Recognizing materials, objects and scenes is one of the most useful functions of vision. Understanding this ability in humans, and reproducing it in machines is a grand challenges for scientists, mathematicians and engineers. We will focus on the computational and statistical foundations of visual recognition. The program will be organized around special topics including: machine learning and statistical models, the role of context and language, recognition of human activities, features, shape matching, the structure and functional role of hierarchies and taxonomies. Sessions will include surveys and critiques of existing approaches in addition to presentations of the latest research results. Poster sessions will give all workshop participants to present their research. Confirmed speakers: Amit, Freeman, Geman, Grill-Spector, Harrison, Huttenlocher, Lowe, Malik, Mumford, Perona, Schmid, Ullman, Younes. Workshop Schedule All sessions will be held in the Second Floor lecture Hall. Daily Schedule 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Teas will be served at 10:30-11:00 AM and 3:00-3:30 PM daily. Monday, March 21 9:30AM - Features: +Lowe, Lazebnik, Schmid 2PM - P. Perona (overview), Student talks: P. Moreels, A. Ferencz, A. Holub, other... Tuesday, March 22 9AM - Stochastic models & learning I: Y. Amit, *D. Geman, D. Huttenlocher, L Younes 2PM - Stochastic models & learning II: *Jordan, Freeman, Zisserman, Zhu Wednesday, March 23 9AM - Images, context: +W. Freeman, E. Sudderth, A. Efros, J. Buhmann(?) 2PM - Shape and correspondence: +Mumford, L. Younes(?), *Malik Thursday, March 24 9AM - Hierarchical approaches, language: K. Grill-Spector, S. Ullman, *Y. Amit, C. Manning 2PM - Hiearchical approaches: M. Harrison, D. Geman, Y. Le Cun 4:45PM - Posters & short talks (15’ each) Friday, March 25 9AM - Looking at people: +Malik, Perona, Soatto, Viola PM - OPEN +Overview * Discussant Lodging: Rooms for this workshop are being held at the Hotel Durant at the rate of $118+tax/night. To make reservations, send and e-mail, referencing code "J80000", to: reservations@hoteldurant.com. The cut-off date for reservations is February 18th, 2005. For alternative, short-term accommodations click here.