ECVW08 - Final Call for Papers
The Fourth International Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision
Saturday, June 28
Anchorage, Alaska
USA

http://ecvw08.inf.uth.gr/

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of computer
vision in embedded systems.  Computer vision was successfully used,
for example, in mission-critical systems such as the landing of the
rovers on Mars, and in computer-aided surgery.  Computer vision is
widely used also in industrial embedded systems, taking part in
production and inspection processes.  Cameras find their way into
everyday appliances and mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs,
presentation appliances, and vehicles.  Cameras themselves are
becoming "smarter," gaining capabilities for processing the acquired
images inside the camera.  Furthermore, distributed smart camera
systems, which integrate computer vision algorithms with embedded
processing and computer networking techniques, are enabling major
advances in areas such as surveillance and human identification.
Traditionally, different embedded computer vision domains, such as
computer aided-surgery and surveillance were treated separately due to
the different nature of the domains. However, these domains share many
common problems related to their real-time, embedded-system
characteristics.

The *Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ECVW) *aims to bring together
researchers working on computer vision problems that share embedded
system characteristics.

Particularly, the workshop will address the following questions:
-- What are the current research problems and the applications within
the computer vision domain that are specific to embedded systems. For
example, algorithms for efficient utilization of embedded processing
architectures for computer vision, and conversely, architectures and
design methods for effectively supporting embedded computer vision
systems?
-- What are the specific issues in the embedded systems domain that
are relevant to computer vision (for example, meeting constraints on
real-time performance, power consumption, and memory requirements in
embedded computer vision systems)?

*Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following topics:

   * Analysis of computer vision problems that are specific to embedded
     systems.
   *  Analysis of embedded systems problems that are specific to
     computer vision.
   * Verification methods for mission-critical embedded computer vision
     systems.
    * New trends in programmable digital signal processors and their
     computational models.
   *  Reconfigurable processors and computer vision.        
   *  Embedded multiprocessor systems and design methods.    
   *  Hybrid / distributed models and architectures for embedded
      computer vision
   *  Applications of embedded computer vision.
   *  Development tools for computer vision applications aimed at
     embedded systems.
The proposed workshop is the fourth in its series. The first three
Workshops on Embedded Computer Vision were held in conjunction with
CVPR. These events were very successful. Selected papers from the
first workshop are being published in a special issue of the EURASIP
Journal on Embedded Systems, and we intend to pursue similar special
journal issues for ECVW 2008.  Reviewing will be blind. The authors
should not include their name and affiliation in the manuscript they
submit.

*General Chairs*

Sek Chai
Motorola

Branislav Kisacanin
Texas Instruments


**Program Chair**
Nikolaos Bellas
University of Thessaly

*Important Dates*
Paper submission: March 14, 2008
Notification to the authors: April 18, 2008
Receipt of camera ready copy: April 28, 2008
Workshop: June 28, 2008 

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