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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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ICIAR 2009 - 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND 
RECOGNITION
July 6-8, 2009, Halifax, Canada

General Chair: Mohamed Kamel (mkamel@uwaterloo.ca)
General Co-chair: Aurelio Campilho (campilho@fe.up.pt)

http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar09/

Papers due: January 23, 2009

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ICIAR - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition aims 
to bring together researchers in the fields of Image Processing, Image 
Analysis and Pattern Recognition.

The conference addresses recent advances in theory, methodologies and 
applications. The scientific program includes invited speakers and 
fully refereed contributions that are published in the conference 
proceedings.

ICIAR series is organized annually, alternating between Europe and 
North America. ICIAR 2009 will be held in Halifax, Canada.

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TOPICS

· Image and Video Processing and Analysis:
    Image restoration and enhancement
    Image and video segmentation
    Mathematical morphology
    Color, texture and motion analysis
    3D image analysis
    Tracking
    Shape and matching
    Real time imaging

· Image and Video Coding:
    Still image and video coding;
    Image and video encryption

· Image Retrieval and Indexing:
    Image and video databases
    Image and video retrieval and indexing

· Pattern Recognition for Image Analysis:
    Feature extraction and selection methods
    Classification and Clustering techniques
    Ensembles and multi-classifiers
    Hybrid methods
    Syntactical methods

· Applications:
    Biomedical
    Biometrics
    Document Processing
    Remote Sensing
    Multimedia
    Security Systems
    Visual Inspection
    Sports
    Other applications

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PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit full papers showing original research 
contributions. The conference proceedings is planned to be published in 
the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer LNCS). 
Only electronic submission will be accepted through the conference 
paper submission web page. See the conference web page for details.

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SPECIAL SESSIONS

Proposals for special invited sessions are welcome, however all
papers will go through the normal review process. The proposed
sessions must include a title, contact information for the session
chair(s) and their short bio's, and a list of authors already
contacted or to be contacted.

Proposals should be submitted to the conference chairs no later
than January 9, 2009.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission deadline:  January 23, 2009
Special session proposals deadline: January 9, 2009
Author Notification: March 9, 2009 
Camera-ready version: April 6, 2009