Special Session 
Management and Representation of Uncertainty within 
Image Processing Algorithms
at the IPMU 2008 Conference, 
Malaga (Spain), 
June 22-27, 2008
Call for Papers

With the increase of the computers computational power, researchers in
the area of image analysis have developed numerous methods and
systems, many of which are based on probabilistic paradigms, such as
the well-known Bayesian decision rule and evidence-based
decision-making systems. The main assumption is that physical laws are
ruled by Aristotelic logic; in other words they arise from a
crisp-world assumption. Anyway, this assumption is not always true in
the physical world; as a matter of fact, crisp assumptions work for
some problems, while they fails miserably whenever imprecision and
accuracy are not following probabilistic rules.

Soft-Computing is an emerging field that consists of complementary
elements of fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation,
neural networks and probabilistic reasoning. Due to their strong
learning and cognitive ability, good tolerance of uncertainty and
imprecision, Soft Computing techniques may become more effective and
powerful in real-world applications and more efforts are being
dedicated to apply these techniques to Image Processing. This is why
they can offer viable and effective solutions to some of the most
difficult problems in Computer Vision.

The purpose of this special session is to demonstrate some recent
successes in solving image analysis problems by soft computing
techniques and hopefully to motivate other image processing
researchers to utilize this technology to solve their real-world
problems. It will cover a range of domains, from more traditional ones
such as image analysis at low, medium and high level, including
pattern recognition and all the topics inherent to computer vision,
all treated by means of soft-computing techniques.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

    * Noise reduction in images
    * Edge detection and segmentation
    * Feature extraction and pattern recognition
    * Image/motion enhancement
    * Image/motion compression
    * Similarity between images/motion
    * Image/motion analysis
    * Medical imaging
    * Aerial imaging 

Submission guidelines. Very detailed guidelines are available at the
"Instructions Page" of IPMU 2008. Papers are limited to 6 to 8 pages,
and LaTeX- or Word-templates can be downloaded from the site. Please
follow the guidelines strictly because this is required in order for
your paper to be published in the conference proceedings.

Submission. Authors have to submit their paper to the session
organizers pilar.sobrevilla@upc.edu, mike.nachtegael@ugent.be and
eduard.montseny@upc.edu.

We summarize the most important dates:

    * Submission of papers: December 7, 2008.
    * Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2008.
    * Submission of camera ready papers: May 23, 2008.