It is our pleasure to present these Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop
on Motion and Video Computation. The proceedings consist of 31 papers, 18 oral
presentations and 13 poster presentations. Professor Mubarak Shah, Professor Allen
Hanson, and Dr. Zhengyou Zhang exercised great care in the review of submitted
manuscripts with the help of a cadre of well qualified reviewers. The program also
includes two invited presentations by Professors Takeo Kanade and Thomas Huang.
This workshop follows the two earlier workshops in Austin (Motion of Non-Rigid and
Articulated Objects in 1994 and Human Motion (HUMO) in 2000). There have been
several other workshops on Human Motion including those in Puerto Rico (Non-rigid and
Articulated Motion 1997), Orlando, Florida (Motion and Video Computation 2002), and
Brackenridge, Colorado (Motion and Video Computation 2005) as well as a number of
other workshops on human motion including those on surveillance, in conjunction with
other major conferences, and articulated motion and deformable objects in Spain. These
and earlier workshops have contributed to the evolution of motion research. The study of
motion, and in particular human motion, is a fascinating subject and it is beginning to pay
dividends in the form of products and applications.
We hope that the workshop papers capture the ongoing research and indicate the future
direction of the research. We wish to express our appreciation to the authors who
submitted papers to the workshop, program co-chairman Mubarak Shah, Allen Hanson,
Zhengyou Zhang, and the program committee who reviewed the papers in a very short
time. Local arrangements and administrative assistance was provided by Ms. Selina
Keilani. Finally, we wish to thank the participants for their interest and support.
J.K. Aggarwal
N. Ahuja
T. Huang
Workshop General Chairmen