=========================== DICTA 2009 (Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications) 1-3 December 2009, Melbourne, Australia Full paper submission: 15 June 2009 http://dicta2009.vu.edu.au CALL FOR PAPERS DICTA is the main Australian conference on digital image processing, machine vision and related areas. DICTA2009 will be the eleventh meeting hosted by Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS). This conference typical attracts 120 participants from Australia, Asia Pacific regions as well as many international researchers. We cordially invite prospective authors to submit full papers of up to 8 pages at the DICTA2009 website. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Image coding and processing - Shape and texture analysis - Surveillance, defence and industrial applications - Remote sensing and spectral imaging - Statistical and structural pattern recognition - Computer vision, Artificial intelligence - Hardware and software - Human-computer interaction - Biomedical and e-health applications - Biotechnology applications of pattern recognition - Content-based image retrieval and image databases - Video Databases and Visual Information Systems - Real world applications and emerging technologies PAPER SUBMISSION Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and included in the IEEE Xplore database, one of the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering databases in the world. Please note that it is a condition of publication that accepted papers are presented by one of the authors. Presenters for accepted papers must register before the early registration deadline to avoid withdrawal from the conference proceedings and programme.Detailed instructions can be found on the conference website: http://dicta2009.vu.edu.au/info.html IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: 15 June 2009 Notification of acceptance: 24 July 2009 Camera ready papers due: 21 August 2009 Early registration: 2 October 2009 Conference: 1-3 December 2009 SPONSORS Gold Sponsorship by Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Department of Defence, Australian Government Technical Sponsored by APRS, IAPR, IEEE,NICTA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Hao Shi, Victoria University Program Chairs Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University Murk Bottema, Flinders University Advisory Committee Anthony Maeder, University of Western Sydney Brian C. Lovell, NICTA and University of Queensland Technical Committee and Area Chairs Sir Michael Brady, University of Oxford, UK David Suter, The University of Adelaide, Australia Guojun Lu, Monash University, Australia Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA Nick Redding, DSTO, Australia Hong Ren Wu, RMIT University, Australia P. Anandan, Managing Director of Microsoft Research, India Antonio Robles-Kelly, NICTA and ANU, Australia Richard Hartley, Australian National University Terry Caelli, National ICT Australia (NICTA) Edwin Hancock, University of York, UK Michael Frater, UNSW@ADFA, Australia Roland Goecke, University of Canberra and ANU, Australia Simon Warfield, Harvard Medical School, USA Girija Chetty, University of Canberra, Australia HengTao Shen, University of Queensland, Australia Horst Bunke, Universität Bern, Switzerland Anton van den Hengel, The University of Adelaide, Australia Alan Harvey, RMIT University, Australia Hans Burkhardt, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany Jacques Blanc-Talon, DGA/MRIS, France Finance Officer Gordon McRobert, Victoria University Webmaster Anna Pang, Victoria University For more information and updates, please visit the DICTA 2009 website: http://dicta2009.vu.edu.au ===========================