Special Session on Hybrid and Adaptive Systems for Computer Vision and Robot Control Affiliated Conference: ICONIP 2009: 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Link: http://tur-www1.massey.ac.nz/~nhreyes/ICONIP09/Session.htm Objectives: This special session aims to provide an opportunity for international researchers to share and review recent advances in the foundations, integration architectures and applications of hybrid and adaptive systems for computer vision and robot control. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Control: Cooperative Control; Hybrid Intelligent Control; Adaptive Control; Robust Control; Networked Control System. • Vision: Real-time Object Recognition; Image Processing; Feature Extraction; Pattern Recognition; Human-Computer Interaction; Tracking and Surveillance; Biometrics; Behaviour Recognition; Gesture Recognition; Applications. • Automation: Process Automation, Planning and Scheduling; Nano-scale Automation and Assembly; Biomedical Instrumentation; Modelling and Simulation • Robotics: Humanoid and Mobile Robotics; Search and Rescue; Bio-robotics; Tele-robotics; Mechanism Design and Applications Publication: Accepted papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag. Furthermore, the ICONIP organizers are also looking into the possibility of coming up with a potential special journal issue in line with the special session. Venue: Hotel Windsor Suites Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand Conference Date: December 1-5, 2009 Paper Submission Deadline: July 28, 2009 Chair: Dr. Napoleon H. Reyes, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand Co-Chairs: Dr. Pitoyo P. Hartono, Future University-Hakodate, Japan Dr. Andre L. Barczak, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand