2012 Outstanding Young Researcher in Image & Vision Computing AWARD Information

=============================================================== CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2012 Outstanding Young Researcher in Image & Vision Computing AWARD =============================================================== (Please, note that this e-mail is sent from an unattended address) This annual award recognizes a young researcher for their distinguished research contribution in image and vision computing. Image and Vision Computing journal, published by Elsevier, sponsors this award, which honors a young researcher within seven years of their PhD. We will announce the award winner at the annual IEEE TC PAMI meeting at the IEEE Int’l Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012 (CVPR’12). The winner of the award will also be asked to contribute an article describing their work for publication in the IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING JOURNAL. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/image-and-vision-computing/ ABOUT THE AWARD This award is made annually for a distinguished research contribution in image and vision computing by a young researcher within seven years of their PhD. The award includes 1,000 USD cash prize and the reimbursement of travel costs to CVPR’12. “A distinguished research contribution in image and vision computing” is any high-quality original research that has direct implications and contributions to image interpretation and computer vision. All areas of computer vision will be considered including image interpretation, scene modeling, object recognition and tracking, shape analysis, monitoring and surveillance, active vision and robotic systems, SLAM, biologically-inspired computer vision, motion analysis, stereo vision, document image understanding, character and handwritten text recognition, face and gesture recognition, biometrics, vision-based human-computer interaction, human activity and behavior understanding, data fusion from multiple sensor inputs, and image databases." ‘A young researcher within seven years of their PhD’ means that if nominated in year ‘n’ they should normally have received their PhD after 1 January in year ‘n-7’. HOW TO NOMINATE A nomination for the award should consist of: 1. The full name and contact details of the nominator, who should hold a senior position within his or her organisation. 2. The full name and contact details of the nominee. 3. A description provided by the nominator in up to 300 words, of the distinguished research contribution in image and vision computing of the nominee, and its importance, in a form accessible to a general computing science audience. 4. A CV of up to 2 pages of the nominee (including 5 most important publications). 5. A Publication list of all published articles of the nominee. (Please do not include ‘accepted’ but not yet published articles as these will not be taken into account.) 6. The name and email address of two referees who would be able to provide independent assessments of the nominee’s research contribution and who are based in different institutions than the nominator and the nominee. SUBMISSIONS Nominations should be in the form of a single electronic file in pdf format. The name of the nominator and the nominee must be in the title of the file. Nominations should be sent by the nominator by APRIL 5, 2012, to the Awards Committee of the Image and Vision Computing journal . IMPORTANT DATES April 5, 2012: Deadline for nomination submission June 5, 2012: Winner announcement June 19, 2012: Winner announcement at the IEEE TC PAMI meeting at CVPR'12 Summer 2012: Submission of the paper to Image and Vision Computing Journal AWARD COMMITTEE Jan-Michael Frahm, Editor in Chief, Image and Vision Computing Journal Maja Pantic, Editor in Chief, Image and Vision Computing Journal Gail Rodney, Elsevier Sudeep Sarkar, IEEE TC PAMI Sinisa Todorovic, Opinion Column Editor, Image and Vision Computing Journal