CVPR 2009 Program

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Addresses and Information:

Airport:

ATL (25-30 Minute Cab Ride to MIDTOWN Atlanta, COST = $35). 

Hotel: 

W Hotel – Midtown Atlanta [link]
188 14th St NE,
Atlanta, GA 30361
(404) 892-6000

Reception (Friday 2/20/2009)

2655 Canna Ridge Circle NE
Atlanta, GA 30345,
770 414 8816

Meeting Venue (Saturday 2/21/2009 and Sunday 2/21/2009)

Georgia Tech
Klaus Advanced Computer Building,
266 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0765 [directions]

Shuttle from Hotel to Meeting Venue will be PROVIDED

Dinner (Saturday 2/21/2009)

Trois [link] (walking distance from Hotel)
1180 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta, GA 30309,
(404) 815-3337)

Dinner (Sunday 2/22/2009)

Spice Market [link] (in the Hotel)
188 14th St NE, Atlanta,
GA 30309, 
(404) 549-5450)

CVPR Area Chair Meeting

February 21-22, 2009

Meeting Location:

Georgia Tech
Klaus Advanced Computer Building (KACB),
266 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0765 [directions]

Hotel:

W Hotel – Midtown Atlanta [link]
188 14th St NE,
Atlanta, GA 30361
(404) 892-6000

Room Locations:

PLENARY SESSIONS / FOOD: KACB 1116 E&W
PANEL 1: KACB 1202
PANEL 2: KACB 1212
PANEL 3: KACB 1215
PANEL 4: KACB 2100

SCHEDULE

• 2/20/09 (Friday)
  • ACs Arrive
  • 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Program Chairs Meeting (TSRB 230A)
  • 6:30 PM  Reception at Irfan/Shanila Essa’s Home (2655 Canna Ridge Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30345, 770 414 8816)
    • drinks and hors d’oeuvres
    • directions will be provided (15-20mins from hotel)
    • group departure at 6:30p
    • Late Arrivals can take a CAB from the Hotel to the Reception (Maps will be at Front Desk).
• 2/21/09 (Saturday)
  • 8:00 AM: Board shuttle bus at hotel (5 minute ride to campus)
  • 8:30 AM: Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: PLENARY: Introductions of the AC. Agenda Setting for the Rest of the AC Meeting by PC Chairs.
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon: BUDDIES: AC Buddy Pairs to Work Together: Make Decisions on Each Other’s Assigned Paper
  • 12:00 noon - 1pm: BUDDIES: Working Lunch with Buddies
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 pm: PLENARY: To check on Status and Address Concerns
  • 1:30 PM - 3:30 pm: BUDDIES: AC Buddy Pairs to Continue Working
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 pm: PANELS: To get updates from Buddy Pairs and Discuss Problems as needed
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 pm: BUDDIES:AC Buddy Pairs to Continue Working
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 pm: PLENARY: To check on Status and Address Concerns
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM: BUDDIES: AC Buddy Pairs to Continue Working
  • 6:30 PM: Shuttle to Hotel
  • 7:30 PM: Dinner at Trois [link]
    • walking distance from Hotel:
    • 1180 Peachtree St NE # A Atlanta, GA 30309, (404) 815-3337
• 2/22/09 (Sunday)
  • 8:00 AM: Board shuttle bus
  • 8:30 AM: Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM - 9:30AM: PLENARY: Setting Agenda for the DAY. Tasks assigned.
  • 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM: PANELS
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 N: BUDDIES: Buddies to work on open issues.
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM:  BUDDIES: Working Lunch
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: PLENARY
  • 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM: PANELS
  • 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: PLENARY (to close the MEETING)
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: PLENARY: TOWN HALL to give feedback to Current and Future Program Chairs
  • 6:30 PM: Shuttle to Hotel
  • 7:30 PM: Dinner at Spice Market [link] 
    • in the Hotel
    • 188 14th St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, (404) 549-5450
• 2/23/09 (Monday)
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM: AC Workshop, including tours to GVU and RIM Centers

Continuing a time-honored CVPR tradition, we cordially invite you to join us on Monday Feb 23, the day after the AC Meeting, for the AC Vision Workshop, held on the Georgia Tech campus.

Location: Klaus Advanced Computing Building 1116

We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

Schedule:

8:55	Opening
9:00        Dr. Bernt Schiele	Visual Category Recognition and People Detection D. Bernt Schiele Professor in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt
9:25              Dr. Horst Bishof	Semi-supervised Learning in Vision Dr. Horst Bischof, Professor at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at the Technical University Graz, Austria
9:50                     Dr. Jim Little	Curious George: A Visually-guided Autonomous, Adaptive Home Robot Dr. Jim Little Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia
10:15        Dr. Anthony Hoogs	People and Objects with a Purpose:Functional Recognition in Persistent Video Dr. Anthony Hoogs Director of Computer Vision at Kitware, Inc.
10:40	Coffee Break
11:00        Dr. Aaron Hertzmann	Non-Rigid Structure From Motion: Estimating Shape and Motion With Hierarchical Priors Dr. Aaron Hertzmann Associate Professor at University of Toronto
11:25   Dr. Luc Van Gool	Monument Image Mining Dr. Luc Van Gool Professor, ETH Zurich - Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering - Computer Vision Laboratory
11:50        Dr. Michael S. Brown	Imaging and Restoration of Old Manuscripts Dr. Michael S. Brown Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
12:15	Lunch
12:50   Dr. Daniel Cremers	Convex Relaxation for Multiview Reconstruction Dr. Daniel Cremers Professor at University of Bonn
13:15    Dr. Ramesh Raskar	Computational Photography: From Epsilon to Coded Photography Dr. Ramesh Raskar Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
13:40        Dr. Kristen Grauman	Predicting the Net Worth of Image Annotations Dr. Kristen Grauman Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Austin
14:05	Coffee Break
14:25    Dr. Svetlana Lazebnik	Representing Internet Photo Collections with Iconic Images Dr. Svetlana Lazebnik Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
14:50        D. Yoav Y. Schechner	Things you can’t resolve D. Yoav Y. Schechner Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
15:15                      Dr. Yasuyuki Matsushita	Radiometric Calibration using Temporal Irradiance Mixtures Dr. Yasuyuki Matsushita Lead Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia
15:40	End of Workshop

AC Meeting will be held in Atlanta, GA at the GA Institute of Technology Campus, Feb 21-22 (Sat/Sun), 2009, followed by a 1 day AC workshop on Feb 23 (Mon), 2009.

Here are additional details.

• AC Meeting 
  • Schedule (PDF) for Feb 20-Feb 22, 2009.
  • Logistics (PDF) (Maps/Direction to all places/venues and other information)
  • Process Guidelines (Details of how the meeting will proceed)
  • AC Arrive/Departure Info (PDF) (To meet at the CAB/Taxi stand and share rides!)
  • Weather in Atlanta (Weather Underground). Plan for cooler nights, windy, and partly sunny.
  • Maps/Directions (using google maps)
  • AC Meeting Travel and Lodging Info
  • Volunteers
• AC Workshop – Feb 23 (Mon), 2009.
  • Contact Frank Dellaert for details.