2006 Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image Technology (PSIT'06)
 December 2006, three days, Hsing-chu (Taiwan)
(exact date to be specified soon)


This new symposium will provide a forum for presenting and exploring the
newest research and development in image technology by discussing the
possibilities and directions in this field. PSIT is designed to take
place within the pacific-rim, as an annual forum inviting participation
from all countries. We would like to shape it as a special meeting place
of academic research and industrial activity.

The technical program will include plenary talks, sessions of technical
presentations of reviewed papers, and a fair showing the latest products
in image technology.

We cordially invite prospective authors to submit papers to the following
main themes of PSIT (or other subjects in image technology):

 1. Sensor technologies (e.g., digital still image or video cameras,
    frame and line cameras, panoramic imaging, stereo cameras,
    omni-directional cameras, cameras and GPS, cameras and IMU, laser
    range finders)
 2. Visualization (e.g., interaction between graphics and vision, high
    resolution medical imaging, 3D cinema, visualization centers, and
    related applications to large-scale visualizations)
 3. Image analysis in the age of high-resolution images (e.g., processing
    strategies, applications of large-scale images)
 4. 3D scene modeling in computer vision, remote sensing and
    photogrammetry (e.g., integrated solutions based on new sensor
    technologies, also including SAR or ultrasonic measurements)
 5. Intelligent vision applications (e.g., intelligent transportation
    systems, surveillance, navigation, etc.)
 6. Panoramic imaging and distributed video systems (e.g., visualization,
    3D vision, panoramic animations, multi-modal interfaces)
 7. Multimedia compression & transmission (image/video compression, error
    resilient video coding, video error concealment, joint source/channel
    coding, very low-bit-rate video coding, video streaming over
    wireless/wired networks, etc.)
 8. Multimedia signal processing (watermarking, steganalysis,
    steganography, multimedia content analysis, multimedia feature
    extraction, content-based retrieval, etc.)

The first issue of PSIT will be held in December 2006 in Taiwan, at the
high-tech center in Hsing-chu, co-chaired by Prof. Yung-Chang Chen from
National Tsing-Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan and Prof. Reinhard Klette
from The University of Auckland (UoA), New Zealand. PSIT'06 will be
sponsored by Sunplus Co. Inc., one of the 20 leading IC companies
worldwide.


From: Reinhard Klette