2015 Western New York Image and Signal Processing
Workshop
The workshop, building off of 17 successful years of the Western New York Image Processing Workshop (WNYIPW), is sponsored by the Rochester chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society with technical cooperation from the Rochester chapter of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
The workshop will be held on Friday, December 4, 2015, in Louise Slaughter Hall (Building SLA/078) at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.
Parking Instructions
Any non-RIT attendees are allowed to park in either Lot T or
the Global Village Lot and then walk to Louise Slaughter
Hall (SLA Building). See the campus
map with parking information. Non-RIT visitors will
need a parking pass; a pass can be requested by emailing here or by
stopping at the Welcome Center on the day of the Workshop.Important Dates
| Submission of camera-ready paper: | November 30, 2015 |
| Workshop: |
December 4, 2015 |
Workshop Schedule
8:30 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast, Registration, and Welcome
9:00 - 10:40 AM: Oral Session I
9:00 - Giving Independence Back to the Elderly and
Physically Disabled
Kyle
Wieszchowski, Rochester Institute of Technology
Amar Bhatt, Rochester Institute of
Technology
Michael Dushkoff, Rochester Institute
of Technology
Samuel Echefu, Rochester Institute of
Technology
Raymond Ptucha,
Rochester Institute of Technology
9:25 - Morphology Based Framework for Improved Roadway
Visibility in Inclement Weather Conditions
Saleem Hussein,
Western Michigan University
Ikhlas Abdel-Oader, Western
Michigan University
Osama Abudayyeh, Western
Michigan University
9:50 - 2D/3D Calibration Method for Eye-Tracking Data in
Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display
Kamran Binee,
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rakshit Kothari, Rochester Institute
of Technology
Flip Phillips, Skidmore College
Gabriel Diaz, Rochester Institute of
Technology
10:15 - RITSAR: A SAR Image Processing Toolbox for Python
Douglas Macdonald,
Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael Gartley, Rochester Institute
of Technology
10:40 - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 PM: Plenary Talk
Visual Question Answering (VQA) (and other diverse
musings)
Dr. Dhruv
Batra, Bradley Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
12:00 - 2:00 PM: Lunch + Oral
Session II (Oral Session starts at 12:45)
12:45 - Deep Learning for Keypoints Detection in
Unconstrained Face Imagery
Neeti Narayan,
University at Buffalo
Venu
Govindaraju, University at Buffalo
1:10 - A Feed-Forward Neural Network for Real-Time
Calibration of X-Ray Detectors
M. S. Hromalk,
SUNY Oswego, Cornell University
B. Paretzky, SUNY Oswego
H. T. Philipp, Cornell University
K. S. Shank, Cornell
University
M. W. Tate, Cornell
University
S. M. Gruner, Cornell
University
1:35 - Neural Networks with Manifold Learning for Diabetic
Retinopathy Detection
Arjun
Raj Rajanna, Rochester Institute of Technology
Kamelia Aryafar, Drexel University
Rajeev Ramachandran, University of
Rochester
Christye Sisson, Rochester Institute
of Technology
Ali Shokoufandeh, Drexel University
Raymond Ptucha, Rochester Institute
of Technology
2:00 - 3:00 PM: Plenary
Talk
Diffuse Optical and Correlation Tomography for Monitoring
Treatments for Bone Graft and Breast Cancer
Dr.
Regine Choe, Department of
Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester
3:00 - 3:15 PM: Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:05 PM: Oral Session III
Yehuda Ben-Zikri, Rochester Institute of Technology
Maria Helguera, Rochester Institute of Technology
David Fetzer, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Cristian Linte, Rochester Institute of Technology
Nathan Cahill, Rochester Institute of Technology
3:40 - Study and Implementation of Several Image Denoising Techniques
Sujoy Chakraborty, Binghamton University
Mark Fowler, Binghamton University
4:05 - 4:30 PM: Awards and Closing Remarks
Registration
Registration is currently available online here. Onsite registration will be also available, with onsite registration fees payable by cash or check. Fees enable attendance to all sessions and include lunch. Registration fees are:- General Registration: $50 (with online registration by
11/19), $60 (online after 11/19 or onsite)
- Student Registration: $30 (with online registration by 11/19), $40 (online after 11/19 or onsite)
- IEEE or IS&T Membership: $30 (with online registration by 11/19), $40 (online after 11/19 or onsite)
- IEEE or IS&T Student Membership: $20 (with online registration by 11/19), $30 (online after 11/19 or onsite)
Camera-Ready Paper Submission
Authors of accepted papers must submit a camera-ready paper
here: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WNYISPW2015/
Authors should use the same formatting/templates described in the ICIP 2015 Paper Kit.
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Past WNYIPW and WNYISPW proceedings can be found here:
At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to give an oral or poster presentation. Failure to present the paper will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from being published in the proceedings.
Awards
To encourage student participation, a best student paper
award will be given. Organizing Committee
- Ziya Arnavut, SUNY Fredonia
- Nathan Cahill, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Edgar Bernal, Xerox Corporation
- Zhiyao Duan, University of Rochester
- Behnaz Ghoraani, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Paul Lee, University of Rochester
- Cristian Linte, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Michel Molaire, Molaire Consulting LLC
- David Odgers, Odgers Imaging
- Raymond Ptucha, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Beilei Xu, Xerox Corporation