IWCIA 2014 - 16th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis

The International Workshop on Combinational Image Analysis will be hosted by Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
Researchers from all areas of image analysis and its applications are cordially invited to participate.
IWCIA 2014 is the sixteenth of a series of international meetings on combinatiorial image analysis. It will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, May 28 - 30, 2014. Previous meetings were held in Paris (France, 1991), Ube (Japan, 1992), Washington DC (USA, 1994), Lyon (France, 1995), Hiroshima (Japan, 1997), Madras (India, 1999), Caen (France, 2000), Philadelphia (USA, 2001), Palermo (Italy, 2003), Auckland (New Zealand, 2004), Berlin (Germany, 2006), Buffalo, NY (USA, 2008), Playa del Carmen (Mexico, 2009), Madrid (Spain, 2011) and Austin (Texas, 2012).
SCOPE AND TOPICS
Image analysis is a scientific discipline providing theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems appearing in a wide range of areas, as diverse as medicine, robotics, defence, and security. As a rule, the processed data are discrete; therefore, the "discrete approach" to image analysis appears to be a natural one and has an increasing importance. It is based on studying combinatorial properties of the considered digital data sets. Combinatorial image analysis often features various advantages (in terms of efficiency and accuracy) over the more traditional approaches based on continuous models requiring numeric computation.
The scientific program of the workshop consists of keynote addresses and contributed talks presented in one general and two special sessions.
Also the participants who did not submit a paper will be welcome to present a talk (in which case an abstract is required).
The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer’s "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series (pending for approval). A special track on applications will appear in "Mathematics for Applications" journal.
After the Workshop, the authors of the best ranked papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their works for publication in a renowned journal special issue.
GENERAL TOPICS
The Workshop is a forum for current research on topics such as the following:
Combinatorial problems in the discrete plane and space related to image analysis; lattice polygons and polytopes
Discrete/combinatorial geometry and topology and their use in image analysis
Digital geometry of curves and surfaces
Tilings and patterns; combinatorial pattern matching
Methods for image compression
Discrete tomography
Applications of integer programming, linear programming, and computational geometry to problems of image analysis
Parallel architectures and algorithms for image analysis
Fuzzy and stochastic image analysis
Grammars and models for image or scene analysis and recognition; cellular automata
Mathematical morphology and its applications to image analysis
Segmentation, reconstruction, tracking and motion analysis
SPECIAL SESSION: COMPUTATIONAL BIO-IMAGING AND VISUALIZATION
Extensive research has been performed regarding objects represented in images and various areas of science, including medicine, physics, mathematics, engineering, computers and informatics. For instance, in medicine, it is possible to use computational procedures on medical images to model and visualize human organs. These procedures can have different goals, such as shape 3D reconstruction, segmentation, motion and deformation analysis, data registration, simulation and enhanced visualization.
The main goal of the Special Session on Computational Bio- Imaging and Visualization is to bring together researchers involved in the related fields (Image Acquisition, Image Segmentation, Objects Tracking, Objects Matching, Shape Reconstruction, Motion and Deformation Analysis, Medical Imaging, Scientific Visualization, Software Development, Grid Computing, etc.), in order to set the major lines of development for the near future.
Therefore, this Special Session will consist of researchers representing various fields related to Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Scientific Visualization, Mathematics, Statistics, Medical Imaging, etc. Thus, it endeavors to make a contribution to achieve better solutions for more realistic studies, and establish bridges among clinicians and researchers from these fields.
TOPICS
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Biomedical Signal and Image Acquisition and Processing
Medical Imaging
Simulation and Virtual Reality
Computer Aided Diagnosis, Surgery, Therapy, Treatment and Telemedicine Systems
Software Development for Computational Bio- Imaging and Visualization
Grid and High-Performance Computing for Computational Bio- Imaging and Visualization
ORGANIZERS
João Manuel R. S. Tavares
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Email: tavares_ät_fe.up.pt
URL: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares
Phone: +351 22 508 1487
Yongjie Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Email: jessicaz_ät_andrew.cmu.edu
Phone: 412 268-5332
SPECIAL SESSION: IMAGING IN PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Computer based image processing is an extensively used tool in scientific research, especially in physics, astronomy, engineering, biology, and medicine. The development of new mathematical tools of image processing and analysis needs an interdisciplinary approach and cooperation of scientists from various fields of research.
The main goal of the Special Session on Imaging in Physics and Astronomy is to bring together mathematicians and researchers involved in various fields of research in physics and astronomy in order to set the major lines of mathematical image processing tools development for the near future.
TOPICS
The topics of interest include (among others):
Segmentation, Reconstruction, Tracking and Motion Analysis, Image Alignment
Multi-spectral Image Analysis
Mathematical tools for adaptive optics
3D visualization, confocal and holographic microscopy, AFM, electron microscopy
Deconvolution, superresolution
Visual mathematical models in physics and astronomy
ORGANIZER
Miloslav Druckmüller
Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Email: druckmuller-AT-fme.vutbr.cz
URL: www.fme.vutbr.cz
Phone: +420 54114 2727