========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: May 5, 2014) ========================================================== ICIAR 2014 - 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION October 22-24, 2014, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar14 General Chairs: Aurelio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal, http://www.fe.up.pt/~campilho Mohamed Kamel (IEEE and IAPR Fellow) University of Waterloo, Canada, http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/kamel.html Conference Website: http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar14 Papers due: May 5, 2014 HIGHLIGTHS: - Focused Topic: Sparse Representations for Image Analysis and Recognition - Invited Speakers: Mário Figueiredo, University of Lisbon, Portugal http://www.lx.it.pt/~mtf/ Jean-Luc Starck, CosmoStat Laboratory, France http://jstarck.free.fr/jstarck/Home.html Michael Unser École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland http://bigwww.epfl.ch/unser/index.html ========================================================== ICIAR 2014 is the 11th 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: - Sparse Representations for Image Analysis and Recognition The sessions will comprise invited keynote speakers, oral and poster presentations and a panel discussion. Authors are invited to submit full papers under the topics of the conference and, in particular, on the focused topic, addressing original research developments. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ========================================================== TOPICS ========================================================== . Sparse Representations for Image Analysis and Recognition (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 April 1, 2014. ========================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ========================================================== Special session proposals deadline: April 1, 2014 Paper Submission deadline: May 5, 2014 Author Notification: June 16, 2014 Camera-ready version: June 30, 2014 Paper registration: July 14, 2014 ========================================================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ========================================================== Ana Maria Mendonça (University of Porto) Jorge Alves Silva (University of Porto) João Rodrigues (University of Algarve) José Rouco Maseda, INEB - Biomedical Engineering Institute, Portugal Jorge Novo Buján, INEB - Biomedical Engineering Institute, Portugal Please find the call for papers and more information at the conference website: http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar14