Call for Papers - ICIP 2005 ICIP 2005 Organizing Committee would like to invite you to participate in the Twelfth International Conference on Image Processing, which will be held in Congress Centre ^ÓMagazzini del Cotone^Ô, Genoa (Italy), from September 11-14, 2005. Enclosed please find the ICIP2005 Call for Papers. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions, and to meeting you in Genoa. ICIP 2005 Organizing Committee ===================================================================== ICIP2005 CALL FOR PAPERS and CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS <http://www.icip2005.org/> IEEE Signal Processing Society International Conference on Image Processing September 11-14, 2005 Congress Centre ^ÓMagazzini del Cotone^Ô Genoa (Italy) ===================================================================== CONFERENCE FOCUS ================ The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied image and video processing. ICIP-2005,the twelfth in the series that has been held annually since 1994, will bring together leading engineers and scientists in image processing from around the world. Research frontiers in fields ranging from traditional image processing applications to evolving multimedia and video technologies are regularly advanced by results first reported in ICIP technical sessions. Please note that, according the suggestion of the IMDSP committee expressed in Singapore, topics have been rearranged with respect to the paper version of the Call for Paper. TOPICS OF INTERESTS =================== 1. IMAGE & VIDEO MODELING Perceptual / human visual system, Source modelling, Binary and morphological image modelling, Noise modelling, Data fusion, Other 2. IMAGE & VIDEO FILTERING Linear filtering, Rank and morphological filtering techniques, Partial differential equations, Other 3. IMAGE & VIDEO MULTIRESOLUTION PROCESSING Wavelets, Filter banks, Scale-space, Other 4. IMAGE & VIDEO SEGMENTATION Edge or color segmentation, Texture segmentation, Active-contour and Level-set-based methods, Morphological-based methods, Clustering-based methods, Model-fitting-based methods, Statistical methods, Video object segmentation and tracking, Video shot/scene segmentation, Other 5. IMAGE & VIDEO RESTORATION AND ENHANCEMENT Contrast enhancement, Deblurring, Denoising, Compression artifacts removal, Multiframe image restoration, Other 6. IMAGE & VIDEO CODING Lossy image coding, Lossless image coding, Image compression standards, DCT-based video coding, Wavelet-based video coding, Model-based video coding, Object-based video coding, Scalability, Transcoding, Video compression standards, Distributed Source Coding, Other 7. IMAGE & VIDEO STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL Low-level indexing and retrieval of images, Semantic indexing and retrieval of images, Relevance feedback and interactive retrieval, Browsing and navigation, Video parsing/shot detection, Video features extraction for retrieval, Content summarization and editing, Video event detection, Machine Learning for image and video Classification, Other 8. SECURITY Authentication, Watermarking, Cryptography, Steganography and Steganalysis, Forensics, Other 9. IMAGE SCANNING, DISPLAY NAD PRINTING Scanning and Sampling, Quantization and Halftoning, Color Reproduction, Image Representation and Rendering, Display and Printing Systems, Image Quality Assessment, Other 10. COLOR AND MULTISPECTRAL PROCESSING Color processing, Multispectral processing, Hyperspectral processing, Other 11. INTERPOLATION AND SUPER RESOLUTION Interpolation, Super-resolution, Mosaicing, Registration / alignment, Other 12. MOTION DETECTION AND ESTIMATION Block matching, Optical flow, Transform based approaches, Parametric models for motion estimation, Change detection, Other 13. STEREOSCOPIC AND 3-D PROCESSING Stereo image processing, 3D modeling & synthesis, Camera calibration, Stereoscopic and 3-D Coding, Other 14. IMAGE & VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS Source/channel coding, Networking, Error resilience / concealment, Video streaming, Content adaptation, Other 15. BIOMETRICS Face detection, recognition and classification, Fingerprint analysis and coding, Iris analysis, Human activity, gait, and gaze analysis, Other 16. BIOMEDICAL IMAGING Super-acoustic imaging, Tomography, Radionucleide and x-ray imaging, Magnetic resonance imaging, Biomedical image segmentation and quantitative analysis, Computer assisted screening and diagnosis, Visualization of biomedical data, Biomedical image compression, Biomedical image registration and fusion, Molecular and cellular bioimaging, Other 17. GEOSCIENCES AND REMOTE SENSING Remote Sensing Imaging, Radar imaging, Acoustic imaging, Radio astronomy and speckle imaging, Infrared imaging, Multispectral / hyperspectral imaging, Geophysical and Seismic Imaging, Other 18. IMPLEMENTATION OF IMAGE & VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEMS Hardware and software co-design, Embedded and real-time systems, Paralleled and distributed systems, Other 19. OTHER AREAS AND APPLICATIONS Optical Imaging, Synthetic-Natural Hybrid Image Systems, Document Image Processing and Analysis, Distributed image processing, Video surveillance, Object recognition, Other PAPER SUBMISSION ================ Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of no more than four (4) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site: <http://www.icip2005.org/> Prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the conference. Authors without Internet access should contact the forthcoming conference manager well before the submission deadline. Submission of extended summary: January 10, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2005 Submission of camera-ready papers: May 10, 2005 PROPOSALS FOR TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS ======================================== Tutorials will be held on Sep. 11, 2005. Proposals for tutorials must include a title, an outline of the tutorial and its motivation, a 2 page curriculum vitae of the presenter(s), and a short description of the material to be covered. Proposals for tutorials should be submitted to the Tutorial Co-Chairs M. Kunt (e-mail:Murat.Kunt@epfl.ch) and R. Leonardi (e-mail:Riccardo.Leonardi@ing.unibs.it) before Jan. 10, 2005. ICIP-2005 will include a number of special sessions. Proposals for special sessions must include a title, rationale, session outline, contact information for the session chair(s), a list of authors who have agreed to present papers in the session, and abstract of each paper. If any of these requirements is missing in a proposal, it will not be accepted. Proposals for special sessions should be submitted to the Special Session Co-Chairs, Sanjit Mitra (e-mail:mitra@ece.ucsb.edu) and Luis Torres (e-mail:luis@gps.tsc.upc.es) before November 30, 2004. For further information: http://www.icip05.org CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ==================== General Chair Gianni Vernazza, University of Genova, I vernazza@dibe.unige.it General Co-Chair Giovanni Sicuranza, University of Triste, I sicuranz@univ.trieste.it Technical Chair Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genova, I carlo@dibe.unige.it Technical Co-Chair Francesco De Natale, University of Trento, I denatale@ing.unitn.it Finance Chair Gianluca Foresti, University of Udine, I foresti@dimi.uniud.it Publicity Chair Stefano Tubaro, Polytechnic of Milano, I tubaro@elet.polimi.it Publicity Chair Anastasios Venetsanopoulos, University of Toronto, CA anv@dsp.toronto.edu Publication Chair Moncef Gabbouj, University of Tampere, SF moncef.gabbouj@tut.fi Electronic Publications Gianni Ramponi, University of Trieste, I ramponi@univ.trieste.it Local Arrangements Carlo Braccini, University of Genova, I carlo@dist.unige.it Local Arrangements Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, I granelli@ing.unitn.it Special Sessions Sanjit K. Mitra, University of Santa Barbara, USA mitra@ece.ucsb.edu Special Sessions Luis Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, E luis@gps.tsc.upc.es Tutorials Murat Kunt, EPFL Lausanne, CH Murat.Kunt@epfl.ch Tutorials Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, I leon@bsing.ing.unibs.it European Liaison Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, G pitas@zeus.csd.auth.gr Far East Liaison Yoshinori Sakai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, J ys@net.ss.titech.ac.jp Far East Liaison David Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic, China csdzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk US Liaison M. Tekalp, Rochester University, USA tekalp@ece.rochester.edu Exhibits Vito Cappellini, University of Firenze, I cappellini@diefi.die.unifi.it Exhibits Fabio Lavagetto, University of Genova, I fabio@dist.unige.it Web Administrator C. Sacchi, University of Trento, I claudio.sacchi@dit.unitn.it Conference Management & Social Activities D.G.M.P.-INCOR srl info@dgmpincor.it