2013 Image and Vision Computing Outstanding Young Researcher Award Call for Nominations
Call for Nominations:
2013 Image and Vision Computing Outstanding Young Researcher Award
This annual award recognizes a young researcher for his/her distinguished
research contribution in image and vision computing, and is sponsored by
the journal Image and Vision Computing. The winner of the award will be asked
to contribute an article describing his/her work for publication in the journal
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 his/her
PhD.
The award includes 1,000 USD cash prize and the reimbursement of travel costs
to CVPR 2013.
'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:
- The full name and contact details of the nominator, who should hold a
senior position within his or her organization.
- The full name and contact details of the nominee.
- 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.
- A CV of up to 2 pages of the nominee (including 5 most important
publications).
- 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.)
- 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 8 2013, to the Awards
Committee of the Image and Vision Computing journal:
mailto:IVCJ.Award@gmail.com
IMPORTANT DATES
April 8 2013: Deadline for nomination submission
June 12 2013: Winner announcement
Summer 2013: Submission of the paper to Image and Vision Computing
AWARD COMMITTEE
Jan-Michael Frahm, Editor in Chief, Image and Vision Computing
Maja Pantic, Editor in Chief, Image and Vision Computing
Gail M. Rodney, Publisher, Multimedia, Elsevier
Sudeep Sarkar, Editor in Chief, Pattern Recognition Letters
Sinisa Todorovic, Opinion Column Editor, Image and Vision Computing