******************************************************************************** Call for Papers: Special Track on Low-Level Color Image Processing held in conjunction with the 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC10) November 29 - December 1, 2010, Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA http://www.lsus.edu/faculty/~ecelebi/isvc10.html ******************************************************************************** INTRODUCTION Color perception plays an important role in object recognition and scene understanding both for humans and intelligent vision systems. Recent advances in digital color imaging and computer hardware technology have led to an explosion in the use of color images in a variety of applications including medical imaging, content-based image retrieval, biometrics, watermarking, digital inpainting, remote sensing, visual quality inspection, among many others. As a result, automated processing and analysis of color images has become an active area of research, which is witnessed by the large number of publications during the past two decades. The multivariate nature of color image data presents new challenges for researchers and practitioners as the numerous methods developed for single channel images are often not directly applicable to multichannel images. The goal of this special track is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of Color Image Processing. We are soliciting original contributions, which address a wide range of theoretical and practical issues related to the early stages of the color image processing pipeline including, but not limited to: * Color Image Coding and Compression * Color Image Quantization and Halftoning * Color Image Filtering and Enhancement * Color Morphology * Color Edge Detection * Color Image Segmentation * Digital Camera Image Processing (Demosaicking, Zooming, Postprocessing, etc.) * Multispectral Image Processing * Applications and Future Trends PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 10 pages including results, figures and references. In submitting a manuscript to ISVC10, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been or will be submitted to another conference during the ISVC10 review period. All papers, regardless to whether accepted as orals or posters, will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Paper submission site: http://www.isvc.net/openconf. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full-length papers: July 12, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2010 * Submission of camera-ready papers: September 15, 2010 SPECIAL TRACK ORGANIZERS * M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, ecelebi@lsus.edu * Bogdan Smolka, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, bogdan.smolka@polsl.pl * Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, g.schaefer@lboro.ac.uk * Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, kostas@comm.utoronto.ca * Takahiko Horiuchi, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, horiuchi@faculty.chiba-u.jp PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ramazan Aygun (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA) Sebastiano Battiato (University of Catania, Italy) Jon Y. Hardeberg (Gjøvik University College, Norway) Sae Hwang (University of Illinois at Springfield, USA) Michal Kawulok (Silesian University of Technology, Poland) Sinan Kockara (University of Central Arkansas, USA) Hiroaki Kotera (Kotera Imaging Laboratory, Japan) JeongKyu Lee (University of Bridgeport, USA) Olivier Lezoray (University of Caen, France) Mutlu Mete (Texas A&M University - Commerce, USA) Samuel Morillas (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Sabine Susstrunk (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland) Joao Tavares (University of Porto, Portugal) Johji Tajima (Nagoya City University, Japan) Gui Yun Tian (Newcastle University, UK) Quan Wen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China) Huiyu Zhou (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)