------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd call for papers: PSIVT2009 The 3rd Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology Tokyo, Japan, January 13 - 16, 2009 http://www.psivt.org/ (or http://psivt2009.nii.ac.jp/ ) Sponsorships: ACM SIM MM (in cooperation with) IEEE Japan Council (in cooperation with) IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter (in cooperation with) IPSJ SIG CVIM (in cooperation with) IEICE TG PRMU (in cooperation with) National Institute of Informatics Microsoft Research Forum for Image Informatics in Japan ----------- Description ----------- This symposium will provide a forum for presenting and exploring the newest research and development in image and video technology. The symposium combines a conference with an exhibition (showing the latest products in image and video technology), and offers also tutorials. The symposium will bring together technical issues, theory and practice, artistic and consumer innovations, and invites researchers, artists, developers, educators, performers, and practitioners of image and video technology from the Pacific Rim and around the world. ------- Topics ------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 1. Image Sensors and Multimedia Hardware Still image or video cameras, panoramic cameras, multi-view camera design, range finders, gaze or eye tracking systems, 3D visualization hardware, high resolution medical imaging, etc. 2. Graphics and Visualization Interaction between graphics and vision, image-based human-computer interaction, image-based virtual reality techniques, 3D video generation and editing, 3D visualization techniques and systems, etc. 3. Image and Video Analysis Super resolution, image refinement, feature extraction, color analysis segmentation, motion analysis, tracking, etc. 4. Recognition and Retrieval Object recognition, event recognition, image/video retrieval, face or biometric authentication, etc. 5. Multi-view Imaging and Processing Stereo and multi-viewpoint image processing, multi-view geometry, camera calibration, panoramic image processing, view morphing, remote sensing and photogrammetry, SAR, etc. 6. Computer Vision Applications Video surveillance, visual inspections, intelligent transportation systems, SLAM and navigation, medical image analysis, etc. 7. Video Communications and Networking Image/video compression, error resilient video coding, video error concealment, joint source/channel coding, low-bit-rate video coding, video streaming over wireless/wired networks, etc. 8. Multimedia Processing Image and video watermarking, steganalysis, steganography, multimedia content analysis, multimedia feature extraction, etc. ---------------- Paper submission ---------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Articles should be prepared according to the LNCS recommendations and templates and they should be at most 12-page long. All papers must be submitted in electronic format as PDF files in our online conference management system before the submission deadline. Keep in mind that papers that deviate too much from our guidelines will be rejected without reviews. To maintain the highest possible standards, all submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process which will be carried out by three experienced researchers in the field. The review will be rigorous and based on criteria related to the relevance (for the symposium topics), originality, technical correctness, clarity and quality of presentation. More details on paper submission are available in our web-site. ------------- Journal Issue ------------- A special issue of IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications related with PSIVT2009 is planned. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to the special issue. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: August 11, 2008 Notification: September 22, 2008 Camera-ready Submission: beginning of October, 2008 Symposium: January 13 - 16, 2009 ------------------------------- Symposium Organizing Committee ------------------------------- General Chairs Akihiro Sugimoto (National Institute of Informatics) Minoru Etoh (NTT DoCoMo) Domingo Mery (Universidad Catolica de Chile) Program Chairs Toshikazu Wada (Wakayama University) Fay Huang (National Ilan University) Stephen Lin (Microsoft Research Asia) Demo/Exhibition Chairs Hideo Saito (Keio University) Kazuhiko Sumi (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) Workshop/Tutorial Chairs Rin-ichiro Taniguchi (Kyushu University) Noboru Babaguchi (Osaka University) Local Arrangement Chairs Yoichi Sato (The University of Tokyo) Imari Sato (National Institute of Informatics) Finance Chair Yasushi Yagi (Osaka University) Publication Chairs Itaru Kitahara (University of Tsukuba) Atsushi Shimada (Kyushu University) Publicity Chairs Vincent Nozick (Keio University) Yo-Sung Ho (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) Industrial Liaison Chair Osamu Yamaguchi (Toshiba Corporation) For further and up-to-date information, please visit the conference website http://www.psivt.org/