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ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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ICIAR 2012 - 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
    June 25-27, 2012
    Aveiro, Portugal

General Chair:
    Aurelio Campilho
    University of Porto, Portugal
    http://www.fe.up.pt/~campilho 

General Co-Chair:
    Mohamed Kamel (IEEE and IAPR Fellow)
    University of Waterloo, Canada
    http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/kamel.html 

Conference Website:
    http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar12/

Papers due:
    January 20, 2012

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ICIAR 2012 is the 9th conference of a series of ICIAR conferences
organized in Portugal and Canada. Authors are invited to submit full
papers showing original research contributions. The page limit is
8 pages (1-column), plus 2 extra pages.

Focused Topic: BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
Starting with ICIAR 2012, one of the days of the conference will be 
focused in a special topic. In 2012 the focused topic will be
"BIOMEDICAL IMAGING". The sessions will comprise invited keynote
speakers, oral and poster presentations and a panel discussion. Authors
are invited to submit full papers under this topic, addressing original
research developments.

The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. ICIAR series is organized annually,
alternating between Europe and North America. ICIAR 2012 will be held
in Aveiro, Portugal.

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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. Bob Fisher (School of Informatics, Edinburgh University, UK),
  "Applications of 3D sensing to novel problems"

. Wiro Niessen (Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Delft University of Technology,
  NL), "Quantitative imaging biomarkers of cardiovascular and
  neurodegenerative disease"

. Bioucas Dias (Telecommunications Institute, Instituto Superior
  Técnico, PT), "Hyperspectral image processing"

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TOPICS
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. BIOMEDICAL IMAGING (focused topic)
· 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:
    Biometrics
    Document Processing
    Remote Sensing
    Multimedia
    Security Systems
    Visual Inspection
    Sports
    Other applications

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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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 site for details.

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SPECIAL SESSIONS
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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 19, 2011.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Special session proposals deadline: December 19, 2011
Paper Submission deadline: January 20, 2012 
Author Notification: February 29, 2012
Camera-ready version: March 17, 2012
Paper registration: April 13, 2012

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Please find the call for papers and more information at the conference
website:

    http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar12