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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of
Computer Vision
Special Issue on Modeling
and Representations of Large-Scale 3D Scenes
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Guest
Editors
Zhigang Zhu (zzhu@ccny.cuny.edu),
CUNY City College and Graduate Center
Takeo Kanade
(Takeo.Kanade@cs.cmu.edu), Carnegie Mellon University
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Schedule
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Manuscript
Submission Deadline (Extended): March 19, 2007
All
papers will be peer reviewed by following the IJCV reviewing procedures. The final
manuscript of each paper will be published online first as soon as it is
accepted to this special issue. The final printed volume will appear when all
the papers are sent to the Publisher.
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Scope
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Scene
modeling and representations of large-scale 3D urban and historical scenes,
both dynamic and static, indoor and outdoors, are critical in many military and
civilian applications, such as mapping, surveillance, transportation,
development planning, archeology and architecture. Research in this area has
attracted increasing attention of both academia and industry. Quite a few
research groups have major research projects in large-scale 3D scene
modeling. Organizations like Microsoft
and Google are trying to include 3D city models in their products (Microsoft
Virtual Earth and Google Earth).
In
addition to using traditional aerial imagery, there is a growing interest in
using both closer-range airborne and ground video/lidar sensors for rapid,
accurate and/or realistic 3D modeling of large-scale scenes. Representations
are also critical for modeling large-scale 3D man-made urban or
historical scenes with fine structures, textureless regions, sharp depth changes, and
occlusions. Sometimes, dynamic aspects also need to be modeled and represented
for applications such as airborne surveillance, urban transportation, and event
analysis. Papers that address these topics are scattered throughout various
conferences, workshops, and vision/graphic journals. The proposed special issue
will foster focused attention on the latest research results in this
interesting and challenging area.
The
special issue will focus on the modeling and representation of large-scale 3D
scenes, particularly cities, cultural sites, historical scenes, and large-scale
dynamic scenes. Researchers are invited to submit papers on methods and systems
that lead to solutions to such large-scale problems. Topics of interest include
(but not limited to):
q Scene
modeling and visualization using ground and/or aerial video and imagery
q 3D
mosaics, layered representations, volumetric representations, and other visual
representations
q 3D
building detection and modeling from aerial LIDAR and/or imagery
q 3D
and moving objects extraction from video of large-scale dynamic scenes
q Automatic
alignment of a large number of large-scale range images
q View
planning and representations for large-scale site modeling
q 2D-3D
registration and texture mapping for large-scale 3D scenes
q Multi-camera
approaches for 3D and dynamic scene modeling
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Submission
Procedure
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Papers
should be of full journal length with detailed experimental results of 3D
modeling and representations of large-scale real scenes, as well as analysis
and/or evaluation appropriate for journal publication. Submissions should
follow the guidelines set out by IJCV. Authors should submit their papers via
the IJCV website
Please
choose the Article Type "Special Issue - 3D Scenes".
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