parallel * conferences (each single track) run in parallel. IAPR is the sponsor,
* papers. There is a limit of 3 parallel sessions (set by the facilities,

park * signed (Omni Park Central, NYC), the rates will be a bit higher than
* This is not Jurassic Park. Yesterday the first on was held. Fully

part * is 4 per year and goes to the same list as a part of the TC newsletter.
* No action on our part.
* should be included in ICCV-3, since they are an important part of the
* surplus. A large part is newsletters, but the editor was

participants * non-US participants failed to receive the newsletter. The mailings cost about

participation * 2 years of non-participation and addition by a petition of 10 members
* 3 TAB meetings and 2 TC meetings each year. TAB meeting participation is

partly * Agenda item #9: ICCV93: Berlin (May?): Date not certain (partly due to
* Steve: Partly surplus and asking for more.

passed * 1993, in Pittsburgh. Passed, no opposition.
* Vote: Voice Vote: Passed.
* international conferences. Passed Yes: 11, No: 9, Abstain: 7.
* nominations and other awards. Passed.
* Passed with 1 abstention.
* Passed with 1 opposed.
* Passed with 2 opposed. Uncountable was for.
* passed with Yes: 18, No: 0, Abstain 6.
* Passed.
* Passed: (Overwhelming, no exact count taken).
* Passed: Yes: 22, No: 0.
* Passed: Yes: 28, No: 0.
* Passed: Yes: 35, No: 0.
* Passed: Yes:22, No:0, Abstain:6.
* program. Passed: Yes:22, No:4, Abstain:3.
* size of short papers be increased was passed: Yes 25, No 18, Abstain 6.
* successful meeting at AAAI-90. Passed with no opposition.
* The by-laws were passed by Yes: 20, No: 0, and Abstain: 7.
* to the authors, be retained was passed with no opposition.
* Yes: 26, No: 0, Abstain: 2. Passed.
20 for passed.

passive * (for presented and other papers). There will be an associated Passive

past * are comparable to past meetings. He also observed that this is the
* better than past.
* Comments: (J Mundy) Reminded that some past meetings with weak reviews
* CVPR, etc., publish in the journal over the past 4 years.
* for the award. The award is given at most once a year, past recipients include
* papers that have been excluded in the past (PR, IP, applications).
* past there has been a Workshop on Computer Vision as an outlet for
* qualified people. Was it the history of the meeting (rejecting past
* service as the past chair. The appointed officers were announced:
* with 1/3 of this past year taken by industrial vision special issues
10 for past.

patrick * Patrick: How things have changed? Year ago budget was $4K, now

pattern * (where is PR?). There is not much on Pattern Recognition in the
* 7. Shape and Pattern Matching in Computational Biology Workshop:
*

pavlidis * Motion: (By T. Pavlidis) That regularly held meeting have a large
* Motion: (T. Pavlidis) To suggest an increase in the PR and CV tracks at
* was given to A. Rosenfeld at ICPR-88 in Rome. T. Pavlidis retired from

pay * pay attention to the workshop and conference budgets. This also
* raised the issue of the $1500 dues we pay to IAPR and the cost of

penn * August 1995, Penn State.

pennstate * (Kasturi, PennState)

pennsylvania * A plan for Pennsylvania in 1994 was mentioned, and T. Henderson proposed

people * #1. CVPR93 (Aggarwal, Aloimonos, Bolle). Between 440 and 450 people
* 400 people on the conference lists that were not on the TC list were contacted
* 70 people, desire for the meeting to continue. 90 submissions, 2 on
* <100 people.
*

per * #9. PAMI Transactions (Anil Jain) 1 submission per day, working
* (TC) and good mailing list (PAMI). IEEE-CS charges about $2.00 per
* 1300+ pages per year (from 6 and about 850). The backlog is 85 papers,
* at CMU (one of the 10 highest at CMU 500 per week -- send mail to
* Champaign ($109 per night). The call for papers is on the CVPR92
* Graphics, Probabilistic Reasoning. Currently about 1 paper per day. Of
* is 4 per year and goes to the same list as a part of the TC newsletter.
* papers are expected, but only 50-60 per track (240 total) will be
* submissions are at about 20-30 per month with about 12 papers in each
9 for per.

