National Science Foundation PATTERN RECOGNITION WORKSHOP Hosted by the University of Michigan March 15-17, 2002 Ann Arbor, MI

Workshop Description -- The goals of this NSF workshop are broad: to bring together a multi-disciplinary group of researchers to shed light on the important challenges, the open problems, the promising approaches, and to get a general picture of the state of the art in areas related to pattern recognition. Each of the eminent researchers listed below will present a 20 minute talk. They come from diverse communities including: computer science, applied math, information theory, signal processing, and statistics. There will also be representatives from NSF-CISE, NSF-DMS, NSF-BioMed, and possibly other federal agencies (CIA, NSA, DoD), who will be attending. Participation in this workshop is by invitation only.


Agenda -- The Workshop will begin at 7:00 PM, Friday, March 15, with a Reception and Greetings. Presentations will commence on Saturday morning and continue through the afternoon, followed by a banquet in the evening. Presentations will begin again on Sunday morning and conclude by around 3:00 PM. All meals through lunch on Sunday, March 17, will be provided.


Workshop Presenters

Yali Amit University of Chicago	Common themes in object detection and recognition in visual and acoustic scenes	presentation	David Mumford Brown University	Major Challenges Facing Pattern Recognition	presentation
Rama Chellappa University of Maryland	Recognition of Moving Patterns from Moving Observers	presentation	George Nagy Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.	Interactive Pattern Recognition	presentation
Davi Geiger New York University	A test case for pattern recognition systems: Recognizing Characters and Cursive Words	presentation	Andrew Nobel University of North Carolina	The role of cluster analysis in the study of gene expression arrays	presentation
Alfred O. Hero University of Michigan	Emerging problems in pattern recognition: Lessons and challenges	presentation	Rob Nowak Rice University	Dyadic Thinking about Density Estimation and Tree Classifiers	presentation
Anil K. Jain Michigan State University	Unsupervised Learning	presentation	Anuj Srivastava Florida State University	Successive Refinement Strategies for Complex Pattern Recognition	presentation
Hamid Krim North Carolina State University	Energy-Driven Polygonal Approximation for Shape Classification	presentation	Vladimir Vapnik AT&T Research Labs	Problem of Statistical Inference in High Dimensional Spaces	presentation
Kanti V. Mardia University of Leeds	Shape Challenges in Medical Imaging and Bioinformatics	presentation	Anthony J. Yezzi Georgia Institute of Technology	Segmentation, Registration, and Shape Models	presentation
Pierre Moulin University of Illinois	Signal Compression for Joint Classification and Reconstruction	presentation

Invited Participants: Hotel and Airline Reservation Instructions


Directions from Detroit Metro Airport to Hotel -- From the airport take highway I-94 West to US-23 (exit 180), then take Highway US-23 North 5.8 miles to Plymouth Road (exit 41), then turn West from the exit ramp onto Plymouth Road, cross over US-23, and you will see the Holiday Inn on your left (on the Southwest corner of US-23 and Plymouth Road). Maps of Ann Arbor area and route from airport and map of the NEW Detroit Metropolitan Airport


Workshop Report




Updated 5/21/02 by Nancy Goings -- nango@umich.edu