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Pattern Recognition Letters
Special Issue on
Image/video-based Pattern Analysis and HCI Applications

Pattern Recognition Letters is seeking high qualified manuscripts for
a Special Issue on Image/video-based pattern analysis and HCI
applications, scheduled for publication in 2010.

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Aim and Scopes:
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The interests and goals of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) include
understanding, designing, building and evaluating complex interactive
systems, which involve disciplines, e.g., computer science,
engineering, IT, and psychology to name a few. The need for natural
and effective Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is increasingly
important due to the prevalence of computers in human activities.
Developments in image/video computing technologies are continuously
driving a range of applications in supporting our collaborative and
communicative needs both at work and at play. Computer vision and
pattern recognition continue to play a dominant role in the HCI realm
because image/video computing (such as body gesture recognition,
facial expression analysis, etc) provides most natural visual
communication channel for humans and machines. The availability of
low-cost camera technology has also led to a quickly increased use of
visual cues in HCI.

This special issue is particularly interested in new advances in
vision techniques for intelligent HCI. We are soliciting original
contributions, of leading researchers and practitioners from academia
as well as industry, which address a wide range of theoretical and
application issues in vision-based HCI. Original papers to survey the
recent progress in this exciting area and highlight potential
solutions to common challenging problems is welcome. The topics
include, but not limited to:

o	Hand motion and gesture recognition
o	Sign language analysis and recognition
o	Human motion capture and recognition
o	Human pose estimation
o	Non-rigid object structure recovery (e.g. structure from motion for
hand and face shapes, active shape models, active appearance models)
o	Visual object tracking and feature extraction (e.g., face, body, hands)
o	Biometrics authentication in HCI (e.g., face recognition, gait
recognition, etc)
o	Affective computing for HCI  (e.g., facial expression, emotion,
motivational aspects)
o	Vision processing in human factors analysis
o	Event detection and recognition
o	Perceptual user interfaces and multimodal integration
o	Behaviour understanding
o	Interactive visual navigation and human-robot interaction
o	Perception and modelling of user and context
o	HCI issues in image/video browsing and retrieval
o	Learning aspects in HCI
o	Performance evaluation in HCI
o	Data corpora of visual HCI events
o	Visual interface design
o	Relevant HCI applications (e.g. person authentication, surveillance
and monitoring, automatic driver assistance, smart meeting,
entertainment, game, virtual reality)

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Submission Procedure:
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Manuscript should conform to the standard guidelines of the Pattern
Recognition Letters. Instructions for formatting papers can be found
in the "Guide for authors". Submitted articles must not have been
previously published and must not be currently submitted for
publication elsewhere. Prospective authors should submit the
electronic copy of their complete manuscript via online electronic
Elsevier system (EES), in which authors must select the "article type"
from the menu as "PA&HCI", the acronym of the special issue. All
submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two independent
reviewers.

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Important Dates:
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Full paper due: Aug. 30, 2008
First notification: Nov. 30, 2008
Revised manuscript (for second review) due: Jan. 30, 2009
Acceptance Notification : Mar. 30, 2009
Final manuscript due: Apr. 30, 2009
Scheduled publication of the special issue:	2010

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Guest Editors
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Dr. Liang Wang (lwwang@csse.unimelb.edu.au)
The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Qiang Wu (wuq@it.uts.edu.au)
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Hanzi Wang (hwang@cs.jhu.edu)
Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Dr. Xin Geng (xge@deakin.edu.au)
Deakin University, Australia.

Dr. Ming Li (ming@deakin.edu.au)
Deakin University, Australia.

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