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Virtual Earth and Location Summit 2008

April 30 – May 1, 2008
Building 99, Lecture Room 1919
Redmond, Washington





Agenda


Wednesday, April 30, 2008

10:00 AM-10:15 AM

Welcome - Overview of the Summit
Gur Kimchi, Virtual Earth; Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

One Minute Introductions

11:45 AM-12:30 AM

Photosynth - The Beauty of Photography, The Science of Place and Space
Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Microsoft Live Labs

12:30 AM-2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM-2:30 PM

Efficient Image Correspondence and Indexing Methods for Urban Scene and Object
Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin, US
Trevor Darrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Enhancement of Photographs Using Virtual Earth
Johannes Kopf, Oliver Deussen, University of Kontanz, Germany

3:00 PM-3:30 PM

City Capture
Frank Dellaert, Georgia Institute of Technology US
Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology, US

3:30 PM-4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM-4:30 PM

Local Search for Hotel and Restaurants Using Econometrics Spatial Data and Image Classification
Panagiotis Ipeirotis, New York University, US
Anindya Ghose, New York University, US

4:30 PM-5:00 PM

A New View on NEWS
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, US

5:00 PM-5:30 PM

The Geospatial Data Challenge for the 3D Web
Wolfgang Walcher Microsoft Virtual Earth

5:30 PM-6:30 PM

Day 1 Wrap Up
Bus Pick up at Microsoft Research

7:00 PM

Dinner at Yarrow Bay Grill, Bayshore Room, Kirkland

 


 


Thursday, May 1, 2008

 

9:00 AM-9:30 AM

Towards Reconstructing the World from Photos
on the Internet

Steven Seitz, University of Washington US
Brian Curless, University of Washington, US

9:30 AM-10:00 AM

On Testing Non-Testable Information Retrieval Systems with Geographic Components on the Web
Zhi Quan Zhou, University of Wollongong, Australia
T.H. Tse, The University of Hong Kong, China
Kai-Yuan Cai, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
F.C. Kuo, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

10:00 AM-10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM-10:40 AM

Virtual Earth 3D Cities V.2
Steve Stanzel, Microsoft Virtual Earth

10:40 AM-10:50 AM

The Facility Map Framework Research Project
Steve Shafer, Microsoft Research

10:50 AM-11:00 AM

Virtual Earth 3D Control: Current Status and Future Plans
Duncan Lawler, Microsoft Virtual Earth

11:00 AM-11:10 AM

The 10 Best, 3rd Party Virtual Earth Applications
Roger Mall, Microsoft Virtual Earth

11:10 AM-11:20 AM

Is Spatial Special
Vincent Tao, Microsoft Virtual Earth

11:20 AM-12:30 PM

Lunch

12:30 PM-1:00 PM

Looking through the WorldWide Telescope
Jonathan Fay, Microsoft Research

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Demo and Poster Session (details here)

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Integrating Online Maps with Aerial Imagery
Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California, US

3:00 PM-3:30 PM

Semantic Enrichment of Street Side Imagery
Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria

3:30 PM-4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM-4:20 PM

Legal Implications of Who + What + Where + When?
Willie Callison, Michael Brick, Microsoft

4:20 PM-4:30 PM

POI Discovery and Driver Turn Prediction
John Krumm, Microsoft Research

4:30 PM-4:40 PM

User Contributed Geo-Content
Steve Lombardi, Microsoft Virtual Earth

4:40 PM-4:50 PM

Interactive 3D Building Modeling
Drew Steedly, Microsoft Live Labs

4:50 PM-5:00 PM

Summit Wrap Up

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Closing Reception

 

 

   
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