Welcome to the proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision!
Following a very successful ECCV 2002, the response to our call for papers
was almost equally strong – 555 papers were submitted. We accepted 41 papers
for oral and 149 papers for poster presentation.
Several innovations were introduced into the review process. First, the number
of program committee members was increased to reduce their review load.
We managed to assign to program committee members no more than 12 papers.
Second, we adopted a paper ranking system. Program committee members were
asked to rank all the papers assigned to them, even those that were reviewed
by additional reviewers. Third, we allowed authors to respond to the reviews
consolidated in a discussion involving the area chair and the reviewers. Fourth,
the reports, the reviews, and the responses were made available to the authors as
well as to the program committee members. Our aim was to provide the authors
with maximal feedback and to let the program committee members know how
authors reacted to their reviews and how their reviews were or were not reflected
in the final decision. Finally, we reduced the length of reviewed papers from 15
to 12 pages