Benvenuti a ECCV 2012

The Rector of the University of Florence
Prof. Alberto Tesi 

The ECCV 2012 Figures
Submissions – Main Conference Program: 1437 – Demo Program: 25 – Workshop proposals: 37 – Tutorial proposals: 12 ECCV 2012 Conference Program – Main Conference Oral Program: 40 papers – Main Conference Poster Program: 368 papers – Main Conference Demo Program : 21 demonstrations – Exhibits: 11 ECCV 2012 Tutorial Program: 8

ECCV 2012 Workshops Program: 21 − 450 papers submitted − 257 papers accepted
Registered Attendees 1135 + onsite registrations 

The ECCV Program Selection
ECCV 2008 # Papers Submitted 871 27.9% 4.6% 23.3%

# Accepted papers 243 TOTAL Orals 40 TOTAL Posters 203

ECCV 2010

# Papers Submitted 1174 27.9% 3.3% 24.5%

# Accepted papers 327 TOTAL Orals 39 TOTAL Posters 288

ECCV 2012

# Papers Submitted 1437 28.4% 2.8% 25.6%

# Accepted papers 408 TOTAL Orals 40 TOTAL Posters 368 

Computer Vision at ECCV 2012
Lighting and Color 8% Tracking and Registration 9% Segmentation 10% Geometry, Shape and Reconstruction 13% Recognition and Classification 19%

Models, Optimization and Learning 18%

Action and Activities 10%

Features and Matching 13% 

The ECCV 2012 International View
IRELAND <1% TURKEY <1% RUSSIAN FED <1% FINLAND <1% CZECH REP <1% DENMARK <1% SPAIN <1% GREECE BELGIUM AUSTRIA 1% 1% SWEDEN <1% 1% NETHERLANDS 1% INDIA ITALY 1% 1% GOOGLE 1% PORTUGAL 1% JAPAN 1% KOREA 2% ISRAEL 2%

USA 36%

CHINA HONG KONG 2% CANADA 2% AUSTRALIA 2% SINGAPORE 3%

FRANCE 5%
SWITZERLAND 5% GERMANY 8% MICROSOFT 7% CHINA 6% UK 6% 

The ECCV 2012 Conference Location

Palazzo Congressi

Poster Sessions
Oral and Demo Sessions Exhibits

Palazzo Affari

Congress Center Main Entrance 

ECCV 2012 7-day Program

Sunday 7th Monday 8th Tuesday 9th Wednesday 10th Thursday 11th Friday 12th Saturday 13th

Tutorials / Workshops Main Conference Main Conference Main Conference Main Conference Workshops Workshops

9.15 – 13.00 8.45 – 13.10 8.45 – 13.00 8.45 – 13.00 8.45 – 13.00 9.15 – 13.00 9.15 – 13.00

14.30 – 18.15 14.30 – 18.30 14.30 – 18.30 14.30 – 18.30 14.30 – 18.30 14.30 – 18.15 14.30 – 18.15

Read the program and abstracts in your booklets and online 

ECCV 2012 Keynote Speaker Monday October 8th

Prof. Tomaso Poggio MIT, USA The quest for a theory of Vision: from the level framework (revised) to the Invariances of the Ventral Stream 

ECCV 2012 Scholarships, Student Support, Awards and Prizes

ECCV 2012 Scholarships − 10 Student grants − 31 Student volunteers

600 € Free Admission

ECCV 2012 Best Paper Award 1000 € ECCV 2012 Best Paper Prize Honorable Mention 500 € ECCV 2012 Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision 1000 € ECCV 2012 Best Student Paper Award 500 € ECCV 2012 Best Demo Award NVIDIA Quadro 6000 GPU

Will be announced at the Gala Dinner on Wednesday night 

ECCV 2012 New Features
Video lectures (orals) and video poster spotlights Poster topics distributed uniformly Online and printed abstracts for “reading ahead” ECCV 2012 iPhone app Job portal for young researchers Tweet facility during orals

Reviewing process - PC

Tweet your questions to Oral Speakers… Session Chairs will select one or two tweets for the speaker Tweets to : #eccv12 For help or special assistance tweet to : #eccv12help 

ECCV 2012 Reviewing Process

54 area chairs handled about 27 papers each Area chairs selected reviewers in parallel with no race against time zones 642 reviewers generated 3799 reviews 85% of reviews rated helpful by authors about 27 papers each

Area Chair triplets ordered their ≈85 papers in meetings chaired by a Program Chair Progran Chairs merged triplet lists 

Outstanding reviewers
Criteria: AC nominations and reported fairness 40 awardees (top 6%)

Roland Angst Tamar Avraham Lubomir Bourdev Steven Branson Matthew Brown Barbara Caputo Ayan Chakrabarti Albert C.S. Chung Tim Cootes Sanja Fidler Charless Fowlkes Yakup Genc Christopher Geyer

