CVPR 2009 Video Review

The CVPR 2009 Video Review is an opportunity to show off the newest
techniques and results from our community. Many algorithms are best
explained visually as animations. Some challenging problems and results
can only really be appreciated as videos. Systems are getting better and
faster, and deserve to be seen by a broader audience. If your results are
visually interesting, then this is your chance to be recognized, and to be
seen both during the conference, and afterward, when attendees get back to
their classrooms, companies, and labs. The compilation will play
prominently in a loop on display at the main conference, and will be
included in the CVPR 2009 Proceedings DVD-ROM.

New! Accepted videos announced here!

Who should submit? (Sorry, the deadline has now passed!)
Everyone is welcome to submit a video. The CVPR Video Review is separate
from the papers, workshops, courses, and demos of the conference.
Supplementary materials submitted in those other categories are NOT
automatically part of the Video Review, and must be submitted here
explicitly to be considered. For example, authors of accepted papers are
encouraged to submit their work, including further or late-breaking
results that didn’t fit in the paper. Live demos or working systems are
another example, where the Video Review can serve as a record for those
who didn’t get to see your innovations in person. Working systems are also
very welcome. At least one of the authors must be registered for the
conference.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 20th April 2009, at 16:00 US Pacific time (see world clock)
Decision Notification: 27th April 2009

General Instructions
Submissions will be assessed using these criteria:
- Visual appeal
- Technical content
- Informative / self-contained content
- Length commensurate with contribution (5 min. maximum)
- No product advertising, per-se

Videos must be submitted IN THEIR FINAL VERSION, as they should appear to the public. Reviewing will be single-blind. Please submit digital video files, with or without audio, encoded with a standard compression algorithm (see detailed instructions below) and in the resolution of 720×480 square pixels and 29.97 fps. Audio narrations are encouraged, but videos should not depend on them too much, since the venue may be noisy or the volume may get turned down during presentations.

Program Committee
Piotr Dollar, Caltech,
Mukta Prasad, ETH Zurich
Spencer Reynolds, ILM
Marc Sturzel, EADS
Drew Steedly, Microsoft LiveLabs
Mike Terry, U. of Waterloo

MPEG-4 is an example of a fairly standard algorithm implemented in Quicktime 6+ or avi-friendly codecs such as xVid (preferred), DivX, and x264. 5 Minutes should fit within the submission site’s 100 Mb quota. These files will appear as .flv’s on the conference DVD, and will also be encoded to a video-DVD to play on NTSC monitors in Miami. If, instead, you are comfortable encoding with MPEG-2 for DVDs using tools such as TMPGEnc, then please keep the video bitrate below 7000 kbit/sec. For uniformity, each video MUST have a CVPR 2009 Video Review “leader” for 4+ seconds: a special static introduction sequence featuring the title, authors, and optional names/logos of the authors’ affiliations. The leader is provided here as a power-point.ppt or as a CVPR2009_VideoReviewLeader_blank.png, and looks like this:

Audio should be encoded with xVid, AC3, MP3, WAV/PCM, or AAC. Here is guitar5.wav to help standardize everyone’s audio-levels.

(This sample tone comes from Hakachukai’s Audio Sample Page, and is “Guitar4″, 16bit mono sound @ 44.1 khz, PCM WAV format)

Further information & updates will appear here:

http://www.cvpr2009.org/call-for-videos/

Please direct questions to: cvpr09.videoreview@gmail.com