RLQ@ICCV'21

Zoom link to participate in the workshop is here . The workshop will be recorded and the talks will be available online after the workshop. Check our YouTube Recordings for RLQ 2020 @ ECCV.

Introduction

How is the robustness of the current state-of-the-art for recognition and detection algorithms in non-ideal visual environments? While the visual recognition research has made tremendous progress in recent years, most models are trained, applied, and evaluated on high-quality (HQ) visual data. However, in many emerging applications such as robotics and autonomous driving, the performances of visual sensing and analytics are largely jeopardized by low-quality(LQ) visual data acquired from unconstrained environments, suffering from various types of degradation such as low resolution, noise, occlusion, motion blur, contrast, brightness, sharpness, out-of-focus etc. We are organizing the 3rd RLQ workshop in conjunction with ICCV 2021 to provide an integrated forum for both low-level and high-level vision researchers to review the recent progress of robust recognition models from LQ visual data and the novel image restoration algorithms. You could contribute to our workshop in three aspects:

For inquiry, please send emails to one of the following addresses:

General Inquiry: Humphrey Shi shihonghui3@gmail.com

INVITED SPEAKERS

Michael S. Ryoo SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor, Stony Brook University

Xiaoming Liu MSU Foundation Professor, Michigan State University

Wanli Ouyang Associate Professor, University of Sydney

Jean-François Lalonde Associate Professor, Université Laval, Canada

Important Dates

Description	Date
Paper Submission Deadline	8 Aug 2021 (23:59 PDT)
Notification to Authors	15 Aug 2021 (23:59 PDT)
Camera-Ready Deadline	17 Aug 2021 (23:59 PDT)
Workshop Presentation	17 Oct 2021 (11:00 - 15:00 EST)

Call for papers

We embrace the most advanced deep learning systems, meanwhile being open to classical physically grounded models and feature engineering, as well as any well-motivated combination of the two streams. We will solicit papers from but not limited to the following topics:

Robust recognition and detection from images with low-resolution, high noise, or other real-world unconstrained environment conditions and artificial degradation;
Robust recognition and detection from videos with motion blur, low-resolution, high noise, or other real-world unconstrained environment conditions and artificial degradation;
Low-quality (LQ) image and video enhancement including denoising, de-blurring, super-resolution etc., especially for recognition purpose;
Human parsing, activity analysis, and action recognition at long distance; Crowd counting;
Surveys of algorithms and applications with LQ inputs;
Datasets for low-resolution vision and/or analyses of existing methods;
Low-quality data pre-processing methods for inter-disciplinary research like Psychology, cognitive science, and human computer interaction;
Legal, privacy and ethics discussions and methods in recognition research;

Submitted paper will go through a double-blind peer-reviewed process, and the accepted papers will appear in the ICCV Workshop Proceedings. All submissions should follow the requirement of ICCV main conference in terms of format and length.

We will select Best Papers from accepted papers this year with potential monetary prizes for the winners. In addtion, we will support authors in need for ICCV registration etc.