*********************************************************** Special Session: Image- and Video-based Pattern Analysis and Applications (IVPAA'08) Scopes: IEEE the 8th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (CIT2008) is an IEEE supported international conference. IVPAA'08 is a subgroup of CIT2008 conference specializing in Image- and Video-based Pattern Analysis and Applications. Image- and video-based pattern analysis methods have started migrating from academic institutions to industrial laboratories, and onward into deployable systems, and have become increasingly important in real world systems for commercial, industrial and military applications. The goal of this event is to bring together worldwide academic and industrial researchers working on image/video analysis for pattern recognition applications to present their latest research results and commercialization activities and to discuss and exchange their ideas with other participants. We are soliciting original contributions which address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in vision-based pattern analysis and applications. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Biometrics Recognition and Fusion Image/Video Segmentation and Grouping Object Detection and Tracking Feature Extraction and Representation Human Motion Capture, Modelling and Classification Gesture and Gait Recognition 3D Pose Recovery and Animation Video Surveillance and Monitoring Image/Video Indexing and Retrieval Affective Computing for Human-Machine Interaction Object Recognition and Categorization Event Detection and Recognition Visual Navigation Video Summarization and Semantics Performance Evaluation of Algorithms and Systems Human-centred Visual computing (HCC) Mobile Video Computing Relevant Applications Submission: Papers should be in the IEEE CS single-space double-column format up to six pages. Prospective authors must submit an electronic copy (in Acrobat PDF format) of their complete manuscript directly to the session organizer Dr Xin Geng (xge@deakin.edu.au). The submission email should be entitled "IVPAA'08". Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from the program committee members and external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents. Selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue in an international journal after conference. Important Dates: 11 January, 2008: Submission deadline 6 March, 2008: Notification of acceptance 31 March, 2008: Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration 8-11 July 2008: CIT2008/IVPAA'08 Organizers: Dr. Liang Wang (lwwang@csse.unimelb.edu.au) Dept. Computer Science and Software Engineering The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia Dr. Ming Li (ming@deakin.edu.au) Dr. Xin Geng (xge@deakin.edu.au) School of Engineering and Information Technology Deakin University, Melbourne, Vic 3125, Australia Dr. Jiali Cui (cuij@childpsych.columbia.edu) New York State Psychiatric Institute & Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA ***********************************************************