CALL FOR PAPERS

            IS&T / SPIE 3D Image Processing and Applications
          in conjunction with SPIE Symposium Electronic Imaging
                    2010 San Jose 17 -21 january 2010

                      http://electronicimaging.org
                      http://spie.org/x16223.xml

Scientific and technological advances in the fields of image processing,
telecommunications, and computer graphics during the last decade, have
contributed to the emergence of new multimedia, especially 3D digital
data. Nowadays, the processing, transmission and visualization of
three-dimensional objects are a part of possible and realistic
functionalities over the Internet. Confirmed 3D processing techniques
exist and a large scientific community hardly works on open problems and
new challenges, including 3D data processing, transmission, fast access
to huge 3D databases, or content security management.

The emergence of 3D media is also directly related to the emergence of
the 3D acquisition technologies. Indeed, recent advances in 3D scanner
acquisition and 3D graphics rendering technologies boost the creation of
3D model archives for several application domains. These include
archaeology, cultural heritage, Computer Assisted Design (CAD),
medicine, 3D face recognition, videogames or bioinformatics.

Three-dimensional objects are quite more complex to handle than other
multimedia data, such as audio signals, images or videos. Indeed, only a
unique and simple 2D grid representation is associated to a 2D image.
All the 2D acquisition devices generate this same representation
(digital cameras, scanners or 2D medical systems).

Unfortunately (for the users) and fortunately (for the scientists),
there exist different three-dimensional representations for a 3D object.
An object can be represented on a 3D grid like a digital image, or in a
3D Euclidian space. In the later case, the object can be expressed by a
single equation (like algebraic implicit surfaces), by a set of facets
representing its boundary surface or by a set of mathematical surfaces.
One can easily imagine the numerous open problems related to these
different representations and their processing, a new challenge for the
image processing community.

This conference will be focused on the following topics related to 3D data:

* video, 3D and 4D image capture
* representations: models, tools for transformation, simplification
* analysis: feature extraction, segmentation, classification, pattern
recognition...
* 3D shape indexing and retrieval
* compression and communication
* security: encryption, watermarking
* scene analysis: from 2D views to 3D reconstruction and interpretation
* 3D scene or model reconstruction from video or still camera
* quality assessment
* hardware/software implementations


The applications domains are:

* multimedia services
* computer aided design (CAD)
* cultural heritage
* gaming
* tourism (e.g., virtual museum tours)
* medical imaging and analysis
* machine vision
* geographical information systems (GIS).

Important dates:
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Abstract (500 words) and Summary (200 words) Due Date: 22 June 2009
Manuscript Due Date: 21 December 2009

Post-meeting Proceedings Manuscripts Due: 21 December 2009


Chairman: Atilla M. Baskurt, Univ. of Lyon (France)

Program Committee:
Mongi A. Abidi, The Univ. of Tennessee (United States);
Adrian G. Bors, The Univ. of York (United Kingdom);
Saida Bouakaz, Univ. of Lyon (France);
Mohamed Daoudi, Institut Télécom (France);
Jean-Luc E. Dugelay, Institut Eurécom (France);
Florent Dupont, Univ. of Lyon (France);
Afzal Godil, National Institute of Standards and Technology (United
States);
Benoît Macq, Univ. Catholique de Louvain (Belgium);
Serge Miguet, Univ. of Lyon (France);
Levent Onural, Bilkent Univ. (Turkey);
Eric Paquet, National Research Council Canada (Canada);
Marc Pollefeys, Univ. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill (United States) and
ETH Zürich (Switzerland);
Bülent Sankur, Bogaziçi Univ. (Turkey);
Peter Schelkens, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium);
Robert Sitnik, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland);
Michela Spagnuolo, IMATI (Italy);
Frédéric Truchetet, Univ. de Bourgogne (France);
Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)