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