15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition Call for Papers

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: January 22, 2018) 
http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18/

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS / WORKSHOPS (Deadline: December 22, 2017)
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ICIAR 2018 - 15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
  June 27-29, 2018, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18/


General Chairs:
  Aurélio Campilho
  University of Porto, Portugal
https://web.fe.up.pt/~campilho/


  Fakhri Karray 
  University of Waterloo, Canada
  http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/~karray/


  Bart ter Haar Romeny
  Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  http://bmia.bmt.tue.nl/people/BRomeny/


Invited Speakers: 
  (to be announced)


Focused Topics:	
  Together with the general topics of ICIAR (listed at the end), the three focused
  topics are below.

  . Deep Learning in Biology and Medicine
  . Knowledge Discovery in Driver Behavior Recognition
  . Retinal Image Analysis for Screening and Diagnosis

  Additional topics are envisaged.


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ICIAR 2018 is the 15th 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 - LNCS Springer
format), plus 2 extra pages. 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, addressing original
research developments. The conference proceedings will be published in the
Springer LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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SPECIAL SESSIONS
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Proposals for special invited sessions or workshops are welcome. The proposed
sessions must include a title, a short introduction with brief description, main
session topics, contact information for the session chair(s) and their short
bio's, and a list of authors already contacted or to be contacted. The papers
submitted to the special session will go through the normal review process.
Proposals should be submitted to the conference chairs not later than
December 22, 2017.

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CONFERENCE TOPICS
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Focused Topics:	

. Deep Learning in Biology and Medicine
. Knowledge Discovery in Driver Behavior Recognition
. Retinal Image Analysis for Screening and Diagnosis

General Topics:

. 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
    Biometrics
    Document Processing
    Remote Sensing
    Multimedia
    Security Systems
    Visual Inspection
    Sports
    Other applications

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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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.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Special session / Workshops proposals deadline: December 22, 2017
Paper Submission deadline: January 22, 2018 
Author Notification: March 12, 2018
Camera-ready version: March 26, 2018
Paper registration: April 2, 2018

Please find the call for papers and more information at the conference website:

http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18/

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