Workshop/Tutorial/Competition: Computational Symmetry in Computer Vision

人类、动物和昆虫有一种与生俱来的感知和利用对称性的能力，这是一种普遍存在的现象，在自然和人造环境中以各种形式和规模呈现出来。虽然我们对重复模式的理解被对称性和群论的数学概念所概括，但在机器智能和计算机视觉中，对对称性的感知和识别还没有得到充分的探索，而且目前几乎没有有效的计算方法。为了响应视觉社区对计算对称性重新燃起的兴趣，这一及时而独特的研讨会/教程/竞赛被组织起来，以研究这一潜在的强大的中级工具。活动包括三个主要部分：(1)由全球著名演讲者小组介绍的关于对称的重要性和持久影响的多学科观点；(2)数学理论、最新算法和各种应用(成功和失败)的详细总结；以及(3)对称检测算法竞赛的算法和结果，由基准对称检测算法竞赛的前三名选手介绍。计算机视觉研究人员，特别是研究生，有望在这次活动中积极参与，扩大所有参与者对对称的理解和欣赏，并对他们的研究和计算对称工具的使用产生尖锐和持久的影响。在讲习班之前建立了一个网站，介绍讲习班/教程、竞赛过程和最终结果，并在讲习班结束后对其进行扩充，供公众查阅。

Humans, animals and insects have an innate ability to perceive and take advantage of symmetry, which is a pervasive phenomenon presenting itself in all forms and scales in natural and man-made environments. Although our understanding of repeated patterns is generalized by the mathematical concept of symmetries and group theory, perception and recognition of symmetry has yet to be fully explored in machine intelligence and computer vision, and few effective computational methods are available today. In response to a resurging interest in computational symmetry with the vision community, this timely and unique workshop/tutorial/competition is organized to investigate this potentially powerful intermediate level tool.The event has three main parts:(1) a multidisciplinary perspective on the importance and lasting impact of symmetry, presented by a worldwide group of distinguished speakers;(2) a detailed summary of the mathematical theory, state of the art algorithms and a diverse set of applications (successes and failures); and(3) the algorithms and the outcome of the symmetry detection competition, presented by the top three performers on the benchmarked symmetry detection algorithm competition.Active participations by computer vision researchers, especially graduate students, in this event are expected, leading to broadened understanding and appreciation of symmetry in all participants, as well as an acute and lasting impact to their research and their use of computational symmetry tools. A website with the content of the workshop/tutorial, the competition process and final results is set up before and augmented after the workshop, for public access.