CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

IPCV'11
The 2011 International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

Date & Location: July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the IPCV conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online). Those interested in proposing workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that appear below.

Conference Web site:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/ipcv11
This is the 15th annual offering of this conference.

SCOPE/TOPICS:

O Software tools for imaging
O Image-based modeling and algorithms
O Illumination and reflectance modeling O Motion and tracking algorithms + orientation estimation O Biometric authentication O Event recognition techniques in image sequences O Medical image processing and analysis O Image geometry and multi-view geometry O Segmentation techniques O Geometric modeling and fractals O Scene and object modeling O Image data structures and databases O Image compression, coding, and encryption O Image display techniques O Digital imaging for film and television O Image formation techniques O Image generation, acquisition, and processing O Image feature extraction O Novel document image understanding techniques + OCR O Enhancement techniques O Novel noise reduction algorithms O Mathematical morphology O 3D imaging O Watermarking methods and protection O Wavelet methods O Wavelets, data hiding, image copyright and related issues O Mosaic, image registration and fusion methods O Color and texture O AI, machine learning, SVT with applications in imaging science O Image restoration O Printing technologies O Interpolation techniques O Shape representation O Video analysis O Indexing and retrieval of images (image databases) O Signal and speech processing
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O Object recognition
O Multi-resolution vision techniques
O Face recognition, face detection, and gesture recognition O Stereo vision O Soft computing methods in image processing and vision O Machine learning technologies for vision O Performance analysis and evaluation (real-time vision) O Camera networks and vision O Sensors and early vision O Active and robot vision O Cognitive and biologically inspired vision O Fuzzy and neural techniques in vision O Graph theory in image processing and vision O Special-purpose machine architectures for vision
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O Dimensionality reduction methods in pattern recognition O Classification and clustering techniques O Symbolic learning O Statistical pattern recognition O Invariance in pattern recognition O Knowledge-based recognition O Structural and syntactic pattern recognition O Applications including: security, medicine, robotic, GIS,
remote sensing, industrial inspection, nondestructive
evaluation (or NDE), ...
O Case studies
O Emerging technologies
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O Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Applications:
- Media blending technologies
- Multimedia retrieval methods
- Multimedia documents and authoring
- Coding and compression techniques
- Annotation and visualization
- Multimedia databases and archival systems
- Video surveillance and sensor networks
- Content analysis and data mining
- User interface challenges
- Operating system support for multimedia systems
- Network architectures and protocols
- Content protection methods
- Synchronization (inter-media and intra-media) technologies
- Security and privacy
- Capture and sensor systems (embedded, multi-sensors, ...)
- Multimedia processing techniques (audio, image, video, ...)
- Data storage and management
- Server design issues for multimedia systems
- Distributed multimedia
- Multimedia programming
- Multimedia interface design
- Multimedia computing
- Interactive multimedia applications
- Benchmarking systems
- Interactive television (video-on-demand, home shopping, voting, and games)
- Hypermedia systems
- Video conferencing and groupware
- Fundamentals of human perception
- Audio and music processing for multimedia
- Multimedia tools
- Multimedia and education
- Real world applications and emerging technologies

USEFUL WEB LINKS:
The DBLP list of IPCV 2010 papers (last year's) appears at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ipcv/ipcv2010.html
The web site of IPCV'11 is:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/ipcv11

IPCV'11 conference will be held simultaneously (same location and
dates) with WORLDCOMP 2011 congress - WORLDCOMP 2011 congress is composed of major tracks in the following areas:
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP); Computer Design (CDES); Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR); Scientific Computing (CSC); Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise IS, & e-Government (EEE); Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems (ERSA); Embedded Systems (ESA); Foundations of Computer Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education, CS & CE (FECS); Grid Computing (GCA); Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV); Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA); Security & Management (SAM); Software Engineering (SERP); and Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS).
For more information about each of the above tracks, refer to:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 10, 2011: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 03, 2011: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 24, 2011: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 18-21, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'11)


ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering of IPCV (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota; University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria; SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM/98555); The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical School & the American College of Surgeons, USA.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be uploaded by March 10, 2011 and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie, IPCV) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page.

The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision
(accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a number of research books being proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, ...) - these books would be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. For a few examples of recent books and journal issues formed (during recent months), see the links below:
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6
+ a number of journal special issues published by BMC Genomics:
http://www.biomedcentral.com

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

The members of the Steering Committee of the 2011 IPCV is currently being prepared. Last year's (ie, 2010's) members of the federated event (WORLDCOMP'10) included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP, Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori (Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA).
The list of Program Committee of IPCV 2010 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/ipcv10/committee

The IPCV 2011 program committee is currently being compiled.
Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy of Science.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email editor@world-comp.org the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference (ie, IPCV 2011) offering to help with.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

IPCV conference is an important track of a federated research conference. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries.

WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/ architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different branches of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the name of the conference the session is submitted for consideration (ie, IPCV), and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer).
email your session proposal to editor@world-comp.org We would like to receive the session proposals as soon as possible.