The 2nd International Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing,
SMVP 2004, was held in Prague, Czech Republic, as an associated workshop of
ECCV 2004, the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision.
A total of 30 papers were submitted to the workshop. Of these, 17 papers
were accepted for presentation and included in these proceedings, following a
double-blind review process. The workshop had 42 registered participants.
The focus of the meeting was on recent progress in the application of advanced
statistical methods to solve computer vision tasks. The one-day scientific
program covered areas of high interest in vision research, such as dense reconstruction
of 3D scenes, multibody motion segmentation, 3D shape inference,
errors-in-variables estimation, probabilistic tracking, information fusion, optical
flow computation, learning for nonstationary video data, novelty detection in dynamic
backgrounds, background modeling, grouping using feature uncertainty,
and crowd segmentation from video.