GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on:

Mobile Imaging

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The integration of cameras and general-purpose processors in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, has opened up a wide range of new opportunities for creating visually enriched applications. Mobile imaging, which covers all aspects of imaging on mobile devices from image formation (with potential new camera designs such as multi-aperture systems to accommodate small form factors) to processing (by exploring the available online content and other input data such as location and interactive gestures), present great new opportunities for innovation by the signal and information processing community. This symposium aims to bring researchers from academia and industry to discuss and present new tools, innovative ideas, and applications in the rapidly growing area of mobile imaging.

Submissions of at most 4 pages in two-column IEEE format are welcome on topics including:

  • Multimedia processing on mobile devices
  • Mobile computational photography
  • Augmented reality
  • Image enhancement for mobile devices
  • Mobile visual search
  • Mobile imaging system design
  • Mobile image quality
  • User experience and interaction on mobile devices

Keynote Speakers

Bernd Girod, Stanford University, Towards Mobile Augmented Reality

Mobile augmented reality systems afford a host of intriguing engineering challenges and research problems at the intersection of distributed signal processing, coding, and system architecture. For object recognition on mobile devices, a visual data base is typically stored in the cloud. Hence, for a visual comparison, information must be either uploaded from, or downloaded to, the mobile over a wireless link. The response time of the system critically depends on how much information must be transferred in both directions, and efficient compression is the key to a good user experience. We review recent advances in mobile visual search, using compact feature descriptors, and show that dramatic speed-ups and power savings are possible by considering recognition, compression, and retrieval jointly. For augmented reality applications, where image matching is performed continually at video frame rates, interframe coding of SIFT descriptors achieves bit-rate reductions of 1-2 orders of magnitude relative to advanced video coding techniques. We will use real-time implementations for different example applications, such as recognition of landmarks, media covers or printed documents, to show the benefits of implementing computer vision algorithms on the mobile device, in the cloud, or both.

Bernd Girod is Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, California, since 1999. Previously, he was a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His current research interests are in the area of networked media systems. He has published over 500 conference and journal papers and 6 books, receiving the EURASIP Signal Processing Best Paper Award in 2002, the IEEE Multimedia Communication Best Paper Award in 2007, the EURASIP Image Communication Best Paper Award in 2008, the EURASIP Signal Processing Most Cited Paper Award in 2008, as well as the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award in 2004 and the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2011. As an entrepreneur, Professor Girod has been involved in several startup ventures, among them Polycom, Vivo Software, 8x8, and RealNetworks. He received an Engineering Doctorate from University of Hannover, Germany, and an M.S. Degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Girod is a Fellow of the IEEE, a EURASIP Fellow, and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). He currently serves Stanford’s School of Engineering as Senior Associate Dean for Online Learning and Professional Development.

Kari Pulli, NVIDIA, Mobile Visual Computing @ NVIDIA

This talk gives an overview of some recent work at NVIDIA Research on mobile visual computing. We give an overview of Tegra, the NVIDIA family of mobile processors, and in particular look into its visual processing capabilities. We then discuss several recent research projects: 2D registration of moving scenes for computational photography, 3D tracking and modeling for augmented reality, a processing architecture for hierarchical image processing, and interactive editing of a live scene on a camera viewfinder which provides a WYSIWYG experience for computational photography.

Kari Pulli is a Senior Director at NVIDIA Research where he heads the Mobile Visual Computing Research team and works on topics related to cameras, imaging, and vision on mobile devices. Before NVIDIA he was at Nokia where he was the 6th Nokia Fellow and a Member of CEO's Technology Council. Kari has worked on standardizing mobile media APIs at Khronos and JCP and wrote a book on Mobile 3D Graphics. Kari was a visiting scientist at MIT and research associate at Stanford University. Kari has a B.Sc. from the University of Minnesota, M.Sc. and Lic. Tech. from the University of Oulu (Finland), and Ph.D. from the University of Washington (Seattle), all in Computer Science / Engineering; and an MBA from the University of Oulu.

Paper Submission

Submit papers of at most 4 pages in two-column IEEE format through the GlobalSIP website at http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/Papers.asp. All papers (contributed and invited) will be presented as posters.

Important Dates

Paper Submission DeadlineJune 15, 2013
Review Results AnnounceJuly 30, 2013
Camera-Ready Papers DueSeptember 7, 2013

Organizing Committee

Technical Program Chairs
Minh N. Do
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Technical Program Committee
Oscar Au
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Derin Babacan
Google
Pier Luigi Dragotti
Imperial College London
Khaled El-Maleh
Qualcomm
Mohammad Gharavi
Sony
Igor Kozintsev
Intel
Xin Li
West Virginia University
Jiangbo Lu
Advanced Digital Research Center
Yue Lu
Harvard University
Pascal Frossard
EPFL
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira
Instituto Superior Técnico
Kari Pulli
NVIDIA
Yuriy Reznik
InterDigital
Filip Sroubek
Institute of Information Theory and Automation
Stefan Winkler
Advanced Digital Research Center
Jianping Zhou
Apple