performance * #11. Workshop on Performance vs Methodology in CV. (Meer and Haralick) --
* Agenda item #11a: Performance Characterization of Vision Algorithms
* Performance characterization issues, analyze problem of numerical
* Performance vs. robustness. Applied statistics and others.

permanant * is that the TC chair be a permanant delegate.

person * general chair, and Profs. Tsuji and Kak plus a third person (not yet
* Steve: R&A really was formed by the efforts of one person.

perspective * Computer Vision and document analysis. (Haralick) perspective on

peters * fall, but will be March 1993 in Nashville. Vanderbilt (A. Peters) will

petitiion * Draft a petitiion (and signed by over 100 people) to IEEE that we

petition * 2 years of non-participation and addition by a petition of 10 members
* Avi: That we should send a petition to IEEE to form the new
* Avi: Will draft a petition tonight for sending to IEEE.
* Presented his petition, circulated on Wednesday and Thursday.

phil * Agenda Item #5: Qualitative Vision Workshop: Phil Kahn. In
* know where the images are. Phil Kahn (ADS and the net news vision

physical * Physical mailing list (TC, Transactions). Issues of cost.

physically * meeting and others. Physically at MIT. For the A/V facilities for

physics * #15. Announcement of "Physics-Based Vision Newsletter" (Shafer)
* A gang of 7 is assembling an all-electronic on physics based vision.
* Physics based vision (Shafer). There is space for 3 tracks.

pieces * Linda: We do use some of the pieces, do we want to provide the

pittsburgh * 1993, in Pittsburgh. Passed, no opposition.
* between San Francisco, Rockies, Pittsburgh, and Boston. Next ICCV
* workshop. IROS is being held in pittsburgh in August (not much

place * real alternative places to eat, but the hotel may be able to work
* recognition, all in one place. This gives a conference ranging from AI
* what, and how relevant the issue is in the first place.

plan * A plan for Pennsylvania in 1994 was mentioned, and T. Henderson proposed
* IEEE does build in a cushion, so be careful and plan for this.
* plan). As always, encourage associated workshops like this one.

planned * and the planned limit)
* in 1994. Planned for June 20-21 (after CVPR) 1996, with a
* tutorials (Monday), 3 Workshop planned (Visual Behaviors; Role of Function

planning * account limit of $30K at any one time. The surplus helps ease planning
* Mundy, T. Strat, C. Thorpe, H. Freeman, Ikeuchi. (Still in planning,
* The Call for Papers is out. The meeting is single track, planning for

plans * Agenda Item #3: CVPR94, Linda Shapiro. The plans continue with the
* database (7-10 sequences) and plans special sessions for experimental

please * are problems. Please to review in a timely manner. Authors should
* is as follows. Please send additional agenda items to Linda Shapiro,

plus * general chair, and Profs. Tsuji and Kak plus a third person (not yet
* was requested. The allocation is 1/3 of the conference surplus plus some more

point * At this point a comment about the Agenda of the meeting being a
* Comment: (Freeman) Point missed, did this group want to have an
* Vision has increased to the point where Computer Vision dominates

pointed * international issues at a national meeting, it was pointed out that the

policy * Boykin stated that the CS policy was that proceedings would be
* Discussion centered on how such a policy would be distributed since
* Discussion that people will break this policy and to make rules
* Duplicate submissions -- policy is stated on the call for papers for
* multiple conferences, a motion: (Tom Binford): The the policy of CVPR
* Policy on Multiple submissions, should there be one, is there one, how
* reconsider the policy on duplicate submissions. (Keeping the
* the policy in 1994 did not work. (Indicate it was submitted to
8 for policy.

ponce * the work (Huttenlocher/Ponce).

poor *

poorly * were poorly considered. (T. Binford) Quality is shown by innovation and

porposed * in Japan. He porposed, based on discussions with many people including

portion * commented that the TC keeps a portion of any conference surplus with an
* they had been mailed to the entire PAMI journal list or just the US portion

possibility * The issue of a treasurer was discussed in light of the possibility to
* the least (all are down). Down 3%. Trans-C down 10% Possibility

possible * (Possible dates, in October 1995; or Week before Thanksgiving.)
* changes, control of conferences, and possible TAB actions regarding the
* Comment that posters had 2 pages -- that was low. Possible same
* CVPR), possible locations
* discussed and a possible third review was done (20 to each member over 1
* Discussion of the hotel costs, and possible dorm accomodations, and
* Even though publications are separate from the TCs it may be possible
* for possible changes.
* next possible meeting with the 94ProgComm making sincere effort.
* possible dates, co-chairs, and possible program committee members.
* possible to separate. PAMI is sponsored by several societies, but
* program. There is a possible Human-Computer Vision workshop on the
* Questions regarding local expenses: under $70 for hotel is possible,
* regarding membership. It is now possible to join through
* to the possible program committee list.
16 for possible.

possiblity * possiblity that IAPR would kick the US out anyway, and that IAPR might

possibly * continued. With possibly different alternatives for the future of

poster * (L. Shapiro) Posters as not quite yet done and submitted as posters.
* 50 presentations and 100 posters.
* abstracting.] Posters are at "Prime" times with a long break for the
* allow for about 70-80 papers, or the posters which results in about
* and 70 posters. The submission included a summary page to aid the
* China, 230 accepted + 110 posters + 15 invited papers (40 from China).
* Comment that posters had 2 pages -- that was low. Possible same
* night). 98 papers and 45 posters. 22 committee members were at the LA
* poster session on each day.
* posters.
* posters. A discussion on the roe of posters. Joe Mundy asked the
* rejection ratio. (T. Boult) Posters could be submitted as posters.
* was for 260. Posters were increased to 3 pages in the proceedings. A
16 for poster.

postponed * Agenda item #12: Proposed Bylaws, postponed to the meeting at ICCV2, with
* retain more conference income, but decisions were postponed until the

postscript * There is now a postscript version of the last 2 issues. If there is

power * The US needs a separate Society that has the power.

pre * so about 100 papers are expected. Pre-conference tutorials are being
* So far, there are 316 pre registered and 53 walk-ins (369). An

prepare * TC will prepare a proposal regarding conferences that addresses these

present * Strong discussion. Joseph Boykin attended to present the Goode award

presentation * 50 presentations and 100 posters.
* II. Award Presentation. Joseph Boykin (IEEE CS VP for CS-Press) presented
* proposals within 6 months or less. A short presentation for holding the
* Ranging workshop (Bir Bhanu) on October 9 with 9 presentations, then 4

presented * (for presented and other papers). There will be an associated Passive
* a North American location should be presented at that time. There was
* II. Award Presentation. Joseph Boykin (IEEE CS VP for CS-Press) presented
* Presented his petition, circulated on Wednesday and Thursday.

presenting * Avi started the discussion by presenting the basic issues:

president * Jake Aggarwal is now President of IAPR.
* The office is filled by the IEEE Computer Society president on the

press * (CS-Press), which has helped publication. There is a CS committee
* II. Award Presentation. Joseph Boykin (IEEE CS VP for CS-Press) presented

pressures * pressures on the program chairs to add papers.
* pressures to drive it.

previous * Item 1. The previous minutes were approved with an addition to
* program committee, with a small intersection with the previous year, and

price * (Tom Huang, Eric Grimson, Avi Kak, Keith Price)
* 2. An Electronic Newsletter: K. Price
* prices), e.g. one package is CVPR, another is CVPR+xxx, etc.
* provided at cost (rather than sales prices) if they were available.
* the sales price ($95 for members, $190 for non-members).
* Treasurer: Jake Aggarwal, Secretary: Keith Price, Vice-Chair: Eric
6 for price.

prime * abstracting.] Posters are at "Prime" times with a long break for the

printed * A motion (by T. Boult) to reccomend to the committee that the printed

prior * equivalent papers were rejected on the grounds of prior conference

prip * origin of CVPR from PRIP for the purpose to bring in Computer Vision

private * Q: Re IEEE sponsored vs private journal? PAMI 10K copies, no other
* within IEEE, and the low cost. Private publishers are happy to

probabilistic * for special issues in AI, Search in Vision, probabilistic reasoning,
* Future special issues on Probabilistic Reasoning, Integration of
* Graphics, Probabilistic Reasoning. Currently about 1 paper per day. Of

probably * conference) is in Singapore in 1995 and probably in Korea in 1997.