Michael Goesele Bastian Goldluecke Matthieu Guillaumin Abhinav Gupta Michal Havlena Nicolas Heess Adrian Hilton Koray Kavukcuoglu Scott McCloskey Philippos Mordohai Francesc Moreno-Noguer Takahiro Okabe Florent Perronnin Srikumar Ramalingam

Scott Satkin Walter Scheirer Alexander Shekhovtsov Ilan Shimshoni Greg Slabaugh Noah Snavely Robby Tan Akihiko Torii Tali Treibitz Ivor Tsang Joost de Weijer Alexander Weiss Bangpeng Yao 

Mark Everingham Prize

1973-2012
At future ECCV conferences, (starting ECCV14) a prize will be given in commemoration of
Mark Everingham to a researcher or team of researchers who, through a long-term effort going beyond a single publication, have significantly contributed to the practical impact of computer vision e.g. by making available a substantial body of programming code, an on-line service, a detailed comparison between methods or tutorial-style book, evaluation tools or datasets, or studies that reveal important insights into current methodologies. Memorial site: http://www.bmva.org/obituaries: mark_everingham 

ECCV 2012 Social Events
Welcome Dinner tezza Da Basso at Fortezza da Basso Monday 8th 19:00

PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI and PALAZZO AFFARI

Entrance to Fortezza da Basso BASSO FORTEZZA DA

FIRENZE S.M.N. Train Station 

ECCV 2012 Social Events
Gala Dinner at Stazione LeopoldaLeopolda Stazione
Wednesday 10th 20:00

PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI and PALAZZO AFFARI STAZIONE LEOPOLDA

Stazione Leopolda

FIRENZE S.M.N. Train Station

Tramvia line T1 

The ECCV 2012 Special Events
Italian Music through the Ages

Monday October 8th at Fortezza da Basso

Renaissance Music and Dances

Tuesday October 9th at San Miniato al Monte Middle Ages - Gregorian Chant

Wednesday October 10th at Stazione Leopolda XIX century - Harmoniemusik

Read the Special Events pamphlet 

A Few Recommendations
Oral presenters Follow guidelines, give your slides to the ECCV 2012 Slide Center well in advance and introduce yourself to the Session Chairs before your session starts Poster presenters Follow guidelines, put up your presentation well before your session starts and don’t forget to remove it at the end

Ask Student Volunteers for any technical request or instant needs Ask ECCV 2012 Secretary service for any administrative problem or special request Enjoy the coffee points at Palazzo Affari during session breaks

Display your badge at all times 

Thank You to our Sponsors

UNIVERSITA’ di FIRENZE 

Thank You So Much to All the Chairs…
The Program Chairs Pietro Perona– California Institute of Technology, USA Andrew Fitzgibbon – Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Svetlana Lazebnik – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Yoichi Sato – University of Tokyo, Japan Cordelia Schmid – INRIA, Grenoble, France
Tomaso Poggio – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Emanuele Trucco – University of Dundee, UK Alessandro Verri – University of Genoa, Italy Andrea Fusiello – University of Udine, Italy Vittorio Murino – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy Rita Cucchiara – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Björn Stenger – Toshiba Research Europe, Cambridge, UK Marco Bertini – University of Florence, Italy Terrance E. Boult – University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Tat Jen Cham – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Marcello Pelillo – University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy Massimo Tistarelli – University of Sassari, Italy

The Honorary Chair The Tutorial Chairs The Workshop Chairs The Demonstration Chair The Industrial Liaison Chair The Web Chair The Publicity Chairs

The Publication Chair

The Video Proceedings Chairs
The Travel Grants Chair The Travel Visa Chair The Local Committee Chair The 54 Area Chairs …..

Sebastiano Battiato – University of Catania, Italy Giovanni M. Farinella – University of Catania, Italy
Luigi Di Stefano – University of Bologna, Italy Stefano Berretti – University of Florence, Italy Andrew Bagdanov – MICC, Florence, Italy 

A Special Thank You to …….

Marco B.

Fernando

Gianpaolo

Giuseppe L.

Andrea

Daniele

Svebor

Federico

Giuseppe S.

Lamberto

Marco F.

Fabio P.

Fabio B.

Laura

Pietro

Iacopo

Giuseppe

Lorenzo

Matteo

Stefano

Lea

and to all the Consulta Umbria Staff and the Volunteer Students, and…… 

A special thanks to all of you

We wish you a fun time in Florence and a great ECCV 2012 Conference 

ECCV 2012 Keynote Speaker Monday October 8th

Prof. Tomaso Poggio MIT, USA “The quest for a theory of Vision: from the level framework (revised) to the Invariances of the Ventral Stream”