====================================================================== Due to many requests for an extension, the deadline is now extended to Aug 15, 2007. ====================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER ----------------------------------------------------------- Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing 2007 National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TAIWAN December 15-17 2007 http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/vip2007/ ---------------------------------------------------------- =============== Important Dates =============== Full paper due : August 15, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2007 Registration begins : September 20, 2007 Final paper manuscript: September 30, 2007 Workshop: December 15-17, 2007 ------- Summary ------- In the last a number of years, we have witnessed the rapid development of several key technological areas, such as the Internet and mobile devices, which make large scale use of visual information. There is a growing need to efficiently capture, transform, analyze, manipulate, synthesize, visualize, store, and retrieve image and video data in a wide spectrum of applications. Future information systems in commercial and scientific applications will have a high visual content, and it is necessary to address various aspects of visual information processing. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers, including postgraduate students, to discuss their recent work and exchange research ideas. ------- Topics ------- * Image Processing: gathering, editing, coding, transformation, restoration, filtering, enhancement. * Medical Imaging: feature extraction, segmentation, reconstruction, image analysis, tele-medicine. * Multimedia: image and video indexing and retrieval, tele-conferencing, compression, interactive video, CAD, authoring, sematic annotation, applications. * Visualisation: visual representation, modelling and reconstruction, scientific visualization, data visualisation, visualization of data mining results and the knowledge discovery process, interactive exploration, virtual reality. * Computer Graphics: computational geometry, surface rendering, volume rendering, modelling, animation, GUI and HCI. * Pattern Recognition: statistical and syntactic pattern recognition, neural networks, learning algorithms, handwriting recognition, document analysis, DNA data analysis and classification. * Computer Vision: real-time imaging, robot vision, object tracking, automatic inspection, remote control and sensing. -------------- Important Note -------------- Workshop venue: National Cheng Kung University Publication: Selected papers will be recommended for extension and enhancement to publish in the special issues of Journal Information Science and Engineering (SCI) or Journal Information Technology (EI). ----------------- General Co-Chairs ----------------- Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Yueh-Min Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Changsheng Xu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore --------------------------- Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Pau-Choo Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ------------------ Advisory Committee ------------------ Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA Chang-Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Wai-Chi Fang, NASA's JPL California Institute of Technology, USA Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jesse Jin, University of Newcastle, Australia Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton University, USA C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA Saranummi Niilo, VTT Information Technology, Finland Yong Rui, Microsoft China Research & Development Group, China Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington, USA Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong, China ----------------------- Organization Co-Chairs ----------------------- Shu-Chen Cheng, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Taiwan Tong-Yee Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway --------------------- Publication Co-Chairs --------------------- Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan Tzone-I Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan ------------------ Registration Chair ------------------ Ting-Wei Hou, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan -------------------- Publicity Co-Chairs -------------------- Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Wei-Guang Teng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan ------------------- Technical Committee ------------------- Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Sanxing Cao, Communication University of China, China Liang-Tien Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jen-Wen Ding, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan Wen Gao, Beijing University, China Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada Yu Hen Hu, University of Wisconsin, USA Xian-Sheng Hua, MSRA, China Maolin Huang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Qingming Huang, CAS, China Andres Iglesias, University of Cantabria, Spain Horace Ip, City University of Hong Kong, China Alejandro Jaimes, Fuji Xerox, Japan Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore John Kender, Columbia University, USA. Michael Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Jia Li, Pennsylvania State University, USA Mingjing Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China Zhu Li, Motorola Labs Shaumburg, Illinois, USA Mark Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jim-Min Lin, FengChia University, Taiwan Qian Lin, HP Labs, USA Yongcai Liu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jiebo Luo, Eastman Kodak Company, USA Suhuai Luo, University of Newcastle, Australia Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland Apostol Natsev, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, China Guillermo R. Sapiro, University of Minnesota, USA Shin'ichi Satoh, Japan's National Institute of Information, Japan Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Chien-Jen Wang, Kun-Shan University, Taiwan Rong Yan, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Lei Yang, Communication University of China, China Nenghai Yu, USTC, China Ramin Zabih, Cornell University, USA Jiawan Zhang,Tianjin University,China Tong Zhang, HP Labs, USA Xiang (Sean) Zhou, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China