Acivs 2010 is a conference focusing on techniques for building adaptive, intelligent, safe and secure imaging systems. Acivs 2010 consists of four days of lecture sessions, both regular (25 mns) and invited presentations, poster sessions and a special session on Distributed Camera Systems.

Acivs 2010 will also feature a conference dinner, and other social activities. The social activities will be detailed later.

The conference fee (early registration: 590 AU$ students, 690 AU$ for IEEE-members, and 790 AU$ for other participants) includes the social program (conference dinner, opening reception, and cultural activities), coffee breaks, daily lunches and a hard-copy of the proceedings.
Invited speakers

Acivs 2010 will feature a number of invited talks.
Conference topics include (but are not limited to)

* Vision systems, including multi-camera systems
* Image and Video Processing (linear/non-linear filtering and enhancement, restoration, segmentation, wavelets and multiresolution, Markovian techniques, color processing, modeling, analysis, interpolation and spatial transforms, motion, fractals and multifractals, structure from motion, information geometry)
* Pattern Analysis (shape analysis, data and image fusion, pattern matching, neural nets, learning, grammatical techniques) and Content-Based Image Retrieval
* Remote Sensing (techniques for filtering, enhancing, compressing, displaying and analyzing optical, infrared, radar, multi- and hyperspectral airborne and spaceborne images)
* Still Image and Video Coding and Transmission (still image/video coding, model-based coding, synthetic/natural hybrid coding, quality metrics, image and video protection, image and video databases, image search and sorting, video indexing, multimedia applications)
* System Architecture and Performance Evaluation (implementation of algorithms, GPU implementation, benchmarking, evaluation criteria, algorithmic evaluation)

Both classical research papers and application papers are welcome.
Special session on distributed camera systems
Organizers: Richard Kleihorst, VITO NV & Ghent University, Belgium; Abbas Bigdeli, NICTA, Australia.

Single camera vision is a process that looses information by projecting a 3D scene on the 2D image sensor. In order to retrieve 3D scene information either depth cameras, object motion or multiple view directions are necessary. In this special session we invite papers on intelligent vision systems that explicitly make use of multiple cameras or multiple visual sensors to approach a vision challenge.
Example Areas of Interest

* 2D/3D occupancy sensing
* 3D industrial and agricultural vision applications
* Automotive applications
* Geographical mapping applications
* Multi-view based robot control

Prospective authors of papers should indicate during their submission that their contribution is aimed at this special session. The Program Chairs may move papers that are otherwise of high-quality to the main conference program if they don't fit the scope of the special session.
Venue

The conference will take place in the Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia on Dec. 13-16, 2010.
Travel Information

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Event ID Code to keep for the booking: 09080AF

More info can be found here.
Paper submission and review process

Prospective authors should prepare a full paper and submit it electronically. The paper should consist of 8-12 pages in A4 format and should conform to the style guidelines outlined on the Acivs 2010 website.

Papers should be submitted in LaTeX format or MsWord format. However the use of MSWord is strongly discouraged since MSWord documents, especially those containing equations, often suffer from poor typesetting.

LaTeX style sheets, MSWord templates and more detailed information on the submission process can be found on the Acivs 2010 website (http://acivs.org/acivs2010/). It is absolutely essential that submitted papers are based on the provided templates. Accepted papers which do not satisfy the requirements or which cannot be processed without changes will be returned to the authors and may not be published.
All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Program Committee; additional reviewers will be consulted if needed. The papers should provide sufficient background information and should clearly indicate the original contribution. They should state and discuss the main results and provide adequate references. Paper submission implies that one of the authors will present the paper if it is accepted.
Conference proceedings

Pending approval, the proceedings of Acivs 2010 should be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. LNCS is published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic form via Springer Verlags internet platform (http://www.springerlink.com).

Important deadlines
May 29, 2010 Full paper submission
July 30, 2010 Notification of acceptance
September 15, 2010 Camera-ready papers due
September 15, 2010 Registration deadline for authors of accepted papers
October 15, 2010 Early registration deadline
Dec. 13-16, 2010 Acivs 2010

Steering Committee

Jacques Blanc-Talon, DGA, Bagneux, France.
Wilfried Philips, Ghent University - IBBT, Ghent, Belgium.
Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia.
Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.

Organising Committee

Don Bone, Cannon Information Systems Research, Sydney, Australia.
Russell Connally, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia.

Program committee

Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
Marc Antonini, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.
Philippe Bolon, University of Savoie, Annecy, France.
Salah Bourennane, Ecole Centrale de Marseille, Marseille, France.
Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.
Umberto Castellani, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy.
Jocelyn Chanussot, INPG, Grenoble, France.
Pamela Cosman, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA.
Yves D'Asseler, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Jennifer Davidson, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
Arturo de la Escalera Hueso, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Spain.
Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Christine Fernandez-Maloigne, Université de Poitiers, Chasseneuil, France.
Don Fraser, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia.
Georgy Gimel'farb, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Markku Hauta-Kasari, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
Mark Hedley, CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney, Australia.
Dimitris Iakovidis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Arto Kaarna, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland.
Andrzej Kasinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland.
Richard Kleihorst, VITO, Belgium.
Nikos Komodakis, University of Crete, Crete.
Murat Kunt, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hideo Kuroda, FPT University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Olivier Laligant, IUT Le Creusot, Le Creusot, France.
Kenneth Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Yue Li, CSIRO ICT Centre, Marsfield, Australia.
Brian Lovell, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Guojun Lu, Monash University, Caulfield East, Australia.
Anthony Maeder, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Xavier Maldague, Université de Laval, Québec, Canada.
Joseph Mariani, Université Paris VI, Paris XI, Orsay, France.
Gérard Medioni, USC/IRIS, Los Angeles, USA.
Fabrice Mériaudeau, IUT Le Creusot, Le Creusot, France.
Alfred Mertins, Universität zu Lübeck, Luebeck, Germany.
Jean Meunier, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Amar Mitiche, INRS, Montréal, Canada.
Rafael Molina, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
Adrian Munteanu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Frank Nielsen, Ecole Polytechnique - Sony CSL, Palaiseau, France.
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
Massimo Piccardi, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Aleksandra Pizurica, Ghent University - IBBT, Ghent, Belgium.
William Puech, LIRMM, Montpellier, France.
Gianni Ramponi, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy.
Paolo Remagnino, Faculty of Technology, Kingston University, Surrey, UK.
Luis Salgado Alvarez de Sotomayor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Guna Seetharaman, AFRL, Rome, USA.
Andrzej Sluzek, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Changming Sun, CSIRO, CMIS, Sydney, Australia.
Hugues Talbot, ESIEE, Noisy-le-Grand, France.
Frederic Truchetet, Université de Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France.
Peter Veelaert, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
Gerald Zauner, Fachhochschule Oberösterreich, Wels, Austria.
Pavel Zemcik, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic.
Djemel Ziou, Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, Canada.