problem * (Freeman) Cultural problem, once a conference doesn't have some
* 250-280. The only problem was the representation of US universities
* And the problem of getting more than the original 550 copies
* are problems. Please to review in a timely manner. Authors should
* Explore why the problems have an overlap.
* November 14) after problems arose
* Performance characterization issues, analyze problem of numerical
* Problem is not the mailing list, but the problem is that we don't
* scheduling and the problems of multiple conferences in the same year
* Visa problems have been reduced from the ICPR attempt. Beijing has a number
* who does not. Problem of membership, who is a member, who is not?
* with China. H. Freeman discussed the organizing problems. About 680
13 for problem.

procedures * at the International House (downtown). The review procedures will be
* including review procedures, size (number of papers or people), format,

proceedings * 15, proceedings 32, final program 10, anudi/visual 5, Keynotes 10,
* 4. Proceedings Packages for TC Members
* Boykin stated that the CS policy was that proceedings would be
* CS is discussing a proceedings package for TC members (at low
* no invited papers. The full list of reviewers was not in the proceedings as
* of the proceedings, Eric was told that any more would cost
* the proceedings on CD.
* theory/applied). Are separate tracks separate budgets, proceedings,
* was for 260. Posters were increased to 3 pages in the proceedings. A
9 for proceedings.

process * Howard Moraff (NSF) asked to maintain the high standards in the process.
* known until late in the process.
* Not giving the process enough time, and should wait. Three
* open up the process. But we are not keeping track of who comes and
* The selection was based on the results of the blind review process, with
* with the standard blind reviewing process. 28 of the 43 committee
6 for process.

processing * (AK:) should be sessions on Computer Vision and Image Processing and
* Motion: (Haralick) Specifically call out Image Processing and its subtopics
*

production * extra money for editing production, but not more pages. In January
* the production of all transactions was shifted from NJ (IEEE) to CA

proeedings * Q: Who takes the finiancial risk? Hope proeedings from IEEE, up

prof * in the fall of 1990 (October/November), with Prof. Nagao as the

professor * is gone by the time the paper is published and the professor does not

profit * CS gets to net profit (300K). ($24 for members, Libraries 900 of
* leaves. (Get 35% of profit of the conference only.) (AJ:) It is
* publish 300 library copies. Profit from PAMI is 300K goes to

profs * general chair, and Profs. Tsuji and Kak plus a third person (not yet

prog * Motion: That the program committee reconsider that the Prog Comm
* classification, stocastic, ...). One role of prog. comm. is to be

progchair * ProgChair, Bhanu as General Chair.

progcom * no one who is strong). Q: regarding who was on the ProgCom -- not

progcomm * (LShapiro) Comments on next progComm.

program * 15 meeting in Dallas of the program committee will choose the final
* 15, proceedings 32, final program 10, anudi/visual 5, Keynotes 10,
* 1992. (Bir Bhanu) Program committee of D. Dyer and M. Herman, J.
* Motion: That the program committee reconsider that the Prog Comm
* Aggarwal and A. Rosenfeld) on June 5. The program committee has 20
* amount of paper the program chair needs to handle and mail out.
* C Dyer/Ikeuchi program chair, Bhanu as general chair.
* charging for extra pages (money goes to program committee). Discuss
* control the program committee should have, whether it would lead to
* convey the intent of the TC to the program committee.
* delays in international delivery of programs, etc.
* final decisions by the program co-chairs (Tsuji, Olaf, and Kak), they
* for Saturday. Publicize the names of the program committee!
* from Europe as the program chairs. [Y. Shirai reported that the assignment
* from Japan). The program committee totals 34 people (3 program chairs,
* general chair/ Burt and Flinchbaugh as program chairs).
* Goldgof/Medioni program chair. (PC about 30 people).
* June 20-23 at MIT. Paper deadline Nov 15 1994 -- really. Program
* K. Bowyer and D. Goldgof (S. Tanimoto and L. Shapiro program chairs)
* Kender and Worthy Martin for the program, 327 papers submitted (90
* least one from the program committee. In the January Program Committee
* many of the current program committee members: hold ICCV-III in Japan,
* money so that most of the program committee can meet. The
* Motion: (W.E.L. Grimson) -- It is the responsibility of the program
* of either program chair or general chair to Nagao and Tsuji should
* papers submitted, 2 program committee reviewers, L. Davis, R. Jain and
* possible dates, co-chairs, and possible program committee members.
* pressures on the program chairs to add papers.
* Program Comm: 40; Office 22, Advance program 22, call for papers
* program committee, with a small intersection with the previous year, and
* program, it requires a comment on other submissions. The program
* program. Passed: Yes:22, No:4, Abstain:3.
* program. There is a possible Human-Computer Vision workshop on the
* similar to ICCV-2 (blind reviews, program committee, etc.), with the
* submitted and have been sent to the program committee for review, with
* the reviewers come from more than the program committee and that it need
* to the possible program committee list.
41 for program.

