorama Generations

Applications of Video Panorama:
• Object Tracking
• Object Segmentation
• Video Indexing and Retrieval
• Surveillance
• Video compression
• Wireless Networks
• Improving Visual Quality

Performance of Video Panorama Generation:
• Time Complexity of Panorama Generation,
• Quality of Video Panorama
• Domain of Videos
• Time-Space Trade-off for Panorama Generation
• Benchmarking

Author Guidelines
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The authors should submit a 6-page manuscript in double-column IEEE
format including the authors' names and affiliations, and a short
abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available
on the IWVP11 web page (http://sprite.cs.uah.edu/iwvp11). Only
electronic submission will be accepted using Easy Chair for IWVP11
(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iwvp11). All papers
should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The workshop papers
will be in the Conference proceedings to be published by the IEEE
Computer Society Press and be available for online access via
IEEEXplore. A number of the papers presented at the conference may be
selected for possible publications in journals.

Important Dates
• Paper submission date: 8/1/2011
• Notification of acceptance: 8/20/2011
• Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers: 9/7/2011

Workshop Organization Committee
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Program Chair
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Dr. Ramazan Aygun, University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA (aygunr@uah.edu)

Program Committee
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Patrice Rondao Alface ALCATEL-LUCENT & Bell Labs, Belgium
John F. Arnold The University of New South Wales, Australia
Soonmin Bae Samsung Techwin
Alessandro Bevilacqua University of Bologna, Italy
Sethuraman Panchanathan Utah State University, USA
Paulo Nunes Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal
Mark R. Pickering The University of New South Wales, Australia
Thomas Sikora Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Yizhou Wang Peking University, China
Liu Zhi Shanghai University, China
Zhigang Zhu City College of New York, USA
Li Zhuo Beijing University of Technology, China

Publicity Chair
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Yi Chen, University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA

Web Co-Chairs
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Thejaswi Raya, University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA
Madhav Sigdel, University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA