Third International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern recognition

Minimization problems and optimization methods permeate computer vision (CV), pattern recognition (PR), and many other fields of machine intelligence. This is because many approaches to CV&PR involve optimization tasks, and, at a more basic level, several problems can be cast as the minimization of some basic quantity (often called an energy).

Instances of (energy) minimization problems arise in Bayesian decision making, Markov random fields, relaxation labeling, neural networks, variational formulations, support vector machines, regularization, to mention only a few (not necessarily mutually exclusive) areas/frameworks of CV&PR, with roots in disciplines such as statistics, (statistical) physics, and psychophysics.

The aim of this workshop, which is the third of a series, is to bring together people with research interests in this interdisciplinary topic. Although the subject is traditionally well represented in major international conferences on CV&PR, this workshop provides a forum where researchers can report their recent work and engage in more informal discussions. As with the previous editions (1997 and 1999), the proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. The submission instructions can be found here.

The scientific program of EMMCVPR-2001 will include the presentation of invited talks and contributed research papers. The workshop, which is sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), will be organized by the Sophia-Antipolis research unit of INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), in France. Sophia-Antipolis is located on the French Riviera (C