3D Object Retrieval Workshop (3DOR) 2015
Co-located event with Eurographics 2015
Do you remember the days when retrieving the data that you needed from the internet was a matter of visiting sites your friends knew? The days when you would try out alternative search engines to find a single result? Was it a coincidence that text retrieval engines flourished with the explosion of textual information on the internet that could not be manually explored?
A new wave of information is now underway. Low-cost 3D scanners and 3D printers combined with popular applications of Computer Graphics and Vision are making 3D object models appeal to an increasing audience. See for example repositories such as http://shapes.aimatshape.net/ , https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/.
As these 3D object collections are growing, the importance of effective retrieval, search and exploration is increasing. Because it is easier to find something than to create it from scratch and because manual browsing quickly becomes intractable as a collection grows.
To this effect it is crucial to develop algorithms for the content-based searching of 3D object collections; creating compact and accurate descriptors for 3D objects; indexing 3D objects; creating efficient storage structures for data bases of 3D objects; investigating theoretical aspects of practical importance such as what it means for two shapes to be similar; interfaces for content-based 3D object search; visualization techniques for 3D search results; real time aspects of techniques and algorithms. Many fields of Computer Science and beyond can offer their valuable knowledge to this complex but highly interesting and practical problem.
The aim of the 3DOR Workshop series is to stimulate researchers from different fields such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction who work on or are interested in 3D object retrieval search and exploration, to present state-of-the-art work in the field or learn about it and participate in discussions. This will provide a cross-fertilization that will stimulate discussions on the next steps in this important research area. 3DOR 2015 will be the 8th workshop in this series.
3DOR 2015 will be a 2-day event for the first time and will contain the following tracks: research papers, posters, 2 keynote speeches (NEW!), EU project presentations and networking (NEW!), industrial session (NEW!).
Previous 3DOR Workshops
3DOR has been running continuously since 2008.
Eurographics 2014 Workshop on 3DOR, April 6, 2014, Strasbourg, France
Eurographics 2013 Workshop on 3DOR, May 11, 2013, Girona, Spain
Eurographics 2012 Workshop on 3DOR, May 13, 2012, Cagliari, Italy
Eurographics 2011 Workshop on 3DOR, April 10, 2011, Llandudno, UK
Eurographics 2010 Workshop on 3DOR, May 2, 2010, Norrkoping, Sweden
Eurographics 2009 Workshop on 3DOR, March 29,2009, Munich, Germany
Eurographics 2008 Workshop on 3DOR, April 15, 2008, Crete, Greece
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Philipp Slusallek is Scientific Director at the German Research Center
for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), where he heads the research area
“Agents and Simulated Reality” since 2008. He is also Director for
Research at the "Intel Visual Computing Institute”, a central research
institute at Saarland University founded in 2009 in collaboration with
Intel, DFKI, and the two local Max-Planck-Institutes. At Saarland
University he has been a professor for Computer Graphics since 1999 and
a Principle Investigator at the German Excellence-Cluster on “Multimodal
Computing and Interaction” since 2007. Before coming to Saarland
University, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford
University, USA. He studied physics in Frankfurt and Tübingen
(Diploma/M.Sc.) and got his PhD in Computer Science from Erlangen
University. His research interests are focused on novel service-oriented
architectures for 3D-Internet technology, integrating research in areas
such as real-time realistic graphics, artificial intelligence,
high-performance computing as well as security by design for creating
distributed, immersive, collaborative environments for simulation,
analysis, visualization, and training.
Niloy J. Mitra leads the Smart Geometry Processing group at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). He received his PhD degree and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include shape understanding, fabrication-aware design, geometric modeling, and more generally in computer graphics. He received the ACM Siggraph Significant New Researcher Award in 2013 and the BCS Roger Needham Award in 2015.
