CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: January 18, 2013) ========================================================== ICIAR 2013 - 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION June 26-28, 2013, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal General Chairs: Mohamed Kamel (IEEE and IAPR Fellow) University of Waterloo, Canada, http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/kamel.html Aurelio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal, http://www.fe.up.pt/~campilho Conference Website: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar13/ Papers due: January 18, 2013 HIGHLIGTHS: - Focused Topic: BIOMETRICS - INVITED SPEAKERS: John Daugman (Cambridge University, UK), José Príncipe (University of Florida, USA), Erkki Oja (Aalto University, FI). ========================================================== ICIAR 2013 is the 10th 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: BIOMETRICS Starting in ICIAR 2012, one of the days of the conference is focused in a special topic. In 2013 the focused topic will be "BIOMETRICS". 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. ========================================================== INVITED SPEAKERS ========================================================== . John Daugman (Cambridge University, UK), http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/ . José Príncipe (University of Florida, USA), http://cnel.ufl.edu/people/people.php?name=principe . Erkki Oja (Aalto University, FI), http://users.ics.aalto.fi/oja/ ========================================================== TOPICS ========================================================== . BIOMETRICS (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: Biomedical Imaging Document Processing Remote Sensing Multimedia Security Systems Visual Inspection Sports Other applications ========================================================== PAPER SUBMISSION ========================================================== 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. ========================================================== SPECIAL SESSIONS ========================================================== 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 17, 2012. ========================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ========================================================== Special session proposals deadline: December 17, 2012 Paper Submission deadline: January 18, 2013 Author Notification: March 1, 2013 Camera-ready version: March 15, 2013 Paper registration: April 8, 2013 ========================================================== Please find the call for papers and more information at the conference website: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar13