VISAPP 2011 - International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)

Conference name: International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)

Venue:

Algarve-Portugal

Event Date: 5-7 March, 2011

Scope

The International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the area of computer vision application systems. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering all different aspects related to computer vision, from Image Formation to Image Understanding, including Motion Analysis and Stereo Vision.
We welcome papers describing original work in any of the areas listed below. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference themes and originality. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. Companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

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

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

Keynote Speakers

VISAPP 2011 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.
Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
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 topic areas. 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".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.
Publications

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be indexed by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.
EI already agreed to index the proceedings of VISAPP 2006, 2007 and 2008. Proceedings of VISAPP 2009 and 2010 are under evaluation and the proceedings of VISAPP 2011 will be evaluated by EI after their publication.
Important Dates

? Conference date: 5-7 March, 2011

Regular Paper Submission: November 11, 2010 (deadline extended)

Authors Notification (regular papers): December 20, 2010

Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: January 10, 2011

Venue

Available soon.
Program Chair

Leonid Mestetskiy, Moscow State University, Russian Federation
Program Committee

Available soon.

Secretariat

VISAPP Secretariat

Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.

2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 5434
e-mail: visapp.secretariat-AT-insticc.org
Web: http://www.visapp.visigrapp.org/