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  The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing,
          Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
                        IPCV'08

  Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  O  Motion and tracking algorithms and applications
  O  Software tools for imaging
  O  Image-based modeling and algorithms
  O  Illumination and reflectance modeling
  O  Biometric authentication
  O  Event recognition techniques in image sequences
  O  Medical image processing and analysis
  O  Image geometry and multi-view geometry
  O  Segmentation techniques
  O  Geometric modeling and fractals
  O  Scene and object modeling
  O  Image data structures and databases
  O  Image compression, coding, and encryption
  O  Image display techniques
  O  Digital imaging for film and television
  O  Image formation techniques
  O  Image generation, acquisition, and processing
  O  Image feature extraction
  O  Novel document image understanding techniques + OCR
  O  Enhancement techniques
  O  Novel noise reduction algorithms
  O  Mathematical morphology
  O  3D imaging
  O  Watermarking methods and protection
  O  Wavelet methods
  O  Mosaic, image registration and fusion methods
  O  Color and texture
  O  Image restoration
  O  Printing technologies
  O  Interpolation techniques
  O  Shape representation
  O  Video analysis
  O  Indexing and retrieval of images (image databases)
  O  Signal and speech processing
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  O  Object recognition
  O  Multi-resolution vision techniques
  O  Face and gesture
  O  Stereo vision
  O  Soft computing methods in image processing and vision
  O  Machine learning technologies for vision
  O  Performance analysis and evaluation (real-time vision)
  O  Camera networks and vision
  O  Sensors and early vision
  O  Active and robot vision
  O  Cognitive and biologically inspired vision
  O  Fuzzy and neural techniques in vision
  O  Graph theory in image processing and vision
  O  Special-purpose machine architectures for vision
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  O  Dimensionality reduction methods in pattern recognition
  O  Classification and clustering techniques
  O  Symbolic learning
  O  Statistical pattern recognition
  O  Invariance in pattern recognition
  O  Knowledge-based recognition
  O  Structural and syntactic pattern recognition
  O  Applications including: security, medicine, robotic, GIS,
     remote sensing, industrial inspection, nondestructive
     evaluation (or NDE), ...
  O  Case studies
  O  Emerging technologies

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  O  Multimedia Systems and Applications:
     - Media blending technologies
     - Multimedia retrieval methods
     - Multimedia documents and authoring
     - Coding and compression techniques
     - Annotation and visualization
     - Multimedia databases and archival systems
     - Video surveillance and sensor networks
     - Content analysis and data mining
     - User interface challenges
     - Operating system support for multimedia systems
     - Network architectures and protocols
     - Content protection methods
     - Synchronization (inter-media and intra-media) technologies
     - Security and privacy
     - Capture and sensor systems (embedded, multi-sensors, ...)
     - Multimedia processing techniques (audio, image, video, ...)
     - Data storage and management
     - Server design issues for multimedia systems
     - Distributed multimedia
     - Multimedia programming
     - Multimedia interface design
     - Multimedia computing
     - Interactive multimedia applications
     - Benchmarking systems
     - Interactive television (video-on-demand, home shopping, voting, and games)
     - Hypermedia systems
     - Video conferencing and groupware
     - Fundamentals of human perception
     - Audio and music processing for multimedia
     - Multimedia tools
     - Multimedia and education
     - Real world applications and emerging technologies

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
   (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
   Prof. H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008 (hra@cs.uga.edu). email
   submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All reasonable
   typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
   papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
   to prepare their papers for publication.)

   The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
   7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
   or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
   the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
   postal address, and email address of each author as well as the name
   of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, IPCV'08).
   The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
   and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
   content of the paper.

   Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
   independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
   evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
   committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the track.
   The track chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
   papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

   The list of co-sponsors of IPCV'08 will soon be finalized which
   will include research laboratories and centers affiliated with major
   institutions.  The reputation and caliber of the co-sponsors of the
   2008 conference will be comparable to the 2007 offering of the
   conference which included:

   Academic Co-sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   Media Lab., MIT + Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Lab.,
   Harvard University + Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
   Lab., Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University + Biomedical Cybernetics
   Lab., Harvard University + Texas Advanced Computing Center, University
   of Texas at Austin + Statistical and Computational Intelligence Lab.,
   Purdue University + Center for Computational Biology and
   Bioinformatics, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis
   (IUPUI) + University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. + BioMedical
   Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab. of Georgia Institute of Technology
   and Emory University + Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab.,
   University of Texas at Austin + Statistical Genetics Research Group
   of Columbia University, New York + Institute for Informatics Problems
   of the Russian Academy of Sciences + University of North Dakota
   (Grand Forks, North Dakota).

   Corporate Co-sponsors: Google, Intel, and Salford Systems.
   Other Co-sponsors: Int'l Technology Inst. (ITI), GridToday, HPCwire,
   HPC Software Inc., STEM Education Society, and Hodges' Health.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

   The program committee includes members of the chapters of World
   Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing;
   AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
   embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
   computer security; and bioinformatics.) The names of the members
   of the program committee will soon be posted on the web site.
   Those interested in joining the program committee should email
   Prof. H. R. Arabnia (hra@cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name,
   affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address,
   tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research interests.

   For the list of the members of program committee of IPCV'07, refer to:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/IPCV07/committee
   Many members of the program committee include renowned leaders, scholars,
   researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many
   are directors of research laboratories, fellows of various societies,
   heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   January 16, 2008:  Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
   Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
   March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
   April 25, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
   July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing,
                      Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08)

   URL: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/ipcv08