Call For Papers (Extended): The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08), USA, July 2008

Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008

              C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
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  The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing,
          Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
                        IPCV'08

  Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University,
MIT, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas
at Austin, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University,
University of North Dakota, PSU/Saudi, Russian Academy of Sciences,
European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics, and others
(see below).  Corporate sponsors include Google, Salford Systems,
and NIIT.

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration.  All accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

IPCV'08 will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008.  The
conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates)
with WORLDCOMP'08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

  O  Motion and tracking algorithms and applications
  O  Software tools for imaging
  O  Image-based modeling and algorithms
  O  Illumination and reflectance modeling
  O  Biometric authentication
  O  Event recognition techniques in image sequences
  O  Medical image processing and analysis
  O  Image geometry and multi-view geometry
  O  Segmentation techniques
  O  Geometric modeling and fractals
  O  Scene and object modeling
  O  Image data structures and databases
  O  Image compression, coding, and encryption
  O  Image display techniques
  O  Digital imaging for film and television
  O  Image formation techniques
  O  Image generation, acquisition, and processing
  O  Image feature extraction
  O  Novel document image understanding techniques + OCR
  O  Enhancement techniques
  O  Novel noise reduction algorithms
  O  Mathematical morphology
  O  3D imaging
  O  Watermarking methods and protection
  O  Wavelet methods
  O  Mosaic, image registration and fusion methods
  O  Color and texture
  O  Image restoration
  O  Printing technologies
  O  Interpolation techniques
  O  Shape representation
  O  Video analysis
  O  Indexing and retrieval of images (image databases)
  O  Signal and speech processing
     ------
  O  Object recognition
  O  Multi-resolution vision techniques
  O  Face and gesture
  O  Stereo vision
  O  Soft computing methods in image processing and vision
  O  Machine learning technologies for vision
  O  Performance analysis and evaluation (real-time vision)
  O  Camera networks and vision
  O  Sensors and early vision
  O  Active and robot vision
  O  Cognitive and biologically inspired vision
  O  Fuzzy and neural techniques in vision
  O  Graph theory in image processing and vision
  O  Special-purpose machine architectures for vision
     ------
  O  Dimensionality reduction methods in pattern recognition
  O  Classification and clustering techniques
  O  Symbolic learning
  O  Statistical pattern recognition
  O  Invariance in pattern recognition
  O  Knowledge-based recognition
  O  Structural and syntactic pattern recognition
  O  Applications including: security, medicine, robotic, GIS,
     remote sensing, industrial inspection, nondestructive
     evaluation (or NDE), ...
  O  Case studies
  O  Emerging technologies

     ------
  O  Multimedia Systems and Applications:
     - Media blending technologies
     - Multimedia retrieval methods
     - Multimedia documents and authoring
     - Coding and compression techniques
     - Annotation and visualization
     - Multimedia databases and archival systems
     - Video surveillance and sensor networks
     - Content analysis and data mining
     - User interface challenges
     - Operating system support for multimedia systems
     - Network architectures and protocols
     - Content protection methods
     - Synchronization (inter-media and intra-media) technologies
     - Security and privacy
     - Capture and sensor systems (embedded, multi-sensors, ...)
     - Multimedia processing techniques (audio, image, video, ...)
     - Data storage and management
     - Server design issues for multimedia systems
     - Distributed multimedia
     - Multimedia programming
     - Multimedia interface design
     - Multimedia computing
     - Interactive multimedia applications
     - Benchmarking systems
     - Interactive television (video-on-demand, home shopping, voting,
and games)
     - Hypermedia systems
     - Video conferencing and groupware
     - Fundamentals of human perception
     - Audio and music processing for multimedia
     - Multimedia tools
     - Multimedia and education
     - Real world applications and emerging technologies

Web site of IPCV'08:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/ip...
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

   IPCV'08 is part of WORLDCOMP'08.  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
   gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
   and applied computing; it is composed of a number of joint
conferences.
   Many of these joint conferences are the premier conferences for
   presentation of advances in their respective fields.  We anticipate
   to have over 2,600 attendees from over 80 countries participating
in
   the 2008 event.  IPCV'08 will be composed of research
presentations,
   keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions,
   and poster presentations.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
   (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
   Prof. H. R. Arabnia by March 10, 2008 (h...@cs.uga.edu). email
   submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All
reasonable
   typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
   papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
   to prepare their papers for publication.)

   The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to
   7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
published
   or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page
of
   the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
   postal address, and email address of each author as well as the
name
   of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, IPCV'08).
   The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
   and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
   content of the paper.

   Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
   independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
   evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
   committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the
track.
   The track chairs will make the final decision.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   March 10, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
   April 7, 2008:     Notification of acceptance
   April 28, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
   July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on
                      Image Processing, Computer Vision, and
                      Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08)

GENERAL CO-CHAIR / COORDINATOR:

   Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
   Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
   Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
   The University of Georgia
   Department of Computer Science
   415 Graduate Studies Research Center
   Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

   Tel: (706) 542-3480
   Fax: (706) 542-2966
   E-mail: h...@cs.uga.edu

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

   IPCV will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada,
   USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is a mega
   hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
   It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and
   from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational attractions,
   including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool,
   lighted tennis courts, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, ...
   The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
reasonable.
   The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions.

MULTICONFERENCE SPONSORS (this is a partial list):

   Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   -->  Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   -->  International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
   -->  Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA
   -->  Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota,
USA
   -->  Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
        Urbana-Champaign, USA
   -->  BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia
Institute
        of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   -->  Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory,
University
        of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
   -->  Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University
and
        MIT, USA
   -->  Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
        Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   -->  Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   -->  Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
        College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
   -->  Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
        University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
   -->  The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
   -->  PSU - Prince Sultan University
   -->  Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
   -->  NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
        Geometry, TU Vienna

Corporate Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   -->  Google, Inc.
   -->  Salford Systems
   -->  NIIT Technologies

Other Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   -->  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
   -->  International Technology Institute (ITI)
   -->  GridToday - enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization,
        Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT
   -->  HPCwire - The Leading Source for Global News and Information
        Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing
   -->  Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK