************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications http://www.visapp.org VISAPP is co-organized by INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication CVC - Computer Vision Center of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Best papers to be published in a book by Springer IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: November 6, 2006 Acceptance notification: December 19, 2006 Final paper submission and registration: January 11, 2007 CONFERENCE AREAS 1. Image Formation and Processing 2. Image Analysis 3. Image Understanding 4. Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision Each of these topic areas is expanded below. Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also allowed. 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 - Medical Image 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 PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. CONFERENCE CHAIR Alpesh Ranchordas, FMx, U.K. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Hélder J. Araújo, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Jordi Vitrià, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain WORKSHOPS International Workshop on Robot Vision (http://www.visapp.org/Robot_Vision.htm), chaired by Luca Iocchi, University of "La Sapienza" of Rome, Italy and Domenico G. Sorrenti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy