Call for Workshop Proposals, ICCV 2005, Beijing

Call closes: Sunday 9 January 2005.
Acceptance notification: by Monday 28 February 2005.
E-mail proposals to: William.Triggs@inrialpes.fr.

The Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision will be held on Monday-Thursday 17-20 October 2005 at the Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China, with associated short courses and workshops held at the same venue on Saturday-Sunday 15-16 October 2005 and (workshops only) Friday 21 October 2005.

We are calling for proposals for topical high-quality international workshops associated with ICCV.

Proposers should note the following points:

• The workshop selection will be made by a committee consisting of the ICCV workshop, course and programme chairs. We aim to build a strong, well-balanced workshop programme that complements the main conference and the courses, and we will be taking an active role in assuring this. We are unlikely to accept more than a single proposal in any given thematic area. Proposals with significant thematic overlap may be encouraged to merge. If there are significant thematic gaps in the programme after proposal submission closes, we may actively solicit additional proposals.
• For simplicity, we have decided to require 'official' ICCV workshops to be held on-site at the main conference hotel under the ICCV passport system, on Saturday-Sunday 15-16 October 2005 or Friday 21 October 2005. Organisers who want something different are most welcome to organize their event separately, but it will not count as an official ICCV event and its organization, budget, room reservation, registration processing, etc, will have to be handled separately from ICCV's. This call is only for official ICCV workshops.
• The advantage of a passport system is that it gives attendees a broader choice, and simplifies life for many organisers in the sense that budget, workshop approval, registration processing, coffee breaks, etc, are all handled by the main conference. The disadvantage is that by its nature, it applies the same registration rates to all events, which in turn means that all events are limited to a similar level of registration-supported expenditure. (It would be unfair to expect some events to subsidise the expensive extras of others...) The ICCV passport system will cover only the following: the seminar room; basic A/V (video projector, screen, a sound system if the room requires it); and one coffee break per half day. (The timing of the breaks will also be coordinated among the participating workshops).
• In particular, the passport will not cover: proceedings; invited speakers; travel grants; meals or banquets. If you want any of these, you will have to find some means of financing them separately. The best way to do this is through external sponsorship, but it will also be possible (albeit less cost effective) to offer items like workshop proceedings or workshop banquet tickets as (strictly optional) extras on the ICCV registration site.

Submitting a proposal

Proposals should be sent to the ICCV 2005 Workshops Chair, Bill Triggs (William.Triggs@inrialpes.fr), by Sunday 9 January 2005. We hope to notify acceptances by 28 February 2005. The following information should be provided, either in the e-mail or on a proposed workshop website.

• Name and subject area
• Names, e-mails and home pages of the organizer(s)
• Proposed dates, times and duration
• Expected number of participants (also estimate minimum and maximum probable values for this)
• Expected numbers of submissions, and of acceptances and/or presentations (again estimate probable minimum and maximum values)
• Full description of the workshop: motivation; draft call for papers; names of proposed programme committee members; description of the format of the workshop (talks, posters, demos, invited speakers, etc); information about the reviewing process and standards; information about the proceedings or special issue if any; proposed dates for submission, acceptance notification and camera-ready copy.
• If this is one of a series of workshops: Where and when were the last two held (include URL's if possible)? Who organized them and how many submissions, acceptances, participants were there? How were the proceedings published? What indicators of success and continued interest and relevance are there?
• Are there any additional requirements beyond the basic room, A/V and breaks provided by the passport system? - If so, how will they be funded? - If by sponsorship, name the probable sponsors and amounts of support offered. If by optional purchases (e.g. of proceedings at registration), give a provisional costing for this based on expected numbers sold versus the cost of publication and shipping (include a 36% margin for the Computer Society's requested administration fee (14%), contingency (10%) and surplus (10% on top of these)).
• Do you wish to include material (e.g. workshop proceedings) on the ICCV CD-ROM? - If so, roughly how much disk space are you likely to need? The deadline for the final CD-ready copy is approximately 1 September 2005.