The schedule for ADFS has been announced - OpenVL will be presented in the Programming Languages and Models (PL) session at 1415 on Tuesday 12th June 2012 in room E/F of the Hyatt Regency, Bellevue. The session ID is PL-4189, and the title of the session is "OpenVL: A High-Level Developer Interface to Computer Vision".

I am pleased to announce the 1st Workshop on User-Centred Computer Vision (UCCV'13) will be held as part of the IEEE Winter Vision Meetings in Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. in January 2013. UCCV is a one day workshop intended to provide a forum to discuss the creation of intuitive, interactive and accessible computer vision technologies. The workshop will be focussed on research from academia and industry in the fields of computer vision and human-computer interaction.

The majority of researchers in computer vision focus on advancing the state-of-the-art in algorithms and methods; there is very little focus on how the state-of-the-art can be usefully presented to the majority of people. Research is required to provide new technology to address the shortcomings in the usability of computer vision.

This year I am a programme co-chair for the Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND) 2012 Conference's Research Notes session, with Noreen Kamal (MAGIC, University of British Columbia) and Neesha Desai (Computing Science, University of Alberta). Notes are an opportunity for undergraduates, masters students, Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral fellows to present their work, meet other GRAND members and foster/maintain collaborations.

Through the creation of our computer vision abstraction we have developed a set of guidelines along the way to help steer our design decisions. We believe these guidelines will be of some use to others in the vision community, so will be presenting a few of them at the Human-Computer Interaction workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Barcelona in November.

At the International Conference on Vision Systems this year we will be presenting our latest research into a general abstraction for computer vision, OpenVL. OpenCV and similar systems provide sophisticated computer vision methods directly to the user, which requires a lot of knowledge and experience to use effectively. We have developed a methodology which provides the user with a mechanism to execute the required vision algorithm through a higher level interface, allowing a much larger audience to employ computer vision methods.

At the upcoming ICEC we will be presenting our work on a prototype mobile video capture and delivery methodology, as an overview of how components of the MyView and OpenVL projects can be used together to create a simple system.

SIGGRAPH is coming to Vancouver this year! We will be attending to present the latest research on our computer vision shader language, which is part of our OpenVL project. The presentation will be part of the poster session, and the poster will be on display throughout the conference.

UBC : ECE : Computer Graphics

• OpenVL - Developer-Friendly Computer Vision
• CVonline - Computer vision reference
• CVPapers - Datasets; open source code
• Computer Vision Online - Research groups; datasets; software
• Computer Vision Resources - Code/papers arranged by topic