The TWK programme consists of three symposia with invited speakers, an evening lecture by Prof. Dr. Dirk Vorberg, and poster presentations. The complete programme can be downloaded as a PDF file here.

Friday 25th February 2005

14:00 Registration and hanging of posters
14:55 Welcome
Symposium 1: Analysis by Synthesis Methods in Computer Vision and Perception
(Andreas Schilling, Universität Tübingen)

Symposium to be conducted in English
15:00 Introduction to Analysis by Synthesis Methods
Andreas Schilling (University of Tübingen)
15:10 Active Appearance Models and Analysis by Synthesis
Tim Cootes (University of Manchester)
15:40 Analysis by Synthesis for Human Pose Tracking: Merging View-Based and Model-Based Approaches
Cris Curio (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
16:10 Model-Based Interface Quality 3D Hand-Tracking
Ferenc Kahlesz (University of Bonn)
16:40 Coffee break
17:10 Modeling Issues in Visual Tracking and Servoing
Danica Kragic (Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm)
17:40 Analysis of Video Streams in Driver Assistance Systems - the Role of Prediction
Uwe Franke (Daimler-Chrysler Research)
18:10 Analysis by Synthesis in 3d-Reconstruction from Images
Reinhard Koch (University of Kiel)

Saturday 26th February 2005

Symposium 2: Mid- and High-level Motion Analysis - From Image Features to Behavior
(Martin Giese and Heiko Neumann, Universität Tübingen, Universität Ulm)

Symposium to be conducted in English
09:00 Mid- and High-Level Motion Analysis - From Image Features to Behavior
Martin A. Giese (University Clinic Tübingen) & Heiko Neumann (University of Ulm)
09:10 Features, Apertures and Occlusions: Determining Coherent Motion
Heiko Neumann (University of Ulm)
09:40 Attention and Motion -- Neural Mechanisms of Spatial and Feature-Based Influences
Stefan Treue, Julio Martinez-Trujillo & Thilo Womelsdorf (German Primate Center Göttingen)
10:10 Coffee break
10:40 Contrast Effects Between Concurrently Perceiveing and Producing Events
Marc Grosjean (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, München)
11:10 Cognition in Motion: Do we Represent Change-Over-Time?
Ian M. Thornton (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
11:40 Learning as Basis for the Visual Recognition of Actions
Martin A. Giese (University Clinic Tübingen)
12:10 Lunch break

Poster sessions
The posters will be divided into 4 groups. The authors should be present at their poster at least during the time allocated to their group as follows. The poster boards will be marked to indicate which group the poster is in. Note that we have extended the poster session to allow more time at the posters.
13:20 Group A
14:40 Group B
16:00 Group C
17:20 Group D
18:50 Poster prize to be awarded

Public evening lecture (to be given in German)
19:00 Unbewusste Wahrnehmung: Probleme, Befunde, Grenzen
Dirk Vorberg (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
20:15 Banquet in the Tübinger Kelter
NB: places are limited. Tickets may be reserved during online registration, and any remaining tickets will be sold at the registration desk.

Sunday 27th February 2005

Symposium 3: Face Processing of Familiar Faces
(Claus-Christian Carbon, Universität Wien)

Symposium to be conducted in English
09:00 Face Processing of Familiar Faces
Claus-Christian Carbon (University of Vienna)
09:10 Fame or Fake? Critical Information Needed for Decisions on Facial Veridicality
Claus-Christian Carbon (University of Vienna)
09:40 Component, Configural and Temporal Routes in View-Based Face Recognition
Adrian Schwaninger (University of Zürich & MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen), Christian Wallraven (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen) & Heinrich H. Bülthoff (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
10:10 Neural Representations of Faces
Stefan Schweinberger (University of Glasgow)
10:40 Coffee break
11:10 The Early Repetition Effect: Reliability and Methodological Influences
Grit Herzmann (Humboldt University Berlin)
11:40 Congenital Prosopagnosia: A Selective Impairment as a Means to Probe Current Theories of Face Processing
Andreas Lueschow (Charité-University-Medicine Berlin)
12:10 Development of Face Recognition: how Important is Social Information?
Cornelia Groß & Gudrun Schwarzer (University of Gießen)

12:40 Closing discussion, removal of posters, end of conference