General information

IW-FCV2020 was ended successfully.

News

Post-workshop proceedings have been published in Springer Link. (2020-5-4)

Awards were announced. (2020-2-27)

Updated registration fee can be found here. (2020-2-25)

Notice regarding to the Novel Coronavirus. (Update 2020-2-14)

Presentation instruction can be found here. (2020-2-3)

Detailed program is now available. (2020-1-29)

Online registration is now available. (2020-1-20)

Important dates

Paper Submission Deadline: Dec. 11, 2019. Jan. 10, 2020. (closed)
Notification of Acceptance: Jan. 10, 2020 Jan. 27, 2020.
Camera-ready Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 19, 2020. Feb. 3, 2020.
Early Online Registration Deadline: Feb. 2, 2020. Feb. 10, 2020.
Conference Date: Feb. 20-22, 2020.

Notice regarding to the Novel Coronavirus (SEE UPDATES BELOW - 2020-2-14)

As we all noticed the current outbreak of the new Corona Virus, the organizing committee would like to advise all participants of IW-FCV 2020 for the travel to Ibusuki, Japan as follows:

1) The immigration bureau of Japan does not permit the following people to enter Japan from Feb. 1st, 2020.

  • Foreigners who have traveled to Hubei Province in China within 14 days before arriving in Japan,
  • Foreigners who have Chinese passports issued by Hubei Province in China.

2) The organizing committee would like to ask for the participants, among whom visited Hubei Province during the one month and are doubtful about the virus, to cancel to attend the workshop.

3) The program committee will provide the opportunities to have an on-line (remote) presentation for those who cancel their trip to Japan due to Corona Virus.

4) When the participants travel through a big mass, such as an airport or train station, please pay much attention to individual health care. The following links are recommended for your information.

Update (2020-2-14)

Since the current situation of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we would like to provide some important notices, please take the time to read the following instructions carefully, and we kindly ask you to make your own decision.

1. If your condition matches at least one of the following situations, please consider to refrain from attendance at the workshop:

  • 1-A. In case travel restrictions are announced by the government or your affiliated institutions such as universities.
  • 1-B. In case of attendance becomes difficult due to severe circumstances, such as VISA problem or cancellation of air flights, etc.
  • 1-C. In case you stayed or traveled nearby the regions infected by the novel coronavirus.

2. For authors who can not attend the workshop due to the above reasons, the workshop accepts a substitute presentation, remote presentation, and video presentation. Please consider the following options for your presentation:

  • 2-A. Substitute oral/poster presentation.
    You will ask someone for substitute attendance. The organizing committee can not mediate between you and the substitutes.
  • 2-B. Remote- or video- oral presentation.
    You consider having remote- or video- participation. The detail instructions for this option will be announced.
  • 2-C. Substitute poster display.
    You will send us a PPT or PDF of your poster and prepare a short video (if possible). We plan to present them instead of you. The short video is not mandatory. Only the poster display is acceptable.
  • 2-D. Cancel your presentation.
    You will cancel your presentation and withdraw your paper. When you choose this option, your registration fee will be fully refunded.

for registrants
3. For registrants who can not attend the workshop due to the above reasons, we accept cancellation of your registration with a full refund.

for registrants with a hotel, tour, and shuttle bus reservations
4. In case you booked hotel rooms, transportation, and tours at the same time of registration, you can cancel your reservations with a full refund.

for both authors and registrants
5. Refund policy
For authors who choose the option 2-D, the registration fee will be fully refunded. For the options 2-A to 2-C, at least one author should keep the registration. For registrants who canceled registrations, the registration fee will be fully refunded.

6. Instruction for cancellation
Please send us your request via the following google form by Sunday, Feb.16 23:59, in JST. After this due time, we do not guarantee to refund for your registration and reservations.

  • Cancelation request form: announced by e-mail

Call for Papers

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The International Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision (IW-FCV) is the exciting chance and place for inter-communication and discussion through many presentations of the advanced researches from the worldwide research communities of computer vision theory, applications, deep learning and big data.

IW-FCV 2020 will be held in Ibusuki, Kagoshima. Ibusuki City is located at the southernmost tip of the Satsuma Peninsula, the mouth of Kagoshima Bay in Kyushu island. Ibusuki is well known as a city with abundant hot springs, such as the "Natural Sand Hot Spring" that is unparalleled in the world, full of culture, art and history, and welcomes you with warm, friendly hospitality and delicious food. In addition, we have prepared various sessions and events so that everyone who attends can enjoy it with academic exchanges.

Scope

Topics of interest include all aspects of image processing, computer vision, machine vision, the fundamentals and applications including, but not limited to, the following areas:

Fundamentals and Theory: Image filtering, Enhancement, Restoration, Transformation, Stochastic vision, Stereo vision, Scale space analysis, Hough transform, Morphological processing, Image sequence analysis, Image processing architecture, Representation, Color and illumination analysis, Vision geometry, Coding, Error analysis

Computer Vision and Image Analysis: Shape-from-X, Active vision, Image/Scene segmentation, Object detection and tracking, Visual language and description, Deep Learning-based Vision, Machine & semantic learning for computer vision, Integration of deep learning and conventional method, Performance evaluation and dataset

Applications: Image/Video search and retrieval, Video surveillance, AR/VR/MR/HR, Smart factory, Smart healthcare, Intelligent transportation system, Bio-medical image analysis, Smart agriculture, Smart home, Logistics and distribution, Autonomous land vehicle, Intelligent robot

Awards

The following awards are planned:
Best paper award / Best student paper award / Best poster presentation award / Best demo presentation award.

Sessions

IW-FCV2020 will have the following sessions.

a) Oral session :

  • 15 minutes (10 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q&A) presentation in an oral session
  • paper type: full / short

b) Poster session :

  • 1.5 hours presentation in a poster session
  • paper type: full / short

c) Extended summary session :

  • 7 minutes (5 minutes presentation and 2 minutes Q&A) presentation for the introduction of on-going projects in an oral session
  • paper type: short

Post-workshop proceedings

The organizing committee publishs the post-workshop proceedings of IW-FCV2020 as a Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series after the workshop. The post-workshop proceedigns will include only high quality papers selected by reviewers.

The conditions under which a paper is subject to peer review for inclusion in the post-workshop proceedings are as follows:
1.The paper must be a full paper (12-15+ pages) which contains original research that has neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere.
2.When submitting a paper, the authors indicates his/her intension to include the paper in the post-workshop proceedings.

In addition, in order for a paper to be included in the post-workshop proceedings, it must:.
3. be presented at the workshop by at least one author.
4. When submitting the camera-ready version, the authors complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form to transfer the copyright for the paper to publisher.

The post-workshop proceedings will be included in Springer Link Digital Library. And workshop attendees have free access for four weeks after the post-workshop proceedings are published.

Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Please kindly refer to the editorial policies webpage and note the importance of this.

Paper Submission Instructions

Paper format

Submitting papers should be formatted with the following paper templates (Springer Computer Sicience Proceedings format): - formatting templates for MS-Word and LaTeX, as well as the link to Overleaf, are available on the Springer webpage: Link

Paper type

IW-FCV2020 accepts the following two paper types.

- full paper : 12-15+ pages
- short paper : 1-8+ pages

Paper submission site

Paper submission is handled via EasyChair : Link

Call for Demo Presentations

IW-FCV 2020 welcomes submissions for DEMO presentations.

Your demo presentations will be shown in the workshop program (Web, and booklet) and be presented in the same room as the poster presentations.

A workshop paper is NOT mandatory for the demo presentation, but you can submit an article to appear in the workshop proceedings (USB stick).
The demo papers will not appear in the post-workshop proceedings.

For submitting the demo presentation, please send the program chair (ohyama@sit.ac.jp) an e-mail containing the following items.

  • title of demo presentation:
  • presenter list (names, affiliations):
  • facilities you need for your demo presentation (number of tables and electric outlets you need):
  • paper (in Springer format) (if you intend to include it in the USB proceedings.)

  • The due date of demo submission is Jan. 31, 2020.

    We can provide a board for posters, one or two tables, and a power supply.
    Please note the type of electric outlet is Japanese (Type-A).
    We can not provide any converter for the outlet type.

    Presentation Instruction

    Oral Presentation Instructions

    Each oral presentation is allocated 15 minutes: 10 minutes for presentation + 5 minutes for Q&A and setup. And each extended-summary presentation is allocated 5 minutes for presentation + 2 minutes for Q&A and setup.

    At the workshop, 10 minutes before your session, you must:

  • Introduce yourself to your session chair in the presentation room
  • Test your laptop or upload your slides to the conference computer
  • If you use the conference computer, remember to embed (and not link) all videos into the presentation file

  • The LCD projector has both VGA and HDMI connections. While the projector is compatible with wide-size (16:9 or 16:10) presentation slides, the size (aspect ratio) of the screen is standard-size (4:3). So, be sure that a wide-size presentation will be reduced in size to fit the screen width.

    The speed of the internet connection will be limited. We do not recommend you to use video-streaming or online-demonstration in your presentation.

    Poster Presentation Instructions

    The poster panels can accommodate posters of A0 portrait size. Please use sufficiently large fonts for readability. We do not specify any poster templates and can not provide poster-printing services.

    The location of your poster will be identified by the paper number from the program. Materials to attach your poster to the board (before 9 am of your day of presentation) will be provided. Each poster is to be presented for a full day.

    Conference

    Invited talks

      Prof. Changick Kim, KAIST (Korea)

    • Web site
    • Title - Domain adaptation and its application to object detection
    • During the last decade, the field of Computer vision has made huge progress. This progress is mostly due to the powerful effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs allow for very precise predictions if trained with high-quality annotated training data. In a classification setting for instance, you would often use one of the standard network architectures out there (ResNet, VGG etc.) and train it using your dataset. This would likely lead to very good performance. However, supervised learning-based methods perform poorly when the train data and the test data have different distributions. To address the issue, domain adaptation transfers knowledge from the label-sufficient domain (source domain) to the label-scarce domain (target domain). In this talk, I will address the basic concepts of transfer learning and domain adaptation, and talk about multiple approaches to domain adaptation. In addition, recent domain adaptation algorithms applied to object detection will be explained. This talk will conclude with arguments that there is still a lot to be done before domain-adaptive learning systems become practical tools.

      Dr. Yoshitaka Ushiku, OMRON SINIC X Corporation (Japan)

    • Web site
    • Title - Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision
    • In 2012, computer vision (CV) was benefited from deep learning, resulting in dramatic improvements in image recognition performance. Nowadays, various applications, including detection, segmentation, and 3D vision, are widely studied utilizing state-of-the-art learning methods. In addition to the applications of machine learning (ML), CV area has also been a testbed for fundamental ML technologies, such as convolutional neural networks and transfer learning. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is a task to transfer knowledge obtained from a source domain to another target domain. The difficulty is that the target samples are not associated with teaching labels, while all data in the source domain are labeled. In the former part of this talk, I will introduce such cutting-edge tasks in CV and ML.

      Besides, with the development of recent machine learning techniques and the commoditization of them, the barriers to import the latest technologies from other areas are dramatically narrowed. Visual captioning, which is a task to generate fluent captions to describe the input multimedia datum, is proposed as such integration of ideas from different fields, namely CV and natural language processing (NLP). Caption generation and its variational problems are energetically addressed from both CV and NLP researchers. Thus, vision and language, which is an intersection area of CV and NLP, is spreading widely. It also includes visual question answering, a task to answer questions with a related photo that visually tells the correct answer. Another task that attracts attention from CV, NLP, and even ML researchers is visual dialog, which is a task that agents attempt to talk to each other concerning visual information. For example, salesclerks use the visual information of their merchandise to sell them to customers. In the latter part of this talk, I will introduce some challenging tasks in CV and some additional topics in vision and language.

      Prof. Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)

    • Web site
    • Title - Activity & Gait Recognition: Applications in Healthcare & Challenges Ahead
    • Human activity recognitions in both video and sensor domains are very important for different applications. Gait or walking pattern is an important biometric cue for human identification and verification. Understanding of activity or gait can be useful for various applications related to healthcare, elderly support, security, gender identification, etc. These are progressing and various challenges are ahead. There is huge progress recently on vision-based activity and gait analyses – because of the availability of GPUs and deep learning-based methods. Sensor-based gait recognition approaches are explored as well in different areas. However, the challenges are complex and diversified, and hence, the progresses in these domains are still constrained by several genuine challenges. In this speech, some of these scopes and challenges will be highlighted. The talk will highlight our recent competition, held in the IEEE 12th International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), 2019, where 18 teams registered from 14 countries. Finally, 67 solutions were submitted from 10 teams – for age and gender estimation. Occlusion and other challenges will be presented.

    Program

    Detailed program

    Overall Program (tentative)
    Feb. 20, Thursday
    8:00 - Registration
    9:00 - 9:10 Opening
    9:10 - 10:00 Invited Talk 1:
    Dr. Yoshitaka Ushiku (OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Japan)
    10:00 - 10:15 Break
    10:15 - 11:55 Oral Session 1
    11:55 - 12:40 Lunch
    12:40 - 14:10 Poster / Demo Session 1
    (Coffee Break)
    14:10 - 15:10 Oral Session 2
    15:10 - 15:20 Break
    15:20 - 16:20 Oral Session 3
    Feb. 21, Friday
    8:00 - Registration
    9:00 - 9:50 Invited Talk 2:
    Prof. Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
    9:50 - 10:05 Break
    10:05 - 11:50 Oral Session 4
    11:50 - 11:55 Group Photo
    11:55 - 12:40 Lunch
    12:40 - 14:10 Poster / Demo Session 2
    (Coffee Break)
    14:10 - 15:00 Invited Talk 3:
    Prof. Changick Kim (KAIST, Korea)
    15:00 - 15:10 Break
    15:10 - 16:25 Oral Session 5
    16:25 - 16:35 Closing
    18:30 - 20:30 Banquet and Awards @ Ibusuki Hakusuikan
    Feb. 22, Saturday
    9:00 - 16:30 Optional Technical Tour

    Awards

    IW-FCV2020 Awards

    Best Paper Awards

    • Unsupervised Adversarial Learning for Dynamic Background Modeling
      - Maryam Sultana, Arif Mahmood, Thierry Bouwmans and Soon Ki Jung
    • Multispectral Photometric Stereo Using Intrinsic Image Decomposition
      - Koumei Hamaen, Daisuke Miyazaki and Shinsaku Hiura

    Best Student Paper Awards

    • Adaptive Feature Selection Siamese Networks for Visual Tracking
      - Mustansar Fiaz, Md. Maklachur Rahman, Arif Mahmood, Sehar Shahzad Farooq, Ki Yeol Baek and Soon Ki Jung
    • Inverse Lighting from Cast Shadows under Unknown Radiometric Response Function
      - Takuto Nakashima, Ryo Matsuoka and Takahiro Okabe

    Best Poster Presentation Award

    • Deep Matting for AR based Interior Design
      - Maryam Sultana, In Su Kim and Soon Ki Jung

    Best Demo Presentation Award

    • Robust Manipulation by Visual Learning
      - Taeyeop Lee, Philipp Benz, Myungchul Kim and In So Kweon

    IW-FCV Life-long Contribution Award

  • Prof. Yoshinori Kuno (Saitama University, Japan)
  • IW-FCV sincere thanks for his life-long contribution to the community.

    Committee

    • General chairs

      Hiroshi Kawasaki (Kyushu University, Japan)
      Kanghyun Jo (University of Ulsan, Korea)

    • Program chairs

      Wataru Ohyama (Saitama Institute of Technology, Japan)
      Soon Ki Jung (Kyungpook National University, Korea)

    • Publicity chair

      Masashi Toda (Kumamoto University, Japan)

    • Local arrangement chairs

      Satoshi Ono (Kagoshima University, Japan),
      Noritaka Shigei (Kagoshima University, Japan)

    • Financial chair

      Tsubasa Minematsu (Kyushu University, Japan)

    • Web chair

      Takafumi Iwaguchi (Kyushu University, Japan)

    Attending

    Registration

    Online registration is now available. Please visit the following link and follow the instruction.
    Registration form

    Updated on 17th Feb. 2020.
    Because of COVID-19, banquet is cancelled and JPY8,800 is deducted from the original registration.

    Registration Fee (Updated)
    Early-bird registration Late registration On-site registration
    Standard 23,200 JPY 27,200 JPY 31,200 JPY
    Student 7,200 JPY 9,200 JPY 11,200 JPY
    Registration Fee (Original)
    Early-bird registration Late registration On-site registration
    Standard 32,000 JPY 36,000 JPY 40,000 JPY
    Student 16,000 JPY 18,000 JPY 20,000 JPY

    Venue

    Fureai Plaza Nanohanakan
    9300-1 Higashikata, Ibusuki , Kagoshima 891-0404, Japan.

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