prohibition * prohibition on dual publications.)

projection * unknown number of these are students. The original budget projection

projects * J. Mundy discussed 2 projects in a Common IU environment sponsored by

promotion * ($14,700), membership promotion, newsletter, students, travel (to

proper * get the proper arrangement with IEEE. Fundamental issue is that we

properly * PR authors believe that their papers will be treated properly.

proposal * a. Annecy, France (near Grenoble) proposal: Mohr, Horaud, Crowley
* a. Beijing proposal: Ma, Huang, Faugeras, Ohta, A. Jain;
* b. Corfu, Greece proposal: Tsotsos, Zucker, Blake
* b. Tel Aviv proposal: Yeshurun, Shashua, Weinshall, Edelman;
* c. Singapore proposal: Mital, Aggarwal, Ullman, Kittler
* d. India proposal: Ahuja
* #12. Proposal for a second Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (Dyer).
* #13. Proposal for a 1995 Workshop on CV/Motion Analysis (Medioni,
* #14. CVPR96 Proposal (Bhanu). Proposal to have CVPR 1996 in
* #3. Governance issues: Proposal for 12 member board (Haralick)
* (Bob Haralick, Jake Aggarwal, T. Huang and Jack Sklansky). The proposal
* 1993 (see Tampa proposal above) and North East (NY area) 1993.
* Agenda item #6: Proposal for a workshop on three-dimensional structures
*

propose * Board meeting (next week) will propose that PAMI go to 12 issues and

proposed * A plan for Pennsylvania in 1994 was mentioned, and T. Henderson proposed
* Agenda item #12: Proposed Bylaws, postponed to the meeting at ICCV2, with
* In 1995 there is only 1 major conference, so proposed to have a CV
* in the date was proposed.
* J. Aloimonos (J. Aggarwal chair) proposed the NorthEast with industry
* proposed Tampa for June 1993.
* Proposed to create a short list of US members that attend CVPR,
* recommendation of the current chair. T. Huang will be proposed as the
8 for proposed.

proposers * [Later, after the proposers stated that December 1997 would be

provide * Linda: We do use some of the pieces, do we want to provide the
* them, how much to charge, what would they provide, what services would

provided * provided at cost (rather than sales prices) if they were available.

provision * page (with the provision that the excess page charge will be paid

prposal * covered the cost. The prposal is to have another on next year (CVPR

pstucki * Steering Committee: TSHuang, APentland, PStucki, sponsored by

psychology * outsiders (psychology mostly).

publication * (CS-Press), which has helped publication. There is a CS committee
* Agenda item #10: Transactions on PAMI (S. Tanimoto): At the Publications
* decision, 18 months for publication). The 6 months is mostly being met,
* Even though publications are separate from the TCs it may be possible
* prohibition on dual publications.)
* publication.
* publication. So an issue of who are the members so that business
* publications) showed that PAMI was the highest of all Transactions.
* the 18 is not. The current paper backlog for publication is 114 (about
* The CS has a paid staff of about 90 (most in publications areas),
10 for publication.

publicize * for Saturday. Publicize the names of the program committee!

publish * CVPR, etc., publish in the journal over the past 4 years.
* publish 300 library copies. Profit from PAMI is 300K goes to

published * is gone by the time the paper is published and the professor does not

publishers * within IEEE, and the low cost. Private publishers are happy to

puerto * (which is cheaper to stay and get to). Puerto Rico? (St Thomas is

pull * Can we take the journal? Threaten to pull out and see what happens.

purge * does a 5 year annual purge (or some such).

purpose * origin of CVPR from PRIP for the purpose to bring in Computer Vision

purposive * Considering a workshop on Purposive Vision (Aloimonos and Rosenfeld).

puts * Q: Last year, IEEE puts great restricctions on meetings and PAMI