Introduction

We need to write an introduction to our workshop.

Here is the introduction from last OMNIVIS 2011:

" In recent years, panoramic and omnidirectional sensors have been a key technology in the development of visual perception. Omnidirectional and panoramic sensors have found numerous applications in the robotics community, including localization, navigation, visual servoing, and enhanced situational awareness for autonomous or teleoperated systems. One of the foremost communities for advancing omnidirectional sensors is OMNIVIS, also known as the Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-Classical Cameras. This workshop will cover a wide range of topics including camera networks, non-classical sensors, camera calibration, structure-from-motion and SLAM. 

The workshop is open to both the computer vision community and the robotics community and hopes to build on the synergies that have developed between the two in the recent years."

I was thinking on adding new sensors such as RGB-D, arrays of this type of sensor could generate a depth panorama. As Joao pointed, lenslet cameras and  spherical mirrors have been used on the computational photography community could also be added. 

I went through the ICCP 13 program to find something related but unfortunately I couldn't find anything related. I need to check previous editions. Maybe we could find someone from that community to be a keynote speaker.

Let know what you think.

Possible speakers at OMNIVIS 2014

One of the most important things to have a successful workshop is the keynote speakers we are going to have. Here is a list of possible keynote speakers, I removed Davide since he agreed to organize the workshop with us.

Ramesh Raskar. He gave a nice talk at OMNIVIS 2011 with the video of the electrons and looking around the corners.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/

Srikumar Ramalingan. He organized the last OMNIVIS 2011 and working at Mitsubishi would be a nice way to show some industrial application of omnidirectional vision.
http://www.merl.com/people/?user=ramalingam 

Amit Agrawal. Working on similar topics as Srikumar, both gave a tutorial on "Multi-View Geometry and Computational Photography using Non-Classical Cameras" at ECCV 2012. http://www.merl.com/people/?user=agrawal

Joao Barreto.Working on his project of RDFixer, could be a nice talk on applications.
http://www2.isr.uc.pt/~jpbar/

Jingyi Yu. Organized the last OMNIVIS at ICCV 2011

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~yu/

Jana Kosecka. She has publications on panoraminc  images.
http://cs.gmu.edu/~kosecka/

Pascal Vasseur. He has worked a lot on omnidirectional images. Unfortunately I can't find his website. A recent paper of his http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10846-012-9752-z