AIPR 2011: Imaging for Decision Making
Cosmos Club, Washington DC
October 11-13, 2011

Many decisions of national and international importance require
critical information from imaging. These range from measuring the
impact of deforestation, to assessing the severity of chemical spills
and natural disasters, to identifying threats based on surveillance,
to screening large populations for disease. Many of the problems are
hard; for example, recent oil spill issues included an extremely large
search area, low concentrations and submerged bodies of oil, low
signal-to-noise ratios, and the need for repeated
monitoring. Decision-making can depend on obtaining reliable imagery
observations under these kinds of conditions, often with urgency. A
second challenging aspect arises from the need to communicate results
to the public in highly politicized environments: making clear the
effect of uncertainties on the overall conclusions, and dealing with
public perceptions of the role and biases of science and engineering,
may be as important as the actual work being carried out.

Subject areas of the Workshop are expected to address:

• Hard problems and prioritization in image analysis 
• Role of remotely sensed data in executive decision making •
    End-to-end modeling of the acquisition-to-decision process •
    Collection and use of massive databases 
• New technologies and approaches 
• Historical or retrospective papers.

Application areas of interest include, but are not limited to the
following: elucidation of the problem areas requiring specific imaging
data and the technical problems needing resolution, development of new
theory and methods, characterization of uncertainty and its effect on
decisions, theoretical advances in image processing and pattern
recognition, performance analysis and benchmarking, and applications
of image processing and pattern recognition to medical imaging and
life science applications, climate change, agriculture, target
tracking, biometrics, law enforcement and homeland security
applications, forensic analysis, behavior recognition and analysis,
and mapping and geospatial information.

The Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop promotes and
encourages the interdisciplinary interchange of ideas. The purpose of
the annual AIPR workshops is to bring together researchers from
government, industry, and academia in an elegant setting conducive to
technical interchange across a broad range of disciplines.

Abstracts are being accepted now, for both oral and poster
presentations. Send abstracts (150 - 300 words) and inquiries to Frank
Tanner, "program at aipr-workshop dot org". To encourage early
submissions, authors will be provisionally notified of acceptance,
rejection, or deferral within 45 days of submission with final
decisions being provided by August 1, 2011. Accepted works must have
at least one speaker registered for the workshop by September 1, 2011
in order to be published in the AIPR proceedings and to secure a
speaking slot.

Written papers will be required for accepted works being published in
the AIPR Proceedings. Final written papers are due by November 30,
2011 to allow authors to revise their papers based upon workshop
feedback. The AIPR Home Page can be found at
http://www.aipr-workshop.org/.

Students: An award will be presented to the best student paper as
judged by the organizing committee!

AIPR is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and organized by the AIPR
Workshop Committee, with generous support from Cybernet Systems
Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton.