Conference Information

CALL FOR PAPERS

VISAPP 2008 - International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications

VISAPP web site: http://www.visapp.org
VISIGRAPP web site: http://www.visigrapp.org

22 - 25 January, 2008
Funchal, Madeira - Portugal

in collaboration with: Eurographics
Co-organized by: INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Universidade da Madeira

proceedings indexed by INSPEC, DBLP and ISI Proceedings*SM
best papers published by Springer-Verlag and by the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting

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Dear Colleague,

VISIGRAPP/VISAPP welcomes the submission of position papers, whose submission deadline is November 26, 2007.

A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal
of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is
valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed
research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important
to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your
claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of
ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific
research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused
on one of the conference topics.

The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of
"short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to
acceptance as "full paper".

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings,
under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.

We are happy to inform you that the conference program includes a
number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished
world-class researchers. The list of currently confirmed invited
speakers is has follows:

- Prof. Dr. Ing. José Luis Encarnação, INI-GraphicsNet Foundation and Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
- Prof. Adrian Hiton, Computer Vision and Graphics at the University of Surrey, U.K.
- Prof. Geneviève Lucet, Computer Services for Research at the UNAM, Mexico
- Prof. Peter Sturm, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
- Prof. Sharathchandra Pankanti, IBM - Exploratory Computer Vision Group, USA

Moreover, the submission for several conference related workshops is
still open, for further information please visit http://www.grapp.org/workshops.htm
You may also check the workshops important dates bellow.

Don't hesitate contacting me should you have any questions.

Best regards,
Bruno ENcarnação
VISAPP Secretariat

Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq.
2910-595 Setúbal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
Email: secretariat@visapp.org
Web: http://www.visapp.org

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Position Paper Submission: November 26, 2007
Position Paper Acceptance Notification: December 7, 2007
Position Paper Final Submission and Registration: December 14, 2007

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below. Papers should address one
or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited
by them.

Unlisted but related topics are also allowed.

1. Image Formation and Processing
2. Image Analysis
3. Image Understanding
4. Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision

AREA 1: IMAGE FORMATION AND PROCESSING

- Computational Geometry
- Multi-view Geometry
- Illumination and Reflectance Modeling
- Image Formation, Acquisition Devices and Sensors
- Multimodal and Multisensor Models of Image Formation
- Image Quality
- Image Filtering
- Spatial Color Indexing
- Enhancement and Restoration
- Mathematical Morphology
- Implementation of Image and Video Processing Systems

AREA 2: IMAGE ANALYSIS

- Early Vision and Image Representation
- Surface Geometry and Shape
- Feature Extraction
- Segmentation and Grouping
- Time-Frequency Analysis
- Wavelet Analysis
- Statistical Approach
- Structural and Syntactic Approach
- Fractal and Chaos Theory in Image Analysis
- Image Registration
- Video Analysis
- Medical Image Analysis

AREA 3: IMAGE UNDERSTANDING

- Recognition and Indexing
- Cognitive & Biologically Inspired Vision
- Cognitive Models for Interpretation, Integration and Control
- Neural Networks
- Object, Event and Scene Recognition, Retrieval and Indexing
- Human Activity Recognition
- Face and Gesture Recognition
- Dynamics and Learning for Gesture Interpretation
- Visual Learning
- Pattern Recognition in Image Understanding
- Optical Color Pattern Recognition
- Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
- Model Acquisition and Validation
- 2D and 3D Scene Understanding
- Localization and Recognition of 3D Object Features
- Recognizing 3-D Object Shapes from Range Data

AREA 4: MOTION, TRACKING AND STEREO VISION

- Real-time Vision
- Active and Robot Vision
- Visually Guided Robotics
- Visual Navigation
- Motion and Tracking
- Stereo Vision and Structure from Motion
- Matching Correspondence and Flow
- Model-based Object tracking in Image Sequences
- Tracking of People and Surveillance
- Segment Cluster Tracking
- Retrieval of 3D Objects from Video Sequences
- Detecting 3D Objects Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance
- Image-based Modeling and 3D Reconstruction

WORKSHOPS

The First International Workshop on Online Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Techniques for Computer-Vision Applications - OPRMLT 2008
The Second International Workshop on Robot Vision - ROBOT VISION 2008
The First International Workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding - MMIU 2008
The First International Workshop on Image Mining. Theory and Applications - IMTA 2008

WORKSHOPS IMPORTANT DATES

OPRMLT 2008, ROBOT VISION 2008 and MMIU 2008
Paper Submission: October 15, 2007
Authors Notification: Novermber 7, 2007
Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 19, 2007

IMTA 2008
Paper Submission: November 5, 2007
Authors Notification: November 12, 2007
Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 19, 2007