Special Workshop on
APPLICATIONS OF FRACTALS
IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING
(APPLI-FRACT 03)
in
THE 2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGING SCIENCE,
SYSTEMS, AND TECHNOLOGY
(CISST'2003)
June 23 - 26, 2003
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
* SCOPE
This workshop is mainly devoted to the applications of fractal analysis
and techniques in all fields of computer science, signal and image
processing including (but not restricted to) the fields of:
- speech characterization and processing, speaker identification
- character and text recognition
- fractal techniques for data analysis
- fractals and databases, data mining
- visualization and physical models
- automatic object classification
- fractal and multifractal texture characterization
- shape generation, rendering techniques and image synthesis
- 2D, 3D fractal interpolation
- image denoising and restoration
- image indexing, thumbnail images
- fractal still image and video compression, wavelet and fractal
transforms, benchmarking, hardware
- watermarking, comparison with other techniques
- biomedical applications
- engineering (mechanical & materials, automotive, ...)
- fractal and compilers, VLSI design
- internet traffic charaterization and modeling
- non classical applications
* SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ron Addie, Dept of Math. and Comp., Univ of S. Queensland, Australia
Jafar Adibi, Information Sciences Inst, Univ of S. California, USA
Marwan Al-Akaidi, Dept. of Elec. Eng., De Montfort Univ, UK
Jacques Blanc-Talon, GIP Dept, CTA, France
Christopher A. Brown, Saint-Gobain Professor, WPI, USA
James R. Carr, Dept. of Geological Sci., Univ of Nevada, USA
Gordon R.J. Cooper, Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, S. Africa
Richard Dansereau, Dept. of Systems & Comp. Eng., Carleton Univ, Canada
Mike Devetsikiotis, Dept. of ECE, North Carolina State Univ, USA
Michalis Faloutsos, Dept Comp. Sci., UC Riverside, USA
Jose Manuel Gutierrez, Dept. of Applied Math. and Comp. Sci.,
Univ. of Cantabria, Spain
Rachid Harba, ESPEO-LESI, Orleans University, France
Lance Kaplan, Engineering Dept., CTSPS, Clark Atlanta Univ, USA
Brett Kirk, School of Mechanical Eng., The Univ of W. Australia
Sasha Kravchenko, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sci., Michigan State Univ, USA
Walter Kuklinski, Signal Processing Dept., MITRE Corporation, USA
Shaun Lovejoy, McGill Univ Physics Dept., Montreal, Canada
Evelyne Lutton, Fractales Team, INRIA, France
Franklin Mendivil, Acadia Univ, Wolfville, Canada
Ilkka Norros, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
Miroslav M. Novak, School of Math., Kingston Univ, UK
William J. Ohley, Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Eng., Rhode Island Univ, USA
Sim-Heng Ong, Dept. of ECE, National Univ of Singapore
Antoine Saucier, Mathématiques Appliquées et Génie Industriel,
Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Daniel Schertzer, LMM, Paris, France
Gwidon Stachowiak, School of Mech Eng, Univ of Western Australia
Kiyoshi Tanaka, Shinshu Univ, Nagano, Japan
Darryl Veitch, The Univ of Melbourne, Australia
Christopher C. Yang, Dept. of Systems Eng. and Eng. Management,
The Chinese Univ of Hong-Kong
Moshe Zukerman, Dept. of EEE, The Univ of Melbourne, Australia
* PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Scientific
Programme Committee; additional reviewers may be consulted if needed.
The papers have to provide sufficient information about the background
to the problem, clearly indicate the original contribution, evaluate the
results, draw conclusions and provide adequate references.
Papers must be submitted in 11pt times font. The maximum length is
seven pages (including figures).
We strongly recommend the use of LaTex format; the style macros will be
available soon at the conference web server (see below). Word documents
or other formats are also accepted, but only accompanied by the
corresponding PostScript files. Make sure that PS files are of
reasonable size.
The papers can be sent by mailto:jacques.blanc-talon@etca.fr
* PAPERS PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings
and will be presented during oral sessions.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for APPLI-FRACT paper submission: March 21, 2003
Notification of paper acceptance: April 4, 2003
Camera-ready manuscripts: May 5, 2003
CISST conference date: June 23-26, 2003
* WORKSHOP WEB SERVER
Information about the workshop can be found at:
http://www.etca.fr/CTA/Events/Conf/appli-fract03
http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences
* CONFERENCE VENUE
As part of CISST 2003, the workshop will be held in the Monte Carlo
Resort hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This is a great hotel with
excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is
minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free shuttles to and from the
airport. This hotel has many vacation and recreational attractions,
including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning
decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis
courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...),
arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number
of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions
are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for families and
children. The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees is
very reasonable (79USD + tax) per night (no extra charge for double
occupancy) for the duration of the conference.
The hotel is within walking distance from most other Las Vegas
attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine
dining and night clubs, free street shows, ...). For the benefit of
our international colleagues: the state of Nevada neighbors with the
states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Las Vegas is
only a few driving hours away from other major cities, including: Los
Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ...
* SPONSORS
A number of university faculty members and their staff in cooperation
with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division, Las Vegas ), will be
organizing the conferences. The conferences will be co-sponsored by
Computer Science Research, Education, & Applications Press (CSREA: USA
Federal EIN # 58-2171953) together with research centers,
international associations, international research groups, and
developers of high-performance machines and systems. The complete list
of sponsors and co-sponsors will be available at a later
time. (Previous conferences' sponsors included: CSREA, the National
Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment - DOE, The
International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation,
The International Technology Institute (ITI), The Java High
Performance Computing research group, World Scientific and Engineering
Society, Sundance Digitial Signal Processing Inc., the Computer Vision
Research and Applications Tech., The Korea Information Processing
Society (KIPS), Information Processing Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ),
...)
* WORKSHOP CONTACTS
Jacques Blanc-Talon, CTA/GIP, Arcueil, France
Appli-Fract Chair ( mailto:Jacques.Blanc-Talon@etca.fr )
Hamid R. Arabnia, General Chair
The 2003 International Multiconferences in Computer Science
The University of Georgia, Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center, Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA
Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 mailto:hra@cs.uga.edu