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The program for ACIVS 2005 is now available at
http://acivs.org/acivs2005/Program.php
You can register for the conference at
http://acivs.org/acivs2005/register.php
>From a total of 200 papers, 91 have been scheduled for oral or poster
presentation. Acivs 2005 features the following invited speakers (see
below for details):
Fernando Pereira, Rafael Molina, Marc Op de Beeck.
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Acivs 2005
Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
Sept 20-23, 2005
University of Antwerp, Belgium
http://acivs.org/acivs2005/
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag)
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Sponsored by:
Eurasip, IEEE Benelux Signal Processing, DSP Valley, Philips, Barco, IPS
Acivs 2005 is a conference focusing on techniques for building adaptive,
intelligent, safe and secure imaging systems. Acivs 2005 will consist of
four days of lecture sessions, both regular (25 mns) and invited
presentations, and poster sessions. The proceedings will be published by
Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
The conference fee (350 EUR for IEEE-members, Eurasip-members and students
and 430 EUR for other participants) includes the social program
(conference dinner, welcoming and closing reception, touristic visit of
Antwerp by tram, coffee breaks, snacks and cultural activities) and a
hard-copy of the LNCS conference proceedings. Students, IEEE and Eurasip
members can register at a reduced fee.
Invited speakers
Acivs 2005 will feature the following invited talks:
* Fernando Pereira (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal):
"Processing Challenges in Intelligent Video Adaptation"
* Rafael Molina (Universidad de Granada, Spain):
"High Resolution Images from a Sequence of low Resolution
Observations. A Bayesian perspective"
* Marc Op de Beeck (Philips research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands):
"A system approach towards 3D-in-the-box"
Topics
Some of the topics covered by this year's conference are:
* Noise reduction and filtering of images and video
* Image analysis, feature extraction and classification
* Object tracking and motion estimation in video sequences
* Image and video coding
* Image and video segmentation
* Biometrics
* ...
Venue
The conference will take place in the Building G, Middelheim campus,
University of Antwerp, Belgium on Sept 20-23, 2005. The venue can be
easily reached from Antwerp Airport - Deurne or by train from
Brussels main airport.
Conference proceedings
The proceedings of Acivs 2005 will be published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. LNCS is published, in
parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic form via Springer
Verlags internet platform (http://www.springerlink.com).
Steering Committee
Jacques Blanc-Talon, DGA/DCE/CTA, Arcueil, France.
Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia.
Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Program committee
Fritz Albregtsen University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Philippe Bolon University of Savoie, Annecy, France
Don Bone Mediaware Solutions, Canberra, ACT, Australia
David Clausi University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Jean-Pierre Cocquerez UTC, Compiegne, France
Pamela Cosman University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Mihai Datcu German Aerospace Center DLR, Wessling, Germany
Jennifer Davidson Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Christine Fernandez Universite de Poitiers, Chasseneuil, France
Jan Flusser Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
Don Fraser University of NSW, Canberra, Australia
Georgy Gimel'farb The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Daniele Giusto University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Christine Guillemot IRISA, Rennes, France
Fred Hamprecht Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany
John Illingworth University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Jean-Michel Jolion INSA, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Andrzej Kasinski University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
Ashraf Kassim National University, Singapore
Nahum Kiryati Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Richard Kleihorst Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Ullrich Koethe University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Murat Kunt EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hideo Kuroda Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
Kenneth Lam Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Bruce Litow James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
Brian Lovell The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Pierre Moulin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Mads Nielsen IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Edgard Nyssen Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Marcin Paprzycki Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, USA
Jussi Parkkinen University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland
Fernando Pereira Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu ENST, Paris, France
Matti Pietikaeinen University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Aleksandra Pizurica Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Gianni Ramponi, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy
Thierry Ranchin Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France
A. Murat Tekalp University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
Frederic Truchetet Universite de Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France
Dimitri Van De Ville Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Peter Veelaert Hogeschool Gent, Ghent, Belgium
We look forward to welcoming you at Acivs 2005
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Jacques Blanc-Talon