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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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ICIAR 2010 - 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND 
RECOGNITION June 21 - 23, 2010, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal

Chairs:
General Chair: Aurelio Campilho, Universidade do Porto, 
http://www.fe.up.pt/~campilho
General Co-Chair: Mohamed Kamel (IEEE and IAPR Fellow), University of 
Waterloo, http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/kamel.html

Invited Speakers:
Alberto Sanfeliu (IAPR Fellow), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 
http://www-iri.upc.es/people/sanfeliu/
Edwin Hancock (IAPR Fellow), University of York,
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~erh/
José Santos-Victor, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 
http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~jasv/

Conference website:
http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar10/

Papers due: January 4, 2010

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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 2010 will be held in Povoa do Varzim, Portugal.


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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 Methods:
    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 not later than 
December 18, 2009.


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CHALLENGES

Proposals for challenges are welcome. Two are already planned (for 
details see the conference website):
-	Arabidopsis Thaliana Root Cell Segmentation Challenge
-	Fingerprint Singular Points Detection

Proposals should be submitted to the conference chairs not later than 
November 15, 2009.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Challenge proposals deadline: November 15, 2009
Special session proposals deadline: December 18, 2009
Paper Submission deadline:  January 4, 2010
Author Notification: February 28, 2010
Camera-ready version: March 21, 2010


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Please find the call for papers and more information at the webpage
http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar10