========================================================================== ANNOUNCEMENT: CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITED SESSIONS ========================================================================== International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2005) September 28-30, 2005 Toronto, Canada http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar05 ========================================================================== Paper submission deadline: February 22, 2005 ========================================================================== ICIAR - The International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the fields of Image Processing, Analysis and Recognition. The conference addresses recent advances in theory, methodologies and applications. The scientific program will include invited speakers and fully refereed contributions that will be published in the conference proceedings. ICIAR is organized annually, alternating between Europe and North America. In 2004, the first conference was held in Porto, Portugal. ICIAR 2005 will take place in Toronto, Canada. Authors are invited to submit full papers showing original research contributions. The paper should be no more that 8 pages (1-column) including an abstract, all text, figures, tables and references. All submissions will be handled electronically online through the conference web site. Please check the web site for more details on formatting and submission instructions: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar05 Proposals for special invited sessions are welcome, however all papers will go through the normal review process. The proposed sessions must include a title, contact information for the session chair(s), and a list of authors already contacted or to be contacted. ========================================================================== Topics ========================================================================== The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: * Image and Video Processing and Analysis * Image and Video Coding * Image Retrieval and Indexing * Image Description and Recognition * Biometrics * Color, Texture, and Motion Analysis * Applications: o Biomedical o Document Processing o Remote Sensing o Multimedia o Security Systems o Visual Inspection o Sports * Others ========================================================================== Important Dates ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Paper submission deadline March 4, 2005 Acceptance notification April 26, 2005 Camera-ready version May 24, 2005 Conference Sept. 28-30, 2005 ========================================================================== Committees ========================================================================== General Chair Mohamed Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada (mkamel@uwaterloo.ca) General Co-Chair Aurelio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal (campilho@fe.up.pt) Local Organizing Committee Paul Fieguth, University of Waterloo, Canada David Clausi, University of Waterloo, Canada Otman Basir, University of Waterloo, Canada Mahmoud Elsakka, University of Western Ontario, Canada Kostas Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Canada Rastislav Lukac, University of Toronto, Canada Alex Bot, IEEE Toronto Section, Canada Advisory and Program Committee M. Ahmadi (CA) A. Padilha (PT) M. Ahmed (CA) F. Pereira (PT) A. Amin (CA) F. Perales (ES) O. Basir (CA) N. Peres de la Blanca (ES) J. Bioucas (PT) P. Pina (PT) T. Bui (CA) A. Pinho (PT) M. Cheriet (CA) C. Pinto (PT) D. Clausi (CA) F. Pla (ES) L. Corte Real (PT) K. Plataniotis (CA) M. El-Sakka (CA) T. Rabie (CA) M. Ferreti (IT) L. Rueda (CA) P. Fieguth (CA) P. Scheunders (BE) M. Figueiredo (PT) G. Schaefer (GB) A. Fred (PT) M. Sid-Ahmed (CA) L. Guan (CA) W. Skarbek (PL) E. Hancock (GB) S. Sural (IN) M. Haindl (CK) H. Tizhoosh (CA) E. Jerningan (CA) D. Vandermeulen (BE) M. Kunt (CH) M. Vento (IT) R. Lins (BR) R. Ward (CA) J. Marques (PT) D. Zhang (HK) A. Mendonça (PT) Conference Secretariat iciar05@pami.uwaterloo.ca Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Research Group Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 CANADA Phone: +1 (519) 888-4567 x6752 Fax: +1 (519) 746-3077 ========================================================================== Supported By ========================================================================== * Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Lab University of Waterloo, Canada http://pami.uwaterloo.ca * Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal http://www.fe.up.pt * INEB -- Biomedical Engineering Institute, Portugal http://www.ineb.up.pt ==========================================================================