The International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) is the main Australian Conference on computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and related areas. DICTA was established as a biannual conference in 1991 and became and annual event in 2007. It is the premiere conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS).

DICTA 2011 is being held in Noosa, Queensland, Australia from 6-8 December 2011. The venue for the conference is the Sheraton Noosa Resort & Spa located between the Noosa River and Noosa's renowned Hastings Street. The format of the conference will be dual-track with both oral presentations and posters.

Important dates

Call for papers February 2011
Paper submission 20 June 2011
Notification of acceptance 5 August
Camera ready papers due 29 August
Registration opens 5 August
Early bird registration closes 30 September
Conference 6-8 December 2011

Topics

The prospective topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Image coding and processing
Shape and texture analysis
Surveillance, defence and industrial applications
Remote sensing and spectral imaging
Statistical and structural pattern recognition
Computer vision
Artificial intelligence
Software and hardware
Human-computer interaction
Biomedical and e-health applications
Biotechnology applications of pattern recognition
Content-based image retrieval and image databases
Video Databases and Visual Information Systems
Real world applications and emerging technologies